The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a lawsuit challenging the housing exemption for ministers. According to the lawsuit, ministers who qualify for the exemption can exclude the costs of everything from a down payment and home mortgage to maintenance costs...
The ACLU has filed suit over the display of the Ten Commandments in Giles County, Virginia schools. The county's school board recently voted to re-post them and face the legal consequences, so this challenge is not entirely surprising. Interestingly, the...
High school calculus teacher Bradley Johnson decorated his room with enormous banners containing "In God We Trust," "God Bless America," 'God Shed His Grace on Thee," and other similar messages his school required him to remove. He filed...
Today, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton released the International Religious Freedom Report covering the six-month period from July to December 2010. (The State Department is switching to calendar-year reporting periods in the future.) You can read her remarks here....
A 3-judge panel of the 10th Circuit yesterday questioned attorneys over the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia referendum, passed by voters last year. The Denver Post reports: A three-judge panel of federal 10th Circuit judges on Monday repeatedly asked...
