who himself believed in the God of Deism—that is a non-Biblical
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what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner
who is credited with coining the metaphor
so I knew what it contained. We all had a great chuckle at what Tammy Faye regarded as an appropriate gift for liberating her husband from bondage.
it went on to describe why matzo had small holes:
she said. ""He certainly is worthy of every penny he makes."" (In fact
Tammy Faye Bakker declared the judicial ruling “a great victory for Christianity.” I responded that “the fact that a Jewish lawyer helped bring that about must show that it was a great victory for all Americans.” The New York Times reported...
who surely would have imposed the same sentence without referring to his religion. The new judge eventually reduced the sentence to 8 years and Bakker was released after serving 4.5 years—quite a reduction from the 45 years originally impos...
such as a defendant's race or national origin
it was released. The Court of Appeals ruled that the conviction was valid but the 45 year sentence was not. In vacating the sentence
with whom he'd tangled in a previous case. ""This is a judge who doesn't understand the difference between a year and a decade
but I was particularly appalled by the length of the sentence and the religiously discriminatory reason the judge gave for imposing it. I agreed therefore to brief and argue the sentencing issue on the appeal (a team of Texas lawyer had bee...
and those of us who do have a religion are ridiculed as being saps from money-grubbing preachers or priests.""
even though he himself was accused of using his religion to defraud co-religionists. The case involved television evangelist Jim Bakker
but the same cannot be said for Susan Shapiro
it got me arguing with my friends and even with some of my teachers. It’s an ongoing argument…
in addition to guaranteeing freedom of religion
we believed that this was a land of opportunity and that we could do anything
don’t eat shrimp—and to ask our Rabbi what to think about such esoteric issues. They know the religiously correct answer. Yet the addition of the two words to the pledge forced me not only to think about them but to try to place them in the...
when the words “under God” were being added to the pledge of allegiance. The Yeshivas I went to as a kid were very patriotic. We recited the pledge at assemblies