U.S. Senator Marco Rubio(R-FL) regularly tweets out Bible verses that surreptitiously support his views of the day. It is a curious take on separation of church and state. But the Roman Catholic lawmaker who also worships at a Southern ...
The latest clash over the separation of church and state comes on the heels of the2020 ruling Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, when the court held 5-4 that a Montana scholarship program that gave funds to religious schools is protected by the Constitution. ...
Gerard Bradley was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article Supreme Court to hear new case on religion in public lifeby David G. Savage on November 2, 2013.Notre Dame Law professor Gerard Bradley thinks justices may be ready to "reject or seriously modify the 'endorsement' test."Gerard V. ...
In revising and updating Joseph Tussman's The Supreme Court on Church and State, Robert Alley has collected the major Supreme Court decisions on the separation of church and state to provide a comprehensive and non-partisan guide to the Court's opinions. Cases are presented in their entirety, ...
the high court unanimously endorsed what Thomas Jefferson called the “wall of separation between church and state” and made it clear that direct tax support of religion violated that wall. In 1971’sLemon v. Kurtzman, the court laid down a three-part test ...
Rachel Laser, head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, doesn’t want religious schools to be treated equally under school choice programs. Here’s some of her column in the Washington Post. …two sets of parents in Maine claim that the Constitution’s promise of religious...
Civil liberties advocates behind the case called the decision involving the city of Bloomfield a victory for the separation of church and state. ACLU of New Mexico Executive Director Peter Simonson said it sends a “strong message that the government should not be in the business of picking and...
“Abortion is essential to protecting religious freedom for a government that believes in the separation of church and state. … There’s six justices sitting in this court, I call on them to honor what is best about the Catholic tradition,” Manson said. 11:41 p.m. 12:31:58, December...
” said Rachel Laser, president of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “When the Roberts court rules on religion, it’s almost always coming down in support of not just religion, but of mainstream Christian