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“To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn’t apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn’t work.” He added that religious groups [...]

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A mandatory Quebec school program focusing on the historical significance of various religions and creeds does not harm the religious freedoms of parents and their children, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday. Resolving an important test of Charter of Rights values, the Court firmly sided with the province and a school board whose [...]

Mitt Romney’s fate in Michigan — his native state where he is facing an increasingly difficult race — will rest on voters like Maribeth Schmidt. The “tea party” activist and mother of three took part in a panel discussion with the former Massachusetts governor on Thursday morning, but remains undecided in the GOP presidential contest. [...]

IF YOU GO • What: Chattanooga Tea Party Liberty Forum featuring GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum • Where: Abba’s House, 5208 Hixson Pike • When: Feb. 25, from 1-4 p.m. • Cost: None Presidential candidate Rick Santorum will visit Chattanooga next week, just 10 days before Tennessee’s March 6 “Super Tuesday” primary. Santorum will headline [...]

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. – — – The First Amendment is quite [...]

Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email The Virginia House of Representatives has passed a “personhood” bill, which, if passed by the state Senate and signed by the governor, would define life beginning at conception. Mississippi voters rejected a “personhood” ballot initiative last fall. Supporters felt it was a bad law that the courts [...]

Maryland Gov. Martin O’ Malley (D) speaking before a joint bill committee hearing on same-sex marriage bills on Feb. 10, 2012 in Annapolis. (Mark Gail – THE WASHINGTON POST) A debate on the Maryland House floor Thursday will set the stage for what is likely to be a close vote on a bill that could [...]

Think what you wish of President Barack Obama’s attempt Friday to end a fierce skirmish over insurance coverage of drugs that prevent conceptions and induce abortions. The president said he would guarantee that coverage, without cost to female recipients. Under his modified mandate, he said, “religious organizations won’t have to pay for these services, and [...]

<!––> A new report by the Louisiana Budget Project says that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s push to dramatically expand the state’s private school voucher program is lacking the accountability and transparency parents need to make informed decisions about their children’s educational needs. The report gives Jindal’s plan an “F” on accountability. The existing voucher program pays [...]

Print this Article    Email this Article PORTSMOUTH — The School Board on Tuesday night quietly passed a measure that would prevent a repeat of the school-choice controversy that divided two elementary school communities last summer. The board unanimously voted to prevent non-Title 1 schools cited as in need of improvement from being offered as a [...]

Thailand’s acknowledgment that terror attacks were being planned on its soil stood in contrast to its denials of that last month, when police arrested a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to Hezbollah. At the time, authorities insisted Thailand was only being used as a staging ground for attacks, but was not the target. The man [...]

The Post MostMost-viewed stories, videos, and galleries in the past two hours Most Popular Santorum: Birth control ‘harmful to women’ Internet will allow Whitney Houston’s fans to share her invitation-only funeral on Saturday Boy testifies at trial of grandfather accused of hitting grandsons during Grand Canyon hikes Venture capitalists play key role in Obama’s Energy [...]

Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak has called for increased sanctions on Iran, a day after the United States said Tehran is feeling the pressure of international measures meant to push it to stop enriching uranium. Barak said Thursday after meeting his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo that while current sanctions are affecting Iranian officials, more action [...]

In the midst serious controversy over the religious foundation of Liberia, a group of Church leaders here are hearing up to launch a campaign to solicit “one million signatures” from the Christian community to petition the House of Representatives to repeal a constitutional clause, which states that Liberia is a secular nation. The luncheon, which [...]

By the end of the year, Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping, who visits the United States this week, will have been installed as China’s President. As the era of Xi’s rule begins, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and other top Administration officials should tell him directly that America’s historic commitment to human rights cannot be [...]

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, once seemingly unbeatable in Indiana, has been scrambling to reintroduce himself to Hoosiers amid a barrage of attacks that he has lost touch — an argument his tea party challenger repeated Wednesday in front of the Indianapolis home the incumbent sold decades ago. The Republican who has spent [...]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 15–> “If you don’t vote, you are voting for Obama,’’ Beinecke said. “My husband and I think Romney has the experience, but he has the problem of being a moderate.” Gingrich and Paul, Beinecke said, “are not electable; and Santorum doesn’t have the experience, but he is the most consistent on the [...]

