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When Americans choose to follow a particular faith, they should do it uninfluenced by state-funded education. Earnest, voluntary religious faith, the foundation for organized religion??s many positive effects on American society, should never be indirectly controlled by government support of obviously doctrinaire curricula. The Court is not discriminating against religion. It is just ensuring that the tradition of religious pluralism on which this country was founded continues to flourish...
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for the majority, ruled Wednesday that the Promise Scholarship Program and the state of Washington’s constitution contain no “animus towards religion?? and did not violate Davey’s rights...
...name of God. Fundamentalist Christians continue to support Bush after he lied to America so he could bomb Iraq; yet, they called for Clinton’s head when he lied about having sex. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell denounce Islam as a “violent religion?? but then use Old Testament texts to prove that Christianity isn’t necessarily a peaceful one either...
...Islam for cultural reasons; tragically, they feel it has more to offer them than does the French republic. Respected scholar Gilles Kepel describes the engagement of young second- and third-generation French Arabs with the Islamic faith not as the perpetuation of their family’s culture and religion??since many of their parents have given up most Muslim practices—but rather as the invention of a new identity in contention with the national values of a country that has marginalized them ethnically or socioeconomically. For many young women, the headscarf is as much...
Vegetarianism has always seemed to me like some sort of strange, distant religion??perfectly admirable, perhaps, but utterly alien to my way of thinking. Believing that perhaps I ought to become better acquainted with the vegetarian worldview, FM dispatched me to a vegetarian cooking class at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE), a stone’s throw from the center of Harvard Square. But actually it was not your run of the mill vegetarian cooking class—it was a class on what to serve at a vegetarian Valentine’s Day brunch buffet...