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ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has decreed that a Northampton County school district must allow a Massachusetts-based satanic religious group to convene an After School Satan Club at a local middle school.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center officials say Catholic pastoral services will resume at the military vetera
Federal treatment of religious freedom bears a striking similarity to the way in which the revolving door of Republican and Democratic administrations handle the so-called Mexico City Policy.
Regulators are required to justify the rationality of their actions to the public. Thus, whenever an agency proposes to act—for instance by adopting a new binding rule—it must identify some problem or lurking concern that its proposed action is meant to address. So often, however, when an agency’s explanation is examined, there is no real substance to the asserted problem—just a ghost haunting the otherwise barren imagination of the bureaucratic class.
Everyone has heard of the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, holding that state laws segregating public schools by race violate the Constitution. Brown combined five similar cases, including one challenging racial segregation in Virginia, and Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) called for “massive resistance” against Brown’s implementation.