Preserving the public middle ground on religious liberty, LGBT issues
(RNS) Some say that when it comes to LGBT issues, there is no middle ground. Not true, says Jennifer A. Marshall: 'the United States was made for this.'
View ArticleChildren on Christian or Secular swings?
The Founders solved the religion problem by not solving the religious problem, which is why we still have to debate it each year.
View ArticleKing’s birthday is not the only thing worth celebrating on Jan. 16
(RNS) The Virginia Statute, authored by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and shepherded through the Legislature by James Madison in 1786, made the state the first in history to ensure complete religious...
View ArticleThe ‘Splainer: Does Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ flout the law?
(RNS) Plaintiffs argue that the president's executive order amounts to religious discrimination. But whether they'll be able to convince the courts is an open question.
View ArticleMy high school’s Muslim prayer room was a lesson in religious freedom
(RNS) The Muslim prayer room at Hiba Siddiqi's public Texas high school was not only tolerated by her fellow students, it was a tangible lesson in religious tolerance.
View ArticleCourt: N.C. commissioners’ prayer practice violated Constitution
(AP) The question in the Rowan County case was whether it makes a difference that the prayers were given by the commissioners themselves and whether their invitation for the audience to join them in...
View ArticleReligious liberty for all
(RNS) — Evangelical Christians in the founding of our republic understood something worth remembering. The flourishing of their communities depended on the extension of religious freedom, not only to...
View ArticleReligious literacy can fix the faulty foundation beneath Trump’s Muslim ban
(RNS) — The organization I lead, Islamic Networks Group, has ample experience to show that increased religious literacy at all levels of society can weaken the foundation that supports discriminatory...
View ArticleThe Bill of Rights, Thomas Jefferson, and the danger of ‘God-given rights’
(RNS) — 'Premising our rights on some supernatural benevolence is dangerous,' writes Andrew L. Seidel on the Bill of Rights Day (Dec. 15.)
View ArticleThe First Amendment Defense Act is actually bad for religious freedom
WASHINGTON (RNS) The FADA is just the latest example of a troubling pattern of corruption of the noble concept of the freedom of religion and belief.
View ArticlePreserving the public middle ground on religious liberty, LGBT issues
(RNS) Some say that when it comes to LGBT issues, there is no middle ground. Not true, says Jennifer A. Marshall: 'the United States was made for this.'
View ArticleChildren on Christian or Secular swings?
The Founders solved the religion problem by not solving the religious problem, which is why we still have to debate it each year.
View ArticleKing’s birthday is not the only thing worth celebrating on Jan. 16
(RNS) The Virginia Statute, authored by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and shepherded through the Legislature by James Madison in 1786, made the state the first in history to ensure complete religious...
View ArticleThe ‘Splainer: Does Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ flout the law?
(RNS) Plaintiffs argue that the president's executive order amounts to religious discrimination. But whether they'll be able to convince the courts is an open question.
View ArticleMy high school’s Muslim prayer room was a lesson in religious freedom
(RNS) The Muslim prayer room at Hiba Siddiqi's public Texas high school was not only tolerated by her fellow students, it was a tangible lesson in religious tolerance.
View ArticleCourt: N.C. commissioners’ prayer practice violated Constitution
(AP) The question in the Rowan County case was whether it makes a difference that the prayers were given by the commissioners themselves and whether their invitation for the audience to join them in...
View ArticleReligious liberty for all
(RNS) — Evangelical Christians in the founding of our republic understood something worth remembering. The flourishing of their communities depended on the extension of religious freedom, not only to...
View ArticleReligious literacy can fix the faulty foundation beneath Trump’s Muslim ban
(RNS) — The organization I lead, Islamic Networks Group, has ample experience to show that increased religious literacy at all levels of society can weaken the foundation that supports discriminatory...
View ArticleThe Bill of Rights, Thomas Jefferson, and the danger of ‘God-given rights’
(RNS) — 'Premising our rights on some supernatural benevolence is dangerous,' writes Andrew L. Seidel on the Bill of Rights Day (Dec. 15.)
View ArticleThe Supreme Court made the Bladensburg Cross a special case. Let’s keep it...
(RNS) — In deciding to allow a Christian cross to stay on a Maryland highway, the court rejected some of the extreme arguments that may have had more far-reaching consequences for the Establishment...
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