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Honoring Liberty 0
- September/October 2005
- September 1, 2005
Part of the guest group at the 2005 Religious Liberty Awards Banquet in the Russell Senate Caucus Room Religious liberty is one of the most important issues on the world's agenda today," said United States senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York. She made the case for both freedom of religion and the right
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Incorporation and Religious Freedom 0
- September/October 2005
- September 1, 2005
We're certain we have rights that government must respect: the freedom to say what we want and believe what we wish; to go where we please and keep the company we choose; the right to marry our love, to have children, and to raise them as we see fit. We figure we have a right
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Holy Men 0
- September/October 2005
- September 1, 2005
As we have been told innumerable times since September 11, 2001, "We are at war." If you read most any newspaper most any day you will read tales of horror and carnage and see gratuitous photos of the dead and dying—mostly Iraqis. For a number of reasons, probably well thought out, we don't see many
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Judge Not 0
- September/October 2005
- September 1, 2005
The Reverend Rick Scarborough is a Texas minister with big dreams of the national stage. Welcoming attendees to a recent gathering in Washington, D.C., the stocky ex-college football player said bluntly, "This is perhaps the most important conference in the city of Washington this year." The topic of this momentous occasion wasn't terrorism, the economy,
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Reason for Optimism 0
- September/October 2005
- September 1, 2005
Americans who are curious about such things often ask how the Canadian constitution creates a separation between church and state. In Canada, religious liberty rights are guaranteed in two different sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 2(a) of the charter indicates that everyone has "freedom of conscience and religion." Section 15 provides
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Incident at East Waynesville 0
- September/October 2005
- September 1, 2005
Whatever happened to religious freedom in America? After all, isn't it preaxiomatic that a church has the right to determine for itself what is required for membership? If the free exercise clause means anything, it means that a church should be able to require any kind of belief, no matter how ludicrous. If it wants
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