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♦ Paul Ryan's Cross to Bear
April 30, 2012
Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: "We believe that Social Security legislation, now billed as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the idea of force and compulsion." The Wisconsin Republican went on to lament that "we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam," and that citizens justify what they get from the state by saying, "We got it coming to us."
♦ Planned Parenthood Launches Pro-Abortion "40 Days
of Prayer"
April 10, 2012
Six Rivers Planned Parenthood of Eureka, California, has launched a campaign called the 40 Days of Prayer: Supporting Women Everywhere, which lists 40 different prayers for those committing abortions: the mothers, the escorts, the abortionists, and everyone involved except the unborn children.
♦ Teaching the Bible, Closing the Education
Gap
April 9, 2012
Researcher highlights link between strong faith and academic achievement among minorities.
♦ California Pastor Still Facing Charges
April 3, 2012
One California attorney says a judge's refusal to dismiss a case against Christians arrested for reading the Bible should serve as a "wake-up call" for believers (see earlier story). A Riverside trial court judge has refused to dismiss a case involving Pastor Brett Coronado and Mark Mackey of Calvary Chapel Hemet, who were arrested February 2, 2011, on misdemeanor charges.
♦ Nadarkhani Still Alive
April 2, 2012
According to a U.S. attorney, rumors of an Iranian pastor's execution are false (see earlier story).
♦ Atheists Offer Porn in Exchange for
Bibles
April 2, 2012
A small group of students at the University of Texas at San Antonio spent two days last week sitting in the middle of campus next to bright red signs covered in large black letters.
♦ Unchurched Could Carry Obama to Victory
March 29, 2012
President Obama could lose the Catholic and Protestant vote in the fall election and still sweep to victory if he dominates among non-religious voters, according to projections released Thursday by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University.
♦ Vanderbilt Catholic Refuses to Sign
Nondiscrimination Policy
March 28, 2012
Vanderbilt Catholic, one of the largest religious groups at the Nashville, Tenn., university, will not comply with the school's new nondiscrimination policy, joining at least four evangelical protestant groups in an exodus from campus.
♦ State Dept. Spokesman Refuses to Say Whether
Jerusalem is the Capitol of Israel
March 28, 2012
There was an amazing exchange today at the State Department press briefing when the press secretary refused to say that Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel. "We are not going to prejudge the outcome of those negotiations, including the final status of Jerusalem," State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said in response the question.
♦ Lesbian Mayor Sees Rising Tide of Christian
Backlash
March 28, 2012
Steve Riggle, the megachurch pastor who wrote a letter to Houston Mayor Annise Parker, is throwing some fuel on the fires of public backlash against the lesbian official.
♦ Suit Based on International Law Filed Against
Christian Pastor for Speech on LGBT
March 22, 2012
Washington DC - Liberty Counsel has agreed to represent Rev. Scott Lively, an evangelical pastor who was sued in a Massachusetts federal court by a foreign group called Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG). The premise for this lawsuit is based upon the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The ATS provides a cause of action for violations of international laws that are "specific, universal, and obligatory." Courts have found torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity; summary execution, prolonged arbitrary detention, and forced disappearance to be actionable under the ATS.
♦ Florida Church Responds to 'Unblessing' of
Highway
March 19, 2012
An associate pastor at a Florida church is questioning the washing away of a blessing placed upon a local highway by a religious group, saying the organization is "desperate for a little attention" for its cause.
♦ Church A Victim of 'Stupid Majority Vote
Thing'
March 17, 2012
Attorneys who say that a northern Mississippi town is discriminating against a church are taking the case to an appeals court. Opulent Life Church wants to use a downtown building for services, but Holly Springs officials say no.
♦ Government Finds Backdoor to Tax Churches and
Nonprofits
March 16, 2012
While the federal government and the Catholic Church wrestle over health-care provided contraception and abortions, city and county governments may have found a rather unique method of backdoor taxation on nonprofits. They simply double the water bill for all churches and schools. In a court case that is being carefully watched by churches and nonprofits across the nation, an Oregon judge will soon decide if the practice is valid.
♦ Baptist Church in Bethlehem Declared Illegitimate
by Palestinian Authority
March 13, 2012
A week after Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told an audience of Evangelical Protestants from across the world that his government respected the rights of its Christian minorities, officials from the Palestinian Authority have informed Bethlehem pastor Rev. Naim Khoury that his church lacked the authority to function as a religious institution under the PA.
♦ God Controls the Climate, Not Humans, Suggests
Sen. Inhofe
March 12, 2012
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) quoted Scripture in a recent radio interview to refute global warming theory, the liberal blog Think Progress reported on Monday.
♦ David Coppedge, Ex-NASA Worker, Claims in Lawsuit
that Agency Axed Him for 'Intelligent Design' Views
March 11, 2012
LOS ANGELES - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has landed robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, sent probes to outer planets and operates a worldwide network of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft.
♦ Australian Ethicists Argue the Right to Kill Babies
After They're Born
March 2, 2012
An article entitled "After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?" was recently published in the London-based Journal of Medical Ethics, advocating that if abortion is allowed, then society also has the right to kill a newborn child. This outrageous deduction by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva takes abortion to its logical conclusion.
♦ The Pro-Life, Pro-Infanticide Consensus
February 29, 2012
Via a particularly excellent Best of the Web column today, I learned that a prominent group of "ethicists" at Oxford University has concluded that, in the words of the Telegraph: "Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are 'morally irrelevant' and ending their lives is no different to abortion."
♦ Christians Should Go to Least Holy
Places
February 23,2012
Nashville- San Diego megachurch pastor Miles McPherson is calling on Christians to move beyond their church walls to go to the least holy places and help those in deep spiritual need.
♦ Fur is Murder. Also, Murder is Murder
February 23, 2012
Animal rights advocacy taken to a murderous extreme:
(CNN) - A self-proclaimed animal rights activist in Ohio has been charged with soliciting a hit man to kill a random person wearing fur, either by shooting the individual or slitting his or her throat.
♦ Iranian Court Issues Final Order for Pastor
Nadarkhani Execution
February 23, 2012
People from all over the world poured into the street when convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal faced execution (since reduced to life in prison). Will we see a similar reaction to Iran's apparently pending execution of Youcef Nardarkhani for the "crime" of converting to Christianity?
♦ Guess Who Decides What FBI Agents Get to Learn
About Islam?
