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- February 6, 2015
Seven years jail for gay hate preachers" announced Britain's Telegraph newspaper on October 9, 2007, reporting government plans to introduce new hate speech legislation to the U.K. Parliament.1 This follows on from new "religious hatred" legislation, already passed, that became law a week previous. One response to this new proposal came from an intriguing source—the
READ MOREWhat do well-heeled liberal law firms have in common with undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds? Very little, except for their general unpopularity. That unpopularity is worth keeping in mind as we consider the current presidential administration’s legal due process shortcuts in dealing with these two groups. But before we get to that, let me share
READ MOREUnlike my immediate predecessor, Roland Hegstad, who edited Liberty for 34 years, or my immediate successor, Lincoln Steed, who has been at the helm about 14 years and counting, my stint as Liberty editor was short: only seven. In that time, though, I faced a rather interesting phenomenon. Because Liberty is a church publication defending
READ MOREIt wasn’t supposed to be this way. After all, it has been more than 400 years since Rene Descartes locked himself in a room and, with his famous mantra &”Cogito ergo sum,&” laid the foundation for modern rationalism. It has been 300 years since the Enlightenment, which offered hope that, through reason, rationality, and natural
READ MORE“We live in an era of uncertainty and anxiety about jobs. Workers who require religious accommodations are particularly vulnerable in this environment. With the abundance of people eager for employment, workers needing an accommodation face a perilous choice: ask for an accommodation that might precipitate loss of the position or compromise their religious belief in
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