In Washington State, a 2007 regulation prohibits pharmacies from refusing to dispense lawful prescriptions. In response to a lawsuit challenging the rule's failure to offer an exemption on religious grounds for drugs like Plan B, or emergency, contraception, a...
In one of the stranger stories lately (and that's saying something), Representative Steve King (R-IA) claimed today that his colleagues' resistance to engraving "In God We Trust" over the new Capitol Visitors' Center was responsible for his...
Spencer, Iowa school officials and religious leaders are planning to introduce 2 new religion-based classes to the curriculum, but first want to implement a new policy designed to protect religious liberty and head off church-state disputes. The plan calls for...
Writing for the Brookings Institution, former Baptist Joint Committee counsel Melissa Rogers offers her take on Judge Sotomayor's church-state record (see the BJC's analysis here). She ends with a few questions for the Judge that might add insight into the...
Religious liberty advocates hailed the Texas Board of Education's decision not to retain Don McLeroy as chair, after his numerous failed efforts to insert creationist perspectives into the science curriculum. Governor Rick Perry though has thrown a wrench into the...
Are church-state disputes being settled for good? Winding down? Waco, Texas Congressman Chet Edwards says no. In fact, he warns, those who would chip away at the wall of separation are never content with small victories, and never deterred by defeat. Those battles,...
