This is an opinion cartoon. No real snakes or snake handlers were harmed ... This is not the ‘separation of church and state’ America most of us grew up with. It’s the flip side of the ...

Editor’s Note: Danny Cevallos, a CNN legal analyst, is a criminal defense attorney practicing in Philadelphia, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The recent death of the “snake-handling ...

His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post ... where his father was the mayor and his mother a schoolteacher. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served ...

A snake-handling church was the target of a bizarre police raid 76 years ago in North Carolina, historians said. On Nov. 1, 1947, a venomous copperhead snake was seized from Zion Tabernacle Church ...

Members of a North Carolina church continued to handle snakes after a 1947 police raid, officials said. Screengrab from the Museum of Durham History on Facebook A snake-handling church was the ...