Atheists are Americans. Buddhists are Americans. Hindus are Americans. Humanists are Americans. Under H. Con. Res. 13, unfortunately, they are second class Americans.

The truth is that there is increasing distrust in the idea of God in the United States, and increasing disagreement on religious issues. If Congress passes any resolution on the subject, it should be to reaffirm that the government should simply stay out of religious affairs, and neither promote nor oppose any religious beliefs. The U.S. House of Representatives couldn’t help itself yesterday, though, and so it voted overwhelmingly to pass H. Con. Res. 13.

Contrary to Dan Mielke’s claims, separation from God, and from other religious concepts, is at the foundation of the American national identity.

If I were Preacher Barry C. Black, I wouldn’t push it with declarations about how my religion’s god is going to come into Congress and destroy any laws he doesn’t like.

Chaplain Barry C. Black’s speech yesterday was yet another indication of a dangerous effort, coming from within the United States Senate, financed with public money, to subvert the Constitution of the United States of America.

Given that we have a multicultural society with an expanding non-Christian population, and a House of Representatives that includes many non-Christian members, Coughlin’s message encouraging religious conversion is not only unconstitutional. It’s also divisive.

Members of the Senate are much more productive than members of the House. Yet, the senators don’t have any daily prayers asking for the blessings of God, as the members of the House do. This pattern contradicts the assertion that prayer has any power to benefit its recipients.

During the 110th Congress, Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Enzi and David Vitter teamed up to propose S. 2409, a bill to do… what? Solve the problem of the national debt? Help find a way to cure some new disease? Uh, no. They penned a bill to mandate that the Capitol Hill Visitors’ Center always prominently [...]

John Shimkus is arguing that if you’re a good Christian, you should let the coal industry have its way. Polluting the atmosphere without restraint is what God wants.

The Larochelles were seeking to separate the flag from the Constitution, and to make it a symbol of religious belief – and officially recognized by Congress as such. Congressman Mike Turner was more than happy to help them do this – and to try to use the boy scout as a tool to push religion as a wedge issue – when he introduced H.R. 3779.