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Poor Tom 0
- November/December 2020
- November 1, 2020
When Thomas Paine died in 1809, Quakers, whom he identified with, refused his wish to be buried in one of their graveyards. Their refusal stemmed from Paine’s attacks on organized religion in general and Christianity in particular. Instead, this best-selling pamphleteer, whom John Adams called “the father of the American Revolution,” without whose “pen” “the
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Political, not Religious 0
- July/August 2004
- July 1, 2004
During Jefferson's eight-year term in office, and in the ensuing eight-year tenure of James Madison, religion and the churches managed not only to survive but even to multiply on a grand scale. Neither president worried about the growth of religion, but only about maintaining its freedom. For example, in 1802 Jefferson explained in the draft
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Political Power and the Pulpit 0
- January/February 2007
- January 1, 2007
The other day I heard something on the car radio that made me think that I had somehow passed through a wormhole and entered into an alternate universe. It was a National Public Radio report about a church that was in danger of having its tax-exemption status revoked because of partisan politics from the pulpit.
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Pledge of Allegiance 0
- September/October 2003
- September 1, 2003
Minersville School District v. Gobitis In 1940, 14 years before Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge. A school district in Pennsylvania said that students had to recite the Pledge. The Supreme Court said it was OK for the school district to expel students who didn't. A brother and sister—Jehovah's Witnesses—were expelled from
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Playing the Game 0
- March/April 2020
- March 1, 2020
Sekulow [Jay Sekulow, founder of the American Center for Law and Justice, and now an attorney for President Trump] kept bringing cases to the Court. . . but in the 1999-2000 term he discovered the limit of his free speech arguments. The case arose out of one of the central rituals of Texas life—the high
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Playing the Game 0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
In my previous job as a religious freedom advocate on Capitol Hill, I once got into conversation with someone whose approach to advocacy, frankly, defied common sense. He represented a minority faith, the Sikhs—a numerically tiny religious community that’s a mere footnote in the religious demographics of most countries. Yet, despite their small numbers, they
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