The Constitution in Wartime0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

The Supreme Court and title vii0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

In 1995 Don Reed was fired as an air traffic controller when his religious belief about the Saturday Sabbath came into conflict with the dictates of his employer. For several years Reed had been accommodated in his belief that the Sabbath should be kept sacred by holding a job that required work only during the

The Glorious 108th0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

By James Standish Illustration by Ralph Butler The beginning of a new Congress is somewhat like the birth of a new baby. Like a child, the new Congress is born with the burden of history sitting fairly across its shoulders, it has much of the DNA of the preceding Congress, and it operates in much

French – Anti-Sect Policy Shifting?0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

By John Graz France has been the leader of a very restrictive policy against sects and cults for several years. One man has illustrated this better than anyone else: Alain Vivien! He was already the anti-sect leader when I interviewed him in the 1980s for Conscience et Liberte.#1 At that time he was neither in

Sacked for the Seventh0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

In the United States of America we often use slogans such as "truth, justice, and the American way" (last phrase in the opener for the 1950s television show Superman) and "with liberty and justice for all" (the closing phrase of the Pledge of Allegiance). These idealistic phrases can lull us into believing religious injustice happens

Sex, Lies And Ethics0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

Illustration by Scott Roberts Hardball litigation tactics are neither new nor particularly newsworthy—except when the aggressive litigant claims to represent God on earth. That scenario has driven the recent spate of articles commenting on the Catholic Church's increasingly bare-knuckle legal response to those accusing priests of sexual abuse. Church lawyers have repeatedly counterclaimed against the