U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger of northern Florida is one smart guy. On Wednesday, he gave a Florida public school quite a scolding, followed by a very important constitutional law...

One of my heroes in the church-state world is a feisty Southern Baptist minister named James Dunn. James ran the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty here in Washington for many years. He...

The Texas State Board of Education has been wrangling over evolution for months now. Recently, board members spent two full days squabbling over new science standards and  fighting over concepts...

Should taxpayers be forced to subsidize social service programs that discriminate in hiring on religious grounds? Most Americans would quickly and emphatically say, “No!” If taxpayers of all...

Just when you think Religious Right groups can’t get any farther out on the edge of the flat Earth, they do. Last week, the Family Research Council (FRC) was apoplectic that the Obama...