U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist's dissent in Wallace v. Jaffree (472 U.S. 38), 1985, is considered by many (see p. ?) one of the best historical defenses of a limited view of the reach and meaning of the Establishment Clause, a view that's increasingly gaining ground in American jurisprudence. Included in his dissent is
READ MOREThough not exactly the Transfiguration, what I experienced from these words (by astrophysicist John Gribbin in Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality) was, nevertheless, almost epiphany: "In very round terms, the quantum world operates on a scale as much smaller than a sugar cube as a sugar cube is compared with the entire observable
READ MOREFor more than two years the Gulf Coast community of Lee County, Florida, has been in a fracas over the school board's proposal to offer high school students a "Bible history" course based on a curriculum developed by a North Carolina group linked with the Religious Right. What began as (supposedly) a neutral effort to
READ MORE"The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. We say by virtue of her divine mission, because He who called Himself the 'Lord of the Sabbath,' endowed her with His own power to teach, 'he that
READ MOREPaula Jones and Monica Lewinsky don't appear in the following case. Not a breath of illicit sex taints the record. Nobody's going to get kissed or propositioned against his or her will. If your kids sneak a look at this article, they won't ask about words you don't want in their vocabulary until they're senior
READ MOREThe summer of 1886 was a bad time for Charles B. Reynolds. The iconoclastic religious skeptic (and former Methodist minister) took his free-thought message to Boonton, New Jersey. If Reynolds expected Boontonians to abandon Christianity and embrace free thought, he must have been disappointed. Instead, an unruly mob pelted him with rotten eggs, tore down
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