Proposals to introduce public school courses about the cultural and historical significance of the Bible should be approached with care. What agenda is being promoted? Is it educational? Or religious?
“In God We Trust” legislation aims to be a harmless way to reference the importance of religion in society. But Bill Leonard warns: people of faith should not mistake the motto for an act of faith.
An agreement this week likely brings an end to a year-long church-state dispute over religious proselytizing in a Louisiana school district.
BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler responded quickly today to denounce an HHS decision issuing a waiver to a federally funded foster care service from requirements not to discriminate on the basis of religion.
The U.S. Supreme Court today left in place a 9th Circuit ruling in a Free Speech case involving a high school football coach’s insistence on praying on the field with his team.
With all of the culturally, historically, and scientifically significant places to take school children for field trips, we can surely leave religious theme parks off the list.