My visit coincides with a book I finished on the plane out here to North Carolina. Randall Balmer’s America’s Best Idea: The ...

Chief Justice John Roberts’ court is actively eroding the separation of church and state, breaking with centuries of First ...

The First Amendment, which guarantees free speech, among other things, also codifies freedom of religion, and that there is separation of church and state.

Not so very long ago, “separation of church and state” was as American as motherhood and apple pie. Despite perennial debates over the degree of separation, public support for the principle itself has ...

A bedrock of American exceptionalism has been the prohibition on using tax dollars to support religion. In America’s “melting pot,” public schools must be open to all without any religious preference ...

I’ve never been what you would call traditionally religious. In my youth, my parents took my brother and me to the Methodist ...

The genius of the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is found in the balance each provides the other. Ideally, the Free Exercise Clause protects and maintains our ...

An Ohio bill, the 'Charlie Kirk Heritage Act' would require teaching Christianity’s influence on U.S. history, sparking ...

Law and fairness mandated the Doña Ana County Commission’s refusal to celebrate “religious” speeches that insult some constituents. Separation of church and state was extremely important to the nation ...

Sabrina Harrison, a senior at Midwestern State University, placed second in a national competition to argue the importance of the First Amendment, with her video expressing how religion in ...

Well-off parents do not need the state to supplement tuition costs. Further, per the First Amendment, our tax dollars should not be going to support religious institutions versus public education. The ...

The word "God" is seen on the wall of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Credit - Alex Wong—Getty Images Two hundred fifty years ago, the American Revolution began with the “shot heard ...