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  • When Faith Kills0

    Though adults have the right to choose any method of healing, health care for children is different. The state has a responsibility to ensure the proper care of children. In this context, then, the crucial question is On what basis can the state ensure that when religious healing practices are involved, the children in question

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  • When Faith Heals0

    Liberty (January/February 1998) ran "When Faith Kills," by Steven Gey, which explored the thorny issue of religious freedom and alternative methods of healing when children are involved. The title itself suggested negative conclusions about the efficacious nature of this practice. This article attempts to present a more balanced perspective. Though adults have the right to

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  • When Faith and Tradition Are Threatened0

    Muslims and Jews in Holland and in California united in 2011 in opposing political attacks on their joint religious traditions of circumcision, and their religious ways of killing animals for use as food. Several Christian groups, concerned that secular and humanistic political values were being used to coerce religious expression, also joined the protest. In

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  • When 2 + 2 = 50

    In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift wrote about the long war between "the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu" over which end of an egg should be broken, the big or the little one. According to earliest historical accounts, when the grandfather of Lilliput's present king broke open an egg in the traditional manner, that

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  • What’s Yours Is Mine No Treaties, No Boundary Lines0

    Illustration by Robert Hunt The recent Dakota Access Pipeline saga reminds us of the long ongoing struggle for Native American rights. Dakota Territory, July 1874 Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clinched the reigns of his regal brown-and-white sorrel horse, then squinted hard into the distance. Ahead lay a dark patch sprawled across the ascending Dakota

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  • What Would A Christian America Look Like?0

    By Rodney Nelson Illustration By Jack Slattery A few years ago a friend of mine paid my way to a family camp sponsored by the American Heritage Party of Washington State. The AHP was a Washington State chapter of the Constitution Party before leaving several years ago and changing its name to the AHP. While

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