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- February 6, 2015
It is a great honor for me to receive the First Freedom National Award in the city of Richmond. We are just footsteps away from the place where the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom was adopted—a document that went on to become the model of constitutions and statutes all around the world. . . .
READ MOREA sharply divided Supreme Court in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation held that President Bush's faith-based initiatives could not be challenged in federal court as a prohibited state establishment of religion. Hein said nothing about the merits of the underlying challenge, but relied instead on the constitutional rule that denies taxpayers "standing" to sue.
READ MORERoger Williams pioneered the way for the disestablishment of religion and the divorcement of the church from the state in America. The burden of his soul was that all men might be free to worship or not to worship God, as their own consciences dictated. He endeavored to reestablish primitive Christianity in harmony with the
READ MOREAs we all learned—or should have learned—in school, the Constitution of the United States created a new, national government of limited, divided powers. Of course, the Constitution was and is not perfect. Still, it is worth remembering and celebrating the Founders' insight and creativity. Theirs was a bold, innovative experiment. Those who designed and ratified
READ MOREWhen it comes to free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, has the Court delivered a triumph or a tragedy? Illustrations by Jon Krause Examining recent cases and doctrinal developments interpreting the free exercise clause and the establishment clause of the First Amendment reminds me of two lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macbeth himself states in the
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