WASHINGTONThe Supreme Court gave churches and religious schools a new shield against civil rights claims from their employees, ruling Wednesday that the principle of church-state separation bars bias suits from teachers who serve as “ministers” of the faith. In a unanimous ruling, the high court for the first time held the Constitution includes a “ministerial [...]
#family movie -THE LAMP- one family’s loss shows them how to turn to Faith instead of magic #kidmin If you could have anything, what would YOU ask for? Can finding an old oil lamp, complete with a genie, REALLY make your life better? The characters in the movie “The Lamp” learn that there’s a lot [...]
Victory: Appeals Court Upholds Texas’ Ultrasound-Abortion Law by Steven Ertelt | Austin, TX | LifeNews.com | 1/10/12 12:17 PM Print Email<!–Email–> A federal appeals court has upheld a pro-life law in Texas allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child prior to an abortion. During the recent 82nd Texas Legislative Session, [...]
by Ben Johnson CHEYENNE, WYOMING January 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A family advocacy organization is suing the state of Wyoming for denying its First Amendment right to erect a pro-life display on public property. WyWatch Family Action is seeking a preliminary injunction after officials granted, then revoked, its right to host an exhibit featuring two [...]
Pro-Lifer to Run Graphic Abortion Ads During Super Bowl Pro-life activist Randall Terry, last year, launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He did so to qualify as a federal candidate in order to air graphic abortion ads on television under a law requiring stations to air them. “My goals in running for President [...]
The United States Supreme Court, in an opinion entitled Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has issued one of the most important Religion Clause cases of the last fifty years. In Hossana-Tabor the Court affirms the right of churches to make employment decisions without government interference. Already being deemed one [...]
There is a new generation of homeschoolers out there, or that is what they call themselves. However, what they are doing, is jeopardizing the work that HSLDA and Homeschool Advantage have done for the Homeschool movement. I didn’t understand the extent of the problem until last night, and now, I am quite concerned. I agree [...]
Jemel Countess, Getty Images Townsquare Media News first reported that legalizing gay marriage in New Jersey is a top priority and it will be put on the fast-track in 2012. Leading Democratic lawmakers made it official with a press conference earlier this week. A member of the Garden State’s congressional delegation is also tackling the [...]
Family Law of the Russian Federation is a separate branch of law. The subject of this or that branch of law known as the circle of social relations that are governed by the rules of this law. In Accordingly, the subject of family law is the relationship of marriage, termination of marriage and annulment, property [...]
» 38 comments If you have turned on Fox News during any hour of the day in the past several months, you know who Eric Bolling is. The host of Fox Business’s Follow the Money and co-host of The Five can be seen on nearly every program– from Fox Friends to filling in on The [...]
A friend, an Iranian expatriate who is active in the same political youth organisation as I am, sent me this: I knew Iran was a relatively free pro-western country before the Islamic revolution, but when I watched this video I just felt “wow!”. That such an advanced country and such an amazing ancient culture could [...]
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Thinking Like a Christian–Part 2 (What Does the Bible Say About Public School?) (continued from Part 1…) “There is no God and no soul. Hence, there are no needs for props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law [...]
I’ve been getting into a lot of hot water lately over my views on Tim Tebow’s act of “Tebowing.” For those of you who aren’t American football fans, Tim Tebow is an outspoken Christian who is the talented starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos. He routinely gets down on one knee for all to see, [...]
Pope Benedict xvi spoke up for persecuted Christians around the world in a speech to ambassadors to the Vatican on January 9. The theme of his speech was young people—how the world’s troubles affect them, and how to help them. He discussed “the grave and disturbing developments of the global economic and financial crisis” and [...]
The Blaikie Report: An Insider’s Look at Faith and Politics by Bill Blaikie. United Church Publishing House, 2011. 243pp. Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life by Dennis Gruending. Kingsley Publishing, 2011. 256pp. Bill Blaikie and Dennis Gruending provide significant new additions to the tiny Canadian library on the faith-political interface. Both [...]
When perfectly sane individuals believe stupidities they deserve to be ridiculed, and if they want to label ridicule as discrimination than so be it. I’m sorry to break it to the Mormon community, but Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the Mormon faith, was a polygamist and con man. Among his many lies was that he [...]
