When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
When the United States Supreme Court decided in 1992 that invocations and benedictions by a clergyman at a public high school graduation violated the Establishment Clause, Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, asserting: "Justice Holmes' aphorism that 'a page of history is worth a volume of logic . . . ,' applies with particular force to our
READ MOREIn the century before Thomas Jefferson's birth, radical Baptist Roger Williams-responding to those who confused liberty with licentiousness-addressed the town of Providence, Rhode Island, with his famous metaphor comparing society to a ship filled with passengers of many faiths who were never "forced to come to the ship's prayers or worship; nor, secondly, compelled from
READ MOREThanks (I Think) I am not a fan of yours-I consider Liberty magazine to be a bias misrepresentation of the truth and only occasionally read your magazine to see what you are up to. However, I must admit that your recent article, "Getting Reality Right," was outstanding. Finally, you have written something worth reading! SANDRA
READ MORE"The structure of nature may eventually be such that our processes of thought do not correspond to it sufficiently to permit us to think about it at all."-P. W. Bridgeman "For, if one does not exist, he can by no means be mistaken. Therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Because, therefore, I am if
READ MOREBy now, the shock waves are over. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has been declared unconstitutional, and the "free exercise of religion" has been reduced to mean-with few exceptions-whatever the local and state legislative branches of government decide it means. According to the majority, RFRA violated the limits of Congressional power, because section 5
READ MOREIn South Orangetown, New York, parents seemed hopelessly divided over Christmas in the local public school. As in hundreds of school districts, the "December dilemma" didn't exactly bring out "peace and goodwill" toward all. Would there be a cr
READ MOREEver hear the one about the cowboy with multiple personalities? At sunset he rode off in all directions. So it is with the Religious Right. Or almost, anyway. Though the movement does have multiple constituencies and leaders, its two most powerful and high-profile groups are riding off in opposite directions. On the one hand is
READ MORE"The Religion Clauses of the Constitution represent a profound commitment to religious liberty." So said Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in her dissent to the recent Supreme Court decision that voided the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). RFRA was enacted in 1993 to provide protection for the free exercise of religion. It stated that an individual's
READ MOREThe pain for Norma Smith of Dallas, Texas, was acute. Her husband was dying of a liver disease, and the doctors weren't able to help. But she found hope in God and in televangelist Robert Tilton, who in solicitation letters promised that if she donated money, he'd personally pray for her husband and that he
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