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Only One Child Testified in Landmark Supreme Court Case Wisconsin v. Yoder

Only One Child Testified in Landmark Supreme Court Case Wisconsin v. Yoder

by A.A., Summer Intern | Published on Aug 1, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Wisconsin v. Yoder

Out of all the children affected by Wisconsin v. Yoder, only one, Frieda Yoder, testified. In her testimony, she was only asked if her religion was the reason she did not go to school––not if she wanted to go to school despite her religion, or any question pertaining to her own wishes for her future.

Is It Possible for Religion to Play a Role in Ensuring Human Rights?

Is It Possible for Religion to Play a Role in Ensuring Human Rights?

by Althea Chokwe | Published on Jul 30, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Wisconsin v. Yoder

Radicals believe that religion can be used as a tool to institute their own society that blatantly ignores rights granted under American law. This is not the intent of religious freedom, and the merging of religious abuse and human rights is a necessary discussion to have.

How Working for a Nonprofit Quickly Shattered All I Knew About the Amish

by A.A., Summer Intern | Published on Jul 26, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Amish Religion

What’s so wrong about the Amish? I thought to myself. Aren’t they just harmless farmers?

5 Fascinating Facts About the Amish: The Value of Tradition, Not Trend

by L.W., Summer Intern | Published on Jul 11, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Amish Religion

A car is a modern convenience capable of driving the faithful down a road of sin.

Is Christianity More of a Culture or a Religion in the United States?

by Althea Chokwe | Published on Jul 10, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Amish Religion

The charismatic televangelist industry and the upper echelons of the Amish Church are similar in their public relations apparatuses and financial hustling of others. Taking a look at these social institutions’ practices will give deep insight into Americans’ fallible infatuation with radical Christianity.

Why It’s Important to Advocate, Not Just Witness, For Those in Need

by V.B., Summer Intern | Published on Jul 9, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Wisconsin v. Yoder

The Amish scholars who have so prominently featured throughout Wisconsin v. Yoder and related propaganda efforts by the Christian right are not insidious because they are activists, but because they cloak themselves in the familiar cloak of an impartial witness.

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