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.

I am old enough to remember when my religious beliefs and practices were my business, not because bad church-state separationists wanted to "exclude religion from the public square" as the right-wingers like to charge, but because we were taught that respect for the equal rights of others was an important American value.

When we began our study in 1999, it was a relatively obscure academic inquiry triggered by my research interest in the constitutional and policy dimensions of privatization. Then George W. Bush became President, and his Faith-Based Initiative became a centerpiece of the domestic policy agenda, and our academic study was suddenly in the cross-hairs of [...]