Former BJC General Counsel Melissa Rogers was named to Newsweek's "10 Faces of the Christian Right." Of course, as Sarah Posner points out, Rogers is a passionate defender of the separation of church and state, a principle the Religious Right typically...
Written by Don Byrd
The "ministerial exception" is one of those daunting, kind of messy, areas of church-state law, I'm learning. Initially written into Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, but rooted in the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the idea is pretty simple....
By an 8-2 margin, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted yesterday to approve Biology textbooks, despite demands from religious conservatives to question the validity of evolution in, and add intelligent design to the curriculum. The National...
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear assured the Louisville Courier-Journal's editorial board that if the controversial Noah's Ark Theme Park receives state tax incentives, the contract will require that developers refain from religious discriminating in hiring....
The Washington Post reports on a lawsuit filed by Rabbi Menachem M. Stern of the Chabad-Luvabitch community in Brooklyn challenging the US Army's denial of his commission to serve as a chaplain. The requirement that he shave his beard conflicts with Stern's...
