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Aug 18, 2023 · How to define separation of church and state has become an issue that divides the federal and California Supreme Courts — and some former state justices say they’re worried.
- Courts Reporter
separation of church and state.1 California’s religion clauses, by pro-viding greater protection of individual rights against establishment vi-olations, are more protective of individual freedom of belief because the state constitution requires greater government neutrality and has broader restrictions on actual or apparent preference.2 This ...
Jul 7, 2022 · The Supreme Court majority is leaning into separation of powers as a way of combating progressive policies as it weakens church-state separation.
- david.savage@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
- A Closer Look at The Church-State Scale
- Church-State Views, Or White Christian Nationalism?
- A Closer Look at Those with ‘No Opinion’ on Church-State Matters
- God’s Favor For The U.S.
What, specifically, do people in each category desire in terms of the relationship between church and state? On each of the six scale items, majorities of those in the church-state integrationist category express support for the intermingling of religion and government, ranging from 60% who say the federal government should advocate Christian relig...
The questions in the new survey gauging American attitudes on church-state issues are similar (but not identical) to questions used by other scholars to measure what they call “Christian nationalism.”1Research on Christian nationalism shows that it is correlated with attitudes about race, immigration, gender roles, the place of the U.S. in the worl...
Roughly one-in-eight survey respondents (12% of all U.S. adults) are categorized as having “no opinion” on the church-state scale, because they say “neither/no opinion” or refuse to answer four (39%), five (30%) or all six (31%) of the questions used to create the scale. This means the size of the “no opinion” group is close to the size of the “chu...
In addition to the six questions that make up the church-state issues scale, the survey included a question that asked Americans which of two statements comes closer to their own view: “God favors the United States over all other countries,” or “God does not favor any one country over all the others.” Overall, seven-in-ten U.S. adults choose the la...
Because the California Constitution contains significant textual differences that impose greater restrictions on state aid to religion, the California Constitution requires a stricter separation between church and state within the outer bounds set by federal law.214
Dec 8, 2021 · The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative supermajority seemed poised Wednesday to hand school-choice advocates a major victory, and potentially a large expansion of state programs required to fund...
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Issues of separation of church and state and freedom of reli- gion have represented one of the most active areas of constitu- tional adjudication in the United States Supreme Court during
