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  • Letters0

    Enabling Laws? I am very concerned, not only with the way our government is enacting "religious liberty" laws, but also the way that some are proclaiming these as triumphs of religious liberty. In an article titled "Religious Freedom Act Passed in South Carolina" this statement is made: "Regardless of the amendment, the act which was

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  • French – Anti-Sect Policy Shifting?0

    By John Graz France has been the leader of a very restrictive policy against sects and cults for several years. One man has illustrated this better than anyone else: Alain Vivien! He was already the anti-sect leader when I interviewed him in the 1980s for Conscience et Liberte.#1 At that time he was neither in

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  • Editorial – Just War0

    History, as I remember it taught in my high school days, used to be little more than a recitation of wars and battles, with dates attached. I had thought those days long gone, with a more informed recognition of the complexity of human affairs enriching our contemporary view of events. But it seems we are

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  • Under God Freedom0

    Illustration By Don Stewart The timing was at the very least a guaranteed attention-getter: one week before this year's Fourth of July celebrations, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled that recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America in public school classrooms constitutes an unacceptable state

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  • The Great Pledge Debate0

    The 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week cable channels treated it like the death of a celebrity, a major natural disaster, or the verdict in the O. J. Simpson case. Even though it was only a 2-1 decision by a federal appeals court holding that a 1954 act of Congress that added the words "under God" to the Pledge

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  • Northern Slight AndThe Panic of 9/110

    Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once likened living next door to the United States to sleeping with an elephant—no matter how friendly the elephant is, you can't help feeling its every twitch and grunt. Canadians are familiar with this "sleeping with the elephant" syndrome—everything that happens in the U.S. inevitably impacts Canada. On September

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