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  • Faith As Politics0

    At first glance, the faith forum held at the United Nations in the waning days of 2008 would seem a miracle: the kind of event that everyone who was anyone would want to participate in, to have their pictures taken with the dignitaries, to have their name and their organization represented. After all, look what

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  • Coexistent Rights0

    On November 4, 2008, California voters approved Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying. The proponents of Proposition 8 based several of their arguments supporting this amendment on the premise that same-sex marriages posed a threat to religious liberty. Many of these arguments were exaggerated and disproportionate to any real conflicts

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  • Change You Can Believe In0

    A few weeks ago a fellow religious liberty activist and I exchanged words on the topic of California’s Proposition 8, and how Bible-believing Christians should react to negative social change. He was troubled at my efforts to distinguish between the obligations of the faith community and the freedom of a secular community to choose a

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  • A Clash of Rights0

    As the election season was building to a climactic finish, and opponents of California’s Proposition 8 publicly mocked claims that gay marriage would impact public school curriculum and religious freedom, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a first grade class was taken on a field trip to attend the wedding of a popular lesbian teacher.1

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  • With God All Things Are Possible0

    Background The controversy involved Capitol Square, a 10-acre site in Columbus, where the Ohio state capitol building, or "statehouse," is located. The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board regulates all uses of Capitol Square, while the governor has the authority to approve all uses of the official state seal. The plaintiffs alleged that Governor George

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  • When Religion Becomes Evil0

    It wasn’t supposed to be this way. After all, it has been more than 400 years since Rene Descartes locked himself in a room and, with his famous mantra &”Cogito ergo sum,&” laid the foundation for modern rationalism. It has been 300 years since the Enlightenment, which offered hope that, through reason, rationality, and natural

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  • Very Public Prayers0

    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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  • The Establishment Clause Assault0

    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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  • The Bridge to Tomorrow0

    &”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

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