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New York City Mayor Eric Adams dismissed the idea of church and state separation and drew a connection between the absence of faith and guns in schools, rankling some civil libertarians. "Don't tell me about no separation of church and state," Adams said Tuesday during an an annual interfaith breakfast of religious leaders in Manhattan. "State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the

New York City Mayor Eric Adams argued that the U.S. Supreme Court made a mistake when it prohibited school-sponsored prayer in public schools.

According to The Christian Post, Adams addressed the importance of having a spiritual foundation on Tuesday during the annual interfaith breakfast at the New York Public Library's reception hall.

"When I was growing up in South Jamaica,

Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams was on to something when he argued at a Manhattan prayer breakfast Tuesday that you can’t remove God from society, and especially our schools, and not expect social ills and violence to increase. Adams argued that if people want to build a world that’s better for the youth, “It means instilling in them some level of faith and belief.” (25 secs). “Don’t

A 2021 Christmas photo posted by Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles of himself and his gleefully gun-toting family has resurfaced in the wake of Monday’s shootings at Nashville’s Covenant School. Seven people — the school’s headmaster, three third-grade students, a custodian and a substitute teacher, as well as the shooter — perished in the attack. In the holiday photo posted to Facebook, Ogles poses