Gallup publishes an annual survey each October on attitudes toward the death penalty. The January 2013 survey shows the consistency of general support for capital punishment: 63 percent in favor of the death penalty. The poll also shows Republicans and Independents are much more likely to support the death penalty than Democrats. But when given the choice […]

Read a discussion posted on FreeSpeechDebate.com about whether or not it was acceptable for Tom Cruise to threaten to sue South Park over an episode making fun of Scientology.

Dr. Geoffrey Miller is professor of pediatrics and neurology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. He wrote Extreme Prematurity: Practices, Bioethics and the Law (2007).

Douglas Johnson is legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, which opposes embryonic stem cell research. He says bills such as one New Jersey passed in 2003 legalizing embryonic stem cell research promote fetus farming. Contact Megan Dillon.

The Genetics & Public Policy Center of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., “works to help policy leaders, decision makers, and the public better understand the rapidly evolving field of human genetics and its application to healthcare.” The Center studies the ethical, social and legal implications of genetic technologies, including PGD, surveys public opinion on genetics, […]

Wendy Baldwin is vice president for research at the University of Kentucky in Louisville. She has argued before the Kentucky state legislature in favor of embryonic stem cell research.

Read a June 12, 2013, Tucson Sentinel article about an Arizona court dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation after Gov. Jan Brewer proclaimed an “Arizona Day of Prayer.”  

Read an April 2011 article from USA Today about the appeals court ruling on the National Day of Prayer.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has an analysis of the attitudes and practices of Americans regarding prayer.