In a free country, who gets to decide what religion is?
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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
Fostering True Religious Freedom
In "America’s Religious Cleansing" by Keith Fournier, the thesis is that "secularists" are engaged in "religious cleansing," which Fournier defines as an attempt to drive religion out of public life.
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Faith-Based Parks
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 war? When government deploys American troops, shouldn?t we make religious personnel available to our soldiers, even if it is at taxpayer expense?
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Dirty Harry
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.
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That New Time Religion
I am old enough to remember when my religious beliefs and practices were my business, not because bad church-state separationists wanted to "exclude religion from the public square" 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.
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