Church and State

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• Eastvold: I Believe plate would have sent off-putting message, too

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 532
  My good friend Jonathan Eastvold has a great letter on the "I Believe" license plate issue in S.C. Hes a Summerville resident, holds a B.A. in political science and biblical/theological studies from Wheaton College in Illinois and an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.Enjoy.
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• Judge: ‘I Believe’ license plates with cross unconstitutional

  
  TheScroogeReport — Authority: 109
  Federal judge rules that South Carolina can not issue license plates that “endorse specific sect” AP: Judge Nixes S.C. License Plate with Cross A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can’t issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase ...
  19 hours ago

• Religious Left Emerges, Religious Right Erodes

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  From my hometown newspaper this morning at the heart of Gator Nation and in the South — even though it’s something I can be proud of this time rather than apologize for, like what passes for good communal citizenship just down the road from UF in a giant corporate enclave of relatively wealthy and self-serving ...
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• Gay Marriage Supporters Threaten to Strip Churches of Tax Exemption

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 543
  This article at the Christian Post brings up an interesting subject. The article itself, More than 75,000 Americans have joined an online movement seeking the revocation of tax-exempt status from churches that were involved in the repeal of Maine’s gay marriage law. is beside the point, for what this group of ...
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• 2009 CCHD BOYCOTT INFORMATION: Catholic Campaign for Anti-Catholic Activities

  
  http://fratres.wordpress.com — Authority: 510
  BOYCOTT… Every year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving , many Catholic parishes take up a second collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Recognize that organization? If you don’t, you should. Here’s why: Until 2008, CCHD had been funding ACORN for several years, giving over ...
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• Money laundering and the CCHD by Stephanie Block

  
  http://fratres.wordpress.com — Authority: 510
  The term “money laundering” can mean several things. One meaning refers to a patently illegal activity in which stolen money is moved through a legitimate financial system in such a way that the casual observer would think everything is on the up-and-up. Another meaning for the term refers to a sprawling network ...
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• With Bachmann’s help, You Can Run raises funds to bring Christ into public schools

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 678
  Bradlee Dean at a high school assembly A controversial ministry that says it preaches Christian doctrine in public schools held a fundraiser in Bloomington Thursday night, drawing a crowd of about 400. At its “Appeal to Heaven” fundraiser, You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International offered attendees a preview ...
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• WTFCatholicism?

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 125
  What the hell is going on with the Catholic Church?I have been seeing a ridiculous amount of Catholic-related news, starting with the local archdiocese announces they are closing my high school. I can remember the following exchange, at North Catholic, junior year, in Father DeMeos Psychology class, and how it ...
  2 days ago

• Catholic Hardball 2: DC Responds

  
  Progressive Revival — Authority: 526
  Updates on yesterdays blog about the fight between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese and the DC City Council: According to the Washington Post , the DC city council has responded to the Catholic Archdiocese by "digging in its heels" on gay marriage.  The Council tried to reach a compromise but now doubts that it ...
  3 days ago

• D.C., church on collision course over gay rights

  
  Oh!pinion — Authority: 120
  W ashington, D.C.’s municipal government and Catholic Charities are having a showdown over the city’s intention to treat same-sex couples just as opposite-sex couples are treated. If no accommodation is reached, Catholic Charities is likely to sever its working relationship with the city, possibly to the ...
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• I Believe . . . South Carolina Just Got Schooled On the First Amendment

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 562
  By: Zac Papantoniou“Whatever else the Establishment Clause may mean (and we have held it to mean no official preference even for religion over nonreligion), . . . it certainly means at the very least that government may not demonstrate a preference for one particular sect or creed (including a preference for ...
  3 days ago

• Speak Up When Pro-Child Politics Are Attacked as Anti-Parent

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Here we go again. Families, child-rearing and home education publiclystereotyped as conservative extremism and anti-human rights, sigh. Ifyou parent and/or educate children and don’t fit this stereotype, makeyour voice heard too. Don’t let this define your principles.Parental rights rally on Washington planned: ...
  4 days ago

• Want To Feed The Homeless? Not In Phoenix

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 706
  Unless you arrive with the phrase “we’re from the government, and we’re here to help” A Phoenix ordinance banning charity dining halls in residential neighborhoods withstood a challenge by a north-central Phoenix church. Retired Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Corcoran, serving as a hearing officer, ...
  4 days ago

• Canada: Gay Catholic priest to be first to marry

  
  http://fratres.wordpress.com — Authority: 510
  Same-sex marriage: “It’s a human right.” So says Fr. Karl Clemens, who once declared [ HERE ] that despite his homosexuality he remained celibate, saying, “If I was any more celibate I don’t think I’d be alive.” The following short video clip from the anti-Catholic VisionTV in Canada depicts Fr. ...
  4 days ago

• American Legion pulls scholarships over Veteran’s Day school prayer

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 678
  Photo: Lori Howard, iStockphoto The American Legion Post 550 in Bloomington says it will withhold up to $30,000 in scholarships because the public school district won’t allow the group to lead the student body in prayer, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday. “We are not trying to push anything on kids or ...
  4 days ago

• Federal Judge Usurps State Rights and Misrepresents First Amendment

  
  The Mind of Tefft — Authority: 99
  A federal judge ruled recently that South Carolina can’t issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase “I Believe.” U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie ruled that the license plate was unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment ban on ...
  4 days ago

• SC Judge Bans ‘I Believe’ License Plate

  
  YourAutoStuff.com — Authority: 115
  A US District Judge has officially struck down a Christian-themed license plate that had been approved by the South Carolina Legislature. Judge Cameron Currie ruled that the plate was a violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from making a law “respecting an establishment of religion.” The ...
  4 days ago

• You Better Believe It: Christian license plate reportedly banned by U.S. District Court

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal The proposed South Carolina plate would have looked something like Floridas (pictured above) Last year, the South Carolina state legislature approved a bill to establish a Christian-themed license plate depicting a cross in front of a stained-glass window and ...
  4 days ago

• Separation of Church and Cars?

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 140
  This one comes to us from South Carolina where the state legislature approved a new license plate design available for purchase containing the words “I believe” and the image of a cross. Yesterday, a federal judge in SC shot down the license plates, saying “The ‘I Believe’ Act’s primary effect is to ...
  4 days ago

• For God and Country (in that Order)

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  Nobody today will be able to celebrate our many veterans without the memory of Fort Hood fresh in our collective conscience.  It is a horrible irony that such an inexcusable evil took place so near one of our nation’s most hallowed…
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