My husband and I are friends with a couple who are raising his two sons by a former marriage. They live an average suburban life. Their house is on a wooded acre with swings and slides for the kids in the back yard. They drive soccer and baseball carpools with their neighbors, and worry about balancing their careers and the…
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Defaming Faith Communities
Last year, voters in the state of Maine endorsed a law barring discrimination against gays. On February 10th of this year, in a single-issue referendum, they narrowly repealed that measure.
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Handbook on Religion and the Public Schools
This handbook was developed with the help of IU Law professor Alex Tanford while I was at the ICLU, and was subsequently distributed to all members by the Indiana School Superintendents Association. It is an attempt to explain the operation of the religion clauses in the public school context, and is intended to be an accurate reflection of the law, not as advocacy for or against any particular interpretation.
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Defining “Big” Government
It is fashionable these days for candidates of every party and persuasion to laud smaller government, but smaller is not necessarily less bossy. The issue is less the size and cost of government — important as that is — but how intrusive it shall be
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Morality & Campaign Rhetoric
It is campaign season and once again, the politics of abortion are taking center stage. To those who see no ambiguities, who condemn every abortion no matter what the circumstances, the issue is simple: right…
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