The US Supreme Court ruled early last year that monuments in the town of Pleasant Grove, Utah may be chosen by government officials because it amounts to government speech. But many observers believed that logic may have left a strong church-state challenge...
Connecticut's Enfield School District put an end to the dispute over its plan to use a church for its graduation proceedings. The Board voted 5-4 not to appeal a lower court's ruling that the arrangement violates the separation of church and state. "The...
Reading former Supreme Court Justice David Souter's commencement address at Harvard last week (wow, feels weird to refer to him as a "former" Justice), I couldn't help but think of the tension inherent in so much religious liberty law. He didn't...
Faced with potential church-state lawsuits, student protests, and even a biblical argument against it, officials at California's Exeter High School did the right thing, ending a 100-year practice of including a prayer in graduation ceremonies. Instead, the event...
California's State Senate is doing what they can to try and limit the influence of the Texas Board of Education's recent controversial curriculum changes. SB 1451 would require California education officials to compare Texas-inspired textbooks with the...
Just a thought while pondering and reading about the big church-state news of the day. Judge Janet Hall's injunction halting a Connecticut school district's plans to use First Cathedral for commencement ceremonies did not in fact rule that any use of a...
