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On March 31, the Court accepted cert. in Pleasant Grove v. Summum. The case revolves around the right of aSummum group to erect a monument of the Seven Aphorisms in a City Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah that already has a similarly-sized monument to the Ten Commandments.
A park in Pleasant Grove, Utah features a […]

Alongside Morse, the court handed down another highly controversial ruling along the standard partisan line. In Hein v. Freedom From Religion (discussed at length here), the Court ruled that taxpayer standing does not extend to establishment clause cases arising from appropriations made by the executive branch that were never explicitly authorized by Congress.
To understand Hein, […]

Thanks to ReligionClause for pointing out that for the first time in history, Congress will open with a prayer from a Hindu Chaplain!
According to reports, this will be the first time any Hindu prayer will be delivered in the US Senate since its formation in 1789.
Zed is still to finalize the exact prayer he […]

I tried for quite some time to ignore the comments that Senator Obama made recently about religion and how it is being ‘hijacked’ to ‘drive us apart’. The mainstream media and blog after blog after blog (and even Yao) posted about it but I thought it was a marginally interesting debate but never paid it […]

Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the national meeting of the United Church of Christ on June 23. He talked about the role of religion in politics, and you’ve probably heard something about it via popular news sources.
The Associated Press reported that Obama told the church crowd, “right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized […]

…and black people, but try not to act too surprised. President Bush has been given his fair share of scrutiny by the left over appointments. The whole Harrient Miers fiasco didn’t work out as well as he would have hoped, although it stands to reason that it all worked out in the end. In 2005, […]

The transition from Clinton to Bush was particularly challenging for the US Department of Justice, even beyond the move from Harvard-graduate Janet Reno to questionably literate John Ashcroft. Along with the new administration came a new series of priorities, and an unhealthily low DOJ turnover rate.
This morning, The New York Times indicted the Bush […]

Those are, in order of popularity, the top 5 names for newborn boys in Britain (if you consider all of the spellings for Muhammed.) A lot of nativist are alarmed that the most stereotypically Muslim name is exptected to be the number one name for newborn boys in a few years. Most analysts attribute this […]