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...nation has changed. Without the convictions of America's forefathers, this wonderful nation of ours might not even exist. Keep up the good work, Mr. President! Rachel Anderson Chanhassen, Minnesota, U.S. God and religion are the very foundation of this country. God should never be taken out of civic life. America is suffering enough as it is. God needs to be a part of what we do. Erika Boda Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. The basic problem in the world today is that there is too much religion and not enough common sense. Richard G. Harms Issaquah, Washington, U.S. Exit Strategy President...
...religion are the very foundation of this country. God should never be taken out of civic life. America is suffering enough as it is; God needs to be a part of what we do. ERIKA BODA Cleveland, Ohio...
Some things haven't changed since Jefferson's time, though, and one of them is the country's ongoing struggle with the role of religion in civic life. As the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which prohibited government interference in people's religious beliefs, Jefferson took a hard line in this regard, and it isn't difficult to imagine where he would stand on current debates about prayer in public schools, say, or faith-based funding for social projects. "If there is one field of constitutional law, and law generally, where Jefferson was amazing...
Whenever an argument arises about the role that religion should play in our civic life, such as the dispute over the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance or the display of the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse, assertions about the faith of the founders are invariably bandied about. It's a wonderfully healthy debate because it causes folks to wrestle with the founders and, in the process, shows how the founders wrestled with religion...
...Party lost four of its five seats, sparking an emergency change in leadership Belgium Popular with Flemish voters but vilified by the mainstream parties, the far-right Vlaams Blok won second place PM Guy Verhofstadt's liberals lagged behind the Christian Democratic opposition and Vlaams Blok Czech Republic The Civic Democrats and Communists tapped Euro-skeptic sentiment and won big The ruling coalition's parties won just four seats; PM Vladimir Spidla called an emergency meeting of the Social Democrats' leadership Denmark Ex-PM Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's Social Democrats romped, taking almost one-third of the vote - double their...