Separation of Church and State

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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: 682
  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 ...
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• 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: ...
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• American Legion pulls scholarships over Veteran’s Day school prayer

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 682
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Is Congress Supposed To Do The Work Of God?

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 477
  Chaplain Barry C. Blacks speech yesterday was yet another indication of a dangerous effort, coming from within the United States Senate, financed with public money, to subvert the Constitution of the United States of America.
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• Christian-themed license plates “unconstitutional” in South Carolina!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  London, Nov 11 (ANI): A US judge has banned South Carolina from issuing car number plates that feature a Christian cross in front of a stained glass window along with the slogan “I Believe”.The southern state’s legislature had already approved the licence plate, but district judge Cameron Currie said it was ...
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• Martin Luther and James Madison

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 539
  I came across this recently, a Letter from James Madison to F.L. Schaeffer , dated 1821, in which the Father of the Constitution and the author of the Bill of Rights credits Luther with his doctrine of the Two Kingdoms for the American handling of church and state: Revd Sir, –I have received, with your letter of ...
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• National Briefing | South: South Carolina: License Plates Ruling

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  A federal judge ruled that the state cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase “I Believe.”
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• No "I Believe" Plate For South Carolina

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 718
  JMG reader Chris tips us to the news that a federal court has ruled against South Carolinas proposed "I Believe" license plate, calling it a violation of separation of church and state. In a summary judgment ruling, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie said the plate was based on a discriminatory law. "Such ...
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• JFK Had the Right Idea

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 119
  I stumbled upon a transcript on the National Public Radio site awhile-back. It was a speech made by John F. Kennedy in 1960, given to a group of Protestant ministers a few months before the election. JFK was a devout Catholic, but he was also had a solid understanding of the separation of church and state; this speech ...
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• Fort Hood: Separation of Mosque and State?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 566
  By William J. FedererGuest BloggerEveryone has heard of separation of church and state, but what about separation of mosque and state?Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (right) yelled “Allahu Akhbar,” Arabic for “Allah is great,” before killing 13 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood, Texas.He had praised Muslim suicide bombers ...
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• Churches over here, please. State goes over there. That’s it — separate. Get it?

  
  Nailing Jello to the Wall — Authority: 127
  Abortion is an issue that people feel very strongly about. I mean, I don’t know anyone who thinks “meh, whatever.” Personally, I feel very strongly that it is the right of any woman who finds herself in the position to have to make that difficult choice. However, I respect those who believe differently, based ...
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• Holy Crap Still Stinks

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 473
  Talk about your abominations... Congressman Stupaks (D, Misogyny) amendment to the House healthcare reform bill, which would essentially foreclose insurance coverage for abortions, is proof again that women continue to be second (perhaps even third) class citizens. The amendment, which purported to conform health ...
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• Senate Chaplain Uses Fort Hood Shootings To Promote His Religion

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 548
  Yesterday, Barry C. Black, the government-paid Chaplain of the United States Senate, stood before the Senate and introduced the day with the following statement: ” Eternal Lord God, Creator and Sustainer of humanity, as we continue to try to understand the tragedy at Fort Hood, our hearts ache for the victims, so ...
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• Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 530
  Equal rights for gay and lesbian people are very important to me. As an unmarried person at age 31, people sometimes assume that I am gay because of my fervent support for these issues. Its at times like these that I remind people that civil rights arent just about us as individuals, but all of us collectively as a ...
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• America is Not a Christian Nation, Part 1

  
  ARIZONA ATHEIST — Authority: 112
  The "Christian Nation" myth is one that I havent covered very often on my blog, though I have written about it a few times in the past and have also given it fairly extensive treatment in my refutation of David Aikmans book The Delusion of Disbelief. However, many of the facts can be hard to find throughout these many ...
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• 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 127
  The tragedy that took place last week at Fort Hood, Texas, was the work, it would appear, of a deranged person. It would seem that this person simply snapped, and began shooting people he did not know, and who had done nothing to him. There seemed to be no sense in these shootings and no escape for the shooter. ...
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• “IRS Should Investigate Harrisburg Church For Intervening In Mayoral Election, Says Americans United”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  Americans United for Separation of Church and State : In its letter to the IRS, Americans United requested an investigation. This event appears to be a clear breach of federal tax law, wrote Lynn. The church offered one candidate an opportunity to deliver a campaign address to the congregation, and the top official ...
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