Rob Boston
Posts by Rob Boston (page 9)
Hysteria Alert
In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision in the Defense of Marriage Act and dismissed, on technical grounds, a case... Read More
High-Stakes Test
The name Alton Lemon may not ring any bells for you, but it should. Lemon, who died on May 4 at age eighty-four, was... Read More
Awesome Anniversary
On June 17, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most important rulings dealing with the role of religion in public... Read More
Prison Piety
My first job in Washington, DC, was editing a trade magazine for the men and women who worked in the corrections industry. This was... Read More
Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—And What We Can Do About It
A friend recently passed on a slick magazine to me published by a religious right group. The cover depicted a close-up shot of a... Read More
Election Reflection: Whither Now, Religious Right?
Pundits spent a lot of time chewing over the results of the November election, but most seemed to agree on one thing: the religious... Read More
Building Bridges or Blowing Them Up? Secular Americans and the Future of Humanist Activism
Polls indicate that some interesting shifts are under way in religious life in the United States. The number of people identifying their religion as... Read More