Recently, the Hendricks County Commissioners voted to hang the Ten Commandments in the Rotunda of the County Government Building.
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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
A New Entitlement
There has rarely been a more misnamed proposal that the so-called "Religious Freedom" amendment to the Constitution being promoted by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and other House members.
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Trivializing Prayer
The recurring debate concerning government sponsored prayer must rank among the least edifying of public conversations, and that is regrettable because the issue of governments proper role in our lives is truly the issue of our time.
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Ten commandments
I suppose it was only a matter of time until Indiana became embroiled in one of the more recent church-state controversies: the movement to post the Ten Commandments on the walls of courtrooms and government buildings throughout the country.
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Indiana, Bastian of Liberalism
It’s nice to be back in (comparatively) liberal Indiana. Yes, you read that right. Let me explain. For the last seventeen years, my husband and I have vacationed each July on a beach in South Carolina. The part of the state we visit is filled with tourists from elsewhere, so we rarely get a true taste of…
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