The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

Top officials and allies of Donald Trump downplayed the separation between church and state at a Faith and Freedom Coalition event.

United States, geographic regions, colored political map. Five regions, according to their geographic position on the continent. Common but unofficial way of referring to regions of the United States.

The creeping Christian nationalist plot to force religion into public schools ‒ calculated to provoke legal challenges that could allow the conservative U.S. Supreme Court supermajority to obliterate ...

Red states push religion in public schools. Supreme Court is their endgame. | Opinion For hard-right Republicans eager to upend America's long legacy of religious freedom, unconstitutional ...

The results come as questions about the role of religion in public school education continue to spark legislation and legal action across the country.

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A new map shows which states have the most people opposed to Christian prayer in schools. There is a cultural and legal ...

About 20% of Americans identify as Catholic, down from 24% in 2007, reflecting an overall decline in Christianity throughout the United States that has leveled ... of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who ...