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Anatomy of a Hate Crime 0
- July/August 2006
- July 1, 2006
The time: November 29, 2005. The place: Sweden's Supreme Court. The person: Pastor Ake Green. The issue: charges that Pastor Green committed a hate crime under Swedish law by preaching against homosexuality. The verdict: acquittal. After intense international pressure and the prospect that a conviction would likely be overturned by the European Court for Human
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Coercion or Conversion 0
- July/August 2006
- July 1, 2006
In a speech to the Notre Dame student body during the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign, New York governor Mario Cuomo addressed the issue of church-state relations and the growing activism of the so-called Religious Right. The governor said: "Are we asking government to make criminal what we believe to be sinful because we ourselves can't
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Liberty and Justice for All…0
- July/August 2006
- July 1, 2006
Glen Greenwood is an environmental specialist in the employ of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). He is also a member of the Board of Elders of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Lancaster, Ohio. For approximately 20 years he has been teaching Sunday school at his church. Glen not only loves God; he cares deeply
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How Noble Experiments Fail 0
- July/August 2006
- July 1, 2006
In 1994 the village of Barrow, Alaska, made a desperate decision. It seems that the harshest polar region in the state, 340 miles north of the Arctic Circle, had a citizenry that was especially prone to binge drinking. Results of this "inebriated disorder" appeared like clockwork on a biweekly basis. The relatively peaceful town would
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State Acknowledgement of God 0
- July/August 2006
- July 1, 2006
In his book So Help Me God former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore, the "Ten Commandments judge," asks: "Can the State Acknowledge God?" Actually, Moore's Ten Commandments crusade is premised on a closely related question: whether the state has an obligation under the first of the Ten Commandments to acknowledge God.
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The Ten Commandments Code 0
- July/August 2006
- July 1, 2006
Well, at least the title caught your attention—a sure thing at a time when everything seems saturated with talk of the Da Vinci Code. Of course Leonardo da Vinci was a known cryptic: his notes were written backward in mirror-image fashion. But the veracity of most of the Code novel is less than dubious. It
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