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...TIME: Your book treats six First Amendment religion cases, several of which went to the Supreme Court. Briefly, what were they...
Mitt Romney in the White House [May 21]? I don't think this country could endure another teetotaler President. The charge that questioning Romney's religion amounts to bigotry misses the point that if he were elected, at least 10% of his income - which would come from us taxpayers - would go to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have the right to ask him what he believes. Remember, this is a church that, until the late 1970s, believed blacks couldn't go to the highest tier of heaven, limits women's rights and believes...
...band directors turned to Jesse." But Jesse always seemed in search of a larger purpose. When he was about 12, he asked his father to take him to a nondenominational Bible-study group. Jesse had found it on his own and wanted to go because he was curious about religion. For two years father and son went together to Bible discussions, where Jesse was easily the youngest person. Jesse's initial curiosity grew into a deeply felt sense of spirituality that stayed with him throughout his life. He carried a Bible to school...
...Nobody here will ask you your religion, or where you come from," he adds. "They just accept...
...offended when Christians eat pork," says Jacob Neusner. At least not usually. The brilliant--and none too patient--Jewish scholar does recall a religion conference where so much of the other white meat was served that he was reduced to a diet of hard-boiled eggs. One day on the food line something snapped, and he rhymed aloud, "I hope you all get trichinosis/And come to believe in the God of Moses." A fellow conferee instantly replied, "And if we don't get such diseases/Will you believe in the God of Jesus?" Neusner cackles. "That's an example...