When I was growing up in Anderson, Indiana, it was not unusual to be called "dirty Jew" or "kike" by a young classmate who had obviously gotten the terminology at home. After one such incident, when I ran home crying, my mother said something I never forgot….
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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
Defending Parental Rights
Among the most precious rights of parenthood is our right to raise our children in accordance with our own religious beliefs, free of government interference. Clergy are usually among the fiercest defenders of that right. Ministers and rabbis are more…
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Do Unto Others
On a recent trip to South Carolina, I found passions engaged over a proposal by a member of the State Board of Education to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms.
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Silence is Golden
The phones began to ring at the Indiana Civil Liberties Union immediately following the announcement that public schools in Pendleton were instituting a "moment of silence." Members of the media clearly anticipated controversy–and were just as…
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A Delicate Balance
We live in a political environment that rewards those with short, snappy solutions to all society’s problems. Proponents of competing ideologies evidently see no shades of gray; appreciation of ambiguity is an endangered talent. Public dialogue has…
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