JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOX) - A Senate proposal would allow state funding to go to religious institutions. The possibility is sparking debate over its impact on the separation of church and state. Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville, introduced the proposal to the Senate Thursday. If passed, the resolution would repeal a current constitutional amendment prohibiting state funding for religious organizations. [...]
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Advertisement Thirty-nine years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court wiped from the books of all 50 states every law protecting the unborn child. In what Justice Byron White called an act of raw judicial power, seven of nine justices imposed on our land the perverse doctrine that a woman’s dignity depends upon her right to destroy [...]
In additional reference to the Sanctity of Life Sunday two days ago and the March for Life in Washington, D.C. yesterday, I have a few items I think you’ll find of value. * First of all, for those of you who live in Nebraska, please make note of the Walk for Life coming up this [...]
Pro-lifer Scott Klusendorf on pro-life issues and candidate selection. (H/T Scott) Summary: In 2008, a handful of notable pro-life evangelicals and Catholics threw their support behind a presidential candidate sworn to uphold elective abortion as a fundamental right. They argued that doing so constituted an enlightened pro-life vote that was morally superior to the narrow [...]
Santorum critiques rivals for pro-life failures In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal this morning, Rick Santorum proudly highlighted his pro-life record and criticized his Republican presidential rivals for their imperfect records on pro-life issues. “My opponents whisper that they are pro-life, but I fight the battle in the trenches and will continue [...]
January 20, 2012 William A. Estrada, Esq. Director of Federal Relations We want to give you a heads-up that the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics is conducting a survey called the National Household Education Study (NHES). The purpose of this study is to find out where and how students in the [...]
Jeff Fusco, Getty Images A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the Garden State has been approved by the State Senate Judiciary panel setting the stage for a vote in the full Upper House next month. Yesterday’s committee hearing at the State House is Trenton was long and often emotional. State Senate President Steve Sweeney [...]
I was born in Galway, Ireland where I attended first Scoil Fhursa and then St Ignatius (Jesuit) College. My family moved to Cork in 1960 and I spent my last year at the Christian Brothers College in Mc Curtain street Cork (CBC). I came to Dublin in 1963 where I met and married my wife [...]
ABC NewsEgyptian Revolution’s Biggest Name Shuns Politics, SpotlightABC NewsBut Ghonim would not take the leadership role many hoped and after Mubarak fell, didn’t use his newfound celebrity status to push a particular political agenda, angering many young liberals. Instead, a few months after Mubarak stepped down, …As the dust begins to settleEgyptian GazetteEgypt One Year [...]
The claim that we mustn’t compartmentalize our lives therefore Christianity is political, is not valid because that claim can be made about our eating habits, our play habits, our sex habits, our study habits or our personal hygiene habits. The Christian idea of God made Western science possible. And the Christian idea of God made [...]
Katherine Stewart heard about a Christian group forming at her daughter’s school, and instead of closing her eyes and wishing it would go away, she dove in. She researched and researched and researched. She talked to people, went to symposia, delved into a world that wasn’t hers and where she very much did not want [...]
Without going into a tirade, I have a list of issues/concerns that are directed toward candidates for President of the United States. 1) Demagoguery, distortion of a fact in order to advance a position, fear mongering and warmongering are destructive and do harm to political discourse; it is unseemly and inappropriate for a President (or [...]
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (ibtimes.com) By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL There has been a wave of violence targeting Iranian and Syrian Christians over the past month, say Christian news reports. In addition, Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been on death row since 2010 for seeking to register his home-based church, refused to renounce his Christian beliefs in [...]
Chris Glaser has a ministry of writing and speaking. Since graduation from Yale Divinity School in 1977, Chris has served in a variety of parish, campus, editorial, and interim posts. He has spoken to hundreds of congregations, campuses, and communities throughout the U.S. and Canada, and published a dozen best-selling books on spirituality, sexuality, vocation, [...]
