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  • Killing Words0

    Imagine being hung upside down by your feet. Electric wires are tied around your ankles and you are threatened repeatedly with electrocution. In addition, you are frequently pulled from your prison cell so that the police can beat you viciously. Why? Because someone accused you of making inflammatory statements about God. And even though your

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  • Keeping Up With the Jones0

    Sparks of religious controversy can be kindled from even the most everyday circumstances in the United States. One recent flash point was ignited by a minor fender-bender in a San Diego, California-area neighborhood and briefly erupted into a media firestorm. The confusion and fear this controversy caused could have been avoided, and the U.S. constitutional

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  • Keeping Perspective0

    The confetti and popped balloons of the 2012 U.S. presidential race were hardly swept into trash bins before speculation started about the next presidential election cycle, a full four years away. Aside from the annoyance many feel about the “perpetual campaign mode” now afflicting American politics, the trouble into which one potential presidential candidate has

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  • Keep Your Religion at Home0

    France clearly has a problem with its religious minorities. But is it a cultural, political, or social problem? A few years ago France took an aggressive stance against cults and sects as part of a strategy for dealing with religious minorities. While this raised opposition around the world, there was indifference within the "hexagon" of

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  • Keep the Faith, Liberty!0

    I returned home that evening, numbed by the enormity of what I had witnessed, but anxious that Christopher, my three-and-a-half-years-old son should not have to look into such a dark pit. Christopher does not watch television at all, other than an occasional carefully screened cartoon at bathtime. I knew that my wife had turned the

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  • Keep Church and State Separate0

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Those 16 words from the First Amendment spark controversy today, as they have throughout American history. Individuals have tried to inject religion into government and policy, to use religion as a political litmus test and to use the powers

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