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The Tragedy of Female Genital 41Intilat OP Prophet of Profit? 12 ree Exercises? 18 e Price of Faith 26 Magazine of ligious Freedom Vol. 92, No. 4 ly/August 1997 The Tragedy of Female Genital 41Intilat OP. CIT. T I Skewered! I do not expect a publication of Thomas Jefferson, would advocate Editors: Regarding "The End of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that judges interpret what the origi- Democracy" (March/April, page 4), to know everything about the nal intent might be in all cases 101117larence11111111111.1./ E. Hodges I'm hopelessly skewed leftward, Catholic faith, but I was surprised when he said, "I am not an advo- Chairman. Editorial Board but I hope I won't be skewered. that "Consenting Adults" showed cate for frequent changes in laws Clifford Goldstein JAMES ASHLEY SHEA such a complete lack of knowledge and constitutions, but laws and Editor Pasadena, California about what we believe. institutions must go hand in hand Loleta Thomas Bailey It is easy for your "Suzy" and with the progress of the human Associate Editor I suspect that you intended "George" to declare themselves mind. As that becomes more James A. Cavil to use the word "skewed" in both Catholic, but that does not mean developed, more enlightened as Copy Editor instances. Seeing the word they actually are. Every Catholic new discoveries are made, new Leo Ranzolin "skewered" used here is painful. knows that it is a sin to have lust truths discovered and manners and Robert S. Folkenberg for someone. Your article is decep- opinions change, with the change of A. C. McClure JOE DiPINTO, Representative B.B. Beach Wilmington, Delaware tive because it fails to state what circumstances, institutions must John Graz the Catholic Church actually teaches. advance also to keep pace with the Consulting Editors [Tell me about it!—Editor.] Lusting and promoting lust are times." Vernon Alger grave sins. The couple in your arti- Former chief justice John Karnik Doukmetzian Charles Eusey Chewed Out! cle is unquestionably living outside Marshall (1801-1835) described the Richard Fenn Your article "Consenting Adults" the Church. They used Liberty to U.S. Constitution as "... a constitu- Samuel Green Darrel Huenergardt (March/April) has nothing to do with promote their sexual cause, and tion, intended to endure for ages to Ted Jones the separation of church and state. they used the Catholic Church to do come, and consequently, to be Alan Reinach These moral issues come under the the same. Their beliefs may qualify adapted to the various crisis of Lewis Stout Mitchell A. Tyner rightful domain of civil law. them as self-excommunicated. human affairs." Adrian Westney, Jr. If a place such as the sex club GEORGE A. MORTON, Editor Retired Supreme Court justice Consultants referred to in this piece is a legal The Parish Visitor William J. Brennan gives perhaps Wintley A. Phipps business, its existence makes Monroe, New York the best refutation of the original U.S. Congress Liaison socially destructive behavior appear intent in an October 12, 1985, Jeffrey L. Dever Art Director common and thereby educates the Truth Matters speech at Georgetown University. minds of children and young adults It is hard to believe that well- He said, "There are those who find Emily Martin Kendall Designer that this is acceptable, normal meaning individuals like Richard legitimacy in fidelity to what they behavior. This is a matter for civil John Neuhaus, Charles Colson, and call 'the intentions of the Framers.' Juan R. Presto! Treasurer authorities. Pat Robertson are able to claim In its most doctrinaire incarnation, Your publication of this article with the utmost certainty that the this view demands that justices Liberty (ISSN 0024-2055) is pub- was in exceptionally bad taste and only laws which judges should discern exactly what the Framers lished bimonthly by the North American Division of the Seventh- needlessly puts you in conflict with strike down are those that clearly thought about the question under day Adventist Church, 12501 Old the Religious Right. Could you violate the original meaning of the consideration and simply follow Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD please stick to articles on church Constitution ("The End of that intention in resolving the case 20904-6600. Periodicals postage paid at Hagerstown, MD and state? Democracy?" March/April). This before them. POSTMASTER send changes of LAURENCE M. WOODHAMS has also been echoed as the doc- "It is a view that feigns self- address to Liberty, P.O. Box 1119, Hagerstown, MD 21741-1119. Owosso, Michigan trine of "original intent" by rejected effacing deference to the specific candidate for the Supreme Court judgment of those who forged our Printed by the Review and Herald Robert Bork and former U.S. attor- original social compact. But in Publishing Assn., 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagerstown, MD ney general Edwin Meese. 