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Is Nothing Secular?0
- November/December 2000
- November 1, 2000
Whatever else it achieves, the presidential campaign of 2000 will be remembered as the time in American politics when the wall separating church and state began to collapse. George W. Bush set the tone by raising the likelihood of his candidacy after a prayer breakfast and later declaring that his favorite political philosopher was "Christ,
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Sabbath in the Limelight 0
- November/December 2000
- November 1, 2000
While Jews of less intense practice have long served in prominent leadership posts, such as Henry Kissinger, Nixon's secretary of state, Lieberman's arrival on a national ticket inevitably raises questions about how his faith would affect his possible role as vice president, even with the possibility of serving as president. After all, more than a
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Once Upon a First Amendment 0
- November/December 2000
- November 1, 2000
Six-year-old Zachary Hood was happy at this chance to be recognized for his good reading performance. He and the other students in the first-grade class at Haines School in Medford, New Jersey, would be allowed to read a story to their classmates. Zachary initially selected Dr. Suess's The Cat in the Hat, but decided that
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Prayer, Football, and Civil Religion in Texas 0
- November/December 2000
- November 1, 2000
What's up with prayer and football in Texas and across the South? The big issue during the 1999 season was not the sometimes observed prayer in the end zones by players, but prayer over the intercom before games. In midseason the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that would decide whether such prayers
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God of Our Mottoes 0
- November/December 2000
- November 1, 2000
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the famous atheist, tried unsuccessfully before her death to remove "In God We Trust" from currency and to stop jurors from saying "so help me God." Several organizations and Internet Web sites remain dedicated to the banishment of the phrase, but the High Court has not accepted any cases that offer a
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Identity Politics 0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
"If they are but another voice in the crowd, their power comes only from the ability to shout down the others–and they shall never prevail, because after they shout them down, the others will assemble a larger crowd next time and shout them down. And the contest becomes a never-ending struggle for what is presumed
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