While we wait on the Supreme Court to announce a ruling in the Mojave Cross case, a similar long-running dispute was back in front of a 9th Circuit panel. The Mt. Soledad Cross near San Diego, CA has been the focus of 20 years of litigation, with courts ruling the...
The US Constitution makes at least one thing perfectly clear about religion: it is not to be used as a test for office. No American otherwise qualified to run for an elected position may be denied because of religious beliefs, a fundamental, common-sense expression of...
Here's a snapshot of news coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to hear the appeal of a Christian Legal Society chapter, denied full recognition by the law school of UC-Hastings. The school maintains – and lower courts have agreed – that they...
The Baptist Joint Committee's Brent Walker discusses the question of religious displays at the White House. The White House is different. Yes, the federal government owns it, and in a sense, it is "the peoples' house." But not really. It's...
Law professor Robert Tuttle answers questions about Sikh-Americans and religious liberty in an interview with the Pew Research Center. And consider this a free sneak preview of my article counting down the Top Ten Religious Liberty stories of 2009, featured in the...
Lyle Deniston reports the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal in a case involving exclusive religious student groups at a public college. In 2004, UC-Hastings' Law School denied the request of a student chapter of the Christian Legal Society to be fully...
