The Supreme Court building has a statue depicting Moses. Surely we could find a worthy secular judge replacement. While well-intentioned, the substitution of “Happy holidays” for “Merry Christmas” is offensive. Holiday came from the old English phrase “holy day.” What could be more offensive than that? We need a different greeting. Then there are religion-based [...]
Friday’s Printable Hours with Complete TextsLauds : Prayer Upon Rising I thank you, O living and eternal King, for you have graciously given me another day to serve you. You are forever faithful and abounding in compassion! May your kingdom reign this day in my life and my home. I acknowledge you as Lord, and [...]
Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts, is the son of Republican Party politician George W. Romney. He is the only presidential candidate to have remained near the top of the polls throughout the race. In the polls: The Des Moines Register released on Friday sees Romney with 24 per cent support — [...]
You must log in to view and comment on this article… WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Constitutional experts warn a new law that allows the president to permanently detain U.S. citizens without trial could be used against pro-life activists, who have already been defined as potential terrorists in documents by some government agencies, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Here in the States we are going through the seemingly endless warm up for our 2012 presidential election. President Obama is the candidate of the Democrats and the Republicans are trying to sort out who will be their person. The Republican candidates for being the presidential candidate are doing their best to [...]
At National Right to Life, we don’t just talk about the issues, we’re all about ACTION! So when we graduated 11 outstanding young people from the National Right to Life Academy last summer, we knew they’d go out there and change the world with their activism for the lives of unborn babies! And we [...]
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SEATTLE–Washington governor Chris Gregoire announced her support for gay marriage legislation on Wednesday, potentially putting the state on track to become the nation’s seventh to fully recognize same-sex unions. Democrat Gregoire, in the final year of her second term, is backing legislation to be introduced before the Washington state legislature, which reconvenes next week. “It [...]
Family legislation is most likely the specified branch associated with regulations that handle challenges around the family members. For instance the character associated with a marriage, breakup, supporting your children, not to mention validity. Your family legal requirements entails space connected with regulation which usually grips the worries of the members of the family. Including [...]
Daily MailA New Kennedy Mulls PoliticsWBURPatrick Kennedy announced he was stepping down in 2010, it appeared the political dynasty was over. Enter red-headed 31-year-old twin Joseph Patrick Kennedy III. He’s formally looking at running for Rep. Barney Frank’s soon-to-be vacated seat. …Fourth-generation Kennedy considers political lifeBBC NewsA Kennedy Considers Running for Frank’s SeatABC News (blog)Joe [...]
Sometimes it’s hard to understand why young people deviate from the conservative mentalities of their parents during their young adult years, but Raised Right: How I Untangled my Faith from Politics offers an explanation for the switch. Recounting experiences of faith and politics through childhood into young adult years, Raised Right is an early memoir, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Here is a great article by one the leading international magazines citing the problem of the persecution of Christians. Recent bombings and killings in Nigeria have taken the headlines, but persecution of Christians around the globe has risen significantly. There exists a knee-jerk reaction within American politics that says we can’t get [...]
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Should We Ban All Public Displays Of Religion? Posted on 07 January 2012. Tags: Displays, Public, Religion, Should It seems to me that in recent times there has been a lot of offence caused by religious items and clothing. Examples like white brits complaining that sikhs can carry a ceremonial knife, even into a courthouse, [...]
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Persecution of Christians |24 Comments » “Saying Merry Christmas Is Worse than Killing Someone” by Raymond IbrahimStonegate Institute Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East, and throughout the West wherever there are Muslims—it [...]
‘Religion in the public square: a personal paper submitted to the Church Action on Labour and Life (CALL) network of the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches’ By Dr Kenneth Milne, Honorary Secretary of the Church of Ireland Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue I am well aware that what follows [...]
A surging religious right means daunting challenges for keeping Church and State separate. Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 7 Jan 2012 By Simon Brown | 4 January 2012Church State Magazine The following piece comes from Church and State Magazine, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. You don’t have to look [...]
This essay is cross-posted at Rev. Dave’s Bible Study, a side project where I’ve recently been expressing some frustrations on the subject of religion and politics. The Globe Mail‘s plagiarism-happy columnist Margaret Wente has called us, this weekend, to reflect on the importance of religious freedom as the most important front in the battle for [...]
