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• Is retired officer pushing for Alberta to become totalitarian state?

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  The concept and language of “hate crime” has become so common in Canada that many people overlook the inherently totatlitarian nature of this thought crime ideology. It is very disturbing that a member of the former police officer would be among those pushing for such oppressive measures. But since he works in ...
  5 hours ago

• Christianity and the Welfare State

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  By Mark Tooley, American Spectator The old Religious Left and the new Evangelical Left rapturously support Obamacare, though some hardliners are sourly upset that it does not include a direct, British-style "single payer" system. Mostly they accept that the public option is an important first step toward their ...
  15 hours ago

• Vogelenzang case hits the headlines

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 621
  British and international news reports are highlighting Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang’s innocence after the case against them was dismissed by a Liverpool judge. Below is a selection from TV, radio and newspapers:BBC NewsBBC North West TonightBBC interviewBBC Radio MerseysideBritish newspapers Comment article, Daily ...
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• Victory for Free Speech

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  By Paul Bracchi, Mailonline One (highly paid) senior Crown prosecutor. Two policemen – including a detective chief inspector, no less – in court to testify against the accused. Behind them a team of six officers – yes, six – from the Merseyside forces specialist hate crime unit, assigned to investigate Ben ...
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• Justice for Duke Campaign

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  Christian Legal Centre Please stand with CLC and people everywhere to support a good man in his fight for justice.   Petition, Campaign, special website and Candlelight Vigil 15 December 2009 In July of this year, Bible-believing Christian Duke Amachree, married and father of 3 children who had served Wandsworth ...
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• Judge finds couple who criticised Islam innocent

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 621
  Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang have today expressed relief at being found innocent of a religiously aggravated public order offence after the judge dismissed the case. The Christian Institute backed the couple amid concerns there were significant free speech and religious liberty issues at stake.District Judge Richard ...
  2 days ago

• Christian hoteliers cleared in Muslim woman abuse row

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  BBC News A devout Christian couple have been cleared of insulting a Muslim guest because of her faith. Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang were accused of launching a tirade against Ericka Tazi at the Bounty House Hotel in Aintree, Liverpool, in March. The couple denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words ...
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• Breaking news: judge says Vogelenzangs not guilty

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 621
  Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang have been found entirely innocent of a religiously aggravated public order offence after a District Judge dismissed the case.The Vogelenzangs had been charged with the crime after criticising Islam during a debate with a guest at the hotel they run in Liverpool. The decision by judge Richard ...
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• Calgary’s leftists defeated by Christian preacher

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  Street Church wins constitutional victory What a victory! Rejoice with us! Celebrate with us! We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that this is not only our victory, in the name of Jesus Christ, but this is also your victory, every one of you that stood with us, prayed with us, supported us all the ...
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• Christian man fired after gay rights group contacts his employer to complain

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Story from the magazine Down East . Excerpt: Larry Grard admits he had “a lapse in judgment.” But Grard – who’s been a reporter for thirty-five years, the last eighteen of them at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville – says the e-mail he sent from his personal account to a national gay rights group ...
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• Vogelenzang trial enters second day

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 621
  Two Christian hoteliers went on trial yesterday accused of a public order offence for criticising Islam, but the couple deny the allegations. Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang are attending Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today for the second day of their criminal trial. The couple are alleged to have said that a guest, ...
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• Obama administration reps meet with many faiths at PWR

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 501
  Members of all faiths reached out to one another at the Parliament of World Religins. Photo by John David Miller, Parliament of World Religions. Showing openness to diversity in American religion, members of the Obama administration met at the Parliament of World Religions Dec. 6 with 50 members of multiple ...
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• John Stackhouse’s Strange View of the Manhattan Declaration

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 529
  The well-known evangelical theologian and historian John Stackhouse has added his name to the ranks of Christians who don’t find much to like about the Manhattan Declaration . There is a twist in this case, though. He isn’t complaining about the alliance between evangelicals and Catholics, for example. ...
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• Supreme Court Takes Church-State Case

  
  People For the American Way Blog blogs — Authority: 461
  Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Christian Legal Society v. Martinez , a case with important consequences for church-state separation . The group, the Christian Legal Society, says it welcomes all students to participate in its activities. But it does not allow students to become voting members or to ...
  3 days ago

• Canadian pastor cleared of ‘hate crime’ after 7 years

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 621
  A Christian pastor convicted of committing a ‘hate crime’ because of his views on homosexuality has been exonerated by a judge in Alberta, Canada.Stephen Boissoin was brought before Alberta’s Human Rights and Citizenship Commission after sending a letter to a local newspaper in 2002 in which he criticised ...
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• Trial begins of Christians who criticised Islam

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 621
  The criminal trial of a Christian couple charged with a public order offence for criticising Islam begins today.Watch a video report from the prayer rallyLast night hundreds of Christians gathered to pray about the case, concerned about its implications for free speech and religious liberty. A protest is expected to ...
  3 days ago

• Mark Steyn discusses pastor Stephen Boissoin’s victory against the HRCs

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Story on the Corner . (H/T ECM, Blazing Cat Fur ) Excerpt: A couple of years back, the Reverend Stephen Boissoin committed the crime of writing a letter to a local newspaper objecting to various aspects of “the homosexual agenda”. The Alberta “Human Rights” Tribunal convicted him of this crime and ...
  4 days ago

• The Manhattan Declaration

  
  Veritas Rex — Authority: 119
  I just signed on to the Manhattan Declaration .  It is quite good.  Congratulations to Chuck Colson, Professor Robert George (Princeton), Professor Timothy George (Samford) and all the others who helped produce it.  I found the marriage section to be as accurate an explanation of the Christian position in favor ...
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• Stephen Boissoin’s legal counsel notes key points from court decision

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  The decision of Justice Earl Wilson of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Boissoin v Lund will have a significant long term positive impact on religious freedom in Canada: 1. The decision established a very high threshold for the conclusion that a publication is in violation of the “hate” provisions of Alberta’s ...
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• Muslim Mob Violence Erupts in Egypt

  
  2 Worlds Collide — Authority: 116
  During the early morning hours on Saturday, November 21, the Upper Egyptian town of Farshoot and the neighboring villages of Abou Shousha, Kom Ahmar, Shakiki, and Ezbet Waziri were filled with Muslim mob violence against Coptic Christians.  The violence was prompted by allegations of the sexual abuse of a ...
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