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The Wall of Separation Blog
Walter Mondale criticized Reagan for egging on religious extremists in the GOP and for posing as a defender of the faith, a role he said was alien to our government.
Under the Trump policy, promising research involving fetal tissue research was often sidetracked because it couldn’t win the approval of anti-abortion zealots on a review board.
The U.S. Supreme Court is upending the foundational definition of religious freedom and redefining it as religious privilege.
A new analysis shows that common targets for far-right terrorists are Black churches, mosques, abortion clinics and government buildings. But it’s not just structures that are attacked.
One can’t help but wonder if the Supreme Court majority is not being deliberately obtuse here as it desperately grasps at any rationale to favor religion.
A broad coalition of 27 faith groups released an important statement making it clear that while religious freedom is a cherished right, it shouldn’t become an excuse to endanger public health.
Aside from violating church-state separation, creationism also denies our children exposure to real science. It leaves them bereft of the skills they need to compete.
Ralph Reed and his Christian nationalist cronies are hard at work trying to portray the Georgia voting law as needed reform. But as has been noted repeatedly, there was absolutely no widespread fraud in Georgia or any other state during the 2020 election.