November / December 1997

Op. Cit.

FATED TO BE FREE

In the Battle Between the U.S. Supreme Court
and Congress Over Free Exercise, the Real Losers Are the American People

Using History, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Argues Against Justice Scalia's Narrow Reading of the Free Exercise Clause (and His Opinion in Smith)

Using History, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia
Defends His Narrow Reading of the Free Exercise Clause
(and His Opinion in Smith)

Is a Page of History Worth a Volume of Logic?

Religious Freedon Wins the Daily Double in Massachusetts

In early 1997 the Public Relations and Religious Liberty Department of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists held a religious liberty essay contest for high school students in grades 9 through 12. Approximately 12 schools in five states participated, with 53 students entering. Beth Whittemore, a 16-year-old junior at Paradise Adventist Academy, won the first prize of $500 for the eleventh- to twelfth-grade category. Below is her award-winning essay. Congratulations, Beth!