{snip} The recent Swiss vote to ban the construction of minarets in that European nation has become the latest controversy to generate Muslim protests worldwide. However, Islamic governments are in no position to complain about Western intolerance and “Islamophobia.” Most Muslim nations are repressive or offer only limited political freedom. More often than not, Islamic [...]
Most Rev.Josiah Idowu-Fearon is the Anglican Bishop of Kaduna Diocese. The clergy, with a PhD in Islamic studies and strong interest in Christian-Muslim relationship, is not happy with the level of insecurity in the country. The founder of the Kaduna-based Centre for the study of Islam and Christianity recently barred his mind on a number [...]
I do have to say that what we see on the news of the “Occupy” movement seems like a lot of street theatre to make a point. It is usually the troublemakers that seem to get on the national news (and that would include protesters who break the law or law officers who over-extend their [...]
By L.A. Williams, Correspondent Christian Action League RALEIGH — Called back to Raleigh to entertain the governor’s veto of changes to the Racial Justice Act, the General Assembly instead overrode another veto, that of Senate Bill 727, which stops the N.C. Association of Educators from using payroll deduction to collect dues from teachers’ pay. The [...]
Sometimes the providential care of God gently requests my attention, and in doing so it rolls up the darkness of distrust that has a way of creeping into my sight. One such occasion occurred just lately. This past Friday afternoon, I was working at my desk worrying over the minutiae of ministry when my cell [...]
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From Christian Politics News Source- http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/sacred-space-politics-at-church/?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=sacred-space-politics-at-church ____________________________________________________ Thirdly, we must realize that one’s salvation does not hang on one’s politics . It is possible to be libertarian or a democrat and be a Christian . You can be independent and be a Christian . You can even be a republican and be a … ____________________________________________________Read [...]
WASHINGTON – Losing his Senate seat might have been the best thing that ever happened to Rick Santorum’s bank account. In 2006, the Republican presidential hopeful earned about $200,000 from his Senate salary and book royalties. From January 2010 to August 2011, he earned at least $1.3 million as he cashed in on his 16 [...]
KEENE, N.H. – There’s a question that Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman loves to pop out from time to time as he campaigns across New Hampshire: “What language do you want me to answer in?” Tossing out a sentence or two in Mandarin gives Barack Obama’s former U.S. ambassador to China an opportunity to showcase [...]
WASHINGTON – Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and the rest of Mitt Romney’s pursuers still have time to stop his rise in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. But not much. And not all of them. Romney’s first-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, even if by only eight votes, erased the embarrassment of four years [...]
CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner says he expects 250,000 ballots to be cast in the highly contested Republican presidential primary on Tuesday and 75,000 on the Democratic side. As of last month, New Hampshire had about 232,000 registered Republicans, 223,000 Democrats and 313,000 undeclared voters, who can vote in either [...]
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MANCHESTER, N.H. – Republican rivals for the presidential nomination have a chance to knock front-runner Mitt Romney, who has a commanding lead in New Hampshire polls, off his perch in back-to-back weekend debates that could help define the contest. In a race largely driven by 13 previous sparring matches, Romney has emerged mostly unscathed by [...]
COMMENTARY | Newt Gingrich seems to have a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde complex. When he was Speaker of the House, there was the “Good Newt” (Dr. Jekyll) taking his medicine as he was disciplined by the House of Representatives for ethical lapses who immediately underwent a transformation into the “Bad Newt” (Mr. Hyde), caught [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – Former Nebraska governor and senator Bob Kerrey said Friday he’s exploring a possible run for the U.S. Senate. Omaha news station KETV reports (http://bit.ly/w2LX4k) that he’s returning to Nebraska next week to talk with friends about the possibility. Kerrey, a Democrat, said he’ll come to a decision quickly on whether to pursue [...]
SALT LAKE CITY – A third Utah Republican says he’ll challenge U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch for this year’s GOP nomination. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/yUOGhW) that Provo state Rep. Chris Herrod announced his bid Friday. Herrod joins former state Republican Sen. Dan Liljenquist of Bountiful in challenging the six-term incumbent. Liljenquist announced his candidacy [...]
