Religious Freedom Is About More Than Religion
By Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett
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Quotes Regarding the Judeo-Christian Foundation of the West and the U.S.
A couple of weeks ago Hobby Lobby and its partners publicly demonstrated their Christian faithfulness by purchasing full-page IN GOD WE TRUST ads in local newspapers throughout the nation. The Daily Herald carried their…
Read MoreThe Future of Religious Liberty
An excerpt from an article by Ben Domenech: During the sexual revolution, we crossed a line from sex being something you do to defining who you are. When it enters into that territory, we…
Read MoreImportant Articles from the Witherspoon Institute
Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World & What Can a Modern Philosopher Teach Us About Natural Law? Peonage for the Twenty-First Century Abortion: A Public Issue Conservatives and the Constitution James Stoner: Is There a Moral…
Read MoreReligious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
By Timothy Shah
Read More‘Back Fired: A nation founded for religious tolerance no longer tolerates the religion of its founders’ (Part 4)
We’ve come a long way since the founding era. In his book “Back Fired: A nation founded for religious tolerance no longer tolerates the religion of its founders,” William Federer includes this quote from…
Read More‘Back Fired: A nation founded for religious tolerance no longer tolerates the religion of its founders’ (Part 3)
Reading William Federer’s book “Back Fired: A nation founded for religious tolerance no longer tolerates the religion of its founders,” I was reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address. Federer, like Lincoln in Cooper…
Read MoreSeparation of Church and State: Misinformation and Hypocrisy
By Michael Brown
Read MoreThe Court of Disbelief: The Constitution’s Article VI Religious Test Prohibition and the Judiciary’s Religious Motive Analysis.
By Frank Beckwith
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Moral Neutrality is No Longer a Practical Policy
“My dear Rick, when will you realize that in this world today isolationism is no longer a practical policy?”
~ Said by Signor Ferrari to Richard Blain in the movie “Casablanca”
Read MoreThe National Day of Prayer and the doctrine of “tolerable acknowledgment” (Part 3)
Most governmental acknowledgements of religion are in the form of symbols, like the representation of Moses in the Supreme Court Chamber, or the motto, “In God We Trust,” authorized to be printed on all the currency of the United States. To suggest that this symbol means that the U.S. Treasury Department promotes trust in God is to suggest something that is far-fetched.
Read MoreThe National Day of Prayer and the doctrine of “tolerable acknowledgment” (Part 2)
The Framers minced no words: “The Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Under the newly formed republic there was to be no state church.
Read MoreThe National Day of Prayer and the doctrine of “tolerable acknowledgment” (Part 1)
An old joke fits here: what do you call the person who graduated last in his law school class? “A lawyer.” Sometimes you call them a judge.
Read More‘Gay Rights,’ Religious Liberty Colliding
By Tom Strode
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