Let My People Speak
- September/October 2002
- September 1, 2002
A short drive down a quiet country road, incongruous by its being located between the large population centers of San Francisco and Sacramento, is the Vacaville Seventh-day Adventist Church. Actually, the church itself isn't quite finished. At present the complex consists of a one-room church school and a fellowship hall where weekly worship is conducted.
READ MOREWith a surge toward a violent culture, many things must happen to redirect our society. I understand that simply posting the Ten Commandments will not instantly change the moral character of our nation. However, allowing states the freedom to decide these matters is an important step in promoting morality and religious freedom in our society.-REP.
READ MOREBy Marci A. Hamilton Illustration By Sally Wern Comport The Supreme Court recently denied certiorari in a case testing whether state government could post the Ten Commandments. At the same time, a federal district court in Pennsylvania held that the government's display of the commandments violates the establishment clause. As I have noted in my
READ MOREBy Mark A. Kellner Illustration By Jeff Dever/Freshart The continuing battle over California's Women's Contraceptive Equity Act, or WCEA, is not only due to occupy part of that state's supreme court calendar this fall, but also highlights the continuing tensions between the free exercise of religion and government in America's most populous state. At issue
READ MORE"Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he considers to be true." —Pope Pius IX, Condemned proposition, Syllabus of Errors, 1867. "The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion – except for the
READ MORE"The Establishment of Religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: neither the state nor the federal government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go or remain away from
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