More from the epic battle between Church and State

So, as we twentysomethings sit here in relative suspension, old enough to vote and to ponder fixing major political issues — but too young to have ANY control over what happens in our government — we wait with bated breath for the day when our generation takes over the reigns in the United States, with the hope that we might change the system to something that doesn't operate on values established by the white elite in the 1950s (and sometimes earlier).

Via Howard Friedman's blog, a consistently concise source for Religion in the News, I discovered today that the young, 30-year-old president of the Chechnya region in Russia is requiring all women who work for the state to wear headscarves.

A man or woman standing up for his or her religious beliefs and trying honestly to invoke them is not a problem. Of course, requiring these beliefs of others IS always an issue, especially when "Kadyrov said women were the root of all crime committed in Chechnya because they were inviting men to have sex with them." So yeah, there's that.

Read the whole Reuters story here.