Pain in Shangri-la
- July/August 2012
- July 1, 2012
Though it sounds like a cross between a B-grade horror film and a Saturday Night Live spoof, this article is about a real case with crucial freedom of speech and religious liberty issues that have much broader implications than the incident itself. The incident itself went like this: Last October, in the little town of
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READ MORETravel the world over and you are bound to stumble upon a hotel full of convention guests. A goodly number of travelers in airports at tourist hotspots are similarly garbed convention attendees. Conventions are big business and talk may not be so cheap, but they are an international commodity that easily devolves into on-the-office-account vacations
READ MOREShangri-la is a mythical land of peace and contentment supposedly found somewhere near Tibet, Nepal, and tiny little Bhutan. Actually Shangri-la is the product of the imagination of British novelist James Hilton. But Bhutan’s king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, seems to have aimed at taking possession of that myth. In 1972 he came up with the
READ MORELast year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith—for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school
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