Not since the religious right burst onto the national political scene four decades ago has an American president done more to cultivate its good will than Donald Trump. Let us count the ways. He assembled a Who’s Who of evangelical activists as his religious advisors. He pledged to do away with the Johnson Amendment barring …
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It’s been more than a week since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the taxpayer-funded “Religious Freedom Task Force” with a lot of fanfare, yet we still know almost nothing about it, and that’s pretty terrifying. Church/state separation groups as well as religious allies have described the Task Force as “one-sided” and a ploy to use religion as …
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When President Trump stood beside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last month and said, “I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia who attempted to influence the 2016 election, the subsequent firestorm of criticism included liberals as well as prominent Republicans. “I am a tea party conservative, that will never change. But …
Four out of the five Republican candidates running for state superintendent of public instruction said they believe Arizona students should be taught creationism and intelligent design as part of science learning requirements. The candidates’ comments came during Wednesday night’s debate hosted by The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Jonathan Gelbart was the sole Republican candidate who opposed teaching students creationism …
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Standing beneath the cast aluminum statue of Lady Justice in the Department of Justice’s Great Hall, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a bold statement last week: “Many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack.” He spoke of Catholic nuns being forced to buy contraceptives. (Actually, the Affordable Care Act required …
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On July 25, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Directors (in California) was indeed violating the Establishment Clause by promoting Christianity at meetings. They read Bible verses, said explicitly Christian prayers at the exclusion of all other beliefs, railed against marriage equality (presumably in the …
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a spectacle of announcing his Religious Liberty Task Force last Monday, when he said a “dangerous movement” threatening people of faith must be “confronted intellectually and politically and defeated.” Hosting a Religious Liberty Summit inside the Department of Justice headquarters, Sessions had surrounded himself largely with players from the religious …
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Move over, Kim Davis. There’s a new legal clerk refusing to do her job because of religion. A same-sex couple in the state of New York wanted to get married — which is their right and has been since 2011 — but their town’s clerk, Laurel Erickson, refused to grant them a marriage certificate. The couple, Dylan Toften and Thomas …
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No sex until marriage. That’s the message in many Georgia school districts, where sex education is abstinence based. Despite hundreds of student requests for science-based programs and several parent-led initiatives for curriculum change, abstinence-based programs still dominate the state’s schools. Georgia does not have a single sex ed curriculum. Instead, schools choose yearly if they …
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Maryland’s attorney general has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a controversial cross-shaped memorial on public land, weighing in for the first time about the future of the Peace Cross that honors men killed in World War I. Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) this week filed an amicus brief in the case, which …
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