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  • Completing the Constitution0

    Suppose the Texas legislature, responding to the will of the majority, denied citizens the right to criticize the government? Suppose Marylanders voted to make Roman Catholicism the official religion? Suppose Kentucky required anyone running for public office to profess belief in the Trinity and the deity of Christ? Supposed Oregon outlawed the practice of Judaism

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  • Committed to Liberty And Mission0

    The Seventh-day Adventist Church grew out of a national revival of prophetic interest that swept the United States in the early and mid-1840s. Very much in the Protestant continuum, the church has reached out and become a worldwide phenomenon, with almost 13 million members today–966,774 of them in the United States and Canada. From the

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  • Coming up for Air0

    In so many ways we seem at the flood stage of late. The December 2004 Tsunami gave reality to a global fear of an insatiable ocean intent on creating another Atlantis. Hurricane Katrina became the most recognizable of an alphabet-busting succession of storms battering the Americas. Vast stretches of prime ocean property now lie either

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  • Collateral Attack On The Establishment0

    Illustrations by Scott Roberts During President Reagan's first term the Christian Coalition's predecessor, the Moral Majority, expended great effort to, in effect, amend the First Amendment. With the support of a popular president they almost succeeded. But for the efforts of U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker of Cohile standing for reelection in 1984, courageously led an

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  • Coexistent Rights0

    On November 4, 2008, California voters approved Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying. The proponents of Proposition 8 based several of their arguments supporting this amendment on the premise that same-sex marriages posed a threat to religious liberty. Many of these arguments were exaggerated and disproportionate to any real conflicts

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  • Coercion or Conversion0

    In a speech to the Notre Dame student body during the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign, New York governor Mario Cuomo addressed the issue of church-state relations and the growing activism of the so-called Religious Right. The governor said: "Are we asking government to make criminal what we believe to be sinful because we ourselves can't

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