Today a White House official is conducting an unprecedented meeting with leaders from a group of non-religious activists to discuss their views on a host of church-state issues. Houston Chronicle blogger Kate Shellnutt has more: The Secular Coalition for America, a...
Dahlia Lithwick writes about the disturbing child custody battle playing out in Illinois headlines. There, Joseph Reyes called in TV cameras to document taking his young daughter to Catholic mass, in apparent violation of a court order requiring him not to introduce...
Earlier this week I asked how often since the Supreme Court's decision in Marsh – if ever at all – a federal court has agreed with a local government that they are allowed to open official meetings with distinctly sectarian prayer of one faith. And...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has started a firestorm with its report, titled "Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy, which recommends that the U.S. essentially recalibrate international relations in areas of the...
Stanley Fish's column in yesterday's NYTimes brushes up against a key, if fragile, principle of church-state jurisprudence: the secular purpose test. One element of the Supreme Court's Lemon test says that to be constitutional, government action must have...
Via Religion Clause, the Washington Post reports that, fresh off a partial loss of its DC tax-exempt status, the C Street House – home to several Congressmen who claim to also worship and minister to each other there – is being challenged for its federal...
