I've been trying to keep up with news coming out of Spencer, Iowa, where the school board has been considering a "religious liberty" policy for schools. After wisely scrapping an early attempt that included curriculum changes to add a class with a...
Responding to criticism from Rev. Welton Gaddy of Northminster Baptist Church in Monroe, La over the use of taxpayer funds to take numerous trips to churches around the state, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal mostly launched unrelated attacks at Gaddy's Interfaith...
AP's William McCall reports that only three states – Oregon, Pennsylvania and Nebraska – still have laws on the books prohibiting public school teachers from wearing religious attire. A recent Oregon bill expanded religious freedom rights in the...
Baptist Joint Committee executive director Brent Walker offers his views on the proper ways to use religion (and not) in the public school curriculum, in a new column for the Washington Post's On Faith site. Teaching about religion in the classroom is among many...
Via Religion Clause, Idaho's Nampa Classical Academy, a publicly funded charter school, has filed suit challenging state restrictions on using religious texts in its curriculum. The state's Charter School Commission previously issued a memo ruling the planned...
At the Pew Forum, professor Robert Tuttle is interviewed about the intricacies of the law in the area of parents who refuse medical treatment. Here, he lays out the basic consideration of religious exemptions. When an exemption clearly and specifically protects...