EGYPT – A BLOOD SMEARED IMAGE OF CHRIST IN THE CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA AFTER LAST YEAR’S BOMBINGS According to the latest report by the Pew Forum, concern for religious freedom is growing throughout the world. The Economist says we should not call it a crusade but liberal values must be defended GIACOMO GALEAZZI VATICAN CITY [...]
America has been known as the “melting pot” country. We have white, black, brown, and tan people. We have mixed races of black and white, black and brown, white and tan, etc. We have a mix of religions. Christians, Atheists (which is an organized “belief” of non believing which makes it a religion of sorts), Muslims, [...]
Sunday, January 15, 2012 Called and Recalled Visitors: Welcome to our church. Please sign our guest book! If you do not have a church home, we pray that you will find one with us. We have large-print bulletins available, as well as hearing assistance devices. Please ask an usher if you require either of these. [...]
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow stunned the AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL AFC wildcard playoff football game in Denver, Colorado, on January 8, almost everybody predicted would take a miracle for Denver to win. Well… The devout Christian’s statistics in Sunday’s game mirrors the numbering of the Biblical passage that Tebow at times [...]
Chicago – Democrats in Indiana are replaying a scene from last year by refusing to allow the state?s House to come to session and vote on a controversial bill that they say will weaken unions. The Indiana House returned Wednesday for a 10-week session. On the agenda: a so-called right-to-work bill that would ban negotiations [...]
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This week’s Video of the Week is from another of our favorite Christian comedians, Bob Smiley. If you have ever volunteered to work in your church’s nursery or childcare facility, then you need to watch this video. Tagged as: bob smiley, childcare, church, humor, video
The dishonesty and lack of integrity of the pro-abortion crowd is made strikingly plain in this incident. In Corpus Christi, Texas, a 14-year-old girl who is pregnant is struggling to prevent the abortion that her family wants to foist upon her. Only the Texas Center for Defense of Life has come to her assistance. So [...]
Some say politics and Christianity do not mix. While I cannot totally agree, there may be some truth to that statement. The Bible presents what appears to be a paradox in that it teaches us government is evil by its own nature and yet we are to submit to those higher powers. When we put [...]
WASHINGTON – To hear the White House tell it, President Barack Obama has scant interest in politics as Republicans battle each other for the right to challenge him. But in reality, Obama is increasingly involved in his re-election, staying in regular contact with his campaign staff, raising money and evaluating Republican debate performances. Throughout the [...]
LEXINGTON, S.C. – At first glance, South Carolina seems like a place where attacks on Mitt Romney’s experience at the helm of a venture capital firm that cut jobs would resonate in the GOP primary. The state’s unemployment rate hasn’t been below 9 percent in three years and a third of its manufacturing jobs have [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama raked in more than $68 million combined for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party during the final three months of 2011, gearing up for a formidable challenge against his Republican opponent later this year. The large fundraising quarter helped Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee surpass $220 million [...]
Rick Perry at a campaign stop in Aiken, SC Wednesday (AP) COLUMBIA, S.C.–Republicans in South Carolina who aren’t sold on Mitt Romney as the party’s 2012 presidential nominee were skeptically scoping out the other options on Wednesday as the fractured field tried to convince the state’s voters that they have what it takes to beat [...]
Ezra Klein in Bloomberg View on presidents and job creation Mitt Romney wants to peg every job lost in the first years of the Obama’s term to the President, and he wants to credit every job added by Bain Capital and during his Massachusetts governorship to himself, says Klein. Obama similarly wants credit only for [...]
GREER, S.C. – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Thursday insisted he is “pro-life” and said he’s raising the issue on the campaign trail to counter his rivals’ attacks. “I understand that there are some attack ads coming my way that question” his commitment to life, Romney told reporters gathered at a motorcycle dealership in [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than two dozen House Democrats called on Wednesday for President Barack Obama to unseat the acting regulator of housing finance agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying he has failed to take steps that would aggressively address the nation’s housing crisis. The group of 28 Democrats, led by Representative Dennis Cardoza, [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – As Mitt Romney inches toward the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, many conservative activists are increasingly focused on a different political prize for 2012: the Senate. Republicans, who currently have 47 of the 100 Senate seats, are seen as having a good shot of winning control of the upper chamber because they are [...]
