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The ’Splainer: What is the Blaine Amendment and did SCOTUS kill it?
By Kimberly Winston — June 28, 2017
(RNS) Who was Blaine and would he have wanted to prevent a Midwestern day care center from padding the ground below its swingset and slide? Let us ’Splain . . . .
America’s real first freedom? Secular government
By Michael De Dora — April 24, 2017
(RNS) The “first freedom” is not the free exercise of religion — it is freedom from established religion.
Alabama Senate gives megachurch the right to form its own police force
By Lauren Markoe — April 13, 2017
(RNS) Briarwood Presbyterian Church may be the first church in the country to be allowed to form its own police force, invested with the powers of 'regular' police.
Dispelling the myth of a ‘Christian nation’
By Charles C. Haynes — August 8, 2013
A right for the religious is a right for the nonreligious
By Charles C. Haynes — July 14, 2013
Legislative prayers, the Supreme Court’s self-created quagmire
By Charles C. Haynes — May 30, 2013
Graduation prayer, fighting over a lost cause
By Charles C. Haynes — May 16, 2013
When do student prayers cross the First Amendment line?
By Charles C. Haynes — February 21, 2013
In Texas schools, failing grade for Bible courses
By Charles C. Haynes — February 7, 2013
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional the devotional use of the Bible by public schools, in its ruling on Abington Township v. Schempp.
But many school districts in the Lone Star State still haven’t gotten the message, according to a report released last month by the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) entitled [...]
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