Governor Jan Brewer has signed Arizona's "Student Religious Liberties Act" into law. The bill purports to protect student religious expression – from messages on clothing to viewpoints in homework assignments, though what it mostly does frankly is...
In one of the more bizarre prisoner-related free exercise stories, Virginia's Rappahannock Regional Jail has been exposed for its practice of censoring incoming mail in a very peculiar way: excising any Scripture. Anna Williams, the mother of an inmate, said that...
At WaPo's God in Government blog, William Wan reports on the first official in-person meetings of the White House's Faith Advisory Council yesterday. On the agenda was one of the most hotly debated areas of the Council's mission: reforming the faith-based...
Should public schools in New York close for Muslim holidays – as the City Council has recently voted – the way they do for some Christian and Jewish observances? That is the question being debated at the Washington Post's On Faith page. The BJC's...
In Washington State, a 2007 regulation prohibits pharmacies from refusing to dispense lawful prescriptions. In response to a lawsuit challenging the rule's failure to offer an exemption on religious grounds for drugs like Plan B, or emergency, contraception, a...
In one of the stranger stories lately (and that's saying something), Representative Steve King (R-IA) claimed today that his colleagues' resistance to engraving "In God We Trust" over the new Capitol Visitors' Center was responsible for his...
