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Divided By Religion 0
- May/June 2004
- May 1, 2004
As our jet descended rather noisily through thin cloud cover toward Ambon airport in the Maluku province of Indonesia, what we saw suggested a tropical paradise. Turquoise waters revealed fascinating reef patterns from the air. The jungle-covered peaks behind Ambon city matched the great curve of a bay, that in the process of defining the
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Dissent, Dismissal, and Discernment 0
- November/December 2011
- November 1, 2011
Suppose a state desires to reward Jews—by, say,$500 per year—for their religious devotion. Should the nature of taxpayers’ concern vary if the state allows Jews to claim the aid on their tax returns, in lieu of receiving an annual stipend? Suppose the state of Hawaii, in its desire to preserve the ancient native Hawaiian religion,
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Disrupted Symmetry 0
- November/December 2023
- October 31, 2023
Assessing the hazards of the Supreme Court’s “one-sided” separation of church and state. Illustration by Robert Hunt In 2017 the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision involving an obscure issue about the relationship between church and state. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources provided grants to public and nonprofit schools and day-care centers
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Disordered Liberty 0
- May/June 2000
- May 1, 2000
Prior to my comments before the House Judiciary Committee (May 13, 1999) on the role of popular mass culture in producing youth alienation and school violence, a panel of students gave their observations. They were led by an articulate twelfth grader from a large suburban high school. What distinguished her high school, she said, was
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Discriminatory Practices 0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
Trinity Western University (TWU), an institution of higher learning in Langley, British Columbia, was founded by the Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCA) in 1962 and incorporated as a nonprofit society. In 1969 the British Columbia legislature enacted the Trinity Junior College Act constituting TWU as a body corporate with the object of providing university
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Disaster Relief for Churches?0
- July/August 2013
- July 1, 2013
The American tradition of separation of church and state was established, in part, on a pillar of “no aid” to churches, fueled by Jefferson’s rhetoric in his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which said: “to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful
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