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  • Free Exercises?0

    In 1984 drug counselor Alfred Smith was fired for ingesting peyote in a religious ceremony for a Native American Church ritual. Though as early as 1964 the California Supreme Court noted the significance of peyote to that church's religious practices,1 the State of Oregon denied Mr. Smith unemployment compensation because "the state's interest in proscribing

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  • Free Exercises?0

    In 1984 drug counselor Alfred Smith was fired for ingesting peyote in a religious ceremony for a Native American Church ritual. Though as early as 1964 the California Supreme Court noted the significance of peyote to that church's religious practices,1 the State of Oregon denied Mr. Smith unemployment compensation because "the state's interest in proscribing

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  • Free Exercise or Free Entitlement?0

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Those 16 words encapsulate what many modern declarations of religious liberty attempt to guarantee by a plethora of verbiage. James Madison penned those clauses, and deliberated whether to use the term conscience, but after much debate he opted for

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    Free episodes and new movies on iTunes0

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  • Framing the Religion Clauses…First Things First0

    In 1902 religious historian Sanford Cobb called religious liberty “America’s great gift to civilization and the world.” Indeed, religious liberty stands as one of our nation’s bedrock principles. Yet, seemingly, it is always under siege–by those who fail to appreciate the complex thinking of the American founding fathers that caused them to write into the

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  • Fragile Religious Freedom0

    Jerusalem. It is refreshing – yet unsettling – to be a Sabbathkeeper in the capital of Israel, clearly one of the most Sabbath-observant nations on earth. As these words are written, I'm wrapping up a week in the land that is sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Although my main assignment was to see and

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