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- February 6, 2015
Without freedom of religious expression, no discussion of life’s fundamental questions—&”What is the meaning of life?&” and &”What are my rights and obligations?&”— is complete, a United States congressman said at this year’s Religious Liberty Dinner. &”It is my hope that the ‘marketplace of ideas’ always allows space for faith and religion—not to dominate, not
READ MOREThe way President Barack Obama sees things, Americans should be able to find unity in prayer—even if they disagree on the details of faith and politics. That’s true in the current debates about health care, poverty, and even gay marriage, he said at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast. &”Surely we can agree to find common
READ MOREIt wasn’t supposed to work like this. An atheist organization filed a lawsuit earlier in the year challenging the National Day of Prayer as a violation of the establishment clause. The hope was that, if the organization won, the suit wouldn’t be challenged by the Obama administration. After all, a liberal democratic president (a &”socialist,&”
READ MOREI hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern Inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division. —The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, quoted in Great Quotations on Religious Freedom, compiled and edited by Albert J. Menendez and
READ MOREGötterdämmerung or Morte d’Arthur? Pardon my German and French—the significance is in the works of art they represent, not the languages. But first let me remark on the incredible events of May 6, 2010. We have been living in a financial house of cards since September 2008. We have become used to increasing unemployment, foreclosure
READ MOREThere is much religious intolerance in this new, twenty-first century. This is the tale of religious intolerance in an obscure country in East Africa called Eritrea. After fighting for its own freedom from Ethiopia for more than 30 years, this Marxist regime has forced a peace-loving community of Christians to become little more than aliens
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