Americans United often gets requests for assistance from students seeking information and research about separation of church and state. I try to do what I can to help. I believe that if a young person has an interest in our issues, we should encourage it.

There are overlooked connections between Columbus Day and the Pledge of Allegiance – both to the creation of the pledge itself in 1892 and the 1954 addition of the phrase “under God.”

Prayer can’t be forced, and neither can love of country. You either genuinely feel these things or you don’t. They can’t be turned on and off like a light switch at someone else’s command.