February 22, 2012
While we're on the subject of the Muslim Brotherhood, this February 16 report from Steve Emerson at the Investigative Project on Terrorism will be an eye-opener. As I mentioned in my column over the weekend, the FBI - following the administration's lead - is purging its training materials of publications that are deemed offensive to Muslims (you know, crazy stuff like claims that passages in the Koran and Hadith promote violent jihad, Islamic supremacism, killing of apostates, oppression of women, etc.). So what are the criteria the Bureau uses to figure out what materials are offensive? And who decides?
♦ Persecuted Ugandan Christian Aided by
Israel
February 22, 2012
Today - Ash Wednesday - I spent a couple of hours at an Israeli hospital with a man who does not need to put ashes on his forehead to commemorate Lent: Half of his face was burned off by an attack with acid a couple of months ago. He is a Ugandan pastor, a convert to Christianity from Islam, and his outspoken Christian witness has not been well received by Muslim radicals.
♦ School Censors Second Grader's John 3:16
Message
February 21, 2012
What was meant to be a sweet holiday left a bitter taste in the mouth of second grader Dexter Thielhelm.
At a Valentine's Day "friendship party and chocolate celebration," James Madison Elementary School officials confiscated Thielhelm's gifts of candy-filled water bottles with a typewritten note that included the message "Jesus Loves You" and the text of the Bible verse John 3:16. The Sheboygan, Wis., school's principal only allowed the gifts to be distributed after his message was removed.
♦ Ayaan Hirsi Ali Breaks the Media Silence on
Anti-Christian Persecution
February 7, 2012
Best-selling author, film director, women's-rights advocate, former Dutch parliamentarian, Islamist death-threat survivor, refugee from a Somalian forced marriage, and a fierce champion of individual freedoms - that of others as well as her own - Ayaan Hirsi Ali has demonstrated her courage once more. In the cover story she penned for the current issue of Newsweek, entitled "The War on Christians," which is excerpted in The Daily Beast, Hirsi Ali gives a tour d'horizon of the most politically incorrect subject of all human-rights reporting: the ongoing religious persecution of Christians in the Muslim world. It makes heartbreaking reading.
♦ Appeals Court Rules Against Christian
Counselor
February 7, 2012
A federal appeals court has upheld the firing of a Christian counselor who lost her job at the Centers for Disease Control for refusing to advise a woman in a homosexual relationship.
♦ Ninth Circuit to 7 Million California Voters: You
Are Irrational Bigots
February 7, 2012
In a breathtaking exercise in ill-natured illogic, a divided Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that because Prop 8 does not take away civil-union benefits for same-sex couples, it's an unconstitutional exercise in irrational animus towards gay people.
♦ SUNY Buffalo Demands InterVarsity Revise
Constitution
February 3, 2012
The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter at the State University of New York at Buffalo has three weeks to come into compliance with the school's nondiscrimination policy or risk losing its status as an official campus group.
♦ Parochial Schools and Peyote: How Illegal Drugs
and Christian School Teachers are Related
February 1, 2012
Back in 1990, the Supreme Court decided that laws prohibiting use of the hallucinogenic drug peyote did not violate the freedom of religion of Native Americans who ingested it as part of their religious ceremonies. Many outside of the legal community thought this was the right result because of concerns that drug abusers might pretend to have religious beliefs in an attempt to circumvent bans on illegal drugs.
♦ Pastor Not Inclined to 'Meaningless
Prayer'
January 26, 2012
While Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (D) pushes for gambling expansion, a pastor is being criticized for trying to use prayer to help encourage lawmakers to make decisions that are consistent with God's "eternal character and truth."
♦ Alaska Airlines Retiring Meal tray Prayer
Cards
January 25, 2012
SEATTLE - After 30 years of giving passengers spiritual words to reflect on while they eat their meals, Alaska Airlines is retiring the prayer cards from meal trays.
♦ Court Ruling Aids 'Dumbing Down'
January 5, 2012
The Alliance Defense Fund is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to review Idaho's ban on the use of books deemed "religious," even if they are the classics of Western civilization (see earlier story).
♦ Hawaiiian Churches Denied Exemption
January 4, 2012
A court in Hawaii has refused to exempt churches from being forced to allow their property to be used for civil union ceremonies.
♦ The Welfare State's War on Religious
Liberty
December 29, 2011
The case for limited government is becoming increasingly inseparable from the case for religious liberty. Yesterday, the New York Times published a lengthy article on the battle between the Catholic Church and various arms of the leviathan welfare state.
♦ 'Stinging Rebuke' of ECUSA Head
December 27, 2011
The Episcopal Church of Sudan has turned thumbs down to the head of the church in America. Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori had been invited there, but the Episcopal Church of Sudan has now disinvited her, citing the American church's "flagrant disregard" for biblical teaching. Jeff Walton of the Institute on Religion & Democracy tells OneNewsNow the invitation retraction was specifically because the Episcopal Church USA has strayed from biblical teaching on human sexuality.
♦ Court Rules in Georgia Case on Student's View of
'Gays'
December 20, 2011
ATLANTA - A federal court has upheld a ruling that Augusta State University in Georgia was within its rights to require a graduate school counseling student to keep her biblical views on homosexuals to herself.
♦ Study: Christian Population Shifts from
Europe
December 19, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Christian population has shifted dramatically over the last century away from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas, yet Christians overall remain the largest religious group in the world, according to a new analysis released Monday.
♦ How Obama's 'Other Half' Lives
December 16, 2011
Census data shows 48 percent of Americans are either "poor" or "near poor," the Associated Press reported yesterday, perplexing everyday people and delighting the nation's harshest critics here and abroad.
♦ Student Sues School District & Teacher After
being Punished for His Religious Beliefs
December 15, 2011
The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit yesterday afternoon against the Howell Public School District located in Howell, Michigan, and teacher, Johnson ("Jay") McDowell, for punishment and humiliation heaped on a student after he expressed his religious belief opposing homosexuality when asked by the teacher during class. (copy of lawsuit)
♦ Married Couples at a Record Low
December 13, 2011
The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society.
♦ Illinois Bed and Breakfast Answers Gay
Discrimination Claims
December 7, 2011
A central Illinois bed and breakfast is fighting for the right not to host "civil unions" at its facilities. TimberCreek Bed and Breakfast has responded to complaints filed against it with the state's Human Rights Commission.
♦ U.S. Military to Rescind Policy Banning Bibles at
Hospital
December 2, 2011
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said they are rescinding a policy that prohibits family members of wounded military troops from bringing Bibles or any religious reading materials to their loved ones.
