The Baptist Joint Committee, along with a group of religious and legal organizations, filed an amicus brief with the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case challenging Detroit's decision to send taxpayer money to churches, funding beautification efforts ahead of...
A circuit court judge in Kentucky has ruled unconstitutional the state's budgeting of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund a pharmacy school at a Southern Baptist University. Franklin Circuit Court Special Judge Roger Crittenden ruled that state funding for the...
Few institutions have been responsible for more posts here than the School Board of Tangipahoa, Louisiana. Most recently, the 5th Circuit surprised nearly everyone by dismissing a lawsuit challenging their practice of opening meetings with sectarian prayer on the...
A federal judge in Utah "promised to decide the issue soon" and he has. David Sam yesterday ruled in favor of the state's Highway Patrol Association and against plaintiffs' argument that the separation of church and state is violated by13-foot...
A new Justice Department policy will make it easier for faith-based groups that receive federal funding to discriminate in hiring based on religion. The Roundtable's Claire Hughes has the details: In a posting on its website last month, the department's Office...
An analysis of the 2008 federal appropriations bills shows an "uptick" in the number of religious groups receiving earmarks. The very nature of these non-competitive funding devices invites preference and bias to enter the equation. "Earmarks are about...
