Baseball, Popcorn, Apple Pie, & Liberty / Hegstad, Roland R / (HB/1979-1979/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is clean and has moderate overall age wear. May be a lightly used and clean library book.*

Is liberty as much a part of the American scene as baseball, popcorn, and apple pie? If the right to practice religious beliefs is the liberty in question, I'm afraid the answer is No. During the twenty years I have edited Liberty, a magazine specializing in rights of conscience, I have seen virtually every facet of religious liberty attached as un-American, subversive, Communist, and you name it. Articles defending religious liberty have been labeled drivel, obscenity, filth by prevarication, bigotry, trash, hogwash, and additional unprintable designations. Readers have suggested using Liberty for lining trash cans, papering privies, and cleaning dirty paintbrushes. Men who can't spell tolerance have had no difficulty spelling a variety of obscenities.

Yes, such critics of religious liberty are a minority in America. But polls have shown that a majority of Americans would gladly discard many protections of the Bill of Rights. The reality of Hare Krishna solicitors in airports and on downtown street corners, of Jehovah's Witnesses teams knocking on doors, of Moonies holding mammoth rallies and allegedly brainwashing youth, outweighs commitment to paper freedoms. 

Table of Contents

Drivel and Dirty Paintbrushes 
The Young Man Who Wanted to Know About Liberty
The Church That Love Built
To the Commissar of Religion
Metamorphosis
Reading, 'Riting, and Religion
The Bible--Holy Book or Tranquilizing Pill?
We're Studying the Bible in Our High School
Color Sunday Red!
True Blue
Ulster and Elsewhere
Ulster's Children
Three Stories of Religious Persecution
Pornography, Obscenity, Censorship, and Public Morals
"Extra! Read All About It!"
Three Obscenity Cases
My Date With Eugenie
Every Man to His Own Taste
Vegetarian Entree--Some Ingestible Servings
"They Took Our Baby"
Motherhood on Trial
Mail-Order Ministers
When Patriots Persecute
Can We Count on the Court?
When Patriots Persecute
Baseball, Popcorn, Apple Pie, and What?
What Religious Liberty Is and Is Not
Credits

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