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Politics & Religion
A Discussion of Realities and Dangers

Cindy Chamberlain inverviews Greg Hamilton at our Northwest Headquarters










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By Gregory W. Hamilton, President
Northwest Religious Liberty Association (NRLA)
March 15, 2011

President Barack Obama came to Cairo in 2009 with the purpose of announcing to the Arab-Muslim world that he was not following his predecessor’s “Democracy Project” as a matter of U.S. Middle East policy. One could call this Obama’s “Olive Branch Doctrine”: the message that interfaith tolerance & unity, rather than the insistence of religious freedom and democracy, would be the foreign policy model pursued by his Administration. In a stroke of illusory foreign policy realism,  he was communicating to Arab Muslims that it was not the purpose of the United States to convert anyone to its way of thinking, politically or religiously. More...


President Obama’s middle-ground approach to the credible and well-established “Clash of Civilizations” theme – when formulating international religious freedom policy – is best understood when placed on a scale between tolerance and international consensus (an interfaith, “soft-power” approach), and America’s constitutional ideal of religious freedom and human rights (an Evangelical and “exacting” approach). Yet both policy methods delimit religious freedom, threatening it altogether. More...


 


POLITICS
Should Religion Play a Role in Politics? Reflections on the general question of the role of religion in our political life... More

Religion and Party Affiliation Go Hand in Hand. Data show that when people go to worship they also reinforce their party affiliation ... More
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The Future of the Liberal World Order Wealth and power are moving from the North and the West to the East and the South... More

JURISPRUDENCE
Supreme Court lets stand ruling that bans prayer at school board meetings... More

High Court Decision protects religious entities’ right to hire... More

SC Justice Thomas Aims at Church-State Jurisprudence but hits the Constitution instead... More

Why Law Should Lead... More
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RELIGION
Political Conclave of Evangelical Leaders Dangerous... More

Christians and lions... More

Experts: religious liberty threats in US growing: Recent "grave threats to religious liberty" have emerged... More

• "Freedom of worship" has recently replaced the phrase "freedom of religion" in ... More
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EDUCATION
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LEGISLATION
The great divide: separation of church and state.Florida bill would foolishly allow government to fund religious institutions... More

NYC Workplace Religious Freedom Act Subjects Employers to Expanded Religious Accommodation Obligations... More

State funding of religion will actually threaten religion... More
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HISTORY
Liberty for All: Why do non-Christians have the right to worship in "Christian" nations?   More

God, Government & Roger Williams' Big Idea. Banished from Massachusetts, the Puritan minister originated a principle that remains contentious to this day—separation of church and state... More

Religion in America: The faith (and doubts) of our fathers... More
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