♦ Young People's Attitudes Toward Abortion and
Same-Sex Marriage
December 2, 2011
During the past couple days there has been some good commentary on NRO about the diverging political trajectories of abortion and same-sex marriage. One aspect of this debate that deserves more attention is the opinions of young adults. The overall trends in public opinion are interesting. However, what is especially encouraging for both pro-lifers and same-sex marriage proponents is not only the gains they are making in the court of public opinion, but also the fact that these gains are more pronounced among young people.
♦ OK to Discriminate Against Christians, Says Law,
Vandy
December 1, 2011
Four Christian groups at Vanderbilt University are "under a serious threat" from the legal and cultural climates and may soon be booted from the campus because of a new university policy that says they must accept anyone and everyone into their organizations.
♦ Without Marriage, 'Everything else is
Weakened'
November 21, 2011
A spokesman for the Family Research Council (FRC) says his organization's new study on the family should shock the nation.The Marriage and Religion Research Institute's annual "Index of Family Belonging and Rejection" shows that only 45 percent of American children reach their 17th year with both their biological parents married (since before or around the time of their birth), while 55 percent do not.
♦ Mayor Threatens Pastors with Felony Charges over
Recall
November 19, 2011
A group of churches and pastors in El Paso, Texas, are in a legal battle with the city's mayor, who has cited a state election law he says would make their distribution of recall petitions against him a third degree felony. Now Jesus Chapel and its pastor, H. Warren Hoyt, with the help of attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund, are asking a federal court to strike down the election law Mayor John Cook is citing as unconstitutional censorship of free speech.
♦ Help Stop the Senate Attack on Marriage
Law
November 10, 2011
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S.598, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) bill that would completely eradicate the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the protections it affords taxpayers and the majority of state's voters who have decided to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
♦ The Grinch is Here: Obama Imposes Christmas Tree
Tax
November 8, 2011
Yes, you read that correctly. President Obama has imposed a new tax on all fresh Christmas trees, just in time for the holiday season. Why is the tax necessary? To pay for a big fancy government marketing campaign about....Christmas trees.
♦ Something Missing from WWII Memorial
November 8, 2011
In spite of the objections from the Obama administration, Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are working hard to have prayer added to a memorial in Washington, DC. Before he took to the airways as allied forces were landing on the beaches in Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the nation: "Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation this day have set upon the mighty endeavor, have struggled to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity."
♦ Evangelicals Prepare for 2012
November 7, 2011
Will evangelicals sustain their traditionally high level of support for Republicans in next year's election, despite Evangelical Left exertions to peel away some evangelicals on issues like poverty and the environment? Long-time Religious Left activist Jim Wallis is the chief cheerleader for shifting evangelicals leftward and has aired some of his talking points in recent debates with conservatives, including Southern Baptist leaders Al Mohler and Richard Land, plus Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute.
♦ A Majority of Democrats Seldom or Never Go to
Church, Says Gallup
November 7, 2011
A majority of Democrats-52 percent-say they seldom or never go to church, according to Gallup data published Monday. That result is based on Gallup's daily tracking polls conducted between June 1 and Aug. 31 of this year.
♦ Air Force Shoots Down Christmas Charity
November 4, 2011
The Air Force Academy has apologized for sending an email to cadets that read, "As the holidays approach, we have the opportunity to provide the joy of Christmas to impoverished Children around the world. . . . PLEASE, PLEASE CONSIDER SPENDING SOME OF YOUR VALUABLE TIME AND MONEY TO LOVE ON A KID AROUND THE WORLD!!" Why? Because Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation complained that promoting charity for impoverished children through Operation Christmas Child, run by Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse, is a constitutional violation.
♦ Obama Administration Opposes FDR Prayer at WWII
Memorial
November 4, 2011
Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are expressing outrage after the Obama administration announced its objection to adding President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The objection was noted during a congressional hearing on Rep. Bill Johnson's, R-Ohio, bill -- the "World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2011."
♦ Billy Graham's Sermons, Speeches Go
Online
November 4, 2011
A few days before Billy Graham's birthday, his evangelistic association has delivered a present for posterity. It comes in the form of hundreds of audio files of Graham sermons, speeches and comments that stretch back six decades - all available with the click of a mouse at www.tulsaworld.com/billygraham.
♦ Christian Churches Read Quran from Pulpits Across
America
October 31, 2011
How would you feel if your pastor stood in the pulpit this past Sunday opened what you believed to be his Bible and then started to read passages completely unfamiliar to you. Then in the midst of the reading you hear him say Allah instead of God and you realize he is reading not from his Bible, but from the Quran.
♦ Subcommittee Hearing on "The State of Religious
Liberty in the United States"
October 27, 2011
Rep. Trent Franks, as Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, held a hearing this week on "The State of Religious Liberty in the United States."
♦ Shariah Law Being Used in U. S. Courts to Decide
Cases
October 25, 2011
Warnings about Shariah law being applied in America are too late, if the U.S. courts' assimilation of Islamic religious law is any indication, according to an extensive report on the dispute. A recent Center for Security Policy study called "Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases, confirms it's already here, and outlines dozens of cases in which it has been applied.
♦ WWII Memorial May Get Booted From National
Forest
October 24, 2011
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) has been ordered by the United States Forest Service to take down a World War II Memorial that includes a statue of Jesus erected in 1953 in the Flathead National Forest.
♦ Muslim Students at Catholic University of America
Complain that Christian Symbols Make Them Uncomfortable When They
Pray in Empty Classrooms
October 20, 2011
Crucifixes? At a Catholic university? How about that.
Of course, at the heart of this complaint is the hope of establishing a Muslim prayer space on the campus that would be subject to different standards than the rest of the university -- a little enclave of Islamic law where its ban on the display of crosses would be "respected."
♦ Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights?
October 18, 2011
Imagine you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and his classmates were given "risk cards" that graphically named a variety of solitary and mutual sex acts? Or if, in another lesson, he was encouraged to disregard what you told him about sex, and to rely instead on teachers and health clinic staff members?
♦ Watchdog Group Targeting Pastor's Rights
October 13, 2011
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the IRS to investigate First Baptist Church of Dallas and its pastor for posting videos that endorse a presidential candidate, but the pastor isn't concerned about it.
♦ Accuracy vs. Readability
October 5, 2011
According to a new study, American Bible readers prefer word-for-word translations of the original Greek and Hebrew text over paraphrased or thought-for-thought versions.
