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In Pursuit of a Phantom 0
- July/August 1998
- July 1, 1998
Since Everson 1many have asserted that the First Amendment's religion clauses require government to be neutral toward religion. This requirement is not merely peripheral; "neutrality" has been a dominant theme of religious freedom. Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson exaggerates only slightly when he asserts: "That in some sense the federal government and the states ought
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In Praise of the Establishment Clause 0
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
An Interview With Michael McConnell It’s fair to assume there are few Americans who’ve given more thought to the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment religious clauses than Michael W. McConnell. As a lawyer, federal judge, and scholar, McConnell has spent decades on the front lines of our nation’s never-ending legal and cultural battles over the meaning
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In Praise of Compromise?0
- January/February 2022
- January 1, 2022
Dutch politician Marianne Thieme, who served in her country’s House of Representatives from 2006 to 2019, passionately advocates for animal welfare. In 2006 she joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, partly because of its promotion of a vegetarian lifestyle. As leader of the Party for the Animals, Thieme used a signature rhetorical flourish every time she
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In God’s Name 0
- May/June 2022
- May 1, 2022
Three decades ago, a BBC journalist reporting from Pakistan was appalled by the violence she saw directed against religious minorities—violence fueled by laws against blasphemy. Today, as cofounder of an international organization that tracks religious persecution, she explains how these laws continue to exact their brutal toll. You haven’t seen your children for eight years.
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Immaculate Misconceptions 0
- May/June 1998
- May 1, 1998
"Tear down the wall! Tear down the wall!" the crowd shouted, inspired by Alabama governor Fob James's remarks at a rally in support of Judge Roy Moore's practice of opening sessions with prayer and of displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. "The Supreme Court's 'wall of separation,'" the governor told the crowd, "reminds me
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If the Cap Fits 0
- September/October 2015
- October 1, 2015
A Sikh wearing a turban, a Hasidic Jew wearing a hat, a Muslim wearing a hijab, and a Catholic nun in a habit walk into an Abercrombie & Fitch interview: not the beginning of a cringe-worthy joke but rather a hypothetical by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to Abercrombie’s lawyer. The context was oral argument in
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