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Jeff Sessions Believes the First Amendment Separation Clause Is Unconstitutional
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is “unhistorical” according to Sessions.
Tagged Establishment Clause
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American Atheists Sue To Stop Welfare For Baptist Convention
Expenditure of public treasury funds for the Baptist Convention would advance its religious purpose in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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Federal Judge Orders School Board To Stop Preaching and Praying At Public Meetings
A U.S. District Court Judge informed a school board that proselytizing and prayers were not suited for a public school board meeting
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Constitutional Dunce Scalia Needs To Be In An Asylum, Not SCOTUS
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
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Cowardly Americans Tremble In Fear While A Courageous Nun Defends Women
- Commentary, Featured News, Feminism, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
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Colorado Supreme Court Rules Using Public School Money For Private Religious Instruction is Unconstitutional
The poor performance of deliberately underfunded public schools allows legislators to siphon off funds to religious institutions in the name of education.
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Michigan And North Carolina Republicans Enact Un-Constitutional Theocratic Laws
Today, more so than at any time in the nation’s history, evangelical Republicans are on a crusade to base the nation’s laws on the Christian religion to discriminate against Americans who do not fall into the mold of a religious Republican.
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Religious Right Leader Argues that Supreme Court Should Overrule God
Matt Barber of liberty counsel celebrates non-existent victories while looking for SCOTUS to let us do what Jesus said not to do
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Republican Kasich Forces Public Schools To Partner with Religion Or Lose Taxpayer Funding
Ohio Governor John Kasich made that “religious extremist duty” mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing Ohio schools that if they fail to align with Christian organizations, they will lose funding.
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Right-Wing Justice Scalia is Crusading to Establish Religion by Constitutional Fiat
Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state “doesn’t mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”
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SCOTUS Prayer Ruling Silences New York Town’s Non-Christians
The Catholics on the High Court made a serious error in ruling that any government prayers were constitutional.
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Abolishing Anti-Discrimination Laws
One would think most Americans support the 14th Amendment’s prohibition of unequal treatment under the law unflinchingly. Unfortunately, the religious right is intent on abolishing the concept of equality and rejects the idea that no American, or government entity,
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The Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Trojan Horse For All Businesses and Corporations
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
Supreme Court Throws Out Establishment Clause With Public Prayer Ruling
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.
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It Is Time For Constitution Loving Americans To Stand Up To Right Wing Republicans
Americans who value their freedoms, religious or otherwise, would do well to avoid the pitfalls of staying silent for fear of offending extremists because that silence has produced precisely what is plaguing this nation.
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South Carolina Violates the Constitution With Plan For Mandatory Prayer In Public Schools
As the new year is getting underway, there is a renewed push to force prayer into South Carolina public schools.
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Dysfunctional Republican Christians Vow To Destroy the First Amendment
Two-hundred and twenty-two years after the First Amendment was ratified, there is a large segment of the population that cannot fathom the simple meaning of the First Amendment.
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The Religious Right Attempts to Circumvent the Constitution By Claiming Academic Freedom
The latest attempt by the religious right to circumvent the Constitution involves claiming that prohibiting teachers from teaching the bible as science infringes on their academic freedom.
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Republicans Use Taxpayer Dollars to Insert Religion into Public Education
There is a growing movement to insert religion into the education system using taxpayer dollars.
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Republicans Signal Their Longing to Return to McCarthyism
A number of Republicans have signaled their willingness to revisit one of America’s darkest eras when innuendo, suspicion, and false accusations cost many their freedom, livelihood, and reputation.
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Sure, the Christian Right Champions Religious Freedom – For Themselves
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours