Tag: First Amendment

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting an unconstitutional resolution naming 2012 the “Year of the Bible,” unanimously passed (193-0) in the Pennsylvania General Assembly this week.

The Christian “truth” about America’s founding has long been taught in Christian schools, but not beyond. Recently, however some activists have decided that the time was right to try to reshape the history that children in public schools study.

Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government—but he doesn’t believe in God. His political opponents say that’s a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they’ve got the North Carolina Constitution on their side.

David Hamilton, Barack Obama’s first judicial nominee, has seen his confirmation stalled until last week in the U.S. Senate, in part because his opponents claim he’s a judicial activist for an opinion he wrote about God’s proper secular title. In a 2005 case, Hinrichs v. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana House of Representatives “should refrain from using Christ’s name or title or any other denominational appeal,” and that such prayer must hereinafter be “nonsectarian.”

A US judge has ordered South Carolina not to issue a licence plate with a Christian image and slogan.

I posted this video recently on Facebook, and am posting it here at the behest of a good friend who insists it deserves a place in the archives. I am including my original comments and links, and would only add that if you have children, I promise you wouldn’t mind watching episodes of Histeria! with them. They are very cleverly written with plenty of subtle jokes and musical parodies for more mature folks. And revered historical figures like Confucius and Abe Lincoln are treated quite fairly, to be sure…HA! Enjoy!

A U.S. appeals court ruled that a kindergartner’s mother cannot read Scripture during her son’s show and tell.

Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.