
“Released Time” programs for students need to be monitored as they get close to the line between separation of church and state.
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Don’t be fooled by the emotional melodrama and rodeo-clown antics of Glenn Beck. He’s a political force as well as a controversial agent of divisiveness. He may seem like a jester that many find difficult to take seriously, but he’s proven himself a master politician as well as a master baiter.
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The Dalai Lama’s suggestion that China should learn religious harmony from India says more about his own political status than about the realities on the ground.
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Despite today’s “founded as a Christian Nation” rhetoric, the American history of separating church and state begins over 100 years before the Revolutionary War.
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President Obama is being subjected to a religious test. Although not part of his formal admission to office, this test is equally offensive, and equally destructive to the country and the principles enshrined in its Constitution.
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The Dalai Lama is suggesting that China learn about religious harmony from India. Let’s hope it doesn’t get the message.
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More and more evangelicals are calling for “prayer and fasting” in hopes their god will intervene in election results.
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In today’s Daily Beast, atheist activist and author Sam Harris takes a page from the Christian Right, declaring Islam a “threat to civil society” and condemning those who would uphold Constitutional principles of freedom of religion and equal protection.
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The fundamental similarities between the Taliban and the Christian fundamentalists behind these campaigns of hate and intolerance cannot be denied. Their differences are superficial at best.
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When it comes to zoning, “equal justice” under “Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act” is a sham.
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