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  • Obiter0

    I read the "Goodbyes" in the May/June issue and felt the need to reply. Though I don't always agree with Liberty's opinions and articles, I do value the forum fo the exchange of ideas and diverse opinions. The greatest danger to our society is not diverse opinions, but rather the silencing of opinions that do

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  • How Then Shall We School?0

    Home schooling is all the rage nowadays. Thousands of parents are pulling their children out of public schools to try their own hand at teaching. In a spirit of self-reliance they become do-it-yourself professors. Some evangelical leaders are jumping on the home-schooling bandwagon. Exodus 2000 and Rescue 2010 are the most dramatic manifestations of a

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  • Home Schooling and the Law0

    Somehow a reporter from a local paper found out about my mother's decision. And that was when I found out the terrible truth–I was living with a criminal. There it was in black and white in our local newspaper: "Vera Miller is in violation of the law, as she refuses to send her son to

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  • Tough Love0

    Today a wide spectrum of Christian activists–from Christian Right to Catholic Left–seeks morality through civil laws. Over the past two decades some of their names have become household words. Their quest is not new: as far back Constantine's Sunday law of A.D. 321 churches have sought to cure the evils of mankind through alliance with

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  • Religious Liberty–Self-evident Truth?0

    "Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free . . ." So begins the 1776 Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty, widely recognized as influential in the subsequent framing of the Constitution. Here clearly stated is the frequently unspoken assumption of free will and choice as an inborn ability possessed by all. Even more significant are

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  • Protecting Free Exercise0

    For 10 years Grant Bennett and his fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) had been gathering in a simple meetinghouse for religious services in Belmont, Massachusetts. Then, in October of 1995, church officials decided the time had come to erect a proper church–an elaborate 70,000-square-foot temple with tall

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