♦ Military BibleStick Receives Support from Varied
Sources All Across America
October 3, 2011
Since Faith Comes By Hearing began their Military BibleStick project in 2008, the world's largest Audio Bible ministry has provided more than 140,000 digital Audio New Testaments (BibleSticks) to over 800 chaplains serving America's active duty military. The project has been entirely free of charge to chaplains and troops, largely as a result of generous gifts from partnering churches, individual donors and Christian radio listeners responding to on-air campaigns.
♦ Where a Roman Catholic Deacon Ponders the
World
October 2, 2011
Since this is Respect Life Sunday, and the beginning of Respect Life month, I wanted to talk about one woman who did respect life - and her choice has made a difference in the life of virtually every person in this church.
♦ Billboard Battle Rages in Toledo
September 30, 2011
The I-75 corridor through Toledo, Ohio, has become a battleground for the homosexuality debate. Two churches with opposing views on the issue are in a clash of dueling billboards to get out their messages.
♦ 86
percent of pastors shouldn't regulate sermons
September 23, 2011
NASHVILLE - A new survey conducted by the Alliance Defense Fund and LifeWay Research has found that nearly nine out of 10 Protestant pastors believe that the government should not regulate their sermons. The survey asked the pastors about their agreement with the statement, "The government should regulate sermons by revoking a church's tax exemption if its pastor approves of or criticizes candidates based on the church's moral beliefs or theology." Eighty-six percent disagreed with the statement, including 79 percent who strongly disagreed.
♦ "Jobs Bill" Attacks Charitable Deductions in Favor
of Bigger Government
September 19, 2011
Washington, DC - President Obama's proposed "American Jobs Act" will repeal charitable tax deductions for certain taxpayers. Eliminating tax deductions would allegedly raise approximately $400 billion to support Obama's government stimulus bill and would, in turn, significantly decrease the amount of charitable donations, while increasing government glut. Charities play a significant role in the every-day functioning and survival of Americans nationwide, and Obama is essentially seeking to replace those charities with more government.
♦
Evangelical Pastors Heed a Political Calling for 2012
September 10, 2011
Reporting from Ames, Iowa - For most of his two decades as a preacher, Iowa pastor Mike Demastus eschewed partisanship, telling colleagues and congregants that "religion and politics don't mix."
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9/11 Services Fall Flat on Their Faith
Septmember 7, 2011
To commemorate 9/11, the National Cathedral is hosting "A Call to Compassion." But considering the program, it ought to be named "A Call to Confusion." As part of its 10th Anniversary events, the White House is helping to organize the interfaith prayer vigil, scheduled to coincide with Sunday's tolling of the bells.
♦
Hunter, Gatherer of Signatures
September 7, 2011
Just because President Obama says homosexuals can openly serve doesn't mean others can't openly object--not if Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) can help it. Over the next two weeks, the fellow Marine veteran will be sprinting to beat the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal with a bill that would protect the troops' right to free speech.
♦ Texas
successful in defunding abortion group
Septmeber 4, 2011
Planned Parenthood is closing some clinics and merging others in Texas after Governor Rick Perry signed into law a measure defunding the abortion giant.
♦
Bachmann, God, and the press
September 1, 2011
In June of 2008, Presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech in Minnesota in which he said, "... I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment ... when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." And he meant it. Newsweek reporter Evan Thomas declared him God-like. Comedians pronounced him too profound ... too brilliant to make jokes about.
♦
Abortion Increases Risk of Women's Mental Health Problems
81%
September 1, 2011
A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by leading American researcher Dr. Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University finds women who have an abortion face almost double the risk of mental health problems as women who have their baby.
♦ Legal
advice to schools: 'Don't let the ACLU bully you'
August 31, 2011
The American Civil Liberties Union wants schools to deactivate filters on computers.
♦ Pittsburgh
no longer banning pro-lifers' free speech
August 31, 2011
The city of Pittsburgh, hauled into court for a leafleting policy that only seemed to apply to pro-lifers, is now changing its ordinance in order to settle a constitutional challenge.
♦ LGBT
a 'desirable' trait at UCC-affiliated colleges
August 30, 2011
Is being lesbian, "gay," bisexual, or transgender a special talent? FRC's Peter Sprigg says a church-affiliated college in Illinois apparently thinks so.
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Israel - An Apartheid State?
August 30, 2011
Next month, the U.N.-sponsored Hate-Israel Festival known as Durban III takes place. Under the heading "Anti-Racism," the great bulk of the conference, like its Durban I and II predecessors, consists of condemning Israel for racism and equating it with an apartheid state.
♦
Faith and Liberalism in the News
August 30, 2011
There are no less than eight stories dealing with the religious beliefs of President Obama and his Republican challengers on RealClearReligion today. By historical standards, this is extraordinary: In no previous election season have the faith-related convictions of presidential candidates been so scrutinized.
♦
MLK: An American Christian
August 29, 2011
Like most Americans, I want the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to be great. I want it to be an awe-inspiring monument to greatness and an eternal reminder of the promise of America - a promise that King helped make real for millions of African Americans and people of color.
♦ Abortions
slowed in Arizona, Texas
August 26, 2011
WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood clinics in three Arizona cities no longer will provide abortions.
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Indiana College Bans "Too Violent" National Anthem
August 26, 2011
Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the "The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school's president considers the National Anthem's words to be too violent.
♦
The New York Times Gives Pro-Lifers Food for Thought
August 26, 2011
Many pro-lifers rightly criticize the New York Times for its biased coverage of sanctity-of-life issues, but sometimes their reporting provides pro-lifers with real insights. For instance, last summer The New York Times Magazine published a detailed article about the next generation of abortion providers. The article confirmed what pro-lifers have suspected for a long time, namely that most young physicians want nothing to do with abortion.
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Glenn Beck's Revealing Visit
August 26, 2011
American media superstar Glenn Beck's visit to Israel this week was a revealing and remarkable event. It revealed what it takes to be a friend of Israel. And it revealed the causes of Israel's difficulty in telling its enemies from its friends.
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Iranian pastor cleared, then re-arrested
August 26, 2011
Prevent Truth Ministries (PTM) has uncovered the latest information on an Iranian pastor for whom freedom was short-lived.
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Google Cuts Churches Out of Nonprofit Program
August 25, 2011
Brian Young had big plans for his church's IT strategy. But his vision suffered a serious setback this summer after Google Inc. altered its nonprofit program to prohibit all churches and religious organizations from participating.
♦
A Kennedy's attempt to plumb the depths of Rick Perry's
soul
August 25, 2011
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has done us a wonderful service with her Aug. 15 article in the Atlantic, "Is Rick Perry as Christian as He Thinks He Is?"
