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  • Civil Disclosure0

    How many memorable speeches have you heard lately? Probably very few. The eloquence of Tom Paine, Patrick Henry, and John F. Kennedy has been replaced with sound bites, MTV, and Rush Limbaugh. The age of personal persuasion is past. We are a private, mobile society, frequently relocating to areas where we know no one and

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  • Civil and Religious Rights0

    It’s cherry blossom time again in Washington, D.C., as I write these words. The groundhog shadow thing let us all down a bit this year, and the lingering winter chill threatened a bracing festival in the nation’s capital.Cherry blossom time in 1968 was of course far more fraught. On Thursday evening, April 4, Martin Luther

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  • Churches Attacked0

    fter midnight on the last day of the 2003 legislative session, the California legislature adopted a controversial measure to require religious institutions to provide the same benefits to domestic partners of employees as are provided to spouses as a condition of contracting with the state. Authored by an openly lesbian assemblywoman from San Diego, Christine

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  • Churches and the Siren Call of Politics0

    The Evangelical church in America is in real danger today. As if the effort to save people's souls weren't enough to deal with, today's church must also grapple with sex scandals, skyrocketing divorce rates, debates over gay marriage, and a nation in the midst of what seems to be an escalating religious war. Sensing the

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  • Church-State Separation0

    Thomas Jefferson observed: &”It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.&” Many Americans today seem to disagree with Jefferson’s political philosophy that religious belief should not be an issue in judging a candidate’s fitness to be president.

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  • Church-State Relations in America What's at Stake and What's Not0

    It seems religious freedom has become an object of perpetual litigation. As a consequence, the struggle over church-state relations is vulnerable to a high level of crisis-mongering-especially in those ubiquitous fund-raising appeals. It is difficult to sort out real threats from mere shadows, and even harder to know where best to invest one's time and

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