We are all free to believe anything we want. We are not free to do anything we want, just because we call it religion. Our rights end where the rights of others begin. This is a line of demarcation too many on the religious right refuse to accept.
Julea Ward was dismissed from a counseling program at Eastern Michigan University in 2009 after she refused to counsel a gay student based on her Chri...
Four colleges have filed lawsuits against the federal government over the new policy by the Obama administration mandating that employees of religious...
Julea Ward, an Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Student who was reportedly expelled from a counseling program because of her views on gay and lesbian...
New Hampshire's 2012 legislative session has not been a good one for women so far. House Republicans passed an amendment on Wednesday that would defun...
Colleges are all over the map when they try to come up with their own definitions of sexual harassment. Our research has found hundreds of distinct formulations and examples, a large number of which are unconstitutional.
The main target of this effort by the religious right is not an enemy looking to eliminate Christmas, as a word or a holiday. The real target is their existing audience of supporters.
NEW YORK -- A Christian congregation with just 48 members and not even a storefront is hoping the Supreme Court will overturn a ruling that says holdi...
A religious student group has filed suit in federal court against Oklahoma's Owasso Public Schools, claiming that the district has violated the group'...
We should not be lulled into complacency about the state of academic freedom. At the academic core of teaching and research, intellectual freedom is no longer protected by the First Amendment.
In 2006, Naperville's Neuqua Valley High School allowed students to participate in a nationwide "Day of Silence," which promotes tolerance of the gay ...
By Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
(RNS) When a community needs to rebuild crumbling roads, should houses of worship pay fees for the number of...
Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can ...
The University of Illinois is now reviewing their firing of a professor who was removed after telling his class why the Catholic church believes that ...
Republican Senatorial hopeful Jane Norton continues to take shots from the right this week as a new Youtube video posted on a channel called ColoradoT...
Defying a federal tax law they consider unjust, 33 ministers across the country will take to their pulpits this Sunday and publicly endorse a candidat...
CHICAGO -- Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance De...