♦ High
court to review TV decency
August 26, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear two cases involving broadcast indecency
♦ Fox
News parent company investing in 'gay marriage'
August 24, 2011
The owner of a cable news channel is investing in homosexual marriage, and one conservative activist says that shows the direction the network is taking on the issue.
♦ Report:
Military to chaplains - resign or conform
August 24, 2011
A coalition of chaplains and other service members is urging members of Congress to stand up for religious freedom in the wake of the appeal of the ban on homosexual military service.
♦ 'A
great day for the Constitution' in FL teacher case
August 25, 2011
The school board in Lake County, Florida, has reinstated teacher Jerry Buell who was removed from the classroom last week over comments he posted on his personal Facebook page expressing his disapproval of the legalization of homosexual "marriage" in New York.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
August 25, 2011
Name a single Arab or Islamic state, which, after a revolution that has overthrown a dictator, came to embrace political pluralism, religious tolerance and equal rights for women.
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Richie Rich's Free Lunch
August 24, 2011
Last month, with the federal government on the precipice of default, President Obama & Co. repeatedly warned that any cuts in government would amount to a terrorist Tea Party attack on assistance to the poor and elderly.
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Our VPOTUS at Work in China, Affirming brutal One-Child
Policy
August 22, 2011
Yesterday, during remarks at Sichuan University yesterday, Joe Biden said:
Your policy has been one which I fully understand - I'm not second-guessing - of one child per family. The result being that you're in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.
♦ Another
circuit shorts out on prayer
August 22, 2011
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling against Christian prayer.
♦ Models
show 'global-warming crisis' not really coming
August 22, 2011
New NASA satellite data reveals that computer models relied upon by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been predicting too much global warming.
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Blacks' dilemma with Obama
August 22, 2011
Election of our nation's first black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population. Blacks are discovering that what a man or woman does -- their actions -- is what matters, not the color of their skin.
♦ Duke
Prof.: Americans' religious faith waning
August 22, 2011
A Duke University professor's new analysis of decades' worth of data suggests that American religious belief is getting gradually weaker and less widespread than it once was.
♦ 'Teacher
of the Year' suspended for Facebook comment
August 22, 2011
A Florida teacher has been suspended and removed from the classroom in Mount Dora, Florida, for comments made on his Facebook page against homosexual "marriage." Liberty Counsel will be representing the teacher in court.
♦ WH
announces unilateral move to amnesty
August 22, 2011
An immigration reform organization says President Barack Obama has bypassed Congress to effectively give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the United States.
♦
Ill. can force gay adoptions, judge rules
August 19, 2011
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP)--In what could be another example of a same-sex law trumping religious freedom, an Illinois judge has ruled the state can end its adoption and foster care relationship with Catholic Charities, which refuses to place children with gay couples.
♦ ADF Responds to Additional ACLU Depand that
Schoolchildren be Exposed to Porn
August 19, 2011
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -The Alliance Defense Fund has sent letters to seven public school districts across the country that urge them to reject the American Civil Liberties Union's demand that they deactivate various Web filters that block student access to websites with sexually explicit material just because some of the sites blocked belong to homosexual activist groups. ADF assured the districts that they are well within their legal rights to retain their filters.
♦
Two Subjects Forbidden at Dinner Tables
August 18, 2011
One of the loudest culture clashes you hear is that between religious people and - what should we call them? The establishment media? I thought that the exchange between David Gregory and Michele Bachmann, on Meet the Press, was fascinating. Gregory asked, "Would God guide your decisions that you would make as president of the United States?" Well, what religious person wouldn't pray for guidance? And it seems to me that the presidency is so tough, it would drive even the irreligious to their knees.
♦
David Gregory, Amazed that Americans Pray to God for Direction in
Their Lives?
August 15, 2011
When Michele Bachmann went on to headline Meet the Press Sunday morning, host David Gregory asked her questions only someone antagonistic to religion, or someone who otherwise does not take faith too seriously, would ask.
♦ Agnostics for
Perry
August 14, 2011
Rick Perry only just announced his presidential run Saturday, but out here in the blue-blue City of Angels I am already detecting severe signs of PDS - Perry Derangement Syndrome.
♦
Christianity, Politics, and the 'Submission' Question
August 12, 2011
It is a very sad thing to see seemingly smart people try to talk intelligently about things they misunderstand so horribly. This often happens when it comes to religion and politics. And it happened in last night's Republican candidate's debate from Iowa, when Byron York asked Rep. Michele Bachmann, because of her evangelical Christian faith, "As President, would you be submissive to your husband?"
♦ Pharmacists
conscience obsolete in new bill
August 12, 2011
A pro-life pharmacist says a bill introduced in both houses of Congress that would force pharmacists to dispense controversial medication, regardless of their conscience, would impact those who object to birth control and emergency contraception.
♦ Free-expression
rights trampled at fish festival
August 12, 2011
There will be no "fishers of men" (Matthew 4:19) at the Salmon Days Festival in Issaquah, Washington. But the town may pay a price for its actions.
♦ Survey:
Pro-life views on the upswing in U.S.
August 12, 2011
A Gallup poll shows mixed results on public attitudes towards pro-life issues, but the results are for the most part positive.
♦ Liberal
court upholds pastor's free-speech right
August 11, 2011
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Oakland, California, pro-life activist and pastor Walter Hoye.
♦ Abortions
down in Nebraska
August 11, 2011
Nebraska has seen a drop in its abortion rate -- and a pro-life organization believes it has to do with the passing of a recent measure.
♦ School
board caught in middle of prayer fight
August 11, 2011
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower-court decision that said Christian prayers by a Delaware school board were constitutional.
♦ Public
prayer case Supreme Court bound
August 11, 2011
A North Carolina county is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a challenge to its policy over prayer at public meetings.
♦ Obama
admin. ignoring Islamic threat
August 11, 2011
A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor says it's "incredibly naïve and dangerous" for the Obama administration to go out of its way to extract Islam when it describes the threat of terrorism.
♦ Public
Education - government not keen on flexibility
August 8, 2011
The Heritage Foundation recently hosted a forum to examine the federal government's overreach into the public school system with its "Common Core State Standards" initiative.
♦
A look at Perry's faith leading up to Saturday's rally
August 4, 2011
AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry has never been hesitant about proclaiming his deep devotion to God and the lifelong "walk of faith" that has carried him from his boyhood on a West Texas tenant farm to the state's highest office.
♦ Netanyahu's
caveats a safe bet
August 4, 2011
The leader of a Messianic Jewish ministry predicts the Palestinians are never going to accept the conditions that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now requiring in an new effort to forge peace in the Middle East.
