The First Amendment, in its wisdom, protects all kinds of speech and religion. Yes, even ones you don’t agree with. It’s all protected: from baking a cake or protesting war at school to burning the ...

Last week, I read a guest essay in The New York Times by Steven Paulikas, an Episcopal priest in Brooklyn, titled "Same-Sex Marriage Is a Religious Freedom." As a member of the Anglican Communion and ...

Over the last five years, almost all invocations before Modesto City Council meetings have been given by Christian faith leaders, but it’s unclear when the practice began or how it might impact civic ...

The invocation delivered before every Newport News City Council meeting has become a point of contention for some council members. Before the pandemic, the invocation was delivered by religious ...

GREEN BAY — As the City Council began, as usual, with the Pledge of Allegiance, the idea behind its words of “One nation, under God, indivisible” was under scrutiny Tuesday. The issue divided not just ...

A leader of a Central Florida group of atheists, humanists and nonbelievers said he felt disrespected by Lake County officials who responded to his secular invocation at a county commission meeting ...

When David Williamson came to the speaker's podium Tuesday to deliver the invocation just before the Brevard County Commission meeting was called to order, it marked the culmination of a six-year ...

Re: "Satanic invocation at public event made a powerful point," Jan. 21: One cannot let the opinion article by Edwin Lyngar slip without some response of a sound and mature perspective. Regarding the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Satanic Temple failed to prove the city of Scottsdale discriminated against it based on religious beliefs for refusing to allow it to give a religious invocation at a city council ...