I'm a little surprised that news coverage of recent mosque controversies has made practically no mention of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). (I guess, in their defense, it *is* hard to pronounce.) That law, passed in 2000,...
Saturday's NYTimes offered an update on the controversial proposal to build a mosque and Islamic center near the ground zero site in New York, characterizing it as a "fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom." City officials,...
Michael Kessler begins a column about the newest Muslim debate like this: With all the loud clamoring about the proposed Islamic Center to be built near Ground Zero, reasonable voices are hard to discern. One thing is clear: this is not a debate about religious...
Via Religion Clause, a lawsuit against controversial Ohio high school teacher John Freshwater has been settled, according to the Columbus Dispatch: The family of a boy who said his eighth-grade science teacher burned a cross on his arm with an electric lab instrument...
A Georgia college student is suing Augusta State University for requiring her to undergo additional diversity training as a part of her counseling degree. According to the lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
This election season seems to be bringing out even more religion-based fearmongering than usual. In Colorado, former Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has decided to launch a high-profile third-party bid for Governor under the Constitution Party, which as...