♦ Victory
for the cross
August 4, 2011
The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) claims success in rescuing a Livingston, New Jersey, man who wanted to display a cross on his residential property.
♦
The Wild Blue Yonder
August 3, 2011
Thank Gaia for "watchdog groups," who can take the Christian out of the Christian Just War Theory with a mere complaint. And, naturally, the Air Force immediately scrambled to recall its educational jets - the class was suspended upon receipt of the complaint.
♦
Despite states' rights stand, Perry supports fundamental amendment
'to protect life'
July 31, 2011
On the heels of his kerfuffle over same-sex marriage, Gov. Rick Perry is again favoring a federal constitutional amendment over state decision-making on a hot-button topic - this time, abortion.
♦
Recruiters pressed to reach out to gays once ban is
lifted
July 28, 2011
An underground gay group in the military wants recruiters to reach out to the gay community in the same way they target blacks, Hispanics and women.
♦
Babies Born in Toilets at Abortion Center, Left to Die
July 27, 2011
On July 21, 2011, a jury of six found that the notorious late-term abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV was liable for injuries sustained by a pre-born baby during a failed abortion ten years ago. The jury stunned eye-witnesses in the courtroom by ordering Pendergraft to pay $36,737,660.16 in compensatory and punitive damages.
♦
Rick Perry Gets A Grade on Abortion From Texas Pro-Life
Groups
July 27, 2011
The big question in the Republican presidential race is whether or not Texas Gov. Rick Perry will throw his name in the hat for the GOP nomination to face pro-abortion president Barack Obama. If he does, Texas pro-life groups give him high marks.
♦ IRS
asked to silence ministry's local efforts
July 27, 2011
An El Paso, Texas-based ministry is the target of a complaint from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The organization wants the Internal Revenue Service to zero in on Tom Brown Ministries.
♦
A Secret weapon against abortion
July 27, 2011
There's something new in the battle over abortion. However, in
one sense, it's not new at all.
It's a secret weapon -- although it's not that secret.
It's organized prayer and fasting against abortion.
"Oh, is that all?" "What's new about that?"
♦
Atheist Group Files Lawsuit Against Display of WTC Cross at 9/11
Memorial
July 27, 2011
A group of atheists has filed a lawsuit claiming the display of the World Trade Center cross at the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan is unconstitutional, calling it a "mingling of church and state."
♦ Congressman Tom
McClintock - Debt Crisis
July 26, 2011
Imagine a family that earns $50,000 a year but is spending more than $88,000 with a credit card balance of $330,000. The discussions around the kitchen table are likely to be a little tense.
♦
Gallup Poll: Americans Support Pro-Life Laws Limiting
Abortion
July 25, 2011
A new Gallup survey asked Americans their opinion about a slate of pro-life laws frequently considered by Congress and state legislatures across the country and the results show most Americans support most pro-life laws.
♦
Practitioner Must pay Survivor of Failed Abortion $36
Million
July 25, 2011
In a legal case that has received no mainstream media attention, a Florida abortion practitioner has been ordered by a court to pay the survivor of a failed abortion $36 million in damages for injuries she suffered from the abortion.
♦ Survey
reveals contradictory views about religion
July 25, 2011
Do churches contribute to their communities? The Barna Group did some research on the subject to determine what everyday people think.
♦ Repeal
of FL ban on religious funding challenged
July 24, 2011
TALLAHASSEE, FL - Florida's statewide teachers union, public school leaders and clergymen have challenged a 2012 ballot proposal to repeal the state ban on using public money to aid churches and other religious organizations.
♦ Trampling
states' rights
July 20, 2011
Pro-life and states' rights proponents don't agree with the Obama administration threatening to directly fund New Hampshire Planned Parenthood facilities.
♦ 'Deliciously
ironic' offense
July 20, 2011
A Muslim group is calling out a California councilman for comments made on his Facebook page concerning Muslims and 9/11, but at least one Christian group has come to his defense.
♦ National
Motto, First Amendment don't apply in the classroom!
July 20, 2011
A California-based federal appeals court has ruled against a teacher's right to display banners that mention God.
♦
The Chilling of Our First Amendment Rights
July 20, 2011
The First Amendment is more than a legal guarantee. It is a culture - a key American value - which holds that in a decent and free society, law-abiding citizens should not face reprisals for speaking up with civility for the moral good as they see it.
♦
It's On: Hoekstra vs. Stabenow
July 20, 2011
A big hole in the Republican battle to take the Senate and win the war over Obamacare was filled this morning as former Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra announced that he's decided to take on two-term incumbent Debbie "I feel global warming when I'm flying" Stabenow.
♦
Why Obama is being ignored-his record
July 18, 2011
Nothing seems to upset Barack Obama like being ignored. He is the President, after all, and "The One." Yet, as the negotiations on a debt ceiling deal bob-and-weave along in Washington, he grows visibly angrier that he's not getting his own way. This week he reportedly "stormed out" of discussions after Majority Leader Eric Cantor suggested the two sides were still pretty far apart on a solution.
♦ Setting
the record straight
July 18, 2011
A new website has been set up to give pro-lifers reliable research that shows violence from pro-abortion advocates is more severe than that of pro-lifers.
♦
Why do blacks still let Obama off the hook?
July 18, 2011
A Chicago Sun Times article, headlined "The disappearing black middle class," reports on the disproportionate impact of these hard economic times on blacks.
♦
Could the Church of England be dead in 20 years?
July 18, 2011
The headline on the July 14, 2011, edition of the British paper, The Telegraph, heralded some very bad news for British Anglicans. It declared, "Aging Church of England 'will be dead in 20 years.'"
♦
How Americans Learned to Ignore Their Own History
July 18, 2011
Part of it is through a process termed "deconstruction" that has dominated American teaching for the last 50 years - a process whereby you point out the negatives and not the positives. So that if you ask Americans to list 10 things about America we should be ashamed of and 10 things we can be proud of, they will fill the list of negatives before they fill the positives.
♦ Arrogant'
9th Circuit
July 18, 2011
A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor doesn't believe the controversial Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has the jurisdiction to order the entire military to halt the ban on homosexuals serving in the military.
♦
Rick Perry's Christianity is Good for America
July 17, 2011
For those who couldn't tell from my name, I'm a Jew. Not only am I Jew, I'm an Orthodox Jew. I pray three times a day to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I keep kosher. I wear phylacteries in the morning, and I say the Shema at night.
