From Battleground to Commonground
- September/October 1997
- September 1, 1997
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
READ MOREThanks (I Think) I am not a fan of yours-I consider Liberty magazine to be a bias misrepresentation of the truth and only occasionally read your magazine to see what you are up to. However, I must admit that your recent article, "Getting Reality Right," was outstanding. Finally, you have written something worth reading! SANDRA
READ MOREEver hear the one about the cowboy with multiple personalities? At sunset he rode off in all directions. So it is with the Religious Right. Or almost, anyway. Though the movement does have multiple constituencies and leaders, its two most powerful and high-profile groups are riding off in opposite directions. On the one hand is
READ MOREIn the century before Thomas Jefferson's birth, radical Baptist Roger Williams-responding to those who confused liberty with licentiousness-addressed the town of Providence, Rhode Island, with his famous metaphor comparing society to a ship filled with passengers of many faiths who were never "forced to come to the ship's prayers or worship; nor, secondly, compelled from
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