http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/gay-marriage%e2%80%94nothing-new-under-the-sun/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/gay-marriage%e2%80%94nothing-new-under-the-sun/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 19:00:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134620 Catholic World Report: Gay marriage and homosexuality were part of the moral landscape faced by the first Christians in Ancient Rome . . . We can see, then, that Christians face nothing new in regard to the push for gay marriage. In fact, it is something quite old, and represents a return to the pagan views of sexuality that dominated the Roman Empire into which Christianity was born. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/gay-marriage%e2%80%94nothing-new-under-the-sun/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/david-e-steinberg-the-myth-of-church-state-separation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/david-e-steinberg-the-myth-of-church-state-separation/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:44:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134226 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/david-e-steinberg-the-myth-of-church-state-separation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/georgia-azerbaijan-restore-full-monastery-access/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/georgia-azerbaijan-restore-full-monastery-access/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 16:23:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134180 AP: Pilgrims to one of former Soviet Georgia's most renowned monasteries, part of which lies in Azerbaijan, are again able to visit the entire complex after an agreement between the countries' border police. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/georgia-azerbaijan-restore-full-monastery-access/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/michael-medved-banning-crosses-erases-history/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/michael-medved-banning-crosses-erases-history/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:32:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133805 DelmarvaNow: A simmering controversy surrounding the "Ground Zero Cross" exposes the intolerance and absolutism behind ongoing battles over religious symbols on public property. Contrary to popular belief, it's not Christian conservatives who normally start these bitter disputes. It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the long-standing status quo ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/michael-medved-banning-crosses-erases-history/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/pm-blair-warned-not-to-say-%e2%80%98god-bless-britain%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/pm-blair-warned-not-to-say-%e2%80%98god-bless-britain%e2%80%99/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:08:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133742 Christian Institute: When Tony Blair was Prime Minister, his officials warned him not to end one of his speeches with the words “God bless Britain”. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/pm-blair-warned-not-to-say-%e2%80%98god-bless-britain%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/how-protestantism-redefined-marriage-huffington-post/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/how-protestantism-redefined-marriage-huffington-post/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 19:10:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133724 Huffington Post: It wasn't until the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century that the recording of marriages and establishing of rules for marriage became a function of the state. Martin Luther, the Catholic priest who initiated the Reformation in Germany said that marriage was a "worldly thing ... that belongs to the realm of government." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/how-protestantism-redefined-marriage-huffington-post/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/dream-act-students-congressmen-sue-to-stop-senate-filibuster/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/dream-act-students-congressmen-sue-to-stop-senate-filibuster/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:03:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133707 Washington Times: Illegal immigrant students and members of the House sued the Senate this week to try to overturn the upper chamber’s filibuster rule, arguing that the 60-vote supermajority requirement violates the Constitution and is blocking important legislation such as legalization for illegal immigrants. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/dream-act-students-congressmen-sue-to-stop-senate-filibuster/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/congress-to-consider-bill-adding-fdr-prayer-to-wwii-memorial/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/congress-to-consider-bill-adding-fdr-prayer-to-wwii-memorial/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 18:38:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133572 Christian Post: A bill that would add a display of the prayer that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued for the D-Day invasion of World War II was introduced in the Senate Thursday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/congress-to-consider-bill-adding-fdr-prayer-to-wwii-memorial/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/metaxas-what-would-bonhoeffer-do/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/metaxas-what-would-bonhoeffer-do/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 17:23:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133435 Breakpoint: Yesterday I read an article about a street preacher arrested in a northern English village. His crime? When responding to a woman's question, he listed homosexual behavior among a list of things contrary to the Word of God. He wasn't combative or loud, but a nearby policeman -- who happened to be gay -- overheard him and the preacher, a Baptist in his early forties, was promptly arrested for causing "harassment, alarm or distress" contrary to Section 5 of the Public Order Act. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/metaxas-what-would-bonhoeffer-do/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/ga-governor-nathan-deal-signs-amended-historical-display-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/ga-governor-nathan-deal-signs-amended-historical-display-law/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:41:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133223 Christian Newswire: Yesterday afternoon (May 7, 2012) Georgia Governor Nathan Deal held a bill signing ceremony for HB 766. The new law amends a 2006 law that allowed the posting of 9 historical documents, including a copy of the Ten Commandments, in Courthouses. The new law allows "The Foundations of American Law & Government Display" to be posted in 'all' public buildings! ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/ga-governor-nathan-deal-signs-amended-historical-display-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/historic-california-spanish-mission-vandalized-artifacts-damaged/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/historic-california-spanish-mission-vandalized-artifacts-damaged/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 14:58:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133129 AP: The Roman Catholic Parish of Holy Cross is the home of Mission Santa Cruz founded in 1791. It's the 12th link in the chain of 21 Franciscan missions . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/historic-california-spanish-mission-vandalized-artifacts-damaged/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/why-colleges-dont-teach-the-federalist-papers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/why-colleges-dont-teach-the-federalist-papers/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 16:16:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133016 Wall Street Journal (subscription required): At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/why-colleges-dont-teach-the-federalist-papers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/natl-day-of-prayers-focus-one-nation-under-god/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/natl-day-of-prayers-focus-one-nation-under-god/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 21:46:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132849 One News Now: "Our founders knew that as they were laying the foundations of this nation that they had to remind Americans that we need to give bended knee to almighty God, that we do not have accumulative wisdom sufficient to navigate the challenges of our day, that we need God's direction and guidance for all leaders within all centers of influence and power in America," the vice chair asserts. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/natl-day-of-prayers-focus-one-nation-under-god/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/lessons-from-byzantium/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/lessons-from-byzantium/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 21:24:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132839 National Review: The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons. Understanding some of the fatal weaknesses in the Eastern Roman Empire may help clarify the political and economic problems that America faces today and the choices we have in responding to them. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/lessons-from-byzantium/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/evangelicals-and-politics-the-way-forward/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/evangelicals-and-politics-the-way-forward/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 16:45:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132796 Public Discourse: Virtuous citizenship requires building moral consensus across religious and cultural divides. The third in a three-part series . . . Yet the most important word is build. Moral consensus does not come easily to human communities. Whenever it is not being intentionally built up, it deteriorates. (Bush’s error was a failure to recognize this.) Yet because God’s grace remains active throughout creation and his law is written on all human hearts, moral consensus does emerge when we work to build it. (Failure to recognize this was the twentieth-century model’s error.) The natural human processes of reason, history, culture, and socialization are enabled by providential grace to be vehicles for producing moral consensus. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/evangelicals-and-politics-the-way-forward/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/evangelicals-and-politics-the-hundred-years%e2%80%99-war/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/evangelicals-and-politics-the-hundred-years%e2%80%99-war/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132572 Public Discourse: The legacy of the great Protestant schism a century ago continues to hinder evangelicals from finding satisfactory ways to participate in America’s civic order. The first in a three-part series. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/evangelicals-and-politics-the-hundred-years%e2%80%99-war/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/eliot-spitzer-originalist-sin/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/eliot-spitzer-originalist-sin/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:24:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132482 Slate: A brilliant article shows that the Founding Fathers not only supported mandates, they passed laws imposing them. Take that, Scalia! ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/eliot-spitzer-originalist-sin/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/will-pastors-risk-tax-free-status-to-help-save-america%e2%80%94calling-black-robe-regiment-ii/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/will-pastors-risk-tax-free-status-to-help-save-america%e2%80%94calling-black-robe-regiment-ii/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:18:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132441 Canada Free Press: But today, American Believers languish in a ghetto assembled for anyone suggesting religion should influence public policy. Yet, as our currency reveals, previously such influences were assumed. If our forebears were under the same secularist strictures seen today, the early West would have never escaped mediocrity . . . There are federal sanctions for American pastors preaching on political issues. The Alliance Defense Fund describes IRS rule against political preaching . . . The Alliance Defense Fund is calling for a Pulpit Freedom Sunday where pastors talk specifically about political issues, in rejection of IRS rules. Writes the Christian Science Monitor . . . Ironically, ADF reports no church has ever lost its tax exempt status over the rule, and yet hundreds of thousands of pastors are cowed into silence every week by such fears . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/will-pastors-risk-tax-free-status-to-help-save-america%e2%80%94calling-black-robe-regiment-ii/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/from-sacrament-to-contract-marriage-religion-and-law-in-the-western-tradition/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/from-sacrament-to-contract-marriage-religion-and-law-in-the-western-tradition/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:53:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132010 Library of Law and Liberty (includes audio): In this new installment of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with renowned legal historian John Witte the recent reissuing of his classic work From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition. I discuss with Professor Witte the evolution of marriage law since the late Roman Empire and the pivotal aspects of the religious, public, and legal duties that were attendant upon marriage in the Roman law and Canon law traditions ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/from-sacrament-to-contract-marriage-religion-and-law-in-the-western-tradition/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/1-hour-human-events-interview-uncommon-knowledge-pat-buchanan-on-suicide-of-a-superpower/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/1-hour-human-events-interview-uncommon-knowledge-pat-buchanan-on-suicide-of-a-superpower/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:33:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131990 here. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/1-hour-human-events-interview-uncommon-knowledge-pat-buchanan-on-suicide-of-a-superpower/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/supreme-court-is-political-by-design/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/supreme-court-is-political-by-design/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:03:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131930 Philadelphia Inquirer: But, unfortunately for the president, the justices have an incentive to defer to sitting House majorities, not the majorities that enacted the laws being considered. A defeated party can expect little sympathy from the court for its past policy victories. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/supreme-court-is-political-by-design/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/heritage-foundation-do-you-know-what-the-constitution-really-means/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/heritage-foundation-do-you-know-what-the-constitution-really-means/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:57:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131928 Heritage Foundation: You can learn about everything from impeachment to declarations of war, the oath of office to the Electoral College, the powers of Congress, the President and the Supreme Court, and everything else in between. Here are some other features in this great new resource . . . ConstitutionOnline.com ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/heritage-foundation-do-you-know-what-the-constitution-really-means/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/michael-stokes-paulsen-the-unprecedented-extraordinary-anti-democratic-activist-power-of-judicial-review/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/michael-stokes-paulsen-the-unprecedented-extraordinary-anti-democratic-activist-power-of-judicial-review/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:03:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131818 Public Discourse: President Obama’s recent quips about “judicial activism” do not amount to arguments. They are shallow sloganeering. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/michael-stokes-paulsen-the-unprecedented-extraordinary-anti-democratic-activist-power-of-judicial-review/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/daniel-henninger-obama-2012-is-channeling-the-ghost-of-franklin-d-roosevelt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/daniel-henninger-obama-2012-is-channeling-the-ghost-of-franklin-d-roosevelt/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:42:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131532 Wall Street Journal: The differences between America in 1936 and America 76 years later hardly matter. In a time of genuine economic anxiety, as now, Team Obama has chosen a plausible strategy: During tough times, the government will be there for you. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/daniel-henninger-obama-2012-is-channeling-the-ghost-of-franklin-d-roosevelt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/the-decline-of-american-monuments-and-memorials/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/the-decline-of-american-monuments-and-memorials/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:20:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131512 Hillsdale Imprimis: Third, we can remember that greatness is possible. For more than a century and a half, we built monuments with spectacular success. We have only been building them badly for a generation. I look at these recent designs, which are perhaps an honest reflection of our divided and uncertain culture, and can’t help but think we can do better once more. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/the-decline-of-american-monuments-and-memorials/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/religion-or-history-court-will-decide-in-narrows-high-schools-ten-commandments-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/religion-or-history-court-will-decide-in-narrows-high-schools-ten-commandments-case/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:16:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130966 Roanoke.com: Ever since the Giles County School Board voted 3-2 to put the Ten Commandments back in Narrows High School, members supporting the display have taken pains to point out that it's just one part of a collection of historical documents. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/religion-or-history-court-will-decide-in-narrows-high-schools-ten-commandments-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/video-eric-metaxas-on-bonhoeffer-the-church-and-politics-acton-institute/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/video-eric-metaxas-on-bonhoeffer-the-church-and-politics-acton-institute/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:05:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130945 Acton Institute Power Blog (includes video): Eric Metaxas, author of the recently published biography Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, sat down with the Alliance Defense Fund to speak on the role of the church in public policy and how Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s example is especially relevant today. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/video-eric-metaxas-on-bonhoeffer-the-church-and-politics-acton-institute/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/why-progressives-like-president-obama-loathe-judicial-review/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/why-progressives-like-president-obama-loathe-judicial-review/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:58:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130762 Forbes: Mr. Obama’s legal reference to Lochner is apt, but ridiculous too, given his fear that SCOTUS may scotch ObamaCare. In Lochner v. New York (1905) the Court rightly jettisoned a state regulatory scheme that violated commercial rights; yet that was the last it so ruled. Thereafter, and especially after being intimidated by FDR and his thuggish New-Dealers in the 1930s, the Court dropped its obligation to uphold economic and property rights. In effect the Court denied what the Founders had earlier argued; that liberty is indivisible, that violations of economic liberty eventually spilled over into violations of civil liberty. The Founders were right. After 80 years of losing our commercial liberties – losses that Obama only applauds – perhaps Americans are starting to glimpse the loss of their civil liberties too. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/why-progressives-like-president-obama-loathe-judicial-review/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/ross-douthat-divided-by-god-ny-times/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/ross-douthat-divided-by-god-ny-times/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:53:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130681 NY Times: Instead, we’re a nation of heretics in which most people still associate themselves with Christianity but revise its doctrines as they see fit, and nobody can agree on even the most basic definitions of what Christian faith should mean. This diversity is not necessarily a strength . . . In a nation as religiously diverse as ours, a staunchly orthodox Christianity can seem like the weirdest heresy of all. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/ross-douthat-divided-by-god-ny-times/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/05/president-obama-locks-horns-with-chief-justice-roberts-over-health-care-case-role-of-lochner/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/05/president-obama-locks-horns-with-chief-justice-roberts-over-health-care-case-role-of-lochner/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:38:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130564 Huffington Post: The key in Lochner is that we were talking about regulation of the states, right, and the states are not limited to enumerated powers," Roberts said. "The federal government is. And it seems to me it's an entirely different question when you ask yourself whether or not there are going to be limits on the federal power, as opposed to limits on the states, which was the issue in Lochner." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/05/president-obama-locks-horns-with-chief-justice-roberts-over-health-care-case-role-of-lochner/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/first-let%e2%80%99s-kill-all-the-law-schools-a-review-of-schools-for-misrule/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/first-let%e2%80%99s-kill-all-the-law-schools-a-review-of-schools-for-misrule/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:47:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130487 Claremont Institute: Yet it's not as if Tocqueville was wrong, or insensitive to the full implications of his irony. It's just that he was largely describing the culture and role of traditional common lawyers—the barristers and solicitors—a breed that has almost disappeared from the American political, if not legal, landscape. He describes the English or American lawyer (in contrast to his continental counterpart) who still has "a taste and respect for what is old," and who wishes to rely "on the sense of his fathers." Such a lawyer is timid, regular, and legal—a cautious interpreter of "an occult science" that looks backward rather than forward and relies on particulars rather than highly contested abstractions. But a funny thing happened to the American common lawyer, and that funny thing was the American law school (which came into its own a century after Tocqueville wrote). As legal training and apprenticeship gave way to legal education and schooling, wave after wave of progressive thinking washed over the expanding and newly confident law schools . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/first-let%e2%80%99s-kill-all-the-law-schools-a-review-of-schools-for-misrule/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/the-illusion-of-religious-neutrality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/the-illusion-of-religious-neutrality/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:26:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130310 Law of Library and Liberty: Indeed, for reasons we will notice, the proposition that government should remain “neutral” in matters of religion appears to be virtually irresistible. Which leads to embarrassment: that is because, upon closer inspection, religious neutrality also turns out to be impossible. Worse yet, the attempt to maintain religious neutrality subtly works to undermine the constitutional commitment to religious freedom. This essay briefly considers the predicament and reflects on possible responses. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/the-illusion-of-religious-neutrality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/religious-neutrality-admirably-compromised/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/religious-neutrality-admirably-compromised/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:23:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130308 Library of Law and Liberty: These historical reminders may be a long winded way of saying that Stephen Smith has a point when he argues that religious neutrality, an implication of religious freedom, is theoretically impossible. As he observes, the earliest claims on behalf of religious neutrality, such as those proposed by Jefferson and Madison, made assumptions about God and people that were hardly universal. Smith is also correct to see how the nation’s commitment to religious freedom has left the courts tied in legal knots. Crafting better rationales for religious freedom would be welcome. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/religious-neutrality-admirably-compromised/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/26/legal-periodical-the-first-amendments-religion-clauses-the-calvinist-document-that-interprets-them-both/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/26/legal-periodical-the-first-amendments-religion-clauses-the-calvinist-document-that-interprets-them-both/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:53:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129590 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/26/legal-periodical-the-first-amendments-religion-clauses-the-calvinist-document-that-interprets-them-both/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/health-care-laws-defenders-look-to-george-washington/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/health-care-laws-defenders-look-to-george-washington/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:04:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129295 USA Today: Seeking precedents for the law's requirement that Americans buy health insurance, some constitutional scholars are reaching back 220 years to a law signed by George Washington: the Militia Act of 1792. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/health-care-laws-defenders-look-to-george-washington/feed/ 0