March/April 2000

Monkey Fever in Kansas 0
- March/April 2000
- March 1, 2000
The Kansas State Board of Education recently decided to demphasize the teaching of evolution in the Kansas public schools. This recharged the ongoing debate across America about the relative merits of evolution and creationism as curricular subjects in the nation's public schools. Evolution is the scientific theory that organisms evolve over time by adopting traits
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Under the Watchful Eye: Free Exercise of Religion in the Home?0
- March/April 2000
- March 1, 2000
The U.S. Constitution does indeed afford students the right to pray while at school, so long as it is not state-sponsored or required. Many advocates of student-led prayer have fought to ensure this right. But who is fighting to ensure the rights of those individual citizens who want to gather in private homes to pray?
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Holy Days Or Holidays?0
- March/April 2000
- March 1, 2000
Recent developments, however, indicate that some churches might be seeking to protect the observance of their holy days by means of civil legislation, even if it means violating the First Amendment. For example, the new Catechism of the Catholic Church explicitly states: "In respecting religious liberty and the common good of all, Christians should seek
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The Case of the Conscientious Policeman 0

Chris Carter was a state policeman-a very good one. He has a sheaf of commendations, awards, and positive media coverage an inch thick. Obviously, he was the kind of officer any law-enforcement agency would want to employ: honest and conscientious. Too honest and conscientious not to obey his deeply held belief that God requires him

Trouble in Paradise 0

The freedom to exercise one's religion is arguably the most precious liberty Americans enjoy. The very first clauses of the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution read: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . ." For more than two centuries this "prohibition" has

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