In a free country, citizens will always debate matters of public policy and the proper interpretation of the laws. This is as it should be; the clash of ideas and beliefs, the "marketplace of ideas" is precisely what the founders of this nation wanted to…
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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
Inconsistencies
Most of us profess to admire people of principle, but that admiration is often distressingly abstract. In real life, people who stand on principle are likely to find that they have stepped into the line of everyone’s fire.
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Religious Voices and the Public Square
Recently, the Indianapolis Star invited readers to comment on the propriety of religious voices engaging in the public debate. To ask the question is to answer it: on what conceivable basis would we bar people of faith from the public square? Even if the Constitution allowed such a thing — and it does not — our public discourse…
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An Honest Look at the Ten Commandments Issue
If I believed passionately that everyone would be better off for reading the Ten Commandments, what would I do?…
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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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