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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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
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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Flouting the Constitution
Recently, the Hendricks County Commissioners voted to hang the Ten Commandments in the Rotunda of the County Government Building.
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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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