In a story I'm still trying to wrap my head around, Davidson has become the 3rd religiously affiliated University in North Carolina to have its campus police force stripped of law enforcement powers after a state appeals court ruled the arrangement is an...
By now you've heard of the new Pew Forum poll showing a growing number of Americans wrongly believe President Obama is a Muslim. He is, in fact, a Christian. Deeper in that poll, however are some other interesting questions. The number of respondents who believe,...
The National Law Journal reports on a ruling by the Court of Appeals' Federal Circuit that denied the request of Foundation of Human Understanding to be classified as a church for purposes of IRS oversight. The ruling upholds a lower court's finding that...
The Salt Lake Tribune reports on yesterday's 10th Circuit ruling that large roadside crosses memorializing fallen members of the Utah Highway Patrol are unconstitutional. “It’s a decision that had to be made,” said the Rev. Tom Goldsmith, of Salt...
A panel of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled unconstitutional a Utah Highway Patrol Association program of placing roadside crosses on public land – with the approval of the state's Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) – to commemorate fallen...
Invoking the history of persecution experienced by Baptists and other minority Christian groups early in America's history, Baptist Joint Committee Executive Director Brent Walker weighed in on the "ground zero mosque" controversy today. With rights, he...
