The social network that you can wear
- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
What would you do if the company you work for suddenly decided that you should participate in acts that are diametrically against your conscience? It's a valid question, one that thousands of health-care and other professionals are now facing and without a legal leg to stand on if they refuse. An employee who refuses, as
READ MOREHe is a young man, neatly turned out in tailored slacks, dress shirt, and tie. He subscribes to a religious creed that encourages self-respect, clean living, environmental awareness, and a healthy—if possible, organic—diet. That same creed upholds the equality of women and men, when it comes to positions of leadership in the community. He says
READ MOREhe history of how the nation’s Founders empowered American religious freedom has been well documented over centuries of legal arguments, court proceedings, public discussions, and historical analyses. Lectures on the importance of Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, or the significance of the First Amendment’s establishment and free exercise clauses are commonplace enough today, while
READ MOREAdvocates of the homosexual rights movement repeatedly draw an analogy between their own struggle and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in which African-Americans worked to gain the rights enjoyed by other Americans but denied to them on account of their skin color. Just as African-Americans struggled to gain equal rights and
READ MOREMost presidents in American history have integrated religion into their political speeches in what scholars have dubbed civil religion. This has especially been the case in wartime, as war seems to inspire in people a need to know that God is with us. One of the president's roles is to assure the American people that
READ MOREIn his work Does God Approve of Civil Disobedience? (Sioux City, Iowa: Anchor Publications), scholar Wallace McLaughlin says confidently that “God does not approve of civil disobedience. If men who claim to speak for the churches say otherwise, then you may be sure that in their declarations you do not hear the voice of Christian
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