Reverend Jonathan Falwell, son of the late Jerry Falwell and pastor of Lynchburg, VA's Thomas Road Baptist Church, delivered the prayer opening the House of Representatives Wednesday. As AU's Sandhya Bathija noted though, Falwell's actual invocation...
Reports detailing the health reform legislation currently winding through legislative committees indicate a likelihood the bill will include a mandate for individuals to obtain health insurance. CQPolitics' Maura Reynolds, however, writes today that an exemption...
A panel of the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that Euless, Texas was wrong to bar Santeria priest Jose Merced from performing animal sacrifice he claims is central to his faith, overturning the trial court's decision in favor of the city. Citing the government's...
In an op-ed in today's Tampa Tribune, BJC Director Brent Walker responds to a Florida billboard campaign using flawed history and dubious quotes attributed to George Washington and others in denouncing the separation of church and state. When those with an agenda...
In an effort to maintain their tradition of prayer to open its Board of Commissioners meeting, Cobb County (GA) officials hit upon what must have seemed like a brilliant solution: open the prayer process to everyone so there can be no charges of religious preference....
The entire 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will not revisit a 3-judge panel's ruling that a Ten Commandments display at the Haskell County, Oklahoma courthouse is unconstitutional. A 6-6 tie vote for re-hearing leaves in place the earlier decision. A pair of...
