The Wall of Separation Blog
Brevard County had been opening its meeting with invocations – always featuring speakers from large, monotheistic religions – for years. Yet when county residents offered to give secular invocations, they were denied.
After the House of Representatives impeached Trump for inciting the riot, Franklin Graham issued a Facebook post blasting the 10 Republicans who voted for it. Graham went so far as to compare the 10 to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus for a payoff.
Overturning rules like these generally requires a time-consuming and complicated process. Successful litigation might give us a speedier result.
President Joe Biden is an authentically religious man, and his inauguration understandably reflected that. But the inauguration is also meant to include all of America, and Biden should remember that not every American is a person of faith.
President Joe Biden got right to work after his inauguration, signing a stack of executive orders that included ending Trump’s Muslim Ban, restoring protections for LGBTQ people and scrapping “The 1776 Report” that mischaracterized the United States as an officially Christian nation.
With the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Americans United has high hopes that many of Trump’s policies that undermined church-state separation will be reversed.
The Trump administration released a document called “The 1776 Report” that attempts to rewrite American history by recycling a number of discredited “Christian nation” myths.
Dr. Martin Luther King supported the Supreme Court’s decisions striking down government-sponsored prayer in public schools.