Spencer, Iowa school officials and religious leaders are planning to introduce 2 new religion-based classes to the curriculum, but first want to implement a new policy designed to protect religious liberty and head off church-state disputes. The plan calls for...
Writing for the Brookings Institution, former Baptist Joint Committee counsel Melissa Rogers offers her take on Judge Sotomayor's church-state record (see the BJC's analysis here). She ends with a few questions for the Judge that might add insight into the...
Religious liberty advocates hailed the Texas Board of Education's decision not to retain Don McLeroy as chair, after his numerous failed efforts to insert creationist perspectives into the science curriculum. Governor Rick Perry though has thrown a wrench into the...
Are church-state disputes being settled for good? Winding down? Waco, Texas Congressman Chet Edwards says no. In fact, he warns, those who would chip away at the wall of separation are never content with small victories, and never deterred by defeat. Those battles,...
The God and Country Festival is a yearly tradition in Nampa, Idaho drawing thousands of attendants to an event organizers describe as "patriotic". But the sponsoring group, the Christian Defense Coalition is also a highly religious organization, as the name...
The Baptist Joint Committee's Holly Hollman has completed a thorough examination of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's church-state record, finding it – in a word – "commendable". Read the report here. She has written opinions...
