November/December 2003

Faith In A Dagger 0
- November/December 2003
- November 1, 2003
Illustration By Sally Wern Comport Depending on whom you ask, Gurbaj Singh is either a victim of religious intolerance or a troublemaker defying his provincial government, school board, and school. In 2001 the then-12-year-old Sikh from Montreal made headlines when he knocked heads with his school, Sainte-Catherine-Laboure, over his wearing a four-inch (10-centimeter) ceremonial dagger,
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What Would A Christian America Look Like?0
- November/December 2003
- November 1, 2003
By Rodney Nelson Illustration By Jack Slattery A few years ago a friend of mine paid my way to a family camp sponsored by the American Heritage Party of Washington State. The AHP was a Washington State chapter of the Constitution Party before leaving several years ago and changing its name to the AHP. While
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State Sunday Laws 0
- November/December 2003
- November 1, 2003
Sunday laws have been a part of the legal landscape of America from the time of European settlement. Nevertheless, because Sunday laws are not generally at the forefront of today's legislative debates and, as currently enforced, create only occasional serious difficulties, their pervasive presence is ignored. However, these laws should be neither dismissed nor treated
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In the case of Newdow v. U.S. Congress the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congress violated the First Amendment to the Constitution when it added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. The Newdow ruling was as controversial as the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, when the

Freedom To Speak 0

In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Pickering v. Board of Education that public school teachers do not forfeit their First Amendment rights to engage in speech that their employer, the school district, might find disagreeable.1 The following year, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the High Court wrote that students

Letters 0

Ends and Means I am greatly dismayed that your response to Mr. Gary Jenson's letter to the editor in the May/June 2002 issue was so restrained and vague. "Rough logic"? Mr. Jenson's logic was fine; it was his suppositions or assumptions that drove his logic that were dangerously flawed. His suggestion that our internment of

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