Religion
Many believe, including America’s Founding Fathers, that our rights pre-exist government — that they are either granted by God or simply a fact of nature, depending on your perspective. The government’s role is to protect these rights, which are traditionally termed “negative” rights and protect individuals from being subjected to an action by another person or group (such as a government). This approach’s most prominent example is the US Constitution.
Others believe that rights are granted by governments and that, as circumstances change over time, governments should grant more rights to people. This group believes that the government’s role is to go beyond protecting individual rights and actually guarantee things to its citizens — those “things” traditionally being termed “positive” rights. This is the “utopian” vision. Read more
A nonprofit legal organization specializing in religious liberty cases has conducted a study comparing U.S. states on the basis of how free its residents are to practice their faith.
Spoiler alert: Mississippi offers the most protections for religious freedom, while New York comes in last on the First Liberty Institute’s “Religious Liberty in the States 2022 (RLS)” index. Read more
The event takes place every year on the fourth Wednesday in September. And the purpose is simple — pray.
Students met together to lift up their friends, teachers, families, school, and nation in prayer. What makes it so special is that it is a student-organized and student-led event.
It began in 1990 as a grassroots movement of ten teenage students in Texas praying together at their school. The movement grew, and now 32 years later, it’s estimated that one million students around the world participate in See You At The Pole. Read more