Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty

Friday Roundup

NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty presents a piece entitled "For Alito, the More Religion, the Better" for All Things Considered. Religion News Service reports on the pressure on President Bush to allow military service chaplains to pray sectarian prayers in their public role as chaplain, as their own religious beliefs dictate. In the American Prospect, Chris Mooney explains the newest anti-science tactics of religion-in-school-curriculum activists like the Kansas Board of Education: "Survival of the Flimsiest." In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer argues that evolution should not be made the "enemy of God" in a piece on the Kansas Board's decision to redefine "science."

New Lawsuit Challenges NYPD Muslim Spying Program

A new lawsuit was filed challenging surveillance of Muslim communities by the New York Police Department. The ACLU charges the program amounts to unconstitutional religious profiling that "imposed an unwarranted badge of suspicion and stigma on law-abiding Muslim New Yorkers." From...

50 Years Later, Courage Like Schempp's Still Needed

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Abington v. Schempp, in which the practice of required Bible readings to begin the public school day was ruled unconstitutional. Then-16-year-old Ellery Schempp staged a protest of the requirement and refused to back...