Sometimes, in their zeal to ensure that gays remain second-class citizens, legislators produce proposals so breathtakingly wacko that you have to wonder whether you have wandered into an alternate universe.   Such a proposal has been offered—presumably, with a straight face—by Indiana State Senator Pat Miller, the author and sponsor of a measure entitled (and [...]

In a free country, who gets to decide what religion is?

In "America’s Religious Cleansing" by Keith Fournier, the thesis is that "secularists" are engaged in "religious cleansing," which Fournier defines as an attempt to drive religion out of public life.

Even ardent defenders of the First Amendment?s Religion Clauses will concede that we encounter all kinds of gray areas when we are trying to keep government and religion in their proper, respective places. For example, if church-state separation means anything, it means tax dollars cannot pay the salaries of clergy?but what about in time of [...]

The political circus in California has been temporarily eclipsed by the one in Alabama, where Judge Roy Moore is currently playing his own version of Terminator by ferociously attacking the rule of law.