The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...

In the last week, the University of Oklahoma has been at the center of a national debate surrounding First Amendment rights after a student received a zero on a paper concerning modern gender roles.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Idaho Falls Mayoral candidate Jeff Alldridge is publicly addressing what he calls "wild rumors" following a controversial moment at a recent mayoral forum. Alldridge, the ...

(The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Texas law ...

An old lawsuit filed by Jehovah’s Witnesses challenging the Japanese government’s child abuse guidelines has kicked off a fresh debate on how far the state can go in regulating family life, especially ...