Americans deserve to know the truth: Far from being heroes, these misguided pastors don’t care about the health and well-being of their communities. They in no way represent mainstream religious leaders, most of whom have done the right thing by temporarily suspending services or moving them online.

In the 1990s, the Christian Coalition, a Religious Right group founded by TV preacher Pat Robertson, turned the production of slanted 'voter guides' into an art form.

Texas doesn’t have a voucher plan – although some legislators have pushed them over the years. If the state did have vouchers, there would likely be nothing to prevent Covenant Christian Academy from discriminating against students like Devin even as it raked in taxpayer support.

Religious schools have turned students away because their families don’t share the school’s religious beliefs. They have barred admission because a student or parent is LGBTQ or a student has a disability.

it’s no business of secular employers to meddle in the spiritual or non-spiritual lives of their workers. Under federal law, it’s illegal to intentionally discriminate against an employee because of their religious or non-religious beliefs.

The insistence by some government officials that there must be a public expression of faith or it doesn’t count is curious.

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by the Rev. Francis Bellamy to mark the 400th anniversary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus, and at that time, it didn’t contain the words 'under God.'

In many ways, therefore, religion was used to enhance the argument for women’s suffrage. At the same time, however, many used their religious beliefs to justify excluding women from voting.