1395002 CONTENTS STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Tribe, Prof. Laurence H., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA; and William B. Ball, attorney, Harrisburg, PA......... Sileven, Paster Everett, Faith Baptist Church, Louisville, NE; and Dr. Greg Dixon, National Chairman of Unregistered Churches, Indianapolis, IN. Bergstrom, Rev. Charles V., executive director, office of governmental affairs, Panel consisting of: D. James Kennedy, senior minister, Coral Ridge Presbyte- Weaver, Rev. Paul, Trinity Baptist Church, Route 2-A, Williston, VT 27 ....... Appendix A-Nebraska Law Review, Freedom of Religion................. Appendix B-The Report of the Governor's Christian School Issue Appendix C-Nebraska Civil Liberties Union....... Appendix D-United States Civil Rights Commission Report, dated Appendix E-Enabling Act of Congress, 1864......... Appendix F-Letter to Richard Moore, from Cicil R. Reynolds, dated September 4, 1982, re the California Achievement Test......... Appendix G-Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Consti- tution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the legislatures of the several States pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution... Appendix H-Nebraska Bill of Rights, 1875......... Appendix I-Chapter 79-1701 and 79-1703, Private Denominational and Parochial Schools............ Page ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Supplemental comments on behalf of the Unification Church of America, Letter to Senator Hatch from Edward F. Canfield, dated December 28, 1984, enclosed a memorandum intended as a background and summary of the D-Affidavit of Robert E. Heggestad, re to conversation with Manabu Fukuda, Interpreting Branch of the Language Services Division of the E-Affidavit of Robert E. Heggestad, re to conversation with Dina Kohn, Director of the U.S. District Court Interpreters Office in New York F-Letter dated October 9, 1984 to Takeru Kamiyama from William R. G-Letter dated October 3, 1984 to William R. Ratchford from William E. Foley, Director, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.......... H-Letter dated September 28, 1984 to Takeru Kamiyama from Ron L-Interview of Mr. Eisuke Sasagawa on his retranslation of the grand 527 Supplemental exhibit 1-Declaration of John Hinds. Supplemental exhibit 2-Declaration of Tomoko Torii Supplemental exhibit 3-Declaration of Kenji Onuki ............. Richard Graveley, national director of public affairs International Society for Letter to Senator Hatch from G.M. Ross, Ph.D., associate director and con- gressional liaison, Seventh-Day Adventists, enclosures from the May/June Letter to Senator Hatch from Juanita L. Clay, Ph.D., dated July 22, 1984, re to a newspaper article.......... "In Defense of Religious Liberty," by Dr. Milton A. Reid, April 27, 1984 .... Letter to Senator Hatch from Juanita L. Clay, Ph.D., submitting statement..... Prepared statement of Robert L. Grete, director, Rocky Bayou Christian Jerome Kurtz, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, April 11, 1979. Memorandum to Dr. Paul A. Kienel executive director, ACSI, from William B. Ball, dated September 13, 1983, re Social Security Tax on Churches............. "The New Social Security Law," article in the Focus on Freedom by the ISSUES IN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1984 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, in room SD-106, Dirksen Building, commencing at 9:08 a.m., the Honorable Orrin G. Hatch (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Leahy and DeConcini. Staff present: Dee V. Benson, special counsel; Randall P. Rader, general counsel; Carol Epps, chief clerk; Leslie Leap and Deborah Dahl, clerks (Subcommittee on the Constitution); and Dick Bowman, counsel (Committee on the Judiciary). OPEN STATEMENT OF HON. ORRIN G. HATCH, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF UTAH, CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION Senator HATCH. Ladies and gentlemen, this hearing will now come to order. We are here in the capacity of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, which I chair, to conduct an oversight hearing on the state of religious liberty in America today. This is a subject of monumental significance to our Republic. The right of every man to be free from governmental coercion or interference in his personal relationship with his Creator is fundamental to our free and democratic way of life. Its value cannot be overstated. As historian Sanford Cobb has so accurately observed: Among all the benefits to mankind to which this soil has given rise, this pure religious liberty may be justly rated as the great gift of America to civilization and the world * The concept of religious freedom has been central in the political philosophy of the leaders of our Nation since the Pilgrims first landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. It was significant in the 18th century debates of State legislatures and the Continental Congress, where it had the indefatigable support of men such as Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and, of course, James Madison. These debates culminated in 1789 in the passage by the First Congress of the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. That amendment contains these few but well chosen words: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof *** |