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With the passage of the International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2003 in the U.S. House of Representatives last month, America inched closer to surrendering one of its fundamental ideals: freedom of thought...
Asked during an early Republican debate in Iowa to name the "philosopher-thinker" he most identified with, Bush replied, "Christ, because he changed my heart." In office, he often talks about the power of prayer and calls freedom a "gift from the Almighty." He appointed Attorney General John Ashcroft (who has proudly said that in America "we have no king but Jesus") and surrounded himself with a more quietly devout circle that includes the likes of Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes. "What is most important," says a Christian activist, "is that...
...European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget...beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders." Every word of that is true. If Europeans continue to hate the man who said them, they diminish not him, but themselves...
...seems fundamental to our notion of justice. The Human Rights Campaign, a national gay organization, has just kicked off a $1 million print, radio and television ad campaign to give a human face to same-sex parents and their children. Evan Wolfson, executive director of the pro-gay group Freedom to Marry, likes to quote Gandhi: "He said, 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.' Well, our opponents are no longer ignoring us or laughing at us. Now they've been fighting us, and this week we won." True enough...
...case, Gov. Gary Locke, et al. v. Joshua Davey, addresses whether strict state bans on the use of public funds for religious purposes violates constitutional freedom of religion. It is expected to be a decisive ruling in the definition of the separation between church and state outlined in the First Amendment...