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  • A Closed Door0

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  • ​A Climate of Fear0

    Looking for a “hook,” an attention-grabbing story to use as an introduction for this essay, I found so many extreme weather events in 2017-2019 that I was at a loss for which one to pick. In their sheer destructiveness, they were all devastatingly similar. And the responses of the people who went through them were terrifyingly

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  • A Clash of Rights0

    As the election season was building to a climactic finish, and opponents of California’s Proposition 8 publicly mocked claims that gay marriage would impact public school curriculum and religious freedom, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a first grade class was taken on a field trip to attend the wedding of a popular lesbian teacher.1

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  • A Clash of Millennialisms on Capitol Hill0

    The Christian lobby came to Capitol Hill in a big way in 1888. And that meant that the nation’s lawmakers were certain to hear from the &”counter-lobby&” spearheaded by the American Sentinel magazine as well. (The Sentinel was the precursor to Liberty magazine.) As discussed in part 1 of this series, the main purpose of

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  • A Civil Right Tested – Part 2: Title Vll and Beyond0

    Article Series  A Civil Right Tested – Part 1: Title Vll and Beyond The Supreme Court had an opportunity to revisit religious discrimination in Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook.1 Ronald Philbrook taught classes in a public high school in Ansonia, Connecticut.2 Subsequent to his hiring, he became a member of the Worldwide Church of

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  • A Civil Right Tested – Part 1: Title Vll and Beyond0

    One of the greatest legislative achievements of the twentieth century was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the bill was enacted in an attempt to eradicate discrimination in the workplace. The main focus of the bill was racial discrimination, but protections were included for color, sex, and national origin. Subsequent to the

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