Living Democracy Joy Cowdery The First Amendment has two provisions concerning religion: the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Establishment clause prohibits the government from ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an expansive view of religious rights while potentially ...

Texas wants to post the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Other states want to bring religion back to schools and public spaces. It ought to be a no-brainer — they cannot do that. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court appears ready to approve the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, dealing a monumental blow to ...

On June 5, Oklahoma voted to allow a new Christian charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, to benefit from taxpayer funding on par with non-sectarian public schools. Activists ...

Via the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty’s blog, Elena Kagan answered a few questions on the Establishment Clause yesterday. In light of past indications that she has leaned toward more ...

In the 1990s the U.S. Supreme Court decided a handful of religious liberty cases on the basis of the First Amendment’s free speech clause. The most significant of these was Rosenberger v. University ...