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  • By What Authority?0

    Since the emergence of the Religious Right on the American political scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, cooperation between Protestants and Catholics for political purposes has been both open and active. Such religio-political alliances have existed before, of course, in the context of liberal causes (e.g., civil rights, the Vietnam War). The corporate

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  • By the Rules?0

    Whether opposing the British or abortion, whether supporting abolition or tax cuts, whether seeking to end child labor or kiddie porn, religious activists have always been a part of American politics. History has shown that whatever separation of church and state has meant, it obviously hasn't meant – nor was it ever intended to mean

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  • By the Rules?0

    Whether opposing the British or abortion, whether supporting abolition or tax cuts, whether seeking to end child labor or kiddie porn, religious activists have always been a part of American politics. History has shown that whatever separation of church and state has meant, it obviously hasn't meant – nor was it ever intended to mean

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  • By the People0

    By the People By Lincoln E. Steed At first I thought the interview on BBC Shortwave radio was with an official of then imploding Zimbabwe regime in Africa. I'd tuned in midpoint, just in time to hear him extol the virtues of a one-party state. Yes, the official maintained, a one-party state could adequately represent

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  • Buy the Right Kind of Democracy0

    There are more kinds of democracy than kinds of compact cars." The weary citizen, belabored by political oratory and bewildered by news analysts, retreats in confusion to the comparative sim_plicity of automobile ads, time payments, and keeping up with the Joneses. Democracy, like cars, comes with all kinds of sur_face trappings. It comes in Cuba

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  • But What About Religious Freedom?0

    My last editorial comments, written of necessity a few weeks before the U.S. presidential election, and this editorial, written unavoidably some weeks before the U.S. presidential inauguration, bracket a time of great moral hazard for all freedoms, not the least of which is religious liberty. It may be that calm settles again upon the land.

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