Religious Liberty
Whose America? Whose Values?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on July 15th, 2007
What with the charges and counter-charges about the war in
Iraq, the use—actually, abuse—of Executive Privilege, and locally, the uproar over property taxes, this little tidbit hasn’t gotten much ink. But it is a telling indicator of the wildly different definition of the term “American values” held by today’s citizens.
Sessions of Congress begin with a [...]
Continue reading...Not So Goode
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on December 24th, 2006
When James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the rest of the Founders devised our system of representative democracy, they envisioned a system where persons—okay, men—of temperance, substance and education would hold public office.
They clearly did not envision Representative Virgil Goode.
There has been quite a reaction to Representative Goode’s letter decrying the election of [...]
Continue reading...Suing City Hall
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on April 3rd, 2006
John Hostettler, the always entertaining Congressman from
Indiana’s Eighth District, is again promoting legislation to repeal what he calls a “loophole” in the law. That “loophole” allows recovery of reasonable legal fees by people who successfully sue government for violating their religious liberties. Hostettler calls his bill “anti-ACLU” legislation—as though the First Amendment and the [...]
Rue-minations
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on December 7th, 2005
In the mid-1990s, the National Constitution Center surveyed national attitudes and beliefs about the Constitution and Bill of Rights. They concluded that Americans “revere” the Constitution—and have virtually no idea what’s in it.
I frequently find myself thinking about that study, because it goes a long way toward explaining why many of our public [...]
Continue reading...Welcome to the Twilight Zone
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on October 5th, 2005
Sometimes, in their zeal to ensure that gays remain second-class citizens, legislators produce proposals so breathtakingly wacko that you have to wonder whether you have wandered into an alternate universe.
Such a proposal has been offered—presumably, with a straight face—by Indiana State Senator Pat Miller, the author and sponsor of a measure entitled (and I [...]
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