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- February 6, 2015
Individual Rights and Structural Restraints The difference between rights and structure within the overall Constitution is commonplace. For government to avoid violating an individual right is a matter of constitutional duty. On the other hand, for government to remain within its structural restraints is a matter of confining legislation and the actions of its officials
READ MOREThe Reverend John Leland was not a man to mince words when it comes to religion and politics. Candidates who advertise their personal faith, he insisted, should be avoided by the voters. "Guard against those men who make a great noise about religion in choosing representatives," observed Leland. "It is electioneering intrigue. If they knew
READ MOREHere we go again. The eternal question of evil in the world springs up one more time. Why? Why does God, the almighty, all-powerful, all-knowing, allow evil, pandemics, plagues, wars, and viruses of all kinds to afflict His creatures on this earth? Trying to answer this question fully is an impossible task. I shall not
READ MOREThe middle years of this decade, 2005-2007, see the 350th anniversary of three very significant episodes in the history of political and religious liberty: The English intervention in the Principality of Savoy-Piedmont (the forerunner of modern Italy) to halt persecution of the Waldenses––arguably the first humanitarian intervention in history; The readmission of the Jews into
READ MOREReligious Right watchdogs may remember the flap in late 1996 and early 1997 over a symposium in Richard John Neuhaus's journal First Things. I argued in the pages of Liberty (September/October 1997) that two constituencies of what could be termed broadly the Religious Right were demonstrating very different loyalties. Neuhaus and his fellow Christian neo-
READ MOREOklahoma has created a new office within its Education Department to “protect parents, teachers, and students’ abilities to practice their religion freely in all aspects” and “oversee the investigation of abuses to individual religious freedom or displays of patriotism.” In his November press release State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said the office will
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