Current Events
Islamophobia: Stoking Fears about an American Community
As a country that has long prided itself on representing a superior national enterprise, we must learn from our past. We have not yet taken…
Human Rights
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Civil Rights
Mau-Mauing the Mosque: The dispute over the “Ground Zero mosque” is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance. (Slate)
By Christopher Hitchens Read the full article here: http://www.slate.com/id/2263334 EXCERPTS: The dispute over the construction of an Islami…
Church and State
An Analysis of the Results of the Federal Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Trial
In short, Judge Walker ruled based on the evidence presented, as any trial judge should, and regardless of his own personal sexual orientati…
Free Speech
EDITORIAL: FTC floats Drudge tax
Read the full article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/4/ftc-floats-drudge-tax/ EXCERPT: The ideas being batted around to save…
Civil Rights
Religious leaders denounce Arizona immigration law (BBC)
EXCERPT: June 4, 2010 – Religious leaders in the US and Latin America have denounced Arizona’s controversial new immigration law…
Current Events
High School Sophomores Answer Question “How Would You Feel If Your Religious Freedom Was Taken Away?”
As their final assignment for the play, I had students respond to the question, “How would you feel if your religious freedom was taken away…
Employment Law
Workplace Religious Freedom Bill Finds Revived Interest (Religion News Service)
EXCERPT: May 5, 2010 – WASHINGTON (RNS) — More than a decade after it was first introduced, an on-again off-again bill to protec…
Church and State
Michael Newdow – Question to Justice Scalia: Does the Establishment Clause Permit the Disregard of Devout Catholics?
Dr. Michael Newdow, an attorney and physician famous for his litigation on church-state issues from an atheist perspective, and and previous…
Current Events
Gendercide: China’s shameful massacre of unborn girls means there will soon be 30m more men than women (Daily Mail)
EXCERPT: By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in this giant empire, so large and so different…