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  • Respect in the Workplace0

    Illustration by William Riser Many religious persons at some point in their working life encounter a conflict between a requirement of their job and their religious conscience. Employers sensitive to the religious convictions of their employees often make an effort to alter the job requirements so as to remove this conflict. However, some employers fail

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  • Unlawful Assembly0

    Illustrations by Paul Vismara A Christian family living in the Soviet Union sometime in the mid-twentieth century gathers with a few close friends to take part in an illicit activity—Bible study and prayer. The door bursts open, and the KGB storms in. The frightened group is herded off for interrogation, possibly worse. This was a

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  • Conscientious Objections0

    Even in peacetime conscientious objectors to war are often labeled as unpatriotic. In times of war they are called cowards, traitors, or worse. But in good times and bad, in peace and even during war, we must protect the rights of people whose honest beliefs, for whatever reason, place them out of kilter with national

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  • The Supreme Court and title vii0

    In 1995 Don Reed was fired as an air traffic controller when his religious belief about the Saturday Sabbath came into conflict with the dictates of his employer. For several years Reed had been accommodated in his belief that the Sabbath should be kept sacred by holding a job that required work only during the

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  • The Constitution in Wartime0

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  • Letters0

    Enabling Laws? I am very concerned, not only with the way our government is enacting "religious liberty" laws, but also the way that some are proclaiming these as triumphs of religious liberty. In an article titled "Religious Freedom Act Passed in South Carolina" this statement is made: "Regardless of the amendment, the act which was

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