The founders simply wanted to prevent Congress and the federal government from establishing a national religion.

The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” A few years ago, I paid an after-school ...

The writer of the letter “Revisionist history” (April 13, TribLive) asks to be shown “anywhere in the United States Constitution and its amendments where ‘embedded’ is the phrase ‘separation of church ...

Not so very long ago, “separation of church and state” was as American as motherhood and apple pie. Despite perennial debates over the degree of separation, public support for the principle itself has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump sits at a desk as he and religious leaders listen to a musical performance before Trump signs an executive ...

As a good Baptist girl in the 1980s and 1990s, I was raised on the principle of the separation of church and state. We were in the midst of what came to be known as “The Baptist Battles.” My dad was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible ...

The week before Christmas, the president asked, “What ever happened to separation of church and state?” It was a question better directed at his own team.

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Two hundred fifty years ago, the American Revolution began with the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The Revolution set the stage for a new nation based not on ethnicity or geography or religion, but on ...