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 education, a decision whose effects are still felt today. In Abington... Read More

My first job in Washington, DC, was editing a trade magazine for the men and women who worked in the corrections industry. This was the mid-1980s, and I recall that back then some in the... Read More

Pundits spent a lot of time chewing over the results of the November election, but most seemed to agree on one thing: the religious right lost big. Religious right groups had managed to put aside... Read More

Polls indicate that some interesting shifts are under way in religious life in the United States. The number of people identifying their religion as “none” has crept upward again, now hovering at around 20 percent.... Read More

I’ve written in these pages before about David Barton, a Texas man who poses as a historian and is a hero to the religious right because of his work “proving” that separation of church and... Read More

I recently found myself on the air at FoxNews.com where I argued with a staff member from the Family Research Council about birth control and its availability. I pointed out that the pill had emancipated... Read More

Every fall I attend a large gathering of religious right activists in Washington, DC. Launched in 2006 and sponsored by the Family Research Council and other far-right groups, the Values Voter Summit has become the... Read More