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Without Shelter 0
- November/December 1998
- November 1, 1998
In 1991 the archbishop of San Antonio was denied a permit to enlarge St. Peter's Catholic Church in Boerne, Texas. The archbishop's challenge of the denial led to City of Boerne v. Flores, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993. As a result, the
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Rules to Live By 0
- November/December 1998
- November 1, 1998
Baseball and advertising are two of America's most popular activities, so when California businessman Edward Di Loreto–a strong financial supporter of local schools and colleges for decades–was solicited to buy advertising space along the outfield fence of the Downey High School baseball field, he didn't hesitate to write a check. But when the 83-year-old philanthropist
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Inducted!0
- November/December 1998
- November 1, 1998
One afternoon in the late 1950s, while helping my mother tidy up our rural Baptist church in the Missouri Ozarks, I came across a packet of tracts on separation of church and state published by an organization called Americans United for Separation for Church and State. I was very young, and I asked my mother
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Protecting Free Exercise 0
- September/October 1999
- November 1, 1998
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's invalidation of RFRA, Congress is considering legislation (The Religious Liberty Protection Act) that would once again enable religious believers and institutions to challenge, in court, government interference with religious practice. Under this bill, believers could obtain exemptions, or accommodations, if the government lacks a sufficiently strong justification
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 1998
Prayer Warriors Your May/June issue is very stimulating, interesting, and witty. Since the feature story is "Alabama's Religious War," you can imagine how I immediately focussed on that. Thanks for championing the civil rights issues! And be sure to give the person or persons who design your covers a special award. I think that your
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Iambs And Pentameters 0
- March/April 1999
- September 1, 1998
APRES CA, LE DELUGE In what supporters have called a "major psychic boost to the school choice movement," the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a voucher program that allows tax money to pay for private religious education. Though a lower court had previously ruled that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program was unconstitutional (a decision upheld at
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