What Would A Christian America Look Like?0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

By Rodney Nelson Illustration By Jack Slattery A few years ago a friend of mine paid my way to a family camp sponsored by the American Heritage Party of Washington State. The AHP was a Washington State chapter of the Constitution Party before leaving several years ago and changing its name to the AHP. While

State Sunday Laws0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

Sunday laws have been a part of the legal landscape of America from the time of European settlement. Nevertheless, because Sunday laws are not generally at the forefront of today's legislative debates and, as currently enforced, create only occasional serious difficulties, their pervasive presence is ignored. However, these laws should be neither dismissed nor treated

Schools Are Special0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

In the case of Newdow v. U.S. Congress the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congress violated the First Amendment to the Constitution when it added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. The Newdow ruling was as controversial as the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, when the

Religious Test0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

No Religious Tests0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, there was a "forum to discuss the recent injection of religion into the judicial nominations process." Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the topic and his personal reasons for participating. After he spoke there were several presentations by various religious leaders and fellow senator Richard Durbin.

Letters0

• November/December 2003
• November 1, 2003

Ends and Means I am greatly dismayed that your response to Mr. Gary Jenson's letter to the editor in the May/June 2002 issue was so restrained and vague. "Rough logic"? Mr. Jenson's logic was fine; it was his suppositions or assumptions that drove his logic that were dangerously flawed. His suggestion that our internment of