A lawsuit filed by the American Center for Law and Justice challenges the "individual mandate" in recently passed health care reform legislation. In an earlier post, I pointed out the references to religion in that bill, including some exemptions for...
Whether or not they provide anything controversial enough to become a confirmation hearing topic, it's still nice to see a Supreme Court nominee's religious liberty views making headlines for once. Here's Education Week's take on the documents released...
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged the Clinton Adminstration to fight for a strong reading of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, according to notes she wrote in 1996. After the California Supreme Court ruled that a landlord could not refuse to rent to an...
Americans United has filed a complaint with the IRS over Rapid City, SD's Liberty Baptist Tabernacle. Reverend Wayne Williams, the letter says, urged his congregation to support a particular candidate in the Republican primary for Governor, a charge he did not...
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a Civil War-era law – used by a lower court to resolve a dispute over the ownership of church property – does not apply in the case. The congregations in question do not constitute a "branch" of The...
McCreary County, Kentucky has been trying to develop an acceptable Ten Commandments monument for its courthouse ever since the US Supreme Court ruled its display unconstitutional in 2005. In 2008, a judge ruled that an effort that included other historical documents...
