Word: realm
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...separation doctrine, Lemon v. Kurtzman, came in 1971, when the court struck down Pennsylvania and Rhode Island laws that set subsidies for the salaries of parochial school teachers. Referring to earlier cases, the Justices proposed a threefold test to determine the permissibility of government activities that touched the religious realm. First, state action must have a secular purpose. Second, the primary effect of the action must neither advance nor inhibit religion. And finally, there should be no "excessive entanglement" between church and state...
...classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is -- and has been -- far too high. The courts need to find a better balance between separation and accommodation -- and Americans need to respect the new religious freedom they would gain...
...Actions in the realm of freedom of expression and speech must be protected, even if they are offensive to the community," Clark wrote. "It seems clear that this principle protects all participants in the current controversy...
...pretty certain that Grunwald doesn't ground his definition of happiness in the same realm as I do, and this letter to the editor is not the place to explain mine. But before Grunwald tries to show that I don't know what I'm talking about in making a statement like I did, he must either disprove my statement in the metaphysical realm or disprove the existence of a metaphysical realm. Good luck...
...midst of plenty. Doctors have migrated away from rural areas across America, leaving families in dread fear of the tractor accident, the heart attack, the sudden illness. Another problem: the health-care system devotes so much of its resources to last-minute miracles that it neglects the more mundane realm of preventive medicine, where many terrible illnesses could be halted sooner or avoided altogether. "We have to rearrange how the dollars are being spent and refocus them on earlier stages of illness," says Jeff Goldsmith, a health-care adviser to the accounting firm Ernst & Young...