On January 24, during his State of the Union Address, the president of the United States has a chance to expose the plight of religious minorities living in Muslim majority nations. Doing so would not merely shed light on one of the most ignored humanitarian crises of the 21st century; it would help alleviate it. [...]
“Tropic of Chaos – Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence,” by Christian Parenti, 2011 Well, this book shoots that theory of ‘super-imperialism’ all to hell. (Super-imperialism – oligarchic corporations completely control world market with no national issues remaining.) Instead, Parenti describes a world where the violent patterns of the old ‘cold’ war, neo-liberalism [...]
Let us tell a story of an oft-leaderless group of protesters who meet in public parks in costumes, carry signs and shout about government injustices. A group that split over differences of opinion only to then begin educating its masses on the inner workings of government and American history. A group that feels misunderstood by [...]
Constantine married Christianity to Empire. Henry VIII married Christianity to Monarchy. Evangelicalism, it seems to me, is the attempt to marry Christianity to parliament. This is the theme of a good deal of my thoughts lately. I began by investigating the abolition of slavery in Great Britain. The story of Wilberforce is powerful and inspiring, [...]
Love Is My Commandment January 25, 2012 at 7:57 am (Book excerpts) From Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus by Brennan Manning: The disciple of Crist may know the Ten Commandments, the six traditional precepts of the church, the whole network of rules and regulations governing moral behavior, in the way that a good [...]
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Given that today is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, here are 15 things to consider about abortion: 1. Existing fetal homicide laws make a man guilty of manslaughter if he kills the baby in a mother’s womb (except in the case of abortion). 2. Fetal surgery is performed on babies in the womb to save [...]
Jan 22, 2012 by Buddy Hanson Answers to Common Objections are a regular column on Explicitly Christian Politics. These answers were written by Buddy Hanson and published in the appendix of his book, The Christian Civil Ruler’s Handbook. Buddy has written a number of books on applying God’s Word to culture, civil-government and politics and [...]
THE VILLAGES, Fla. – It’s an urgent issue seemingly on the minds of many in this retiree mecca, if not the entire state of Florida — how to fix Social Security. And voters’ proposed solutions to the tricky problem are just as varied as the stances of the Republican presidential candidates seeking their support. Jim [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama embarks Wednesday on a three-day tour of politically crucial states in a post-State of the Union journey to sell his 2012 economic policy goals while pitching his presidency to a divided public. Fresh from his address to a joint session of Congress, Obama will promote his agenda to attract more [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it’s ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for income equality that echoed the Occupy Wall Street movement. He challenged GOP lawmakers to [...]
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden says he can’t find “any fundamental difference” between Republican presidential rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, even though the two are fighting each other fiercely for the party’s nomination. Asked in a nationally broadcast interview to comment on the race in the GOP for a candidate to challenge President [...]
WASHINGTON – A Republican bill that would strip President Barack Obama of his authority to decide on a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline raises “serious” legal questions, the State Department said Wednesday in objecting to the bill. Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones told Congress that the bill “imposes narrow time constraints and creates automatic mandates that [...]
DORAL, Fla. – Republican Newt Gingrich says Mitt Romney’s call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants is an “Obama-level” fantasy that is inhumane to long-established families living in America. The former House speaker ridiculed that part of Romney’s immigration policy during a forum Wednesday with the Spanish-language network Univision. Gingrich laughed at the idea and said [...]
WASHINGTON – The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is telling Congress the agency “pulled no punches” in its investigation into Chevy Volt batteries that caught fire last year. Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform repeatedly raised questions about whether the government’s partial ownership in General Motors created a [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican proposal in the House of Representatives that would strip President Barack Obama of his authority to rule on the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline raises “serious” legal questions, a top State Department official said on Wednesday. Obama denied TransCanada’s application for the oil pipeline on January 18 because [...]
