The Demos and Religious Freedom
- September/October 2011
- September 1, 2011
I just spent a goodly portion of this morning mulling over and then writing the editorial for this issue. The unfortunate part of the story is that it was not this editorial. It was another version. One begun in a flurry of brain activity and pattered down on the keyboard as I proceeded. In fact,
READ MOREWhile some have decided to stay and fight, other homeschooling families in Sweden are emigrating after losing a years-long battle with the government over the right to educate at home. Last summer Parliament passed what it calls "The New Education Act—for Knowledge, Choice, and Security." The 1,500 pages will bring vast changes to the educational
READ MOREBy now most of us are familiar with Christopher Hitchens. Christopher1 is, among other things, the author of the 2007 work God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Everything? Apparently so, in the eyes of Christopher Hitchens. That his journalist brother, Peter, has now produced a volume in opposite is by its very nature
READ MOREIt's a geographical fact, based on the geometry of the earth, that springtime in one part of the world means cold weather in another. Though an analogy only, it fits what's being hailed as the "Arab Spring," the uprisings that have either toppled or challenged the rule of dictators throughout the Arab world, from North
READ MOREEach year the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) releases a report of nations whose conduct marks them as the world's worst religious freedom violators and human-rights abusers. USCIRF is composed of nine private-sector commissioners and the U.S. ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom, the recently confirmed Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, who gave the keynote
READ MOREWhen Proposition 8 was proposed in California to make marriage between a man and a woman the state's only valid marriage format, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) piled into the political fray in support. They joined Roman Catholics, evangelical Christians, some city governments, and many conservative individuals and groups
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