Religious Liberty

The question examined at Reuter’s FaithWorld blog

Steven Waldman explains why he celebrates Madison’s birthday in the Wall Street Journal

The case is taking place at Wright State University. CBF is the college campus arm of Baptist Mid-Missions.

Dan Gilgoff at US News and World Report- “Why Christian Radio’s Nervous Over Fairness Doctrine Despite Today’s Senate Ban”

Terry Mattingly looks at the Obama administration’s relationship with faith-based organizations-“Case by case government doctrines”

Clermont County Public Library told a couple they could not use the library meeting room for a seminar that involved the Bible. Couple sued. Library settled.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case brought by a group of Catholic and Baptist charities, who have argued that they should be exempt from a New York law requiring them to provide birth control to their employees.

A Baptist pastor in California has called for “imprecatory prayer” against the leaders of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

“Let his days be few; and let another take his office,” the prayer reads. “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”

Grade school student Michaela Bloodgood had tried to hand out fliers on the bus, during recess, or before school, but her school had banned her from doing so.
“The Liverpool Central School District in upstate New York based its restrictions on ‘fear or apprehension of disturbance, which is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression,’ Chief U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue wrote in a 46-page decision Friday.”

At BLOG and MABLOG, Douglas Wilson provides a thought-provoking parable on rules and legalism