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  • Sunday Laws in America0

    An exchange on a blog site. . . MY WORK INVOLVES, among other tasks, editing and preparing for publication materials for a wide variety of clients. At the moment, I'm working on a book setting forth the history of so-called Sunday "blue laws." The very first such law was enacted in the colony of Virginia

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  • Protecting Faith in the Workplace0

    Congressional testimony by James D. Standish —February 12, 2008 Chair Andrews, ranking member Mr. Kline, other members of the committee. It's an honor to represent the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. There are about 15 million Seventh-day Adventists around the world. We operate over 600 health-care facilities and we have about 1.3 million students

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  • Minority Report0

    A Mitt Romney Speech Evokes John F. Kennedy On September 12, 1960, Catholic Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a landmark speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (a group of Protestant ministers) regarding concerns about his Catholicism1. If elected, he would become the first Catholic president of the United States. In the speech,

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  • Democracy and Liberty Assailed0

    The thoughtful observer, as he looks out upon the political and religious world today, becomes deeply conscious of the fact that civil and religious liberty are in peril. There are decadent influences at work in every land that are permeating the social fabric and threatening to overthrow democratic forms of government and restore the absolutism

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  • All Our Children0

    A few years ago, before the Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall collapsed, I visited Communist Bulgaria with my father and our family. Oh, might as well come clean—it was more than a few decades ago! It was well back in the days when the Communist bloc seemed to fit President Reagan's description as being "the evil empire."

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  • When Speech Becomes Dangerous0

    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

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