Author: Peter Irons
Year: 2007
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An in-depth look at five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state
Over the past two decades, federal courts have become contentious battlefields in America�s growing religious wars. Since 1989, five momentous court cases have divided communities�and the nation. Peter Irons, a noted constitutional scholar, lawyer, and author of the bestselling May It Please the Court, delivers a compelling narrative accompanied by first-person accounts from both sides of the fight in these historic cases.
In 1989, residents of San Diego challenged a forty-three-foot-high cross in the center of a public park; 1995 brought a dispute in a Texas town over the recital of prayers at high school football games; in rural Kentucky in 1999, a lawsuit was filed against displaying the Ten Commandments in county courthouses; in 2000, a California parent challenged the words �under God� in his daughter�s daily Pledge of Allegiance. And, finally, in 2004, parents in Dover, Pennsylvania, challenged the school board�s requirement that �intelligent design� be taught as an alternative to Darwin�s theory of evolution. Irons�s detailed, in-depth investigation of each of these trials is followed by interviews with the people involved to provide a complete picture of the ongoing wars for �the soul of America.�
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