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• Separation of Church and Cars?

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 139
  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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• Christian-themed license plates “unconstitutional” in South Carolina!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  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: 551
  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: 913
  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.”
  15 hours ago

• No "I Believe" Plate For South Carolina

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 717
  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: 118
  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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• 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: 472
  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: 547
  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: 529
  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: 114
  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: 462
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Group urges IRS to change rules regarding politics and churches

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 681
  Image: Ben McLeod Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is urging the Internal Revenue Service to fix problems with its enforcement of laws against churches endorsing political candidates. In January, a Minnesota District Court judge ruled that the IRS did not have the proper procedures in place ...
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• The Face of Religious Based Hatred

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 148
  If there ever was any doubt that religious discrimination was at work in Maine and other areas where gay rights were on the ballot, the professional homophobes - Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber, two self-loathing closet cases in need of serious mental health intervention in my opinion - have made it crystal clear ...
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• Americans United urges IRS to take necessary steps to limit partisan activity by churches

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Americans United for Separation of Church and State Press Release : "The issue of church politicking has become more controversial in recent years. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Religious Right legal group, has been urging pastors to violate the “no politicking” rule by endorsing or opposing candidates from ...
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• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
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• Separation of Church and... Health Care

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 677
  By GottaLaff Paddys earlier Tuesday Linkage post mentioned this briefly, but when I opened my L.A. Times this morning, I opened my eyes, too... wider and wider. Abortion is one of the favorite health care reform sticking points that the punditiots opine about daily, but we havent heard a peep about equating ...
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• Bulletin insert requests Catholic parishioners speak out on health care reform

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 651
  Some Des Moines-area Catholics received a little extra information along with their bulletin during services this week: an insert encouraging them to take political action on potential health care reform in Congress. Bishop Richard Pates , of the Diocese of Des Moines , wanted parishioners at the 82 locations that ...
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• Mike Lux on America’s “Historical, Hysterical Conservatives”

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  They have used the same arguments — for tradition and states rights, against “big government socialism” — in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either.. . .These conservative arguments have always been tinged with more than a little hysteria, just like today. ...
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