Long op-ed of likely interest to list members:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110005223
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Anthony R. Picarello, Jr.
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The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
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An odd piece. The author doesn't distinguish between being a minority and
being an outsider. He doesn't distinguish between the experience of
difference that arises when private individuals and institutions espouse
beliefs and engage in practices that do not parallel one's own beliefs and
Title: Re: Huntington in WSJ re Under God
I take his point to be simply that religious outsiders may feel like outsiders because they are outsiders. A pretty uncontroversial point as far as it goes, if not often said in polite company. More interesting is the tacit corollary, a challenge
At 04:01 PM 6/16/04 -0700, you wrote:
outsiders today in contemporary,
secular America. And I hear it a lot from the far Right and the far Left
that Jews run the country and the media -- that we are the ultimate
insiders. And what about minority Christian denominations like Christian
Scientists,
