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- February 6, 2015
Does religion promote freedom and tolerance? It is a question that might be asked by any observer of the rioting that has followed publication of cartoons in Denmark that offend Muslims worldwide. It is a question the United States government must be asking itself. After all, a linchpin of the war on terrorism has been
READ MOREBehind closed doors at a Religious Right strategy session in Washington, D.C., last spring, James Dobson sounded more like a hardball political operator than a Christian family counselor. Impatient with President George W. Bush and Republican congressional leaders for failing to move quickly enough on the Religious Right's agenda, Dobson issued a pointed directive. "We
READ MOREStories of religious disestablishment in America usually revolve around discussion of the origins and meaning of the establishment clause of the federal Constitution. But the story of disestablishment, at least in the early Republic, was much more a state-centered event. This is true for the simple fact that the First Amendment did not originally apply
READ MOREAmid all the activity of a turbulent year, many missed the March 3, 2005, filing of the Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 (CRA) in both houses of Congress (S. 520 and H.R. 1070). If enacted, the CRA would effectively turn the United States into a theocracy, in which the arbitrary dictates of God—as interpreted or
READ MOREIt was the "momentous question" that "awakened" and "terrified" Thomas Jefferson, like a "fire bell in the night." Jefferson considered it the "knell of the union." The "question" at issue was ostensibly that of slavery. Jefferson wrote about his nocturnal fright in 1819 and related it to the conflict around the Tallmadge Amendment, which sought
READ MOREHas order been restored to the Supreme Court with the appointment of legal wunderkind John Roberts, and Samuel Alito an associate justice? After talk of the Nuclear Option, his easy confirmation seemed like the end of the cold war. The relatively collegial grilling of Judge Samuel Alito—the justice described as filling Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes—also
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