Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.
The writer of the letter “Revisionist history” (April 13, TribLive) asks to be shown “anywhere in the United States Constitution and its amendments where ‘embedded’ is the phrase ‘separation of church ...
As a good Baptist girl in the 1980s and 1990s, I was raised on the principle of the separation of church and state. We were in the midst of what came to be known as “The Baptist Battles.” My dad was ...
In 1947, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the case of Everson v. Board of Education and thereby officially enshrined into American constitutional law the principle of separation of church and state.
The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” A few years ago, I paid an after-school ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible ...
(RNS) — In response to my column last week on the Supreme Court’s latest religious accommodation case, reader “C Darrow” commented that “‘separation of church and state’ is an imaginary concept, not ...
Steven K. Green does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
AUSTIN — As state Rep. Dr. Tom Oliverson of Cypress spoke on stage alongside Christian leaders, he made a plea to pastors: Bring politics to the pulpit. Oliverson’s remarks came Friday at Texas Faith ...