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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
In the few years since the writing of the First Amendment in 1791, a separation between church and state has become a constitutional given. The First Amendment states, &”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . and to petition the government for a redress
READ MORELiberty Editor: Dr. Wilson, you were elected president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at its world General Conference on June 25, 2010. At that time you gave a powerful sermon on the Adventist particulars. And you included religious freedom as vital to our proclamation. How do you see the religious liberty dynamic for us today?
READ MOREThe lure of government financial aid can be very tempting to cash-strapped sectarian educational institutions. The sad fact is that many church-affiliated colleges and universities have fallen victim to a watering or even elimination of the sectarian aspect of their programs to ensure con-state financial support. A Catholic leader wrote the following about the disastrous
READ MOREAs of this writing anyway—though the so-called &”Ground Zero&” mosque controversy is still unresolved—at least the Gainesville, Florida, pastor who threatened to burn the Koran as a public protest against the mosque has backed off. No Koran burnings by Christian clergy, at least for now. However much as many Americans could understand his frustration,
READ MOREThe Supreme Court’s precedent-breaking decision, Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, places a spotlight on labor unions once again. In Janus the Court held that government employees who choose to opt out of public sector union membership cannot be forced to pay “agency fees” (a percentage of union dues) to a union. Justice Alito, writing for
READ MOREOrganized labor has lately been working to transform its political muscle into organizing muscle through something creatively captioned &”the Employee Free Choice Act&”—&”free choice&” meaning that employees would be forever barred from having a secret ballot vote on whether they wanted to be represented by a labor union. Political pundits have argued that the union
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