religious freedom
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Politics
Obama on SCOTUS gay marriage ruling: Let’s help those hobbled by religious convictions to see the light
Today’s victory for the left on same-sex marriage would not be complete without a victory lap by President Obama. Time magazine has…
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Politics
D.C. ‘anti-discrimination’ laws take effect despite GOP efforts to block
Despite a purely symbolic House vote Thursday night to block a District of Columbia law that claims to combat discrimination in the…
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Politics
Conservatives need to stop helping the culture warriors by staging inane stunts
Earlier this month, a former pastor named Joshua Feuerstein went into Cut the Cake, a bake shop in Longwood, Fla., and…
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Law and Government
An exercise of religious freedom that even liberals can get behind (Video)
This story has all the elements of your present-day left-right tug of war over religious freedom. It involves a member…
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Politics
Rutgers U. professor: Christian conservatives worship ‘a**hole’ God and ‘white supremacist Jesus’
So, Prof. Cooper, tell us how you really feel. That’s Prof. Brittney Cooper, of Rutgers University, who sounded off at Salon earlier this…
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Politics
Gov. who said conservatives have no place in NY now insists ‘everyone is welcome’
Andrew Cuomo just doesn’t seem to be able to make up his mind. Last year, he announced that extreme conservative…
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Law and Government
Myths about Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Myths have permeated the media’s coverage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted in Indiana. (I have no position on such legislation, which I previously…
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Unyielding
Indiana religious freedom law modeled on Chuck Schumer bill (whether Schumer admits it or not)
Chuck Schumer, the New York Senator likely to take the place of Harry Reid as Democratic minority leader, is in…
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Politics
The 9 things you need to know about Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration law
The passage of Indiana’s religious freedom law has incited uproar from the left and an equally deafening response from the…
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Politics
Religious freedom has nothing to do with Satanic Temple display in Florida’s Capitol
“Florida’s Capitol,” writes CBS Miami, “will have a new holiday decoration this year. The Satanic Temple will be among its nativity…
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Religion
Dad claims his daughter was kept from praying before lunch at school
If a tree falls in the forest, will anyone hear its prayers? The answer is evidently yes, provided the forest is…
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Politics
Political correctness gone amok: Now the word ‘bacon’ is offensive (Video)
A Muslim woman was offended by the sign a Winooski, Vt. restaurant erected, which proclaimed, “Yield For Sneakers Bacon.” Following…
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Religion
HS school student suspended for saying ‘Bless you’ to a student who sneezed
OK, we get it. The rules at Dyer County (Tenn.) High School prohibit talking in class. Apparently, the rules do not…
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Education
After-school program tells student he is not allowed to read Bible, threatens confiscation
If schools and school-related groups are going to enforce the so-called “establishment” clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution,…
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Law and Government
TX town to force Muslims to serve pork?
(Note: You must read to the end of this story for an important update.) In what civil rights activists are…
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Law and Government
Love is patient, love is kind…unless you disagree with this nun
There have been many very thoughtful pieces written on the issue of whether those with religious convictions that lead them…
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Unyielding
Surprising admin 180: Home-schooling German family permitted to stay in U.S.
The news today is good for a family that emigrated from Germany to the United States in 2008 to escape religious…
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Law and Government
The media’s coverage of Arizona’s SB 1062 was grossly inaccurate and slanted
If you are a reporter for a newspaper like the Washington Post or the New York Times that has a…
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Law and Government
Arizona business owner, children, receive death threats for supporting religious freedom bill
It seems that in Obama’s America, some are considered more equal than others. On Wednesday, Alliance Defending Freedom said that…
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Law and Government
19 Senators file amicus brief against the First Amendment in Hobby Lobby case
Today 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against Hobby Lobby, which is arguing that paying for their…
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Education
CA teacher confiscates candy canes, tells student ‘Jesus not allowed in school’
If you substitute poor Rudolph for “Jesus” and any reindeer games for “school,” the admonition of a first-grade teacher to one of her 6-year-old…
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Media
Denver Post doubles down on left-leaning bias, calls Phil Robertson, fans haters
The Denver Post, which scrubbed the word socialist from its earlier description of the Arapahoe High School shooter as a “very opinionated Socialist,”…
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Law and Government
VA abuses American veterans: Denies delivery of Christmas cards
Children can’t deliver handmade Christmas cards to veterans in a VA hospital in Dallas, if the cards say “Merry Christmas”…
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Education
7th-grade student sues school after staff removes her flyers advertising prayer event
Maybe the school’s decision to ban a student from posting flyers promoting a prayer event held every year at public…
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Religion
Atheist booties: The perfect shower gift for a godless mother-to-be
What do you give the expectant woman who has everything — except faith in a higher power? A German shoemaker…
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National Security
Air Force cadets no longer required to say ‘So help me God’ in oath of honor
The Associated Press reports that the Air Force Academy has made it official. Cadets are no longer required to say “So help…
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National Security
U.S. Army classifies Christian ministry as 'domestic hate group'
“Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate…
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Economy
Syria: Terrorists plant bomb in ancient Cathedral’s Confessional
Christians forced to pay jihadists a monthly tax of $35,000… In what was considered one of the last towns in…
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Religion
U. of Chicago removes 88-year-old chapel pews to accommodate Islamic prayers
One man’s religious freedom is another’s persecution. Exhibit A is Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago where administrators permanently…
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Law and Government
In time for Christmas, German government official ‘neuters’ God
Bless me, Other, for I have sinned. That presumably is how Catholics in Germany will be starting confession if a…
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Social Issues
Judge hammers Obama Administration on contraception mandate
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner: Today in New York, a judge dismissed the Obama Justice Department’s claims that the…
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