Separation of Church & State
The Establishment Clause, released-time programs, classroom scripture, and what religious traditions themselves say about keeping faith and government separate.
8 questions
- The Establishment Clause and Separation of Church and StateThe Founders — many of them deeply religious — deliberately separated church and state through the First Amendment's twin religion clauses.
- What Religions Themselves Say About TheocracyReligious traditions and the Founders largely agree on a single proposition: merging faith with state power corrupts both, and separation protects rather…
- A Presidential Commission Calls Church-State Separation a MythIt is true that the words "separation of church and state" are not in the Constitution — but the principle is, written three times over: no religious test…
- Can a Leader Claim Faith Belongs to One Party?No political leader has the authority to decide who is or isn't a person of faith — every major religion reserves that judgment for God alone.
- LifeWise Academy and Released-Time Religious InstructionReleased-time religious instruction has been constitutionally permitted since Zorach v.
- Ohio HB 8: Mandatory Religious Release TimeZorach v. Clauson (1952) approved a voluntary released-time framework: schools may permit, students may attend, religious organizations may offer.
- Texas Bluebonnet Bible-Infused Reading CurriculumThe strongest historical opponents of state-taught religion have not been secularists; they have been believers — Madison, Roger Williams, the Baptists, the…
- Ten Commandments in Public School ClassroomsIn 1980 the Supreme Court answered exactly this question — a state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public-school classroom — and…