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The #SupremeCourt’s new #religion case could devastate #American #workers

#YeshivaUniversity Settles With #LGBTQ+ #StudentClub

State #lawmakers want #chaplains to counsel #students at #publicschools

Quincy statues raise concerns of price, transparency and #religiousfreedom

The #Texas Taliban are hard at work in #Austin

Have you been harmed by #churchstate separation violations? Your story matters.

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#separationofchurchandstate #SOCAS

@separationofchurchandstate

#separationofchurchandstate #separation #secularism #secular #questioneverything #noreligions #noreligion #humanist #churchstate #churchandstate #allreligions #agnostic #church #religion #religious #atheists #atheist #usa #reminder #this

Supreme Court turns down religious discrimination case, Gorsuch & Thomas dissenting.

#Religion #ChurchState #SCOTUS

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/03/10/fire-chief-religious-discrimination-supreme-court/

#CHURCHSTATESEPARATION #news

How Some #Christian #GroupHomes Avoid #Florida’s Standards

Are #Religious #CharterSchools Legal?

Encourage Your Representative to Join the Fight for #ChurchState Separation

#Louisiana law requiring #TenCommandments to be displayed in #classrooms is back in court

Are #Texas #schools receiving funds for #TEA's #Bible #curriculum?

#Faith groups across #Kansas are diving into local #politics

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#separationofchurchandstate #secular

Ohio's new bill directs tax dollars to private religious schools for renovations and expansions, bypassing traditional voucher systems. Critics argue this violates church-state separation and diverts funds from public education #schoolvouchers #churchstate #taxdollars #privateschools #ohio

The Movement to Redirect Billi...

Rarely do I find my church-state separation and stationery interests overlapping, but then I read about this court case, which awarded a constitutional right to writing tool selection: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.akd.72896/gov.uscourts.akd.72896.28.0.pdf

"Leon Tholson, an individual currently incarcerated at the Anchorage Correctional Complex ... alleges that he is a Rosicrucian, and, 'as a student of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, [his] sincerely held religious belief requires [his] correspondence ... be in a felt tip, gel, or fountain pen.'"

Judge Sharon L. Gleason orders that ". . . the State of Alaska, Department of Corrections, shall provide Mr. Tholson a felt tip, gel, or fountain pen for his religious use at least one hour per week."

#stationery #ChurchState #ReligiousLiberty #WritingTools

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#US. #Christians pushing back on #Christiannationalism

They’ve come for the #Haitians: Why we need #churchstate separation for #immigrants’ rights

#SupremeCourt asked to consider #Oklahoma #religious #charterschool’s case

Oklahoma defends #Bibles-in-#schools proposal after report that only Trump’s might qualify

Organization Did Not Show That Its #AntiAbortion Views Are Religious #Beliefs

#Confessions of a (Former) #Christian #Nationalist

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https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28028?login=false #oup #secular #secularism #churchstate The Oxford Handbook of Secularism (Zuckerman & Shook, 2017) #psychology

#MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

#constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

"[Louisiana's] HB71 also specifies what those schools can’t say. A school or teacher could not, for example, decide to display copies of Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists (building a 'wall of separation between Church and State') alongside the Ten Commandments," (continued in /2)

~ Andrew Torrez

#Louisiana #TenCommandments #ChurchandState #ChurchState
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https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/louisiana-mandates-ten-commandments

Because they see the willingness of the right-wing bloc controlling the court to erode the church-state line, these states are seeking to set up cases that will open the door for the Supremes to overturn precedents affirming church-state separation.

Once that separation is overturned, church obtains the power to rule, to coerce, to force the majority who do not agree with its ideas to dance to its tune. This is ultimately what the minority wants.

#SupremeCourt #ChurchState #evangelicals
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As Lisa Needham notes, Louisiana's Ten Commandments law is designed to give the right-wing Supreme Court justices who want to erase the line between church and state cherry-picked pseudohistorical examples to justify that erasure.

Driven by a powerful evangelical minority, a number of states are "hoping to bend the Constitution until it breaks."

#SupremeCourt #Louisiana #TenCommandments #ChurchState #evangelicals
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/louisiana-ten-commandments-law-alito-thomas

Welcome to the 23 June 2024 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #PoliTas #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-23-june-2024/

Welcome to the 16 June 2024 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #PoliTas #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-16-june-2024/

Welcome to the 9 June 2024 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #PoliTas #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-9-june-2024/

Welcome to the 2 June 2024 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #PoliTas #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-2-june-2024/

Welcome to the 26 May 2024 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

Apologies for the outage!

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #TasPol #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-26-may-2024/

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Onward #Christian Soldiers: Your #Bible Just Keeps Getting Better

#MicheleBachmann Spreads False #ChristianNationalist #History

Local #ChurchState Separation Group to protest #NationalDayofPrayer, Thursday, May 2nd

Dispute over #Satanicclub in #Tenn. #school goes to court

Denial of #ReligiousExemption from #VaccineMandate Did Not Violate Title VII of #Constitution

How an #Ohio group is bringing #God back to #publicschool

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Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Mean This | Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast https://buff.ly/3PamnC8 #Christianity #ChurchState #Constitution #FoundingFathers #culture #politics #apologetics