(Reuters) – The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday detailed a woman’s allegations of sexual harassment, including unwelcome physical contact, by Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings, and the panel’s top members said further review of the case was warranted. The accusations against Hastings, 75, a 10-term Democrat whose South Florida district includes Fort Lauderdale, were first leveled [...]
For patients and pharmacists in financially stricken Greece, even finding aspirin has turned into a headache. Mina Mavrou, who runs a pharmacy in a middle-class Athens suburb, spends hours each day pleading with drugmakers, wholesalers and colleagues to hunt down medicines for clients. Life-saving drugs such as Sanofi (SAN)’s blood-thinner Clexane and GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)’s [...]
Written By : William Teach Buffett finally comes out and says he is willing to voluntarily pay higher taxes, but, there is a catch (Time) Warren Buffett is ready to call Republicans’ tax bluff. Last fall, Senator Mitch McConnell said that if Buffett were feeling “guilty” about paying too little in taxes, he should “send [...]
Written By : William Teach This is a pretty big endorsement, considering that the GOP primary season is heading into South Carolina, a state with a large illegal immigrant population, and which has passed an Arizona type law (Washington Times) Mitt Romney collected the endorsements Wednesday of the architect of Arizona’s immigration-crackdown law, marking the [...]
Statue of Liberty at Ellis Island, NY. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – A majority of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers under the Obama administration believe that their agency’s policy favors the promotion of immigration over national security, according to a 2011 survey conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general (IG). However, [...]
House Speaker John Boehner meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (CNSNews.com) – Federal spending bills approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion dollars in just 10 months. Republicans won a majority in the U.S. House [...]
A highway historical marker in North Carolina to mark the state’s dark history in eugenical sterilizations between 1933 and 1973, when more than 7,600 were forcibly sterilized by the state. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – A task force set up in March 2011 by Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) charged with evaluating potential compensation for victims of [...]
1.) Dems defend voting rights of the dead — Yesterday TheDC presented James O’Keefe’s latest video sting, showing how easy it is to use a dead person’s ballot to vote in New Hampshire. The reaction was immediate. TheDC’s David Martosko and Christopher Bedford report: “GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told The Daily Caller on Wednesday [...]
As school choice becomes more integrated into the fabric of American public education, teachers’ unions have been using a new tactic to fight these reforms: the lawsuit. And it’s making for strange bedfellows. The United Federation of Teachers, the New York City teachers’ union, joined forces with the New York State NAACP in a lawsuit [...]
Massachusetts senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren raised a stunning $5.7 million last quarter with a broad base of support that included Barbra Streisand, Jeffrey Katzenberg, George Soros and three other members of the Soros family, according to federal campaign filings. Democrats are eager to win back a senate seat that was long held by liberal icon [...]
Kali Borkoski Manager Posted Thu, January 12th, 2012 9:39 am Today in the Community we continue our discussion of FCC v. Fox, which was argued on Tuesday. Our subtopic for today is whether – putting to the side the enormous amount of media attention that the case has received – the regulation of “fleeting indecency” [...]
Updated: Thu Jan. 12 2012 07:21:40 The Canadian Press HALIFAX Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the federal government has no intention of reopening the debate on same-sex marriage. Harper’s comments come after the Globe and Mail reported Thursday that his government has served notice that same-sex couples who came to Canada since 2004 to [...]
By Peter Landers The Supreme Court may have trouble figuring out modern developments such as the dozens of channels on cable TV (“What do you call it, you surf?” wondered Justice Anthony Kennedy yesterday), but when it comes to centuries-old English laws, the justices feel right at home. Chief Justice John Roberts starts out his [...]
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy knew what New Haven’s Jewish leaders wanted him to say. He didn’t say it. Malloy came prepared to be asked about school vouchers for private-school tuition when he visited an Ellsworth Avenue home Tuesday night for a “town meeting” with two dozen influential Jews. He was prepared, because it was a [...]
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP – Athletes who transfer to participate in the school choice program will be eligible to play varsity sports immediately unless their former school complains the move was made for athletic advantage. Normally, athletes who switch schools without moving must sit the first 30 days of the season, but the executive committee of the [...]
At the end of his meeting on Tuesday with India’s Foreign Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gave his guest a tennis racket signed by all members of Israel’s Davis Cup tennis squad. Lieberman did not know that Krishna’s excessive love of the sport embroiled him a few months ago in an embarrassing [...]