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Employers' religious tolerance falls short
By Charles Haynes Millions of American workers take their religion very seriously. Unfortunately, many of their employers don't.
04.30.00
Add America to the stories of Easter, Exodus
By Charles Haynes At the start of a week holy to both Christians and Jews, I sat down at a table with representatives from both groups to talk about the state of moral and spiritual education in our nation's public and private schools.
04.23.00
Another Columbine school finds answers in character
By Charles Haynes One year after the tragic killing of 12 students and a teacher, pundits and experts struggle once again to explain the unexplainable.
04.16.00
Florida developing constitutional Bible courses
By Charles Haynes Good news from the front lines of the Bible wars in public schools. Florida's Commissioner of Education just released new guidelines that will transform how the state's schools develop and teach Bible electives.
04.09.00
Circuit Court allows prayers at graduation if students lead
By Charles Haynes To pray or not to pray? That's the question facing school officials as they take up the seasonal debate over prayer at graduation ceremonies.
03.26.00
Religion in politics needs bounds
By Charles Haynes James Madison, whose birthday we mark this week, would hardly be surprised by the ugly injection of religion into the current presidential campaign. After all, the First Amendment that he helped draft separates church from state, but not religion from politics or public life.
03.19.00
Students have a right to religious expression in public schools
By Charles Haynes Students in public schools aren't shy about saying what they think. And some of what they think is religious.
03.12.00
1990 case left religion vulnerable to government intervention
By Charles Haynes When the Supreme Court severely weakened protections for the free exercise of religion in 1990, the public barely noticed. But now land-use disputes in many towns have alerted Americans to just how vulnerable to government intervention and control our religious rights are.
03.05.00
Revisiting some issues of interest
By Charles Haynes Letters in my mailbag frequently begin with the phrase "whatever happened to …." It's big news when conflicts erupt and lawsuits are filed. But where do the stories go from there?
02.27.00
'Hang Ten' movement ill-advised
By Charles Haynes From state legislators to presidential candidates, America's politicians are eagerly jumping onto the Ten Commandments bandwagon this month. Putting the commandments on the wall of every public-school classroom seems to be a politically popular move in the post-Columbine era.
02.20.00
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