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Television preacher Pat Robertson can barely contain his anger when he talks about a 1947 Supreme Court decision called Everson v. Board of Education. Robertson attacked the ruling on his [...]

Tammy J. Kitzmiller believes strongly that her children should be taught modern biology in public school, not someone else's religious beliefs masquerading as science. Meeting that goal has been a [...]

To hear Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore tell it, Aug. 1, 2001, will be an important day in the history of church-state separation. 'Today,' said Moore, 'a cry [...]

Cleveland mom Dorris Simmons-Harris didn't start out to make legal history. She was just looking for a fair shake for her son. The year was 1995, and Ohio legislators had [...]

It was one of the most closely watched church-state cases in Supreme Court history: a legal challenge to the inclusion of the phrase 'under God' in public school recitations of [...]

When William Pate went to the rally at Westover Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas, he was expecting a heady mixture of religion and politics. After all, the 'Call [...]

Some people just don't know when to give up. Although they've been rebuffed by two federal courts, attorneys for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, the by-now notorious 'Ten [...]

Any doubts that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore holds extreme views about non-Christian faiths should have been erased about six weeks ago. Facing a lawsuit to force him [...]

As Church & State went to press, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will decide whether voucher subsidies for religious schools are constitutional. The justices have agreed to hear [...]

Ronald B. Flowers isn't the type of guy likely to end up behind bars. A longtime professor of religion at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, he has never had [...]

State gambling grants given to religious groups in Indiana, including an Easter pageant, have sparked a church-state lawsuit. The money came from the Build Indiana Fund, which receives revenues consisting [...]

A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida school district's plan that allows graduating seniors to choose a member of their class to deliver a prayer or other message during [...]

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 June 11 that public schools may not exclude private religious groups from using classrooms for meetings immediately after the school day ends if those facilities [...]

How A Publicity Stunt By Hollywood Producer Cecil B. DeMille Wound Up At The Supreme Court --And What Happened When It Did According to the Book of Exodus, God handed [...]

Battles over government display of the Ten Commandments are currently brewing in several communities around the nation. A recent survey by Americans United's Legal Department and Church & State uncovered [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case from New Jersey dealing with an elementary school student who wanted to read a Bible story to his classmates. The [...]

A spate of recent incidents underscores the dangers of government usurpation of religious symbols and phrases. In Ohio, after a federal appeals court upheld the use of the phrase 'With [...]

A non-profit hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., that operates on city-owned property has agreed to end its partnership with Roman Catholic medical centers in the area and drop restrictive church [...]

A New York Case Tests The Limits Of Child Evangelism At Public School Bob Fowler specializes in bringing fundamentalist Christian evangelism to kids. As far as he's concerned, even very [...]

Cleveland's School Voucher Program Violates Church-State Separation, Federal Apellate Court Rules At Calvary Center Academy in Cleveland, the day begins with a mandatory pledge to the flag. But unlike their [...]

A federal lawsuit has been filed against a Milwaukee program that awards state money to religious groups to help troubled fathers overcome drug addiction and find jobs. The Freedom From [...]

A federal court in Boston has ruled that government officials in Massachusetts cannot be forced to allow a vote on removing a provision of the state constitution that bars taxpayer [...]

In a ground-breaking case that will test the boundaries of tax aid to church-run social services, Americans United and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky have filed suit against [...]

Public school football games are no place for coercive worship, Americans United told the U.S. Supreme Court last month. Americans United and allied groups filed a 'friend of the court' [...]

A federal appeals court has ruled that a fifteen-foot marble statue of Jesus featured at a public park in Wisconsin is unconstitutional, despite the fact that the artwork is not [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to intervene in a dispute over a Maryland law that requires public schools to close on Good Friday and the Monday after Easter. On [...]

A Texas judge violated the First Amendment when he ruled that a divorced woman could not take her child to a predominantly gay Christian church because the congregation is not [...]

Voucher aid to religious schools in Ohio probably violates the constitutional separation of church and state, a federal court held Aug. 24. In a major victory for Americans United, U.S. [...]

Virginia Court Blocks $55-Million Government Bond Issue For Pat Robertson's Regent University To Richmond, Va., Circuit Judge Randall G. Johnson, the facts are abundantly clear. Regent University is a religious [...]

Alabama teachers and other school officials may not prescribe religious worship, but 'student-initiated' prayer is permissible as long as it is 'non-proselytizing,' a federal appellate court has ruled. The U.S. [...]

Lately many people have been asking me the same question -- in San Diego where I moderated a debate on vouchers at a national meeting of the American Civil Liberties [...]