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  • Chandler's List0

    Michael Chandler has been trying to figure out why he's different. A product of northeast Alabama, Chandler has lived in De Kalb County all his life. As he walks along his deck, pointing out the boundaries of his 30-acre property, Chandler tells his junior high son not to stay out too long on the four-wheeler-it's

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  • Brouhaha at Chi-Chi's0

    When Cora Miller said "No way, Jose," Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant said "Adios, amiga." The Clinton, Maryland, attendant refused to sing a happy birthday song for a customer. It was her second day of work, and her last. Cora Miller is a Jehovah's Witness. She chose serving God over enchiladas. Her religion forbids the celebration of

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  • Wrong Jurisdiction0

    What is the "original meaning" of the First Amendment's religion clauses? Though in Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the Supreme Court advanced the "strict separation" account of the Establishment Clause, dissenting scholars and judges have argued for an "accommodationist" alternative instead. In Boerne v. Flores, meanwhile, Justices O'Connor and Scalia used history to defend

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  • The Repeal of the Religion Clauses0

    As argued above, the religion clauses amounted to a decision by the national government not to address substantive questions concerning the proper relationship between religion and government. There would be no national law, theory, or principle-and, consequently, no constitutional law, theory, or principle-prescribing the proper relationship between religion and government. The decision to "incorporate" the

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  • Op. Cit.0

    Thanks I have received Liberty magazine for many years and always find each issue fresh and stimulating, particularly in the treatment of controversial issues. I teach a class in religious liberty at the Dickinson School of Law and often find articles in Liberty that are timely and useful in offering students current treatment of various

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  • Obiter0

    "Christians are experiencing an unprecedented level of persecution around the world," said a sermon posted on the Internet by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. It began with this example: "An elementary school girl in Denver, Colorado, is told by a teacher that she cannot bring her Bible to school

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