Welcome to Reads of Reason, a weekly compilation of news-clippings that relate to our work advocating for the equal rights of nonreligious Americans and the separation of religion and government.
 

News We Care About
(Good to know for protecting the Wall of Separation)


The Supreme Court rules unanimously that the City of Boston was wrong to refuse to fly a Christian flag after flying many others. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/02/supreme-court-boston-christian-flags-city-hall/

A public high school football coach who wants to pray on the field with players immediately after a game gets his day in the Supreme Court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/us/politics/supreme-court-prayer-football-coach.html

Some church leaders are incorporating their beliefs about the 2020 election into their church services and outside events. Only one of those is even remotely ok.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/us/politics/evangelical-churches-trump-election.html

We talk a lot about how the Founding Fathers believed in church-state separation. What did Jefferson really believe about the church side? 
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/what-deist-meant-to-thomas-jefferson/
 

Who We Are
(Who are we? What are we up to?)

A survey finds some surprisingly inconsistent answers about whether God inspired the Constitution, and which parts specifically. 
https://www.deseret.com/faith/2022/4/22/23036178/many-americans-say-god-inspired-the-constitution-except-that-part-about-guns-pew-research-marist


Commentary
(Everyone has an opinion...)


A conversation with the author of a new book that traces church-state separation from medieval times to the current Supreme Court.
https://religionandpolitics.org/2022/04/26/the-decline-of-church-state-separation/

A look at what makes the plaintiffs in recent Supreme Court religion cases likely to succeed with a majority of the justices. 
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/how-religious-adherents-became-scotus-most-sympathetic-plaintiffs.html

 

Opposing Views
(Always good to know what others are saying)

A different side of the prayer-on-the-football-field issue. 
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/email/96e63fbd-9583-4be0-bf84-2637c748bc6e/ 

 


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