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  • When Faith Kills0

    Though adults have the right to choose any method of healing, health care for children is different. The state has a responsibility to ensure the proper care of children. In this context, then, the crucial question is On what basis can the state ensure that when religious healing practices are involved, the children in question

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  • Op. Cit.0

    Mystery Passage I found your article "Justice Kennedy's Mystery Passage" (July/August), to be quite fascinating. It was at least as fascinating as those various excursions in the past when, as you put it, jurisprudence gives way to metaphysics. To me, the stand-out example was Judge Brevard Hand's ruling that, in essence, declared "secular humanism" to

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  • Obiter0

    For years the Christian Right has warned that separation of church and state is eradicating Christianity from American life. In contrast, law professor Stephen Feldman warns that separation of church and state, in fact, subjugates minority faiths (especially the Jews) and ensures Christian cultural and political hegemony. "Significantly, in late-twentieth-century America," Feldman writes in Please

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  • Mr. Twain's Imaginary Fractures0

    It was a night of anguish, of course at least I supposed it was, for it had all the symptoms of it but it passed at last, and the Christian Scientist came, and I was glad. She was middle-aged, and large and bony, and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and

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  • Is Scientology a Religion?0

    There are a number of methods to test if an organization is a religion, and the method used may decide the answer to the inquiry. Four possible methods are as follows: 1. Examine the beliefs/structures/doctrines of the organization to see if they are analogous to more traditional religions. 2. Examine the intent of the organization's

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  • Iambs And Pentameters0

    If the tape of evangelist Pat Robertson telling a private meeting of Christian Coalition leaders that they needed to model their organization on the Tammany Hall political machine doesn't prove that the "Christian" of the Christian Coalition is false advertising nothing will. Tammany Hall, if you recall, was the New York Democratic Party organization whose

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