The travails of Albemarle County Baptists and other religious dissenters during the 1760s and 1770s had a strong impression on Thomas Jefferson.
Charlotte is at it again with its latest attempt to sow chaos into North Carolina politics. The effort should fall on deaf ears. In other words, don’t take the bait. Proponents of the city’s new anti-discrimination ordinance have not shown there is a prevailing reason for it in the first place. Is there a mass...
Freedom requires us to be grown-ups, to settle for living in a society in which some people just aren’t going to do what we say or believe what we believe.
Imagine opening your mailbox one blustery December morning to find a letter from your homeowners’ association. For a passing moment, you think it may be a Christmas card. Your naive hopes are dashed when you open it. No, they are fining you $100 a day for putting up a cross at Christmas time. Crosses aren’t...
“Today, I want to tell North Carolinians that in order to ease restrictions we need to make progress in three areas: testing, tracing, and trends,” Gov. Roy Cooper said during his Wednesday, April 15, news conference. At least one more “T” was missing from the governor’s outline: transparency. Yes, Cooper’s rival Lt. Gov. Dan Forest...
Partisans on the left and right view a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling through different lenses
While much of the debate has focused on religious liberty and privacy issues, one key issue has been largely ignored.
The only socio-economic arrangement that can guarantee the rights of all people to exercise their religious beliefs freely is capitalism.
The tension between "positive" and "negative" rights will grow more prevalent.
As government and an increasing number of citizens focus more intently on positive rights, we can expect more clashes like the one that led to a recent U.S. Supreme Court case.
If the Obamacare mandate on religious employers survives, other rights unrelated to the practice of faith are imperiled as well.
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