Saturday brought Governor Rick Perry's controversial Christians-only prayer gathering in Houston's Reliant Stadium. Most reports of the event indicate the speeches were, "low-key and apolitical," and indeed Perry emphasized that God's...
And the hits keep coming… Just a week after the 4th Circuit threw out a county commission's prayer policy in North Carolina, the 3rd Circuit has done the same in the highly intense Indian River School Board dispute in Delaware (See the despicable...
Slate's Dahila Lithwick has a great piece up about to the Forsyth County ruling. Many seem to believe, she says, that religious freedom rights enable the majority to dictate what the minority must endure. They view those who would object to a sectarian prayer...
After being publicized in Jason Leopold's Truthout reporting, the Air Force Academy has suspended its nuclear war ethics class, which in part taught religious arguments and biblical figures. The Washington Post adds: [A] PowerPoint presentation used in the...
AP reports on the growing number of school voucher initiatives across the country: As of mid-July, at least 30 states had introduced bills that would use taxpayer dollars to send children to private schools, most limited to poor or special needs children,...
