After ruling the Utah Highway Patrol Association's roadside crosses unconstitutional, the 10th Circuit has agreed to leave the religious monuments in place while the defendants appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Utah Attorney General’s Office requested...
Associated Baptist Press' Rob Marus takes a broad look at the church-state landscape going forward, pulling together expert views on what the next 10 years will bring. Legal scholars and church-state activists consulted for this story …predicted continuing...
To open the newest session of Congress, the House will kick things off with a reading of the entire U.S. Constitution. This seems like as good a time as any to review all the mentions of God and religion in this, our most fundamental expression of American legal...
As you might expect, some of the most thorough coverage of yesterday's 9th Circuit ruling that the Mt. Soledad cross is unconstitutional is in the local press: Greg Moran of the San Diego Union-Tribune offers this report. The LATimes coverage emphasizes that the...
Adding another chapter to a legal dispute that has been ongoing for more than 20 years, the 9th Circuit yesterday ruled unconstitutional the cross atop the Mt. Soledad Memorial in La Jolla, California. The decision could have significant church-state ramifications in...
Religious tensions continue to heighten in Egypt, after a terrorist bomb outside a Coptic Christian church on New Year's Eve killed 25 and injured nearly 100. The Coptic Pope, Shenouda I is urging the nation's Christians – who make up about 10% of the...
