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• in Lifestyle
  Teacher Bans 'God Bless You' in Classroom and Punishes Offenders by Dropping Grades
  A health teacher in California has barred saying 'God bless you' in his class and those who break this rule have points removed from their grade.
  by clairethebear88 / on Sep 30, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “church and state”

 

• Vote Fraud: Coercive Prayer Is Wrong Even If Students Vote For It by Simon Brown

  
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    May 7, 2013 by Simon Brown Allowing student-led prayers on a majority-rules basis is a fantastic way to create division and hatred, and no school should ever be in the business of fostering those things. Does the majority rule when it comes to religion in public schools? A West Texas public school official ...
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• Podcast Episode 40

  
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  In this episode, I talk about the app on my tablet I use to record this podcast with, Fan Fiction (and an interview of a fellow author in the future), new websites that are coming soon, Swagnilla Ice, and I finish off with the separation of church and state and what I believe it should ... Continue reading ‘Podcast ...
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• Texas Cheerleaders Win Court Battle

  
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  A Texas court has ruled that public high school cheerleaders may display banners which claim that God wants their team to win. District Judge Steve Thomas Wednesday ruled that the Kountze Independent School District cannot prevent the displays. The controversy began when the cheerleading squad at Kountze High ...
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• Separation of Church and State

  
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  A comment on my recent post about Backdoor Creationism calls into question the premise that the US Constitution demands separation of church and state, and therefore religious beliefs cannot be taught in public schools. The comment reads: The first amendment states that the federal government can neither (sic) or ...
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• -2013 Annual Report: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

  
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                            (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The USCIRF 2013 annual report on religious freedom is out. Here’s a link to the 400 page analysis with a detailed ‘blow by blow’ country by country summary of violations in the past year. The 15 worst countries when it comes to ...
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• Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - Susan Jacoby

  
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  Shared by:TybieWritten by Susan Jacoby Format(s): EPUB Language: English Release date: December 23, 2004“Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion.”-Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAt a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers ...
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• The Church and the Challenge of "Gay Marriage"

  
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  A well put together video from CNS:  Promote the inequality sign because, as a matter of fact, gay marriage is not equal to real marriage: They are not the same. 
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• -Tyndale Won a Major Victory Against Obama HHS Mandate

  
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  Tyndale House, a major Bible publishing company, won a major victory against the Obama administration’s HHS Contraceptive/abortifacient Mandate. Here’s the story from the Baptist Press : WASHINGTON (BP) — A leading Bible publisher won another court victory against the Obama administration’s ...
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• Brunsman Wants Every Student To Know They Can Opt-Out Of The Beliefs Of The Cultural Mainstream

  
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  August E. Brunsman IV, Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance I have known August Brunsman, Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), for at least 13 years through my Humanist group in Columbus Ohio. I got to watch from the front row as SSA hatched and grew into the premium secular student ...
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• ACLU to Investigate Georgia School for Holding Extended Prayer

  
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  ACLU to Investigate Georgia School for Holding Extended Prayer :
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• An interview with James Torrance

  
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  Here is James Torrance speaking about his life, the influence of Karl Barth on his thought, civil religion, ethnic identity, the Barmen Declaration, reconciliation, and prayer and the priesthood of Christ (a topic that partly inspired this post ): Filed under: Church and State , James B. Torrance , Karl ...
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• -So What is the Difference Between Evangelizing and Proselytizing?

  
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                                              (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In a recent statement by DoD Spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen the Pentagon supposedly ‘clarified’ their earlier statement about restricting religious discussion in the military: “Service ...
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• -UPDATE: Pentagon ‘Clarifies’ Proselytizing Court Martial Statement

  
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                       (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Just as I expected. Today, after the story hit the fan, the Pentagon ‘clarified’ their statement about restricting religious discussion and possibly court martialing those in the service who proselytized. Still the clarification really ...
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• -Pentagon: Talk About Jesus and Face a Court Martial?

  
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              (Pentagon- Photo credit: gregwest98 ) *UPDATE: Pentagon Issued a ‘Clarification’ Today This is one of those stories that is hard to believe and I have been trying to get to the bottom of it for the last two days. Nevertheless according to a press release from the Pentagon , soldiers ...
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• National Day of Reason – For Everybody

  
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  National Day of Reason: May 2nd 2013 The first Thursday in May is the National Day of Reason. It was created as a response to the National Day of Prayer held on the same day. the National Day of Reason is to celebrate reason – a concept all Americans can support – and to raise public awareness about the ...
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• Today Is The National Day of Reason

  
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  National Day of Reason: May 2nd 2013 Thursday May 2nd is the National Day of Reason in the United States. The day is a secular celebration for humanists, atheists, and other secularists and freethinkers in response to the National Day of Prayer, that is unfortunately a legal holiday in the United States. Our ...
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• National Day of Prayer, 2013

  
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  Today is the National Day of Prayer.  President Obama issued his proclamation, saying in part All of us have the freedom to pray and exercise our faiths openly. Our laws protect these God-given liberties, and rightly so. Today and every day, prayers will be offered in houses of worship, at community gatherings, in ...
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• -Gay Activists Want Greg Laurie Dropped From National Day of Prayer Events

  
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  Gay activists are pushing for Government officials to drop pastor Greg Laurie from participating in the National Day of Prayer events tomorrow. They claim that he is “anti-Gay” and homophobic but the only thing Laurie is really guilty of is preaching and teaching from the Bible. From the Christian Post : ...
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• Prayer in School: It Is About More Than Separation of Church and State

  
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  Time for Prayer in School Yard (Photo credit: peretzp ) In my previous post about prayer in school , I focused on the question of why some religious believers are not satisfied with the right of students, staff, teachers, and administrators to engage in silent prayer at school. In this one, Id like to take a look ...
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• President Obama and Kermit Gosnell

  
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  Here is a link to a PDF of the Grand Jury report in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, a serial killer / abortionist doctor. Some of the findings? Gosnell performed illegal late-term abortions. "The bigger the baby, the more he charged." (3) At least one of these babies was as large as six pounds, at 7.5 months old. Yet ...
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