Written By : Craig Newmark From a professor of law at Roger Williams University: It is paradoxical that William F. Buckley Jr. — who, more than any other individual, infused the conservative movement with the sentiment of battling evil — enjoyed warm relationships with liberals such as John Kenneth Galbraith, Murray Kempton, Allard Lowenstein and [...]
Written By : William Teach This story jumped up and hit me when I took my morning perusal of Memeorandum, seeing what the big stories of the day are, so, I didn’t have to hunt around for an unhinged Warmist story (Sydney Morning Herald) THE President of what could be the first country in the [...]
Written By : William Teach One thing that I have missed during the King Obama years has been the truly unhinged lefties being unhinged. They were a lot more fun when Bush was president, but, hey, with the 2012 silly season in full swing, they are coming out of the woodwork (Washington Post) Before there [...]
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) – One day after provoking Republicans by making four “recess” appointments — even though Congress is not in recess – the Obama White House insisted that the president “looks forward to working with Congress, with Republicans in Congress as well as Democrats, on the very [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, Steve Marcus) (CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to the Senate floor during a “pro forma” session on Dec. 23 to pass a two-month extension to the payroll tax. President Barack Obama, however, this week claimed that a pro forma session means [...]
President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) (CNSNews.com) – The 8.5 percent unemployment rate announced on Friday is in line with the rate the Obama administration forecast if the $825-billion stimulus package did not pass – it was signed into law in February 2009 and, besides funding myriad government projects and more public employees, was [...]
Search Google for former ESPN analyst Craig James and you’re likely to also find references to an alleged murder of five prostitutes during his school days at Southern Methodist University. The allegations are completely false, and they are evidence James is being targeted with a “Google bomb.” James, who is now running for a U.S. [...]
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head last Jan. 8, but the White House is downplaying the likelihood of any White House campaign-trail effort to restrict gun ownership. “I don’t have anything new for you,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday when asked about the anniversary. “It’s a solemn occasion. … It’s [...]
MERRIMACK, N.H. – At a high school just two miles from the Massachusetts state line, former speaker of the House held a town hall meeting to highlight the differences between Mitt Romney, who he calls a “Massachusetts moderate,” and his own policies. At the event entitled “Don’t ‘Mass Up’ New Hampshire,” Gingrich, appearing somewhat dour [...]
Lyle Denniston Reporter Posted Sat, January 7th, 2012 12:02 am At 1 p.m. on Monday, the Supreme Court will hold 70 minutes of argument in three cases — being heard on an expedited schedule — on the new election districts that Texas will use in 2012 balloting for the state legislature and for its expanded [...]
DUBLIN, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum hosted a town hall meeting at the Dublin School on Friday afternoon, once again having to field questions about his far-right positions on social issues from students. The first question posed to Santorum focused on same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT individuals. The issue has been [...]
Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email Monday, January 16 is Martin Luther King Day. Most schools recognize the day — as they should. But will they teach students about Dr. King’s Christian faith, which motivated and guided his campaign for civil rights? During his Birmingham civil rights campaign, Dr. King required every participant [...]
The school voucher idea is like an inflatable dartboard. It looks really great until you start throwing darts at it. Who can be against helping families of kids in failing schools? Of course, they have a right to a good education. It’s not their fault the schools are failing them. Great political sound bite; only [...]
Arizona law allows K-12 students to enroll in any public school in the district where they live, schools in other districts, or in charter schools. They can also receive private or corporate tax-credit scholarships to attend private schools. The state’s newest program, “empowerment savings accounts,” gives them funds to use on private school tuition, home-school [...]
(AFP) – 6 hours ago JERUSALEM — Six Israeli Arabs have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Christmas Eve killing of a prominent Christian leader in Jaffa by a man reportedly wearing a Santa suit, police said Saturday. Lawyer and accountant Gabriel Cadis was fatally stabbed on Friday after a parade in the [...]
JERUSALEM: Pakistan should be open to the idea of establishing relations with Israel in order to counter the “pro-India” stand usually adopted by it on key issues like Kashmir, former President Pervez Musharraf has said. Musharraf said the Jewish state is a fait accompli and relations with it can help Islamabad come closer to the [...]