March/April 2000

Letters

All Animals Are Equal

In recent years there has been a lot of talk about prayer in school, but little about prayer in the home. Perhaps this silence has masked a real erosion of freedom in this "cradle of faith."

Chris Carter ran into a wall, and it cost him his job. Congress intended to dismantle that wall a quarter century ago, but the federal courts have frustrated that intent. Here's what happened.

Should the state protect the observance of religious holy days by making them civil holidays? For those committed to the separation of church and state the answer is clearly a "NO!" Civil laws should never be passed to protect the observance of the religious holy days of any particular church. Such laws clearly violate the intention and wording of the First Amendment to the American Constitution, which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

Resolving the creationism-evolution controvery in American Public schools

Hawaii legislators defend free exercise clause versus establishment claus