https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to prayer in schools en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/28/set-privilege-christianity-public-schools-texas-sends-message-about-who-welcome-and-who The Texas Legislature is set to enact three laws to redefine the rules concerning religion in public schools. One will allow students and teachers to engage in Bible reading during the school day; a second will require the posting of… Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:48:03 EDT Steven K. Green f6261615-c190-40bc-bee4-34fcc7c2d732 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/01/yeshiva-likely-win-its-battle-against-lgbtq-group-do-jewish-orgs-really-want-empower Yeshiva University (YU), a storied New York City Orthodox Jewish institution, is the unlikely darling du jour of political and legal conservatives. Sued for discrimination by a group of students and alumni after it refused to recognize an undergraduate Pride… Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:58:53 EDT Orit Avishai 26f9af27-f212-4f3d-8433-f999ab7fb4bf https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/16/desantis-no-show-rights-secret-sauce-and-final-thoughts-pray-vote-stand This is the final post of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/16/2022 Afternoon The election reform panel is a study in fear mongering and misinformation. Jason… Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:58:40 EDT PRA Staff 547c4892-ab34-4340-aef1-45189accdf35 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/07/18/caught-fever-dream-originalism-can-scotus-majority-learn-lessons-early-america-its-too The separation of church and state feels like bedrock in America. It is, after all, part of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment—that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”—which has traditionally been interpreted to mean… Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:43:48 EDT J.L. Tomlin, Thomas Lecaque b0bd3de6-b907-4006-a16b-8f665e5ff5c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/30/americans-must-stop-thinking-united-states-supreme-court-court-law Americans must stop thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a court of law. It’s a court bent on giving political whims the force of law and on converting America into a Christian nation. Some of its most significant… Thu, 30 Jun 2022 03:46:43 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 4dc85495-9564-4e9e-98c5-46e35a9fb38e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/26/whos-really-politicizing-school-shootings You know it’s coming. Every time a mass shooting captures the American public’s consciousness, leading to demands for sensible gun control, one or more Republicans will attempt to “ shut that whole thing down ” with demands that we stop… Thu, 26 May 2022 03:35:56 EDT Chrissy Stroop 124edbd4-1f12-4583-b602-7b5d8ecbf9df https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/03/end-roe-and-school-prayer-america-not-ready-be-christian-nation Conservative Supreme Court justices are rewriting our Constitution . The leaked draft of Justice Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade radically alters American law and our understanding of constitutional rights . It isn’t the first consequential reversal from this… Tue, 03 May 2022 05:28:49 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 34374164-dbfb-4dd6-8316-24b574b906e4 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/15/praying-victory-packed-supreme-court-takes-yet-another-christian-nationalist-cause Can public school employees use their position of authority to impose religious rituals on other people’s children? “NO” has been the resounding and obvious answer to this question for decades, but on Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a… Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:56:23 EST Andrew L. Seidel d0aa219f-71b1-462d-b127-430811d087d5 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/01/03/religious-freedom-battle-far-over-heres-what-look-2019 While the issues are piling up, the Supreme Court—and U.S. society more broadly—will have to face the questions ducked in Masterpiece Cakeshop, or else be willing to settle for a level of uncertainty that serves no one. Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:17:20 EST Patrick Hornbeck ec27ae95-8ca8-4bd4-ac5d-245f46891eb8 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/02/supreme-court-rules-religion-special-time The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:23:24 EST Katherine Stewart d2b90c68-0ce1-4ec7-acf5-8b38884dd1ea https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/03/what-would-jesus-chew-bishops-bet-b-ball-incredibly-shrinking-brain This week’s The Week in Religion. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:42:36 EDT Michael J. Altman e480a93d-2682-4caf-94d1-2df8adfa8b8f https://religiondispatches.org/2011/05/27/its-time-reconsider-graduation-prayer-public-high-schools Non-believers and the community of liberal believers, typically the ones attempting to ban religious imagery from the public square, have avoided specifying which forms of communal expression of meaning are appropriate. Fri, 27 May 2011 07:01:16 EDT Bruce Ledewitz 7df5f156-78fa-4859-bc41-2a843a266c13