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 Americaas growing religious wars. Since 1989, five momentous court cases have divided communitiesaand 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 aunder Goda in his daughteras daily Pledge of Allegiance. And, finally, in 2004, parents in Dover, Pennsylvania, challenged the school boardas requirement that aintelligent designa be taught as an alternative to Darwinas theory of evolution. Ironsas 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 athe soul of America.a

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