♦
A Governor Who Prays of Preys?
July 17, 2011
Conservative commentator Bill Bennett says that anyone looking for democracy, good government, business and job growth, the best medical care, a lower cost of living and taxes should look to Texas as the model and to Rick Perry as the model governor.
♦
Company Using Abortion Fetal Cells in Flavors Shields
Partners
July 15, 2011
The company that was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions is now working to hide the names of the corporations it contracts with as a pro-life boycott continues.
♦ Congressional
Prayer Caucus Update
July 15, 2011
According to three volunteer veterans groups, the Director of the Houston National Cemetery has been censoring religious speech at private burial services.
♦ Texas
judge to decide sonogram law's fate
July 14, 2011
A Texas federal judge is to decide whether the state will implement its new law that requires abortion clinics to provide sonogram results to a woman before she can abort her baby.
♦ Lawsuit:
Prayer rally promotes 'rabid Christian agenda'
July 14, 2011
An atheist organization is suing Texas Governor Rick Perry, a possible presidential candidate, for initiating a private prayer event scheduled for August 6 in Houston.
♦
Christian Pastor Facing Execution in Iran
July 14, 2011
A 32 year-old Iranian Christian Pastor is reportedly facing execution in Iran unless he is willing to recant his faith in Jesus Christ. Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani became a Christian as a teenager, and has been under arrest since 2009 for his faith. In Iran - dominated by Islam - there is apparently no room for him to practice and share his faith
♦ County
favors Christians, says anti-religious group
July 13, 2011
A conservative law firm is standing up for a Delaware county that is facing a lawsuit for reciting the Lord's Prayer at its meetings.
♦
Ground Zero Mosque a Go
July 13, 2011
Although backers of a mosque planned to be built steps away from Ground Zero still need millions of dollars to break ground, the legal system has given radical Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf the go-ahead to build
♦ Understanding the
UN Bias Against Israel
July 12, 2011
♦
The Disfranchised Military
July 12, 2011
Members of the U.S. military and their families who were stationed overseas during the 2010 elections were disfranchised at an alarmingly high rate, according to a new report released today by the Military Voter Protection Project.
♦
NYT Asks: How Can We Get Men to Be Women?
July 11, 2011
Last week, the New York Times ran a symposium titled "How Can We Get Men to Do More at Home?" The series was prompted because of a recent study showing that German and other European women are making strides in education and in the workplace, but their careers stall once they have children.
♦
Gotcha! The Asinine Politics of YouTube
July 11, 2011
AMHERST, N.H. - Aaron Fielding quietly stalks his prey - Republicans - with his video camera, patiently waiting for a political moment worthy of YouTube.
♦ Sudan
leader's hat tip to Bush
July 11, 2011
When the new nation of South Sudan's leader, Salva Kiir, signed his country's constitution this weekend, he did so while wearing a cowboy hat given to him by former President George W. Bush.
♦ Freedom
of Speech and Religion Under Attack
July 8, 2011
♦
ACLU challenges ballot wording on MO public prayer
proposal
July 7, 2011
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union are challenging the ballot wording for a proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution on public prayer.
♦ Ft. Bragg Of Graham Evangelistic Event Broke Military Rules, Watchdog Group Says
July 5, 2011
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today asked U.S. Army leaders to ensure that officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina don't sponsor events that give selective benefits to religious groups.
♦
Gay marriage across the land: not so darn fast
July 5, 2011
The recent legalization of same-sex marriage in New York proves that it's no longer an issue in the United States, right? Gay marriage will eventually, but certainly, become widely accepted everywhere, right?
♦ As We Celebrate Our Liberty, An Iranian Pastor Faces Death
July 2, 2011
On this holiday weekend an Iranian pastor's life hangs in the balance. On June 28, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. His crimes? Apostasy and evangelism. Pastor Nadarkhani had publicly opposed an Iranian practice requiring that all children, regardless of faith, receive Islamic instruction. In spite of alleged religious-freedom guarantees under the Iranian constitution, he now faces death - a sentence that could literally be carried out at any time.
♦ NJ man double-crossed by town for displaying two crosses in front yard
July 1, 2011
LIVINGSTON, N.J. - The Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to the township of Livingston Friday that urges officials to stop using a town ordinance to prohibit a resident from displaying crosses in various areas of his own front yard. Police ordered the homeowner to take down a cross he had affixed to a tree in celebration of Lent after a neighbor opposed to his religious display complained.
♦
How Conservative is the Evangelical Base?
July 1, 2011
My ACLJ colleague Jordan Sekulow's Washington Post piece making the case for Christian support for immigration enforcement reminded me of a disturbing but very real trend in American evangelicalism - a perceptible drift left on economic freedom, immigration, and the environment.
♦
As Night Follows Day...
July 1, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood has enthusiastically accepted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's offer of official contacts with the Obama administration (about which I posted yesterday). Brotherhood spokesman Mohammed Ghozlan told the AP that the Islamist organization "welcome[s] dialogue with America to remove any misunderstandings and bridge gaps."
♦
House Veterans Claim Censorship of Prayers
June 29, 2011
Veterans in Houston say the Department of Veterans Affairs is consistently censoring their prayers by banning them from saying the words "God" and "Jesus" during funeral services at Houston National Cemetery.
♦
Terry Jeffrey: Next Step, Persecuting Churches?
June 29, 2011
When the New York legislature passed a law last Friday legalizing same-sex marriage, all of New York's Roman Catholic bishops signed a statement warning that they now expect efforts to enact laws attacking churches that defend the truth.
♦
Is Democracy Viable
June 29, 2011
The media have recently been so preoccupied with a congressman's photograph of himself in his underwear that scant attention has been paid to the fact that Iran continues advancing toward creating a nuclear bomb, and nobody is doing anything that is likely to stop them.
♦
Orthodox Rally to Rebuild Ground Zero Church
June 28, 2011
NEW YORK (RNS) With cries of "Rebuild now! Rebuild Now!" parishioners and supporters of a Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks rallied at Ground Zero on Sunday (June 26) in hopes of resuming negotiations to rebuild the church.
♦ Levin: Stephanopoulos is Foolish in Lecturing Bachman
June 28, 2011
George Stephanopoulos made the mistake of going after Michele Bachmann on history -- and promptly proceeded to get his history foolishly wrong.
♦ HRC
says Home Depot 'secret weapon' in passing New York gay marriage
law
June 28, 2011
The nation's largest pro-homosexual activist group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), credited Home Depot for helping it pass gay marriage in New York State last week.