Churches help people worship God, not institutions. States help people serve communities, not bureaucracies. However, things can get messy. Take January 20’s U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement that contraceptives must be included in the basic health insurance by employers who happen to be churches. A reasonable compromise is likely, but the [...]

You must log in to view and comment on this article… February 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a report it is presenting to a United Nations committee this week in Switzerland, the Brazilian government laments that, “The distancing from conservative positions in relation to the role of men and women in our society is happening [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In an unusual two-committee vote Tuesday evening, Maryland delegates grappled with several proposed amendments before voting 25-18 to send controversial same-sex marriage legislation to the full state House, where it could be debated as early as Wednesday. The 25 yes votes included the first in the state House by a Republican, Delegate [...]

At this university, most debates about reproductive morality center on abortion, so the furor last week regarding whether Catholic universities and hospitals needed to cover contraception in employee heath care plans may seem a more foreign concern.  However, the debate illustrates an important clash between liberal and religious ethics over the scope of the state’s [...]

By JASON L. RILEY In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it’s passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program in [...]

Joseph Kelley said his son Rashawn was struggling in D.C. public schools before his scholarship. “Either he doesn’t get it, or he doesn’t care,” Sheila Jackson, parent of a D.C. Opportunity Scholarship recipient, said upon hearing the news that President Obama’s budget eliminates funding for the popular program. Jackson sounded torn about which was worse. [...]

Security camera images show three men who Thai police suspect were involved in bomb blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday. Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET: Iran claimed Wednesday that it has taken two major steps toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear [...]

Iran today refused to “accept” or “deny” its role in the bomb attack on an Israeli car in New Delhi but questioned the basis of the allegations, saying it should be left to India to verify the real position.   “We are not accepting or denying this (Israeli allegation about Tehran being behind the car [...]

BANGKOK– Israeli officials ramped up accusations Wednesday that Iran was launching covert attack plots, saying “sticky” bombs found in a Thai house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the violence, while Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the allegations [...]

By Will Morris Despite some promising developments, Christians in Turkey continue to suffer attacks from private citizens, discrimination by lower-level government officials and vilification in both school textbooks and news media, according to a study by a Protestant group. In its annual “Report on Human Rights Violations,” released in January, the country’s Association of Protestant [...]

“His jerseys have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones,” said Zheng Xiaojun, a 24-year-old clerk here in the capital of Zhejiang province, near Shanghai. Lin’s stunning success with the Knicks over the last week and a half has captured the imagination of the Chinese, from Communist Party bosses to the often-persecuted Christian minority. He [...]

To the disappointment of many on this blog Newsweek has finally broken the unwritten rule of  silence  against printing Islamic terrorist  stories by the mainstream press and told the truth about the terror and murder being practiced worldwide against Christians. Some on this blog continually defend such atrocities by comparing these heinous acts to similar [...]

Yesterday, a number of free-market economists and advocates voiced concern about the central feature of Rick Santorum’s economic policy. In short, Santorum picking winners (manufacturing) and losers (non-manufacturing) is no better than President Obama doing it — neither has the expertise to outwit the free market. Moreover, given that manufacturing has improved productivity (by slimming [...]

WASHINGTON Leaving a House of Representatives Republican caucus meeting one morning, Rep. Vicky Hartzler had to pause a moment to get her bearings. She was on her way to an Armed Services Committee hearing, but navigating the maze of corridors beneath the Capitol could still puzzle her./pp Hartzler’s political compass, however, always stays on course. [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOX) - The clash between abortion rights and religious advocates continued at the Missouri Capitol on Monday. Supporters of Planned Parenthood spoke out against proposed Senate legislation that would make exceptions to President Barack Obama’s mandate requiring employers to cover contraception in health care plans. Sen. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said the Catholic Church as [...]

