Christianity Today's Ruth Moon compiles quotations from members of the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council on the specific issue of whether houses of worship should be required to form separate corporations to receive federal funding for providing social services. The Council voted 13-12 that the government should indeed make that requirement.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that former Ohio science teacher, John Freshwater, may not sue the lawyer representing the school board that fired him for improperly promoting religion in class. Freshwater has filed a lawsuit over his termination.
The Chicago chapter of CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) filed suit against DuPage County officials over their refusal to permit the building of an Islamic learning center.
A panel of the 5th Circuit today heard arguments in the never-ending candy-cane case. The newest issue is whether principals who kept a young student from distributing the treats with religious messages attached – to satisfy the requirements of an assignment – can be held individually liable for that decision. The lower court ruled that indeed they can.
AU's Sandhya Bathija updates proposed legislation in Oklahoma that would provide guidelines – and not necessarily appropriate ones- for teaching Bible courses in public schools across the state.