♦
Planned Parenthood sues to halt funding cutoff in Kansas
June 27, 2011
A new front opened in the Kansas abortion war Monday when Planned Parenthood asked a judge to stop the state from stripping the agency of federal family-planning funds.
♦
RNS Reacts to Story on Delta and Saudi Arabia
June 27, 2011
The Religious News Service, which first reported the repercussions of Delta Air Lines' new relationship with Saudi Arabian Airlines, has retracted its original story, Trebor Banstetter of Delta Air Lines says in an email to reporters.
♦
Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Organ Town Has Some Seeing
Red
June 26, 2011
An Oregon town's City Council voted down a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every council meeting, but later passed a compromise that seemed to make no one happy.
♦
Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Organ Town Has Some Seeing
Red
June 26, 2011
An Oregon town's City Council voted down a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every council meeting, but later passed a compromise that seemed to make no one happy.
♦
No 'him' of 'her'; Preschool fights gender bias
June 26, 2011
STOCKHOLM (AP) - At the "Egalia" preschool, staff avoid using words like "him" or "her" and address the 33 kids as "friends" rather than girls and boys.
♦
Criticism of Delta unfair, some travel industry experts
say
June 25, 2011
Some travel industry experts say Delta Air Lines is being treated unfairly - and is the victim of misinformation - because of its pending marketing alliance with Saudi Arabian Airlines.
♦
IN Move to Cut Planned Parenthood Fund Blocked
June 24, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana is not allowed to cut off Planned Parenthood's public funding for general health services solely because the organization also provides abortions, a federal judge said Friday in blocking parts of the state's tough new abortion law.
♦
Runaway Agency
June 22, 2011
he Obama administration's takeover of the health-insurance system stands out in many Americans' minds as the distillation of its radicalism, but even more remarkable is its radicalization of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), part of its tireless campaign to aggrandize the cartels known as labor unions.
♦ Brutal
beheading
June 22, 2011
Afghans are warning of dire consequences for the country's tiny Christian population should American forces leave Afghanistan, as President Barack Obama prepares to announce his plans for a troop drawdown in a televised address to the nation scheduled for Wednesday evening.
♦
Broun's Budget by 1,000 Cuts
June 22, 2011
When it comes to cost-saving amendments, Rep. Paul Broun can't be beat, even if he rarely wins.
♦
Topography of faith
June 20, 2011
Religious affiliation of U. S. adults
♦ Fired
for Conservative Values
June 20, 2011
You will probably remember Frank Turek from the interview I did with him on his book, "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist" or one of the many other interviews we have done with him on apologetics topics.
♦
Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson will in fasting and
prayer
June 20, 2011
HARRISBURG - To help Harrisburg out of its financial crisis, area Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have called for three days of fasting and praying for a more cooperative spirit among Harrisburg government leaders, the business community and residents.
♦
NBC Apologizes for Omitting 'Under God' From Pledge During U.S.
Open
June 19, 2011
BETHESDA, Md. -- NBC issued an on-air apology Sunday for omitting the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance during its coverage of golf's U.S. Open.
♦
62 Percent of Americans say it loud and clear, "Don't disparage
marriage"
June 17, 2011
Despite a relentless pop-culture, a Big Media and education establishment-led propaganda campaign, and flawed polls screaming that marriage as we know it is doomed in the U.S., support for this foundation of our society is actually alive and well.
♦
Vacation Liberty School
June 14, 2011
Based on the same concept as Vacation Bible School, patriotic groups across the nation are organizing and hosting week-long day programs to teach 8-13 year olds about American History using crafts, games, snacks, and fun lessons about the founding of this great country. Each school is set up differently, but will focus on learning the importance of the Revolutionary War, The Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, The Constitution as well as important leaders George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Crispus Attucks, and George Whitefield. The Texas TEA Party Patriots PAC will host two sessions: July 11-15, 9-11:30 AM and July 18-22, 6-8:30 PM.
♦ "I
cane, I saw, I was offended"
June 14, 2011
An Ohio judge hung a poster in his courtroom reasserting the law's historical reliance on moral absolutes, only to have the American Civil Liberties Union sue - and win - because one of their lawyers was offended by the poster's reference to the Ten Commandments.
♦
Keep Jesus out of your socialism (Part 2)
June 14, 2011
In part one of this series, I made clear, from the words of Jesus and the New Testament, that ministering to the poor and the needy among us is the work of Christian individuals and the church, not the secular government. Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. . . ." Today's Religious Left wants to change that to, "He has anointed the federal government to preach good news to the poor."
♦ College
charging fee for witnessing
June 14, 2011
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a Pellissippi State Community College student in Tennessee who was told he would have to pay a fee to share his Christian faith.
♦ Abortion
hindering California budget agreement
June 14, 2011
Tomorrow marks the constitutional deadline for California lawmakers to pass a state budget, and the issue of abortion may be key in the debate.
♦ Problematic
law targets pregnancy care centers
June 14, 2011
Baltimore's law regulating pro-life pregnancy care centers is being considered by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The law requires those centers to post signs saying they do not provide abortions or birth control.
♦
Flag Day 2011: It's A Flag Worth Flying
June 14, 20100
A few weeks ago at Louisiana State University, a small group of agitated students attempted to burn a U.S. flag in protest for some policy or other that they believed warranted the symbolic destruction of their country.
♦
Worse than an Affair
June 14, 2011
To their credit, most Democratic party leaders have (finally) called for Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation. But among liberal commentators and millions of other Americans there is a great deal of flawed thinking about whether Weiner should resign.
♦ Country's
constitutional change 'makes sense'
June 10, 2011
Hungary is still taking European criticism for adopting a morally conservative constitution.
The flak comes from special-rights groups and political opponents as the document bans homosexual "marriage" and protects the life of an unborn baby from conception.
♦ North
Dakota's need for 'religious freedom' measure
June 10, 2011
North Dakota residents will have the chance to decide whether the state will adopt a constitutional amendment that defines religious freedom, as enough petition signatures were gathered to place it on a future ballot.
♦
More Than 9 in 10 Americans Continue to Believe in God
June 3, 2011
More than 9 in 10 Americans still say "yes" when asked the basic question "Do you believe in God?"; this is down only slightly from the 1940s, when Gallup first asked this question.
♦
NPR Poll: 59% of American's Say Having an Abortion is
Wrong
June 3, 2011
A new poll conducted by Thomson Reuters for NPR, coming after a Gallup survey showing Americans oppose all or most abortions, finds a majority of Americans say having an abortion is wrong.