Religious Test0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

No Religious Tests0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, there was a "forum to discuss the recent injection of religion into the judicial nominations process." Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the topic and his personal reasons for participating. After he spoke there were several presentations by various religious leaders and fellow senator Richard Durbin.

Letters0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

Ends and Means I am greatly dismayed that your response to Mr. Gary Jenson's letter to the editor in the May/June 2002 issue was so restrained and vague. "Rough logic"? Mr. Jenson's logic was fine; it was his suppositions or assumptions that drove his logic that were dangerously flawed. His suggestion that our internment of

Freedom To Speak0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Pickering v. Board of Education that public school teachers do not forfeit their First Amendment rights to engage in speech that their employer, the school district, might find disagreeable.1 The following year, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the High Court wrote that students

Faith In A Dagger0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

Illustration By Sally Wern Comport Depending on whom you ask, Gurbaj Singh is either a victim of religious intolerance or a troublemaker defying his provincial government, school board, and school. In 2001 the then-12-year-old Sikh from Montreal made headlines when he knocked heads with his school, Sainte-Catherine-Laboure, over his wearing a four-inch (10-centimeter) ceremonial dagger,

Fair Game0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

By Allen M. Jackson Woven into the warp and woof of American culture—a good swath of it, anyway—is the notion of athletics and fair play. For decades school sports have helped lift young people from obscurity into the limelight (Ronald Reagan, Brandi Chastain). And in some parts of the country—most notably Texas—football games all but