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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 unconscionable measures against our Muslim citizens and must avoid doing so at all costs. As our history indicates, our Constitutional values may well be at stake when we fear and […]
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Church and State
Constitution
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Government, Religion, and a Mythical Past
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Karen Scott
- June 1, 2008
- America
- bill of rights
- Civil Rights
- criminal law
- Due Process Clause
- Establishment Clause
- founders
- historical revisionism
- learning from the past
- national heritage
- polygamy
- religious discrimination
- religious harassment
- Roger Williams
- Separation of Church and State
- Spectrum Magazine
- Ten Commandments
- thought crime
- Tibet
- Walt Pontynen
- War
- workers' rights
- World
By Karen Scott, Walt Pontynen, and Leigh Johnson In this article, originally published in Spectrum in 2002, the authors discuss the intent of the founders of the United States and how historical revisionism obscures our national heritage. (Re-posted with Permission.) AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER and poet George Santayana (1863-1952) wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are […]
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