A Stitch in Haste

What is it about Kentucky and the Ten Commandments?

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If religious bigots really want to invoke libertarian arguments to legitimize their bigotry, then they better be prepared to be judged by real libertarians about the entire spectrum of libertarian issues.

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"Whereas" a theocrat in Congress has introduced some outrageous "Whereas" clauses…

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David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch seem to think so.

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Most of the Framers were Deists, not "Christians" in the modern sense.

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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 Before there was bigotry, there was — bigotry. And before there was blogging, there was — blogging: We shall have to wait and see to what extent Rick Warren proves to be [...]

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–Which local theocracy tried to ban fortune tellers and soothsayers, until a federal judge declared the ban unconstitutional on free speech and vagueness grounds? –Which other local theocracy, meanwhile, is being sued for unconstitutionally pressuring a billboard company to remove an advertisement by an atheist group? –Moving on to statewide theocracies: Which U.S. state quietly [...]

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From "God's Love, We Deliver" to "God's House, Buzz Off" — When Gary Khera, went with his wife to the Union Mission on Roanoke Avenue to make a donation, a staffer asked him to remove his turban. "She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That [...]

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Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: "You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?" Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place. As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts [...]

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Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post: Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of [...]

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