The Houston Chronicle's Gary Scharrer reports that the Texas Board of Education continues to be divided on the issue of religion in the Social Studies curriculum, especially the role it played in the founding of the country. Getting experts to agree on the...
The City Council of Lodi, California has moved Wednesday's meeting to a large auditorium to accommodate the crowds expected for the debate over its opening prayer policy. Challenged by the Freedom From Religion Foundation for employing exclusively Christian...
Saturday's Washington Post ran excerpts from an online discussion from its panel of experts on the controversial question of religious discrimination in hiring using federal funds. The question is a followup to the letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder...
The Alliance Defense Fund announced that this Sunday they will try again to generate a lawsuit challenging the IRS' ban on non-profit campaign activity, as it applies to political endorsements from the pulpit. The previous effort last September was short-circuited...
October 7 not only marks the first (and perhaps only) church-state case the Supreme Court will hear this session, it will be our first opportunity to hear how new Justice Sonia Sotomayor approaches questioning on issues in this area. As I have posted before, the...
A Minnesota Independent report details the thoroughly religious programming of the Minnesota Teen Challenge rehabilitation program, which has nonetheless received millions of dollars in both federal and state funding. Eric Vagle, Teen Challenge's communications...
