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  • A Nonpartisan Educational Organization?0

    In a 1991 recruitment video, America at a Crossroads, Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of the Christian Coalition, hardly sounded like the leader of a mere "nonpartisan education organization" that doesn't advocate the election or defeat of candidates. "I believe," Robertson said, "that the Christian Coalition will be the most powerful political force in America

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  • By the Rules?0

    Whether opposing the British or abortion, whether supporting abolition or tax cuts, whether seeking to end child labor or kiddie porn, religious activists have always been a part of American politics. History has shown that whatever separation of church and state has meant, it obviously hasn't meant – nor was it ever intended to mean

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  • Bias on the Bench?0

    Though Scripture condemns homosexual behavior, what happens when a judge in the courtroom does the same? That's the struggle confronting Judge Roy Moore of Alabama, who insists that because God prohibits gay and lesbian relationships, so will he. And though few would argue against the judge's right to hold his religious views, many would argue

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  • At Liberty0

    How many memorable speeches have you heard lately? Probably very few. The eloquence of Tom Paine, Patrick Henry, and John F. Kennedy has been replaced with sound bites, MTV, and Rush Limbaugh. The age of personal persuasion is past. We are a private, mobile society, frequently relocating to areas where we know no one and

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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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  • Obiter0

    "Truth is what the majority thinks it is at any given moment precisely because the majority is permitted to govern and redefine its values constantly." – Robert Bork "Sooner orlater we all have to accept something as given, whether it is God, or logic, or a set of laws, or some other foundation of existence."

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