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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
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
READ MOREThe understanding that the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment was intended to erect "a wall of separation between church and state" is rapidly becoming pass̩ and is already regarded by many with actual hostility. This wall view was espoused in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association in
READ MOREIllustrations by Sally Wern Comport One of the primary purposes of incarceration is the reform and eventual rehabilitation of prisoners.1 Despite this goal, recidivism is common, and prisons are often the breeding grounds of criminal conspiracies. Yet not all those released from prison return to a life of crime. For many, prison time provides the
READ MOREAt first it seems ironic, if not downright ridiculous: a federal lawsuit seeks to block funding of an Iowa prison program that in Texas has resulted in a nearly two-thirds decrease in the recidivism rate of released convicts. The program doesn't use controversial drugs, esoteric psychology, or Clockwork Orange-style machinery to change prisoners' behavior. Instead,
READ MORELike any parent, I want the best for my children. I want to give them every opportunity our society and my means can provide. I want to protect them from harm and insult, which often carries greater harm than a bruising tumble. I want them to have high values and a faith in the transcendent.
READ MOREIllustrations by Mick Wiggins Remember last June? For some a time of infamy. For others a brave judicial finding. Three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance endorses a religious belief; that when the U.S. Congress added the phrase to
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