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If antiabortion protesters stand eight feet away from the entrance of a Colorado women's health clinic and yell lustily, does anyone hear them? Probably, but according to the plaintiffs in a case scheduled to go before the Supreme Court Wednesday, the eight-foot "bubble" required between Colorado protesters and...
On Nov. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court restored tax-supported tuition assistance for more than 700 Cleveland students. Cleveland, for the past few years, has permitted these subsidies to be used for both sectarian and secular private schools. Opponents of the 5-4 court ruling claim that even indirect government...
A non-voucher system allows religious diversity to flourish, without raising such difficult questions. Comparatively speaking, even a strict adherence to the First Amendment is kinder to religion than other systems around the world. France is the perfect example.
In the United States, the separation of church and state is intended to substitute reflection and debate for the indoctrination of belief systems. School vouchers used for religious schools divorce the theory of the First Amendment from its logical application.
"This is part of a long trend on the part of this Court to cut back on Fourth Amendment rights," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "In the 1960s and '70s, search and seizure rights were expanded considerably, and now, the conservative majority feels that protection has gone too far...