My pleasant Sunday morning routine of baking breakfast, sipping a pot of coffee and reading the newspaper for two hours was interrupted yesterday by a conundrum. A piece in the Sunday Washington Post called Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail discussed how former Justice Department senior lawyer John Yoo said in a 2003 memo: “…federal laws prohibiting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Government’
Before the Bill of Rights, there was the Constitution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Constitution, Government on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Separation of Church and State
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Government, Religion on February 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Enforcing a strict separation between church and state curtails religious freedom and deprives state-funded social programs of a ’spiritual dimension,’ a top aid to President Bush told an audience of Vatican officials.” – Religious News Service (read for Religion, Media and Society class)
Granted, I could probably argue in favor of this but I’d rather [...]