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Heretic on the Hill: Defining Religious Freedom Down

Senator Daniel Moynihan once wrote a scholarly paper in his spare time, the kind most Senators just don’t write, called “Defining Deviancy Down.” He was using the sociologist’s meaning of deviancy: different from societal norms. His point was that the nation had become so accustomed to gun violence that what was once front page news …

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Heretic on the Hill: Visas for Religious Workers — Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?

What if you could start your own religion, get it sanctioned by the IRS, and bring some of your believers from overseas to work at your faith-based nonprofit? Well you can! There is a special visa program known as the R-1 Nonimmigrant Religious Workers Program.  “Noncitizens working in the United States temporarily as a minister …

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Heretic on the Hill: Religious Privilege is not Religious Freedom

Viruses mutate for a living. They just keep producing new variants. So far we’ve had the original COVID (classic COVID?), the Delta Variant, and the Omicron Variant. Hospitals are overloaded again and there may be another serious variant sometime soon. The theory is that the problem goes away when enough people have had COVID and …

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Heretic on the Hill: National Religious Freedom Day 2022

Sunday is National Religious Freedom Day. There’s a presidential statement as there has been annually since 1993, but officially it’s not really different from “National Cheeseburger Day” (September 18), just with more history and lately more controversy. January 16th was the day in 1786 that the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute for Religious …

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