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  • The Lady and the Mill0

    Supreme Court cases of great import often involve unexpected, almost plebeian, subjects. In the area of interstate commerce, it was milk, and the regulation of its production and transport. In the area of the free exercise of religion clause, it was unemployment benefits. Here's how it happened. Adeile Sherbert was only 19 years old when

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  • Minority Report0

    A Mitt Romney Speech Evokes John F. Kennedy On September 12, 1960, Catholic Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a landmark speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (a group of Protestant ministers) regarding concerns about his Catholicism1. If elected, he would become the first Catholic president of the United States. In the speech,

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  • The Great Sudanese Teddy Bear Controversy0

    It was, by all standards, a simple assignment for the seven-year-olds: each weekend a different student would take a stuffed teddy bear home and then write down in a diary what they did with the bear. These various accounts were then collected in a book with a picture of the bear on the front. It

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  • Sunday Laws in America0

    An exchange on a blog site. . . MY WORK INVOLVES, among other tasks, editing and preparing for publication materials for a wide variety of clients. At the moment, I'm working on a book setting forth the history of so-called Sunday "blue laws." The very first such law was enacted in the colony of Virginia

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  • The Christian Amendment0

    Run up the flag and tune up the band! The problems of our nation are about to be solved. Three Congressmen have intro_duced a bill into the ninetieth Congress that will, if adopted, commit this nation to "de_voutly" recognize "the au_thority and the law of Jesus Christ, Savior and Ruler of nations, through whom are

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  • All Our Children0

    A few years ago, before the Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall collapsed, I visited Communist Bulgaria with my father and our family. Oh, might as well come clean—it was more than a few decades ago! It was well back in the days when the Communist bloc seemed to fit President Reagan's description as being "the evil empire."

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