Faith-Based Partnerships Under Bush and Obama

Melissa Rogers (speaking of), writing at the Washington Post's On Faith page, sums up the current state of faith-based partnerships, comparing the approaches of the Bush and Obama administrations, and makes some recommendation for changes going forward. Her...

Congratulations?

Former BJC General Counsel Melissa Rogers was named to Newsweek's "10 Faces of the Christian Right." Of course, as Sarah Posner points out, Rogers is a passionate defender of the separation of church and state, a principle the Religious Right typically...

9th Circuit Takes Back Ministerial Exception Test

The "ministerial exception" is one of those daunting, kind of messy, areas of church-state law, I'm learning. Initially written into Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, but rooted in the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the idea is pretty simple....

Louisiana Board Rejects Creationism Challenge to Biology Textbooks

By an 8-2 margin, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted yesterday to approve Biology textbooks, despite demands from religious conservatives to question the validity of evolution in, and add intelligent design to the curriculum. The National...