In a lawsuit filed earlier today, representatives of Alabama's Roman Catholic, Episcopalian and Methodist churches claimed the state's new immigration law unlawfully restricts their ability to exercise their faith. The Birmingham News' Kent Faulk offers...
The lawsuit challenging Texas Governor Rick Perry's Christian prayer event has been dismissed by a federal judge who found the plaintiffs lacked sufficient harm to claim legal standing. AP reports: "I wonder if we had a Muslim governor what would happen if...
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a trial judge's ruling, and agreed with the position of the Baptist Joint Committee (quoting the BJC's brief in spots), that the invocation policy of North Carolina's Forsyth County Commission violates the...
An organization successful in arguing the Utah Highway Patrol's roadside memorial crosses are unconstitutional has asked the Supreme Court to leave that ruling in place, and not to hear the case on appeal. "There are no similar [publicly funded] memorial...
A San Francisco judge has issued a temporary order that would remove the circumcision ban from the city's ballot in the November election. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi on Wednesday issued a tentative ruling...
