Articles tagged as separation of church and state
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“Lemon v. Kurtzman at 50” – Francis Beckwith in Law and Liberty
In an article at Law and Liberty, JWI Scholar Francis Beckwith traces the history and eventual demise of the Lemon Test created by Chief Justice Burger in Lemon v. Kurtzman on its 50th anniversary. The Court has inconsistently applied the Lemon Test for years, amending or ignoring its different prongs as it wishes. Lacking any […] -
“How Old Does a Monument Need to Be?” — Prof. Mark David Hall in Law & Liberty
In a recent piece for Law & Liberty, JWI Affiliated Scholar Mark David Hall of George Fox University critiques using the age of religious memorials on public property as the determining factor for their constitutionality. The primary problem with this argument, he writes, is the lack of an agreed-upon age at which monuments become recognized […] -
“Of Satanism and Religious Freedom”-Gunnar Gundersen in The Catholic Thing
In a piece for The Catholic Thing, entitled “Of Satanism and Religious Freedom,” Gunnar Gundersen discusses the nature of religious liberty and whether the protection of this natural right extends to Satanism and “irreligion”. Gundersen is an affiliated scholar of the James Wilson Institute. Some excerpts: “Do our laws require that Satanism be protected as a religion? The short answer is […]