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The Inequality of the Equality Act 0
- November/December 2019
- November 1, 2019
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which publishes Liberty, has endorsed the Fairness for All Act’s balanced, principled approach to the ongoing conflict between religious freedom and LGBT rights. On May 17, 2019, with a wide majority, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act (HR 5). For advocates of the legislation, this first-step victory had
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Natural Laws?0
- November/December 2019
- November 1, 2019
Several states have recently passed anti-abortion laws, or laws that severely restrict women’s ability to obtain an abortion. In advancing them, legislators have claimed they are representing the wishes of their constituents; but their public comments reveal a religious motive. One legislator even claimed that God told him to introduce restrictive anti-abortion legislation in Florida.
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Incorporated Religion Balancing the Risks 0
- November/December 2019
- November 1, 2019
Few would doubt the benefits that religious organizations have enjoyed from operating within the legal system that has developed in the modern Western world. Religious organizations not only have unprecedented liberty but also can access an array of legal structures in order to carry out their activities more effectively. However, at the very beginning the
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Godless Faith 0
- November/December 2019
- November 1, 2019
When the American Atheists organization attempted to set up a booth at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, not even their fervent support of limited government could secure them a spot. Brent Bozzel III, whose father asserted, along with his best friend, William F. Buckley, that the nation was founded on Christian principles, summed up
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Stare Decisis Revisited 0
- September/October 2019
- September 1, 2019
These are not normal times. We seem to be living through times the Pauline prediction that “what can be shaken will be shaken” (see Hebrews 12:27). I use a Bible text advisedly, because so many people of faith seem to have committed themselves to shaking the system of secular laws to bring about moral renewal.
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Those Who Are Champions 0
- September/October 2019
- September 1, 2019
Any member of Congress’ door should be open to the values and views of religious liberty. I get excited about religious freedom. We should be able to stand on the guard of human rights and religious liberty all day long, every day of the year, to prevent people from losing their lives: from losing their
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