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday she will seek a fourth term in the U.S. House following her failed presidential bid. Bachmann declared her plans in an interview with The Associated Press. The Republican congresswoman had been mum on her plans since folding her presidential campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Obama’s speech last night was a tedious laundry list of trivial programs mixed in with class warfare. It was a dull uninspiring speech from a failed President, made even more agonizing by the fact that at one time, people were comparing Obama’s human Hallmark card speeches from in 2008 to [...]
Written By : William Teach OK, I’ll admit, I only watched about 5 minutes of Obama’s SOTU speech. I’d been watching the NJ Devils lose in OT, and inadvertently hit the recall button on the remote, which took me to Fox News. A few minutes in, I decided that I really didn’t want to attend [...]
Written By : William Teach Here again we come to one of my original and main problems with how the Warmists push their cult: they take a real world problem and link it to a fake problem, which causes people to do a full eye and head roll. Case in point (Green Answers) Cambodia, an [...]
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said today that no president in the last 30 years has “reached out as seriously and sincerely” to “work together in a bipartisan fashion” than President Barack Obama. Hoyer made his remarks in a pen-and-pad briefing with reporters on [...]
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The new U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said that in dealing with the former Soviet Union, he and the Obama administration would be advocating “universal values” and “not American values.” McFaul was sworn in as ambassador to Russia by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]
(CNSNews.com) – So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (AP Photo) During the same period, the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has gone up 22 percent. When Obama entered the [...]
Planning any hunting trip is an exciting time. For the first timers to Africa here are a few pointers that might help you in booking one of the greatest adventures of your life. Decide on which Outfitter to book. Choosing the right outfitter for your hunt can be the difference between a successful and enjoyable [...]
Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson said reviving the company’s flagging display advertising business was his “highest priority,” even as he crafts a broader plan to bring the struggling Internet company back to fighting form. “There’s no question that we need to do better,” said Thompson on his first quarterly earnings since taking the reins [...]
FILE – In this April 6, 2010 file photo, Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin, right, of Russia, cools down on the bench with coach Bruce Boudreau, during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, in Pittsburgh. Boudreau isn’t blaming his newfound unemployment on Ovechkin. The Capitals coach spoke publicly Wednesday, Nov. [...]
Lyle Denniston Reporter Posted Tue, January 24th, 2012 12:11 am The military policies of detention and interrogation worked out by the Bush Administration and continued at least in part by the Obama Administration cannot be challenged in damage lawsuits in federal courts, the Fourth Circuit Court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Monday. The Constitution assigns the [...]
Gov. Martin O’Malley introduced legislation this week that would make same-sex marriage legal in Maryland. Same-sex marriage was debated in Annapolis last year, but it ended up stalling in the House of Delegates. This year, O’Malley said “momentum is growing” for same-sex marriage in Maryland, which has endorsements this month that include labor organizations AFL-CIO and [...]
BY TIMOTHY M. DOLAN Religious freedom is the lifeblood of the American people, the cornerstone of American government. When the Founding Fathers determined that the innate rights of men and women should be enshrined in our Constitution, they so esteemed religious liberty that they made it the first freedom in the Bill of Rights. In [...]
Pinellas County’s newest School Board member is an advocate for school vouchers, as is the man who appointed him to the seat. Gov. Rick Scott tabbed Glenton “Glen” Gilzean, 29, for the position Monday even though Gilzean has only lived in Pinellas County since November. He is currently renting a room from a friend in [...]
By Andrew Campanella, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Andrew Campanella is the vice president of public affairs for National School Choice Week. He is the former national director of communications at the American Federation for Children, the school choice movement’s largest lobbying and political organization, and was also a senior adviser for the federation’s nonprofit [...]
In an effort to heighten both the knowledge and sensitivity of Israel‘s members of Knesset about the American Jewish community, a new Israel-American Jewish Knesset Caucus was inaugurated on Wednesday. Focused on deepening the understanding and relevance of the relationship with the American Jewish community, the Caucus will raise awareness among MKs, Knesset committees [...]