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Constitutional & Legislative Trends
Germany's highest court rules Sunday to be kept as a day of rest and overturns a Berlin law easing... More
Say no to blasphemy laws: Free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion... More
The myth that "God has been thrown out of public schools" is not only factually inaccurate... More
Claims of workplace discrimination on the rise... More
Factors Inform but should not determine decisions... More
Oregon Workplace Religious Freedom Act passes. Both House & Senate support bill... More
Schedule altered so Jewish students can fully compete... More
Misrepresenting the Religion Clauses: School sued repeatedly for violating the Constitution. More...
Court Decision Invites Establishment Clause problem: The US Supreme Court has ruled... More...
Obama through the lens of his words: The proper relationship of faith to politics and government... More...
Ten Commandments: Back to the Supreme Court: Can a display be government speech without government endorsing the message?.. More...
Summum case not just about religion: A city favoring one religious belief over another — would seem... More...
Motivations, Expectations Matter:I hope Senator Obama does not feel impelled to resign his church membership for political reasons... More...
Lethal Injection Challenge: Lethal injection is used for capital punishment by the Federal Government and 36 States, at least 30 of which (including Kentucky) use the same combination... More...
Does Constitutional Theory Matter? The arcane terms of constitutional theory will make their way into the candidates’ speeches and become topics of discussion on political talk shows – strict constructionism, originalism (in several versions), textualism, pragmatism, the living constitution... More...
Court Bars State Effort Using Faith in Prisons: A federal appeals panel ruled yesterday that a state-financed evangelical Christian program to help prisoners re-enter civilian life fostered religious indoctrination and violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The decision by a three-judge panel... More...
Secularism is not a bad word: Separation of church and state does not require a segregation of religion from politics nor does it strip the public square of talk about religion. The institutional and functional separation between church and state does not prevent... More...
Romney Run Offers Tough Lessons for Mormons: Mitt Romney isn't the only casualty in his failed presidential bid. The Mormon church, yearning for broad acceptance, also took a beating. Extremists denounced Romney's campaign as a Mormon plot to take over the country. Some Evangelicals feared... More...
Americans' Views Mixed on Basic Freedoms: Sixty-five percent of Americans believe that the nation's founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation and 55% believe that the Constitution establishes a Christian nation, according to... More...
New Church-State Poll Reveals Some Troubling Results – And Challenges: Religious Right groups complain incessantly about their rights supposedly being violated, but most Americans aren’t buying it. Sixty-six percent said our country’s amount of religious freedom is “about right.” More...
State of the First Amendment 2007- Survey Results: As you may know, the First Amendment is part of the U.S. Constitution. Can you name any of the specific rights that are guaranteed by the First Amendment? More...
Brent Walker of BJC Responds to McCain's Remarks: Sen. McCain’s unfortunate comments reflect a common but wrong belief (shared with about 55 percent of the American public) that the U.S. Constitution establishes a Christian nation. The Constitution is a decidedly secular document. Yes, many of the Founders were men of faith and mostly Christian, but... More...
BJC's Blog at the Capitol: I'm not naive enough to think that pundits won't explore the political ramifications of everything they can think of. And since I learned today that a whopping 81% of campaign coverage in 2008 has been about process and politics, rather than substantive policy... More...
The Church Next Door: Dean Kelley, religious liberty executive for the National Council of Churches for more than three decades, used to say that a cult is what you called the church down the street! My religion is never a cult; it’s a term we use... More...
Oral Arguments Heard in Religious Abuse Case Filed by Guantanamo Detainees: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) provides broad protection for the free exercise rights of military personnel and detainees at Guantanamo, according to an amicus brief... More...
Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries: Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries. The chaplains were directed by the Bureau of Prisons to clear the shelves... More...
Union-dues exemptions broadened: No employee should have to pay dues to a labor union whose political positions conflict with his or her religious convictions, a federal court in Ohio has ruled... More...
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