When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Prayer Warriors Your May/June issue is very stimulating, interesting, and witty. Since the feature story is "Alabama's Religious War," you can imagine how I immediately focussed on that. Thanks for championing the civil rights issues! And be sure to give the person or persons who design your covers a special award. I think that your
READ MORE"We have taken the sword of Caesar, and in taking it, of course, we have rejected Thee and followed him." –The Grand Inquisitor In the greatest chapter ("The Grand Inquisitor") in the greatest novel (The Brothers Karamazov) of the West's greatest novelist (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Jesus Christ returns to earth–not in heavenly glory on bright clouds
READ MOREWhile a student at the University of Alabama in 1952, I interned with a national public accounting firm in Atlanta. On my way to work I sometimes passed what was probably the first "adult" store I had ever seen. I remember a large sign out front with quotes from opinions of U. S. Supreme Court
READ MOREAPRES CA, LE DELUGE In what supporters have called a "major psychic boost to the school choice movement," the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a voucher program that allows tax money to pay for private religious education. Though a lower court had previously ruled that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program was unconstitutional (a decision upheld at
READ MORESuppose the Texas legislature, responding to the will of the majority, denied citizens the right to criticize the government? Suppose Marylanders voted to make Roman Catholicism the official religion? Suppose Kentucky required anyone running for public office to profess belief in the Trinity and the deity of Christ? Supposed Oregon outlawed the practice of Judaism
READ MORESome monuments, however, are not facades of freedom, but the face of it; not distortions of ideals, but their embodiment; not expressions of greatness, but its very manifestation. And nowhere is the face of America's freedoms and the manifestation of the greatness of its ideals better revealed than along Sixteenth Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C.
READ MOREImagine Christian groups that–by religious conviction–are opposed to the practice of homosexuality, yet are nevertheless required to admit practicing homosexuals in membership, or even leadership roles? Certainly, with America's wonderful heritage of religious freedom, that could never happened here. Or could it? In 1995 the University of Wisconsin suspended a Christian group accused of discriminating
READ MOREFirst, religious liberty is a human right. The Declaration of Independence envisions the rights of humanity as a gift from God and as preceding the existence of government. Thus the Bill of Rights should be understood not as a civil grant of rights, but as a civil recognition of rights that existed prior to and
READ MOREWhat do a Jewish home synagogue, a Baptist minister, and a federal prisoner have in common? All among the first to be hurt by the demise of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Each of their stories shows why Americans must work to restore free exercise protections, which have been decimated in the wake
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