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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- March 1, 1997
Chewed Out! Your article "Consenting Adults" (March/April) has nothing to do with the separation of church and state. These moral issues come under the rightful domain of civil law. If a place such as the sex club referred to in this piece is a legal business, its existence makes socially destructive behavior appear common and
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Iambs And Pentameters 0
- March/April 1999
- March 1, 1997
Alabama Governor Fob James Jr. recently made national news when he threatened to call out the state National Guard in order to ensure that a copy of the Ten Commandments remains on a courtroom wall. "I will use all legal means at my disposal," the state's highest official said, "which includes the National Guard and
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Iambs And Pentameters 0
- March/April 1999
- March 1, 1997
Thank the Lord for that, especially now as Congress is again faced with another sorrowfully misleading proposal to undo Establishment Clause protections. Misnamed the Religious Freedom Amendment, the proposal (also known as the Ishtook Amendment) reads: "To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: The people's right to pray
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Free Exercises?0
- July/August 1997
- March 1, 1997
In 1984 drug counselor Alfred Smith was fired for ingesting peyote in a religious ceremony for a Native American Church ritual. Though as early as 1964 the California Supreme Court noted the significance of peyote to that church's religious practices,1 the State of Oregon denied Mr. Smith unemployment compensation because "the state's interest in proscribing
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Editorial 0
- July/August 2002
- March 1, 1997
Though U.S. Supreme Court briefs are rarely noted for prosody or style (who confuses Macbeth with McCollum or Lycidas with Lemon?), occasionally a phrase or section achieves popular renown. The most recent example is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's immortalized words in Casey: "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's
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The Price of Faith 0
- March/April 1997
- March 1, 1997
In May 1991 a rental car that Gwendolyn Robbins' father was driving in upstate New York skidded, plunged down an embankment, and overturned. Both her parents were killed, and Robbins, 55, was severely injured. She was rushed to nearby Glens Fall Hospital, where her condition was so critical – chest injuries, a fractured right femur,
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