After more than three hours of hearings and deliberation, Louisiana's Textbook Advisory Council voted 8-4 to adopt new Biology texts, despite an effort from Religious Right activists to convince the panel that new books should include creationist theories in the...
A police officer who was denied the right to wear a head scarf as required by her Muslim beliefs, and was subsequently fired, has received a settlement from New Jersey's Essex County after the Justice Department took up her case. The Justice Department last year...
A voter in Fairmount, Pennsylvania was required by poll workers to "affirm" her address by placing her hand on a Bible. And after reporters looked into the allegation, it turns out she wasn't the only one (my emph.) We confirmed [Lindsay] Granger's...
The Louisiana Textbook Council is set to meet tomorrow (Friday) to consider complaints about the science curriculum and to make recommendations to the State Board charged with reviewing textbooks every 7 years. Spurred by the Louisiana Family Forum, the main issue...
In need of personnel with his language skills, the US Army provided a religious exception to Simran Lamba, who was allowed to keep his beard and turban while going through basic training despite those items being prohibited. Graduating yesterday at Fort Jackson in...
Virginia Baptists adopted a resolution critical of recent efforts to diminish or deny the constitutional separation of church and state. ABP reports: Virginia Baptists should “regard it as a threat to the flourishing of religious liberty when any version of our...
