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  • Incorporation and Religious Freedom0

    We're certain we have rights that government must respect: the freedom to say what we want and believe what we wish; to go where we please and keep the company we choose; the right to marry our love, to have children, and to raise them as we see fit. We figure we have a right

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  • Incorporated Religion Balancing the Risks0

    Few would doubt the benefits that religious organizations have enjoyed from operating within the legal system that has developed in the modern Western world. Religious organizations not only have unprecedented liberty but also can access an array of legal structures in order to carry out their activities more effectively. However, at the very beginning the

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  • Inconvenient History0

    The late novelist Gore Vidal spoke of America once as “the United States of Amnesia.” This condition was highlighted all too painfully by the response of many conservative Christians to a remark made by President Obama during the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2015. Evoking Christian Atrocities Specifically, President Obama’s address noted that while decent

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  • Incident at East Waynesville0

    Whatever happened to religious freedom in America? After all, isn't it preaxiomatic that a church has the right to determine for itself what is required for membership? If the free exercise clause means anything, it means that a church should be able to require any kind of belief, no matter how ludicrous. If it wants

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  • In Their Own Words – Editorial0

    Some politically inclined religionists have attempted to convert the founders

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  • In the Whirlwind0

    Most folks who grew up in that rapidly decreasing institution of a two-parent home learned pretty quickly that you obeyed Father. How many kids, when told by Dad to do (or not to do) such and such, answered, "What gives you the authority to tell me what to do?" Though a few might have answered

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