When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
In late June, at the end of its term, the Supreme Court decided two cases, each by a 5-4 vote, involving constitutional challenges to government refusals to recognize same-sex marriages. In United States v. Windsor, the Court struck down the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which stated that for all federal law
READ MORESajjad Masih is a young Pakistani man 29 years old. He fell in love and became engaged to a young woman named Roma. He spent many hours communicating with her on his cell phone. But another man was also in love with Roma. He lived in the United Kingdom and made promises to Roma’s parents
READ MOREWhenever religious freedom in the world is discussed today, it is hard to avoid the lack of freedom in the so-called 10/40 window world. Scarcely a day goes by without a headline story of a fresh religious atrocity in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt or any other country in the area. But something curious is going on
READ MOREIt is perhaps a cliché in contemporary historical studies to ask the question “What would the Founders think?” or “What would the Founders believe about this or that particular issue today?” Despite being a largely fruitless academic exercise, dozens of books have been written on the subject, including Richard Brookhiser’s entertaining What Would the Founders
READ MOREThe protection of freedom of religion afforded by s. 2(a) of the [Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms] is broad and jealously guarded in our Charter jurisprudence.”1 So said the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004. Times have changed. Given the recent decision of the court in the case of S. L. v. Commission scolaire
READ MOREAs an outside observer of U.S. and Canadian media I am often bemused at how often some of my Christian friends across “the pond” allow themselves to be diverted into often vacuous debates over what America’s Founders “intended” when they wrote the separation of church and state into the American Constitution. Not that I suggest
READ MOREThe very first mega festival of religious liberty was held in 2006 in São Paulo. At that time 12,000 people filled an indoor stadium. This was soon followed by festivals on five continents. The two largest ones were held in stadiums in Luanda, Angola (2008), and in Lima, Peru (2009). Crowds of tens of thousands
READ MOREIt wasn’t exactly headline news, even in 1882, though for the then very small (17,169 members) and relatively new (founded in 1863) religious group, called the Seventh-day Adventists, it was a harbinger of things to come. In Oakland, California, Willie C. White, a son of two founders of the church, and superintendent of the Pacific
READ MOREHundreds Dead After Street Clashes in Cairo.” Headlines such as that are attention-grabbers. Not only is it shocking to hear of so many lives lost amid a maelstrom of violence, but this, after all, was supposed to be the Arab Spring! Rewind a moment and think about what has happened in Egypt in just one
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