A Gallup survey of Americans' well-being found that folks in Utah are living more contented lives than those in any other state. West Virginia was last. Texas was 21st, just ahead of Kansas and just behind Alaska. The survey, done...
Sean Michael Winters, writing on the blog of America magazine, has an analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling last week that a park in Utah need not allow a monument by a "fringe religious group called Summum" just...
A national organization of scientists has informed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal that it will not meet in New Orleans, because of the state's recently adopted science curriculum standards. Here's the story, from Religion News Service. The group, the Society for...
Here's my annual argument that we don't need a major college football playoff system. Which I claim is appropriate for this blog for at least two reasons: That sports is a lot like religion in Texas. And that neither side...
The advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State has joined Hindu and Jewish organizations in challenging a Utah court ruling that said it's OK to erect highway crosses for state troopers who die. Last November, a federal...
Here's a story from USA Today that highlights the danger, in my view, of allowing things like Ten Commandments monuments in public spaces. It's about a case that's going before the U.S. Supreme Court. There's a Ten Commandments display...
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