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• Fake marriage embraced by anti-democratic D.C.

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 149
  CitizenLink.com – Dec. 1, 2009 Washington, D.C., Council Approves Gay Marriage By Nima Reza The District of Columbia City Council today overwhelmingly approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. The council approved the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 by a vote of 11-2. A ...
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• Ban on minarets in Switzerland

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 500
  Minarets or missiles??? Recent national referendum on ban on minarets in Switzerland is of great concern. Over last few years Muslims in west have seen increasing Islamophobia especially in Europe. Law in France banning head scarfs, Dutch cartoons and now Swiss ban on the minarets.There are only 4% Muslims in ...
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• Christians Stand-Up with the Manhattan Declaration

  
  theway2ks blog — Authority: 130
  If you are a Believer in Biblical Morality as opposed to the moral relativism touted as the moral compass of Secular Humanism in America then you are in for a treat of knowledge. A group of 140 signatories ranging across evangelicals, Roman Ca... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Islam Takes Another Hit in Europe: Swiss Vote to Ban New Minarets

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Religion , Immigration , Woman Up , International First, it was head scarves. Then it was burqas. The latest target in Europes growing anti-Muslim sentiment: minarets.   Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments
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• Turkey: Religious freedom survey, November 2009

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on freedom of religion or belief.A long-standing crucially important issue, with many implications, is that ...
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• Switzerland Votes to Prohibit Minarets

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 130
  I never knew when I wrote my original post on this subject on September 18th , that when the vote took place two months later, it would generate so many new visits here. According to traffic on this blog on the days leading up to and after the Swiss voted on the weekend to prohibit Muslim mosques from ...
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• The Catholic Code

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 142
  Yorkshire sent this to our e-mail group, but I had to use it here. As a real Catholic, I can get away with it. Subject: Catholic Code This information is for Catholics only. It must not be divulged to non-Catholics. The less they know about rituals and code words, the better off they are. AMEN: The only ...
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• Swiss brace for minaret backlash

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  In the cold night air, they gathered. First in threes and fours, until it became a bigger group. They carried candles and their anger - upset that Switzerland had approved a vote to ban minarets, the prayer towers on top of mosques. They first read about the demonstration on a website and decided to join. And ...
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• First Amendment Minutes 11.30.09

  
  mass rights blog — Authority: 122
  We have a full slate of new First Amendment Minutes today, covering topics such as our recent victory in the TSA screener case, immigrant deportation, and what limits there are on the TSAs authority. Listen here or on our podcast page: http://aclum.org/podcasts/ ACLU First Amendment ...
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• The Swiss Minaret Ban: Some Things Never Change

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 742
  In the Letter Concerning Toleration , John Locke wrote, Nobody… neither single persons, nor Churches, nay, nor even commonwealths, have any just title to invade the civil rights and worldly goods of each other, upon pretence of religion. Those that are of another opinion would do well to consider with themselves ...
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• Swiss Sharply Criticized After Vote to Ban New Minarets

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  People wait for a tram near a mosque in Zurich on Monday.
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• Patrick Kennedy, the Catholic Church, and de facto Protestantism

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 142
  I have neglected¹ the hot topic of a week ago, Representative Patrick Kennedy’s (D-RI) complaint that the Bishop of Providence, Thomas Tobin, had barred him from receiving communion due to Mr Kennedy’s support for abortion, a position completely contrary to that of the Catholic Church of which the congressman ...
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• Swiss Muslims express shock at overwhelming support for minarets ban

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Geneva, Nov. 30 (ANI): An overwhelming majority of the Swiss population voting against the construction of new minarets has caused greater pain to the Muslims in the country than the national ban altogether.Muslims no longer feel accepted in Switzerland after more than 57 percent of Swiss resident voters on Sunday - a ...
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• Minarets No More

  
  Barely A Blog — Authority: 132
  The minaret is the quintessential symbol of Islam’s power. Not only is this structural spire an imposing eyesore, towering over 200 meters above, but it emits—by virtue of the muezzin’s ululations—noise pollution five times a day. The Swiss have not rejected freedom of religion—Muslims can ...
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• Manhattan Declaration 2009 - Sign Up!

  
  Miss Kelly — Authority: 124
  I like this Christian initiative, called the Manhattan Declaration .  The statement was crafted by Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, and Evangelical religious leaders in Manhattan in late September, 2009.  Go here to add your name to the  statement, which has 196,490 signers.    A Call of Christian ...
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• Los Angeles Times Condemns The Manhattan Declaration

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 444
  Fortunately, a number of major media outlets have condemned the so-called "Manhattan Declaration" - authored in part by convicted Watergate felon Chuck Colson (pictured at right) which among other things urges far right Christianists to engage in civil disobedience and ignore laws that run contrary to ...
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• Swiss voters back ban on building of minarets

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  . Swiss voters defied their Government and clerics yesterday and approved a ban on building minarets — reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority. Fifty-seven per cent of voters in a referendum supported the direct democracy initiative, which ensured international embarrassment for ...
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• Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part V

  
  MandM — Authority: 128
  In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I ,  I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of it. I looked at the objection that the argument from respect is too thin, that applied consistently it excludes too much and Audi’s ...
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• No freedom of religion in Switzerland

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 586
  Switzerland has voted in a referendum to ban minarets . I am simply appalled. This is an outright attack on freedom of religion, specifically the freedom of Muslims to build religious buildings, and if it was reversed and applied to e.g. church spires, people would instantly recognise this. The good news is that ...
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• Arkansas Refuses Winter Solstice Display. Bigotry? Ignorance? Both?

  
  The Gaytheist Agenda — Authority: 122
  The Arkansas Society of Freethinkers put in a request, as it did last year, to have a Winter Solstice display at the State Capitol. As was the case previously their application was denied. Two weeks ago we reported on the efforts of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers to put up a winter solstice [...]
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