21741-1119. Subscription price: It does not seem that one of the U.S. $6.95 per year. Single copy: U.S. $1.50. Price may vary where framers of the Constitution, national currencies differ. Vol. 92, No. 4, July/August 1997 2 LIBERTY JULY/AUGUST 1997 COVER PORTRAIT OF GIRL FROM SOMALIA BY BRADFORD BROWN truth it is little more than arrogance unconstitutional. Their proposed board could make a convincing Second, the existence of the cloaked as humility. It is arrogant solution is a clause limiting permis- argument that their rule fulfills a Illuminati. While the Illuminati of to pretend that from our vantage we sible materials only to those "spon- compelling government interest. Adam Weishaupt's time may no can gauge accurately the intent of sored by local businesses." DENA S. DAVIS, Professor longer exist, that does not mean the Framers on application of prin- However, this strategy clearly favors Cleveland-Marshall College of Law that they do not still live. They may ciple to specific, contemporary some religions over others, and is Cleveland, Ohio not be named as such, and they questions. All too often, sources of exactly the sort of "religious gerry- may be divided into a number of potential enlightenment such as mandering" the Supreme Court Better Late Than Never different sects, but the Illuminati do records of the ratification debates struck down in Larson v. Valente in Recently I read an article in the live. And that means however provide sparse or ambiguous evi- 1982. In Larson, the state of May/June 1979 Liberty about the much you and your writers may dence of the original intention. Minnesota made a distinction Illuminati, and I wanted to rectify a want and wish it otherwise, they are "Typically, all that can be gleaned between religious groups which thing or two written therein. still very pernicious, devious, and is that the Framers themselves did received half their revenues from First, about the group itself. dangerous. not agree about the application or their own membership, and those The Illuminati was not the first A CATHOLIC-AMERICAN CHRISTIAN meaning of particular constitutional that did not. The Court found that group to bear such a name as this. San Diego, California provisions, and hid their differences any law which favored one religion The first one(s) to be called "the in cloaks of generality. Indeed, it is (or type of religion) over another Enlightened Ones," as galling as it [Sorry. In 1979 I was a new far from clear whose intention is triggered strict scrutiny, and could will be for you to hear this, were the college grad backpacking around relevant—that of the drafters, the pass muster only if the state could Alumbrados in Spain in the six- Europe.—Editor.] congressional disputants, or the show that it was narrowly tailored teenth century. These pseudo-mys- ratifiers in the states?—or even to meet a compelling government tics gave rise to a similar move- A Beacon of Truth and Justice whether the idea of an original interest. The same reasoning ment in France in 1623: the I first discovered Liberty in a intention is a coherent way of think- would apply to Upshur County. In Illumines. These groups combined laundromat in Homer, Alaska. ing about a jointly drafted document this case, the law favors religious Gnosticism with the heretical ratio- Immediately, I was struck by the drawing its authority from a general organizations that are able to get nalism of the Enlightenment of the frank, brutal honesty of your publi- assent of the states. And apart support from local businesses. time. It was this which gave rise to cation and the broad scope of your from the problematic nature of the It is hard to imagine that the school the Illuminati. concern. I subscribed at once, and sources, our distance of two cen- over the years I have come to rely turies cannot but work as a prism on your magazine for a concept of refracting all we perceive." DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES religion and government that was JOHN CLUBINE both foreign to my experience and Ontario, Canada attractive as it fulfilled my desires The God-given right of religious liberty is best exercised for truth and justice. The fact that Bibles in a Box when church and state are separate. your values are so obviously those The attempt of the school board Government is God's agency to protect individual rights and of Jesus Christ has only added to in Upshur County, West Virginia to conduct civil affairs; in exercising these responsibilities, offi- the allure. ("Help Yourselves," September/ cials are entitled to respect and cooperation. Your magazine has had a lot to October 1996), to allow the distri- Religious liberty entails freedom of conscience: to worship do with shaping my consciousness bution of Bibles in the public schools or not to worship; to profess, practice and promulgate religious and I am very grateful.
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