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Church State Separation

  1. early and often
    Pete Hegseth’s Christian Nationalism Is Fair Game for Confirmation HearingsIt’s not a religious test when religious convictions dictate government policies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. early and often
    Tax Dollars Are Now Funding Christian-Nationalist SchoolsOwing to Republican school-voucher initiatives and a toxic 2022 Supreme Court decision, public funds are subsidizing a new breed of religious school.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. charter schools
    Oklahoma’s Religious Charter School Aims to Break Church-State SeparationWhy bother with vouchers and scholarships to subsidize private religious schools when the state can just fund them directly and call them “public”?
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. politics
    The Problem With the Lee Greenwood BibleOn this Memorial Day, we should honor the distinctly American tradition of church-state separation and avoid conflating God and country.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. supreme court
    Roberts Rejoins Supreme Court Conservatives to Boost Religious SchoolsIt was a relatively narrow decision but it showed where a future Supreme Court committed to expanding religious privileges might go.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. supreme court
    John Paul Stevens and the Legacy of Liberal Republican JudgesStevens’s long career on the Court as the Republican-appointed leader of its liberal wing remains a cautionary tale for conservatives.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. church-state separation
    SCOTUS Splits on Church-State Separation in Peace Cross CaseWhile in the minority in the “Peace Cross” decision, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered an eloquent testimonial for the “wall of separation.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. religion
    Trump Is Not a Defender of Religious Liberty but a Threat to ItTrump’s combination of hate-mongering and loud identification with Christianity is the antithesis of the American tradition of religious pluralism.
    By Ed Kilgore