Heading Toward Thought Control
- May/June 2001
- May 1, 2001
Federal labor laws prohibit children under 16 from working in manufacturing, and children under 18 are restricted from working in other dangerous occupations. The Amish contend that these laws infringe upon their religious beliefs and traditional work ethic, and they
READ MOREOn July 27, 2000, both the Senate and the House passed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and President Clinton signed the measure into law on September 22. This law, often known as RLUIPA (pronounced ar-LOOP-uh), provides protection for a right that is foundational in our country: the right to worship.
READ MOREOver the course of the past 13 years Justice Antonin Scalia has emerged as one of the most controversial figures on the Supreme Court. Some claim that he has almost single-handedly pushed the debates concerning the Constitution back to the text itself and away from concerns of social theory and even case precedent.1
READ MORELate last year the Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments in the case British Columbia College of Teachers v. Trinity Western University, one of many cases now piling up on Canadian court dockets, pitting religious liberty against
READ MOREMany of us approached the year 2000 with millennial fears of computer hell and the meltdown of modern life. These turned out to be groundless fears. Now in the days beyond and into 2001 many of us have downgraded our fears of apocalypse to simple alarm. Electoral gridlock . . . get over it. Electrical
READ MOREOne of the most divisive issues in today
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