ACLU of Tennessee sent letters to the school superintendents concluding that school Christmas celebrations are a violation of the separation of church and state. Tennessee school districts received offers of free legal defense after a civil liberties group warned superintendents against hosting Christmas celebrations. On Monday, 137 Tennessee school districts received letters from the Alliance... Continue Reading

Using this figure to suggest that a majority of service members support a change is misleading at best. The 70 percent number is inflated because it includes those who replied that they had mixed feelings Those who are opposed to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy are conducting an aggressive push to overturn the... Continue Reading

Journalist and poet Eliza Grizwold says we can learn a lot about Christianity by surveying the region where they have clashed for 200 years. When we think of Islam, we tend to think of the Middle East. But 80 percent of the world’s Muslims live elsewhere, and in regions where they encounter half the world’s... Continue Reading

Without using the term vouchers, Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott said he is considering a plan that will let parents pick their children’s school. ST. PETERSBURG — Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott on Thursday blew the door wide open to the idea of a voucher-like program for all students, saying he’s working with lawmakers to allow state... Continue Reading

A Guide to Church Property Law: Second Edition offers an indispensible guide to navigating the troubled waters surrounding potential court disputes over local church property ownership and use. A Guide to Church Property Law: Second Edition by Lloyd J. Lunceford, Ed. Reviewed by David W. Virtue Who owns the church? Conflict over property is as... Continue Reading

“People of any faith or no faith at all can recognize that when the law defines marriage as between one man and one woman, it legally binds a mother and a father to each other and their children, reinforcing the foundational cell of human society.” Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the... Continue Reading

Major Morris argued that the Salvation Army was a group with broader appeal whose cause was exclusively needy families in the area, as opposed to other charities with narrower causes. Donations to the Salvation Army (the Red Kettles) in the Washington area have fallen 15 percent below last year’s in the first two weeks of... Continue Reading

Eight years after declaring school vouchers to be constitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court is assessing version 2.0 of school choice efforts: tax credits. The Court heard oral arguments November 3 over the constitutionality of Arizona’s dollar-for-dollar tax credits for those who give money to scholarship organizations, most of which benefit religious schools. Some Arizona taxpayers... Continue Reading

He argued that society should protect heterosexual marriage because it has an interest in making sure children are born in wedlock to parents who have a biological connection to them. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Monday for the case that will decide the fate of Proposition 8, California’s 2008 ballot... Continue Reading

“Before children received so many vaccinations…only 1 child out of 10,000 was diagnosed with autism, now 1 out of 110 eight year olds is diagnosed. Is there a link? We need to find out.” Dr. Theresa “Tracy” Deisher is a Stanford-trained molecular scientist and cell physiologist with a dozen or so patents on her resume.... Continue Reading