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- February 6, 2015
September 24, 2015! A date I will not forget, and a date marked by the significance of the events. I have put it away somewhere deep in my memory alongside the day President Kennedy was assassinated and the day the twin towers fell. It was just as historic. Many great and powerful leaders have addressed
READ MOREThere are people who might argue that a discussion of the same-sex marriage issue does not belong in Liberty magazine–a journal devoted to the freedom of religious expression and the constitutionally mandated principle of a separation of church and state. Of course they would have to be willing to restrict that very religious expression and
READ MOREBack around the age of television programs like Laugh-In I remember watching a skit premised on how a weather report from Egypt at the time of the pharaohs and the Exodus might have sounded. The announcer hammed it up plenty as he announced darkness sweeping over the land from the north; then huge hailstones from
READ MOREIn late-seventeenth-century England, many children of nonconformist parents experienced the horror of religious persecution. In these rarely told stories of faithful suffering, we can trace the fragile roots of a growing social acceptance of a new idea: religious tolerance. Religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition has its origins in the seventeenth century, but emerged only
READ MOREIn a world inundated with worthy causes, one of the greatest challenges for nonprofits today is finding a way to make their voices heard. Getting a message out—let alone having it resonate—is difficult enough, but it is particularly daunting when you choose the fast-paced, short-attention-spanned environment of social media to deliver it. And yet the
READ MOREIllustration by Michael Glenwood Would the Texas Ten Commandments proposal have passed constitutional muster? And more importantly, how will future “Ten Commandments laws” fare? The recent attempt by legislators in Texas to mandate the posting of the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous place” in all public school classrooms reflects emerging fallout from the Supreme Court’s
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