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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Religious Liberty</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>God and Caesar</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/god-and-caesar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his regular Monday e-letter today, noted theologian Martin Marty tackles the recent uproar over HHS regulations requiring religious institutions—including charities, hospitals and schools&#8211;to provide health insurance to their employees that covers some procedures with which their church and members disagree. He notes that this sort of conflict between government rule making and religious dogma is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question for the Godly</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/a-question-for-the-godly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently reported on a town clerk in upstate New York who was refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite passage of the recent New York law recognizing such unions. She cited evangelical Christianity as a bar against performing her official duties. “For me to participate in the same-sex marriage application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pathetic Policy Discourse</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/pathetic-policy-discourse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of examples of what happens when those making policy don&#8217;t know what they are talking about, but here&#8217;s one that just annoys the hell out of me every time it comes up. The New York legislature is preparing to vote on whether the state will recognize same-sex marriage. The Times reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitution 101</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/05/constitution-101/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/05/constitution-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, the American Constitution Center conducted a poll to assess the country’s constitutional literacy, and drew a depressing conclusion: Americans revere the Constitution, but have virtually no idea what it says or means.  If that conclusion seems a bit “over the top,” consider some of the more indignant reactions to two recent court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose America? Whose Values?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2007/07/whose-america-whose-values/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2007/07/whose-america-whose-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#160; Sessions of Congress begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not So Goode</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/12/not-so-goode/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/12/not-so-goode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#160; &#160; They clearly did not envision Representative Virgil Goode. &#160; There has been quite a reaction to Representative Goode’s letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suing City Hall</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/04/suing-city-hall/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/04/suing-city-hall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rue-minations</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/12/rue-minations/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/12/rue-minations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1990s, the National Constitution Center surveyed national attitudes and beliefs about the Constitution and Bill of Rights. They concluded that Americans &#8220;revere&#8221; the Constitution&#8212;and have virtually no idea what&#8217;s in it.&#160; &#160; I frequently find myself thinking about that study, because it goes a long way toward explaining why many of our public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Twilight Zone</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/10/welcome-to-the-twilight-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/10/welcome-to-the-twilight-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#160; Such a proposal has been offered&#8212;presumably, with a straight face&#8212;by Indiana State Senator Pat Miller, the author and sponsor of a measure entitled (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Religion</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/08/texas-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/08/texas-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a free country, who gets to decide what religion is? Issues of church and state can be difficult. Even people of tolerance and goodwill often disagree over the application of the First Amendment&#8217;s religion clauses in this or that context, while people who are totally invested in particular religious doctrines routinely try to rewrite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fostering True Religious Freedom</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/05/fostering-true-religious-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/05/fostering-true-religious-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#34;America&#8217;s Religious Cleansing&#34; by Keith Fournier, the thesis is that &#34;secularists&#34; are engaged in &#34;religious cleansing,&#34; which Fournier defines as an attempt to drive religion out of public life.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith-Based Parks</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/04/faith-based-parks/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/04/faith-based-parks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even ardent defenders of the First Amendment?s Religion Clauses will concede that we encounter all kinds of gray areas when we are trying to keep government and religion in their proper, respective places. For example, if church-state separation means anything, it means tax dollars cannot pay the salaries of clergy?but what about in time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Harry</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/01/dirty-harry/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/01/dirty-harry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political circus in California has been temporarily eclipsed by the one in Alabama, where Judge Roy Moore is currently playing his own version of Terminator by ferociously attacking the rule of law. The political circus in California has been temporarily eclipsed by the one in Alabama, where Judge Roy Moore is currently playing his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That New Time Religion</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2004/12/that-new-time-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2004/12/that-new-time-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am old enough to remember when my religious beliefs and practices were my business, not because bad church-state separationists wanted to &#34;exclude religion from the public square&#34; as the right-wingers like to charge, but because we were taught that respect for the equal rights of others was an important American value. Am I the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching Charitable Choice</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2004/03/researching-charitable-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we began our study in 1999, it was a relatively obscure academic inquiry triggered by my research interest in the constitutional and policy dimensions of privatization. Then George W. Bush became President, and his Faith-Based Initiative became a centerpiece of the domestic policy agenda, and our academic study was suddenly in the cross-hairs of [...]]]></description>
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