NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court decision on Feb. 20, 2026. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted that it ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...

For as long as the American experiment has endured, religion has been woven into its civic imagination. From the solemn oaths of public office to the hymns that once echoed through community halls, ...

The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

(The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Texas law ...

A proposed bill granting greater powers to muftis (Muslim legal experts) has garnered controversy and sparked a vigorous discussion about the potentially grave implications on religious plurality and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. IN TODAY'S CAPITOL REPORT... A DEBATE TOOK PLACE ON THE WEST VIRGINIA SENATE FLOOR - INVOLVING THE BIBLE AND THE CONSTITUTION.

An old lawsuit filed by Jehovah’s Witnesses challenging the Japanese government’s child abuse guidelines has kicked off a fresh debate on how far the state can go in regulating family life, especially ...