Reading Time: 4 minutes America’s secretary of state is officially promoting his Christian faith to world leaders. Isn’t that exactly what the Constitution prohibits?
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My state is a church-state-separation scofflaw, and proud of it
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new national survey on U.S. church-state separation shows that a lot of states couldn’t care less about that, including my own state, South Dakota.
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China right to hold religion in check. But its tactics too harsh.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Like secular Americans, leaders of officially atheist Communist China want to keep religion from disrupting society. But can the U.S. find a gentler path to that noble goal?
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Poll: About half of college students want ‘God’ removed from money
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a recent poll of college students, 45 percent of respondents said the phrase “In God We Trust” should be removed from U.S. currency. That’s bad news for the GOP.
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Quebec bans some public servants from wearing religious symbols
Reading Time: 4 minutes Quebec province in Canada passed a law protecting the secular ethos in its Constitution by barring public employees from wearing religious garb. Muslims aren’t happy.
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Religious norms blocked me from a Saudi pool. Happens here, too.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not only theocracies deny gender rights based on ancient religious traditions. It also happens right here in the United States.
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MAGA: Top Trump officials see Christian God as nation’s savior
Reading Time: 4 minutes Religion is driving the political agenda of key U.S. federal officials. They seek more Bibles in schools and official state religions, etc., and await the “rapture.”
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U.S. Constitution Protects Superstition, Not ‘Religion’
Reading Time: 4 minutes What does “freedom of religion” actually mean in the Constitution? It doesn’t mean what you think it does.