In Kentucky yesterday, a district court struck down a 2006 law creating the state's Office of Homeland Security. References to a "dependence on God" in the bill raised concerns for Judge Thomas Wingate. Proponents tried to claim the provisions were...
The death of Senator Ted Kennedy is obviously dominating the news today, and rightly so. When his brain cancer was first announced last year, I posted an excerpt from a speech he gave on the separation of church and state, at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. It...
Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) is interviewed by Tali Yahalom on "how faith informs his politics": Tali Yahalom: You are quoted as saying that many of your American values are "synonymous" with your Jewish values. Can you talk about that? Henry...
Last December, the state capitol building in Olympia, WA was host to a chaotic battle over the right to display (among other things) symbols of religious holidays. Rather than seek to ban such expression, the state allowed all, and the result was a forum featuring...
It's kind of a slow news day, so I might as well focus on what's dominating many of our lives this week anyway: it's back to school time. When it comes to church-state separation, public schools offer special challenges for representatives of government...
Via Religion Clause, a request by Haskell County (OK) to delay the removal of a Ten Commandments monument pending appeal to the Supreme Court was denied 2-1. The monument had previously been ruled unconstitutional 3-0. No deadline, however, was set for its...
