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Supreme Court Finds for Freedom of Religious Speech
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous 9-0 decision, affirmed the right of churches and religious organizations to freedom of speech in public places.
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Supreme Court Finds in Favor of High School Coach Prayer. Should Minority Religions Worry?
Though the Supreme Court may have banged the gavel and closed the book on the case, the court of public opinion has not. Far from it.
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of a Prisoner’s Right to Free Exercise of Religion
Maintaining religious freedom in prisons isn’t simply a matter of law, or principle, but of humanity and hope.
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Talk Versus Action
Dr. Ganoune Diop, director of public affairs and religious freedom for the worldwide Seventh-Day Adventist Church, recently gave a beautiful keynote address at the opening of a religious freedom training center in France.
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Teaching About Religion vs. Teaching Religion—What Is and Isn’t Constitutional
A federal judge dismissed a suit by Libby Hilsenrath, a New Jersey mother who claimed that a seventh-grade social studies course entitled “World Cultures and Geography,” which includes information on all of the world’s religions, attempted to indoctrinate students in the Islamic faith.
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Tell Someone. And Get Them to Tell Someone Else.
It has been said that if one person told someone about something, and then the next day that second person told someone else, and then they each told someone else—just one person sharing that thing with another person every day—then within six years every person in the world would know about it.
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The Cult Recipe
I actually saw this question in an online forum the other day: “If I wanted to start my own cult, how would I do it?” Now to begin with, the word “cult” is simply a pejorative word for some group the person using it doesn't like.
The Founders’ Creator—Islam, the First Amendment and Religious Freedom
Imam Mohammed was asked: “How do I serve my country?” His answer: “I serve my country as a citizen of this country, as a believer in Almighty God.”
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The Insidious Government Suppression of Religion
This situation has gotten so bad that there are now law firms that specialize in defending churches’ rights against suppressive government zoning boards, and these law firms make enough to stay in business just combating government suppression of religion.
The Origins of Our First Amendment—the Province of Religion Versus the State
As difficult as some of these cases may be, courts have usually sided with the church and with the Lockean ideas. The church, not the state, distinguishes between human actions based on their religious motivation or lack thereof.
