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The Establishment Clause Assault 0
- March/April 1999
- March 1, 2009
The Bell and McCord children were verbally assaulted at the school, not just by students, but by the faculty as well. Upside-down crosses were taped to their schoolbooks and lockers. The McCords' family pet, a prizewinning goat, had its throat slit. The parents were "publicly vilified" at a school board meeting. Both families received anonymous
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- March 1, 2009
Affronted I found the remark by a reader in your "Op. Cit." January/February issue almost amusing: "I pray that the supreme court of Alabama will rule against Judge Roy Moore and force him to remove the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments–an affront to Jews and Catholics–from his courtroom wall. I can see that the
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Principles or Procedure?0
- March/April 1999
- March 1, 2009
Do the religion clauses of the First Amendment say anything meaningful about the respective roles of the church and the state? In "Wrong Jurisdiction" (Liberty, March/April 1998) law professor Steven Smith argues that the Founders "carefully avoided" adopting any principle of religious freedom, but instead deferred the entire question to the state governments. Thus the
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&”Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.&” —Edwin Hubbell Chapin On Monday, March 29, 1948, the city of Jerusalem had on hand only a five-day supply of margarine, four days of macaroni, and ten days of dried meat. There was no

The Beginnings of Religious Diversity 0

This article is Part Two in a four part series. Click here for Part One, here for Part Three, and here for Part Four. One result of the English colonization of America is that religious diversity and, consequently, the very concept of religious liberty in the modern United States, both derive from the English

Very Public Prayers 0

Well before the actual inauguration of President Barak Obama there was a chorus of complaints about his choice of Rick Warren to give the inauguration prayer. What might just as easily have been interpreted as an attempt to link up with a populist expression of mainstream religious values was interpreted as a tilt toward the

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