Church-State Separation

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/24/2023
  

  Texas GOP's Ten Commandments School Bill Fails

  The Texas House did not have the votes to pass a bill approved by the state senate that would have required the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/2023
  

  Texas Schools to get Chaplains and the Ten Commandments under Legislation

  After a Supreme Court ruling favored explicitly Christian prayer led by school officials at school functions, Texas conservatives feel empowered to put more religion into public schools. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  1/10/2023
  

  For "Religious Freedom Day," Take Back the Term's Revolutionary Meaning

  The religious right has hijacked the story of Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom, obscuring the law's intention to prevent the domination of the religious preferences of the powerful.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/7/2022
  

  Church-State Separation is Alien to Many Americans' Faith

  by Caleb Gayle

  The "classical" Christian curriculum pushes a historical vision that America was conceived by God as a beacon of righteousness, and that Christian duty is to eliminate secularism and religious pluralism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/9/2022
  

  Alito is Fulfilling Promises to the Supporters to Demolish Church-State Separation

  by Duncan Hosie

  The Justice was elevated to the high court by supporters who imagine the First Amendment supports the pervasive influence of Christianity on public life and who reject the premise of a secular state. He is meeting their highest expectations. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  8/1/2022
  

  The Demise of the Church-State Wall

  by Steven V. Mazie

  A political scientist and court correspondent says that SCOTUS has adopted a radical version of the "free exercise" clause of the First Amendment that makes a mockery of the historic separation of religious and political authority. 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  7/18/2022
  

  Influence of David Barton Resurfaces in New Attacks on Church-State Separation

  Since the early 1990s ascendancy of the Christian Right, the movement has drawn on David Barton's assertion that the separation of church and state is bogus. A new generation of conservatives is embracing this line on the campaign trail today. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  2/6/2022
  

  The United States Needs to Drop the National Prayer Breakfast

  by Anthea Butler

  Organized by a secretive Christian nationalist organization, the National Prayer Breakfast is an annual ritual that has no place in the political culture of a multicultural democracy.