A Florida Appeals Court has asked the state's Supreme Court to answer "whether the no-aid provision in…the Florida Constitution prohibits the state from contracting for the provision of necessary social services by religious or sectarian...
Yesterday the 5th Circuit heard oral arguments in a case involving the firing of Texas' science education director, Christina Comer. The head of the state's education agency dismissed Comer for forwarding an e-mail advertising a lecture seen as...
Dear Rev. Graham, It may not feel like it right now, but getting disinvited from the military's National Day of Prayer ceremony is a great opportunity for you. Allow me to explain. First, I should say up front that on a personal level, I strongly disagree...
Typically at this time of the year, we are discussing a new round of contentious debates over graduation prayers. Can local clergy deliver an invocation? How about the valedictorian? Or a person the senior class votes? Can school officials censor graduation speeches...
An op-ed in Friday's Birmingham News tackles the issue of government-sponsored religious activity in the Alabama city, from invocations at council and board meetings to proselytizing in school assemblies. Columnist John Archibald has a simple warning: allowing the...
The Kentucky Supreme Court yesterday agreed with a lower court that the legislature's funding of a Baptist College, for the purpose of building a pharmacy school, violates the state constitution's ban on funding religious entities. The Lexington Herald Leader...
