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The association has recently bought billboard space outside Philadelphia and Charleston, S.C., as well as somewhat obscure locales, like Highway 95, near Moscow, Idaho. That location was particularly appealing, says Roy Speckhardt, the group's executive director, partly because of its proximity to two major universities in Idaho and Washington...
Read a story from TIME's archives: "The Varieties of Non-Religious Experience."
As a fiercely secular nation, France has always had an awkward relationship with religious groups. Officials often find themselves struggling to strike the delicate balance between maintaining church-state separation and honoring the right of citizens to express their faith. But in the current case against the U.S.-based Church...
Some also charge that religious intolerance was behind France's infamous 2004 law banning students from wearing "ostensible religious objects" in public schools - a prohibition designed mainly to eliminate the small but slowly growing number of Muslim headscarves in classrooms. As it did when France issued its dangerous-cults list...
In this trial, which is expected to last until mid-June, prosecutors are likewise trying to portray Scientology as merely a large-scale scam while ignoring the organization's religious conceits. Now a country that constantly wrestles with the separation of church and state will find out just how far...