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  • Breakdown of the Wall0

    Illustration by Jim Mellett While the Christian Coalition correctly argues that the phrase "wall of separation between Church and State" nowhere appears in the U.S. Constitution, our Constitution does contain these words: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Thomas Jefferson in 1802 explained our First

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  • Amish v. State0

    Illustrations by Tim Foley For more than 300 years the Amish, also referred to in this country as the Old Order Amish or "Plain People," have practiced a way of life that revolves around their deeply held religious beliefs. Believing in a literal interpretation of the Bible, these intensely private individuals point to Romans 12:2,

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  • A Closed Door0

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  • The Supreme Court and title vii0

    In 1995 Don Reed was fired as an air traffic controller when his religious belief about the Saturday Sabbath came into conflict with the dictates of his employer. For several years Reed had been accommodated in his belief that the Sabbath should be kept sacred by holding a job that required work only during the

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  • The Glorious 108th0

    By James Standish Illustration by Ralph Butler The beginning of a new Congress is somewhat like the birth of a new baby. Like a child, the new Congress is born with the burden of history sitting fairly across its shoulders, it has much of the DNA of the preceding Congress, and it operates in much

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  • The Constitution in Wartime0

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