For citizens against the prayers, the decision sets dangerous church-state precedent. For the town of Greece, court’s ruling is a victory for religious freedom. — Brett Harvey, senior counsel at…

…workaround to allow nonprofit religious organizations (e.g., Catholic colleges) to avoid directly providing the insurance coverage while still enabling the employees to receive the coverage. The 5-4 outcome of the…

…how much secular versus religious power they had. So, just to add a bit, there was another fairly serious rival caliphate to the Abbasids during 1130-1269 based in Morocco, which…

…doing some research on conservative ideas and memes. The sites are filled with the expected paranoid stories of dastardly Liberal deeds, religious fundamentalism, and the conservative economic and political memes…

…religious war, corrupt Big Men leaders, and epidemics. But while some areas will probably remain mired in these over the next half decade, with the uber poverty-stricken Sahel zone of…

…death penalty, you are likely to be a white male Republican, 51 years or older, with at least a high school education, and religious. Since 2011, there has been a…

…one or the other.)”, in refutation of Kathleen Parker’s assist to Bush in his bizarre, sleight-of-hand Christian Crusade. Bush’s speech was a deeply ugly religious assault, a claim to religious…

…about the public testimonial of praying, though. If that isn’t a politico-religious act, what is? But what really gets the Sandwichman’s goat are the sanctimonious edicts against “politicizing” the disaster…

…wants to help kids meet their “God-given” potential. Great! Millennials will be energized to know that Clinton considers kids’ potential to be God-given. Because they’re so, y’know, religious as a…

…in vastly diverse Africa, where borders drawn by colonialists showed no respect for tribal, linguistic or religious identities. Meanwhile, while single-ethnicity states are rare (just 30 countries in the world…