So what, exactly, is new or different about President Bush’s much-ballyhooed “faith-based” initiative? At least three things….
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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
Political Evolution
Just when the snickering and bad internet jokes about the Kansas Board of Education were beginning to die down, along come the two leading contenders for the Presidency to demonstrate that they, at least, haven’t evolved. Or perhaps a more…
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New Millennium
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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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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