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Whistlin' Dixie: Part 2 0
- May/June 1998
- November 1, 1998
When this nation or its people are attacked by foreign or domestic enemies or goes to war, such as the bombing in Oklahoma City, Operation Desert Storm, or the Cuban Missile Crisis, this judge will fine or put in jail teachers and students who publicly pray to the Almighty for the protection of this nation
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- November 1, 1998
The Sound and the Fury I was amazed to read in Liberty (March/April 1998, p. 16) that Judge Moore is "promoting religion" by permitting the display of the Ten Commandments and prayer in his courtroom. If this logic follows, then every vestige of our Christian historical nature is in violation of the First Amendment, which
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Obiter 0
- September/October 2000
- November 1, 1998
Whatever its faults (the unreasonable trust in reason, the tendency toward a hypernaturalism, the unwarranted optimism in human progress, the "demythologization" of religion), the Enlight- enment worldview at least included the possibility of knowledge and of truth. The real was deemed rational and, hence, knowable by rational minds. Not only does reality exist, but we
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Iambs And Pentameters 0
- March/April 1999
- November 1, 1998
We wondered what took so long for Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things, to respond to the shellacking he has been receiving in Liberty. Though nothing personal was meant, he and/or his magazine have been mentioned (excoriated?) at least a dozen times in the past few years. What piqued Father Neuhaus enough, however, to
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Hands Off the Offering Plate!0
- November/December 1998
- November 1, 1998
Reverend Richard Steele is not a troublemaker. As the pastor of a church with more than 1,000 members and a budget of $650,000, he hardly has time for controversy. His days are spent comforting troubled souls and preparing next Sunday's sermon. But he's no pushover, either. When, in an effort to recoup its losses, the
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Special Exemptions 0
- November/December 1998
- November 1, 1998
Imagine living in a quiet residential neighborhood when a nearby homeowner (call her Mrs. Campbell) starts running a soup kitchen from her garage. Some neighbors object, fearful that the soup kitchen will increase traffic and attract "undesirables" to the area. They persuade town officials to enforce their zoning ordinance and stop Mrs. Campbell. Mrs. Campbell
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