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  • Obiter0

    "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

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  • From Battleground to Commonground0

    In 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

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  • Free Exercises?0

    In 1984 drug counselor Alfred Smith was fired for ingesting peyote in a religious ceremony for a Native American Church ritual. Though as early as 1964 the California Supreme Court noted the significance of peyote to that church's religious practices,1 the State of Oregon denied Mr. Smith unemployment compensation because "the state's interest in proscribing

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  • Skewered!0

    Chewed Out! Your article "Consenting Adults" (March/April) has nothing to do with the separation of church and state. These moral issues come under the rightful domain of civil law. If a place such as the sex club referred to in this piece is a legal business, its existence makes socially destructive behavior appear common and

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  • Here We Go Again0

    Thank the Lord for that, especially now as Congress is again faced with another sorrowfully misleading proposal to undo Establishment Clause protections. Misnamed the Religious Freedom Amendment, the proposal (also known as the Ishtook Amendment) reads: "To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: The people's right to pray

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  • The Prophet of Profit?0

    The 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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