May/June 2007

A State of Exception 0

The Guantánamo Bay detention centre, set up in January of 2002 at the U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba, has recently seen its fifth anniversary. Established by the U.S. government as an urgent response to terrorism, the detention centre has given rise to allegations of indecent treatment of inmates, religious discrimination, and indeed, torture. Common

Freedom Wings 0

Benjamin Franklin knew a lot about kites and electricity. And he wrote enough pithy sayings to forever confuse them in the mind of the Biblical speed reader with Solomon's opus. But he has come to occupy the comedian's end of the Audubon spectrum for his promotion of the Turkey for National Bird. I still remember

Religious Rights for All 0

Sergeant Patrick Stewart, a 34-year-old decorated American soldier and follower of Wicca, was killed in Afghanistan on September 25, 2005, along with four other soldiers, when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his helicopter. For bravery in the line of fire, all five soldiers were posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Yet while the

Tumults, Riots, and Seditions 0
- May/June 2007
- May 1, 2007
The European wars of religion, which followed the Reformation and raged roughly from the early mid-sixteenth century to the later mid-seventeenth century, were marked by a range of atrocities, all carried out in the name of Christianity. Later generations realized the incongruity and attempted to shift the culpability for the violence to one side or
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The American Government vs. Religion?0
- May/June 2007
- May 1, 2007
A professor of religion at Texas Christian University, Ronald Flowers wrote in his book That Godless Court (Westminster/John Knox) how "In 1962 and 1963, as a reaction to its decision banning school-sponsored prayer in the public schools, the Supreme Court was frequently called 'godless.' Is that a fair representation of the High Court? Or is
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Avoiding Misguided Metaphors 0
- May/June 2007
- May 1, 2007
Even when the U.S. Supreme Court reaches the right result in a matter involving church-state relations, the justices too often do so for the wrong reasons. Cutter v. Wilkinson is illustrative. Handed down in May of 2005, Cutter reversed a lower court that had struck down as unconstitutional the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons
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