Reading Time: 5 minutes Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett belongs to a Christian group in which men rule families. families. How would she rule on women’s choice then?
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Posted inThe Secular
Is Trump darling Amy Barrett a Trojan Horse for judicial Catholicism?
Reading Time: 5 minutes President Trump’s favorite candidate to replace the Ruth Ginsburg on the Supreme Court says that the purpose of her career is “building the kingdom of God.”
Posted inPolitics
GOP grabs hypocrisy’s private parts to stack Supreme Court … again
Reading Time: 5 minutes The president and GOP try to sabotage U.S. elections to benefit themselves, while shamelessly ignoring their own mandates about Supreme Court nominations.
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When is it OK for a public-school coach to pray with players? Never.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Americans in majority Christian communities with long traditions of prayer at public events, like local football games, miss the point. No matter how familiar, such religious expression is still unconstitutional.
Posted inReligion
In death chambers, condemned killers deserve clerics of their faiths
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s an old story but still relevant. An Alabama man was executed in 2019, but questions linger whether the death penalty was appropriate — or if his religious rights were honored.
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U.S. evangelicals are on a roll, yet none sit on the Supreme Court
Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in the day, Protestant justices packed the U.S. Supreme Court. Today, Catholics and Jews rule the roost. Well, at least they still have a seat in the Oval Office.
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Courts rule religious workers can’t shun job on sabbath Saturday
Reading Time: 3 minutes A U.S. Supreme Court rulling, in effect, says people still have to go to work even if Saturday is their religion’s day of rest.
Posted inPolitics
Illinois township board votes down prayers to avoid non-Christians
Reading Time: 4 minutes Township board votes to not open its meetings with religious invocations. Trustees weren’t being secular. In fact, they were being intolerant.
Posted inReligion
U.S. should follow Canada’s lead and outlaw municipal prayers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada sees the wisdom of banning exclusionary prayers at meetings of elected municipal councils. The U.S. Supreme Court remains effectively blind to that reality.
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Supreme Court case could open floodgates to faith-school vouchers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. Supreme Court will again mull whether its constitutional for tax funds to be used for religious schooling. A more conservative court could forseeably give states the green light to vastly increase religious-school “scholarships.”