In the brief time left in the questioning of Judge Sotomayor, can we get an Establishment Clause question? Maybe a holiday display dispute? Some Ten Commandments action? Legislative prayer concerns? When it's campaign time, we hear elected officials making lots of...
Sikh leaders are asking the Governor of Oregon to veto the recently passed Workplace Religious Freedom Act because of its provision allowing school districts to ban teachers from wearing religious dress. The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed suit seeking to...
Many hours in… the last questioner of the day Senator Cardin (D-MD) asked Judge Sotomayor a very general question of her views on the importance of religious freedom, making reference to her decision in the Ford case. In response, she acknowledged the...
While we wait on some enterprising Senator to ask Judge Sotomayor about the separation of church and state, The Washington Post's On Faith discussion today poses this question: No religion, gender or ethnicity disqualifies a person from becoming a Supreme Court...
{See references to religion and church-state issues from today's hearing in the updates at the bottom of this post!} Today begins questioning by Senators and there's really no telling ahead of time when, if or how questions about religious liberty protections...
Today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at the Texas Board of Education debates surrounding the social studies curriculum.The proposals from those who believe the state needs more Christian perspective are a little, well, frightening: The conservative reviewers...
