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  • Drama Queen0

    Illustration By Will Terry If a student swears in acting class, does God hear? * Apparently not, according to University of Utah acting professors. Or, if He does, it doesn't count because, hey, it is acting, after all. It's not like she means it. Right? Well . . . * Christina Axson-Flynn, a member of

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  • Down the Rabbit Hole0

    America: the land of the free and the home of the brave, where you~ can say what you think and think what you want. Those are rights many of our countrymen have fought and died to defend. In their wildest dreams they probably never imagined that in our country a man could be hauled off

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  • Doing Unto Others and the Limits of Democracy0

    In 2015, a few months before he died, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia spoke to law students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the question-­and-answer period a student asked Scalia whether courts have a responsibility to protect minorities that can’t win rights through the political process. Scalia’s response was typically blunt. No, he said.

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  • Does Religion Poison Everything?0

    The headline read “Suicide Attack at Christian Church in Pakistan Kills Dozens.” Another headline read “Jews Challenge Rules to Claim Heart of Jerusalem.” Another “Gunmen Kill Dozens in Terror Attack at Kenyan Mall.” Despite the obvious commonalities, these headlines share three more: all were in the same newspaper, on the same day, same page (New

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  • Do Unto Others0

    Is it not strange that the descendents of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?   General Robert E. Lee in a letter to his wife, December 1856.

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  • Divided Loyalties?0

    Ever hear the one about the cowboy with multiple personalities? At sunset he rode off in all directions. So it is with the Religious Right. Or almost, anyway. Though the movement does have multiple constituencies and leaders, its two most powerful and high-profile groups are riding off in opposite directions. On the one hand is

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