By Robert J. Hume The New Jersey Legislature’s votes this week on same-sex marriage have become even more critical in light of recent judicial activity. Last week’s decision from a federal appeals court in California has all but foreclosed the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a broad decision favoring marriage equality anytime [...]

Martin Griff / The Times of TrentonBishop David M. O’Connell in a January 2010 photo. By The Most Rev. David M. O’Connell I have heard it said often that “reasonable people can disagree without becoming disagreeable,” and I’d like to believe that, although I do not always find it to be the case. Some people [...]

After preparing for the worst, public-school officials in Lebanon County say Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal could have been much worse. Under the proposal, which Corbett unveiled last week, basic subsidies would rise by about $45 million to $5.4 billion – that’s an average increase of about $90,000 for each of the state’s 500 school [...]

MANCHESTER — The Manchester School District is considering changes to school choice rules that would limit parents from moving their children from one school to another. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Brennan said Wednesday his office is considering the change after the state Department of Education altered its rules. “This doesn’t mean the district doesn’t have [...]

BANGKOK –  Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Israel’s defense minister has accused Iran of being behind a bombing in Thailand. Ehud Barak said Tuesday’s explosion in Bangkok “proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror.” He said that [...]

The attack sounded all too familiar. An assassin on a motorcycle reportedly slapped a magnetic bomb on a car on Monday afternoon and rode away as the occupants scrambled to escape the vehicle. Nearly half a dozen similar attacks in Tehran have targeted scientists linked with Iran’s controversial nuclear program in recent years. And Iranian [...]

(AP)  JERUSALEM – Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Officials were also trying to determine whether Israelis were the intended target of an Iranian man carrying explosives who blew his own legs off in Bangkok. Authorities in Thailand said the Iranian was [...]

Last week presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned that President Obama and “other liberals” are leading people of faith down a path that ends at the guillotine. Santorum is right that Christians are facing imminent death. Right now, millions of Christians in Nigeria and Sudan are being bombed, starved, ethnically cleansed, or intimidated. Evidently Santorum wasn’t [...]

Posted February 14, 2012 11:38:25 Photo: Gao Zhisheng was arrested in February 2009. (Stringer: Reuters) The wife of leading Chinese dissident and lawyer Gao Zhisheng has voiced fear over his whereabouts, say she has no way of knowing if he is still alive. Geng He, who fled to the United States with the couple’s children [...]

by Rupa Shenoy, Minnesota Public Radio LISTEN Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page. Audio player code:iframe title=”minnesota_general_features_2012_02_13_prisonministry_20120213_64s_player” type=”text/html” width=”319″ height=”83″ src=”http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/syndicate.php?name=minnesota/general/features/2012/02/13/prisonministry_20120213_64″ marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ frameborder=”0″ allowFullScreen/iframe St. Paul, Minn. — A controversial program using Christian teachings to try turn around the lives of hundreds of Minnesota prison inmates [...]

Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina opened CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) with an analogy. He compared Republicans and Democrats not to allies with differences fighting together for a common cause (as President Obama did in his State of the Union address); instead, he compared Republicans and Democrats to the Giants and the Patriots, a [...]

Rick Santorum | Credit: Dave Davidson – Prezography.comTwo polls released on Monday find that Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has built a lead over Mitt Romney in Michigan — where George Romney, the father of the GOP presidential candidate, served as governor during most of the 1960s. Santorum has been rising in state and national [...]

Their continued anger over a requirement that nearly all employers offer free insurance coverage for contraception — even with changes Obama announced Friday for faith-based institutions that object on religious grounds — guarantees that the issue will percolate throughout the presidential election season. Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, summed [...]

Their continued anger over a requirement that nearly all employers offer free insurance coverage for contraception — even with changes Obama announced Friday for faith-based institutions that object on religious grounds — guarantees that the issue will percolate throughout the presidential election season. Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, summed [...]

CPAC Speakers Blast Obama, His Mandate and Abortion by Andrew Bair | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/9/12 4:50 PM Print Email<!–Email–> On Thursday, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicked off in Washington DC. CPAC 2012 is drawing more than 11,000 attendees over the course of the weekend, a testament to conservative resolve [...]