Discrimination
US Supreme Court to hear Arguments on DOMA and Prop 8 on March 26
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled two days of oral arguments on two separate but related cases beginning…
Constitution
Evaluating Clinton’s claim to “reasonable regulation” of Constitutional rights
Constitutional rights, particularly those in the Bill of Rights are guarantees of personal freedoms and are expressed in…
Free Exercise
Supreme Court declines to hear case involving 1925 baptism
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lawsuit filed by a 94-year-old Texas man who…
Church and State
No more Lemon tree – Supreme Court weakens Establishment Clause protections
The Court took an ax to the trunk of the Lemon tree and replaced it with a vague…
Church and State
EXCERPTS: Douglas Laycock on dangers of protecting liberty ‘only for ourselves’ (Baptist Joint Committee)
From: http://bjconline.org/news/news/0209laycock.htm Douglas Laycock is the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law…
Church and State
Is Christian “Just War” Just Like Jihad? (Patheos)
EXCERPT: Christian and Islamic views of warfare are closer than we have been led to believe. When it…
Church and State
Hard-fought religious freedom something to celebrate this Thanksgiving
Households throughout the United States are celebrating a presidentially designated Thanksgiving Day. It provides us an opportunity to…
Church and State
The Romans 13 Crisis- A pastor looks at the authoritarian use of Scripture
To be fair, perhaps Jeff Sessions did not mean to act against years of religious liberty and separation…
Constitution
U.S. House Committee Votes to Strengthen Military Chaplains’ Liberty of Conscience
The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has adopted Congressman Todd Akin's (R-Missouri) amendment to the National Defense Authorization…
Free Exercise
Lemuel V. Sapian releases new book on America’s religious freedom divide
Very few things can be as divisive as religion. In free America, we are guaranteed freedom of religion.…