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Archives for June 2008

Take Money, Lose Faith – Seven Catholic Schools turned into public schools in Washington DC (Maryland Daily Record)

June 29, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Charles C. Haynes points out the trap that religious schools can fall into if they decide to take government money.  For those of you who study the tight bonds between money and religious freedom, this story is a must-read. – Editor EXCERPT: CHARLES C. HAYNES Special to The Daily Record June 27, 2008 On June […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Current Events, Education, Tax Exemption, Top Story Tagged With: Arabic charters, Charles C. Haynes, charter school Catholic, Hebrew charters, nonsectarian, religious charter school

IRLA Meeting draws large crowd in Angola

June 29, 2008 by Michael Peabody

John Graz, Secretary General of the International Religious Liberty Association (http://www.irla.org) reports that 40,000 people attended the IRLA meeting in Luanda, Angola on June 28.  On July 5, a meeting will be held in St. Petersburg and on July 12 a Festival of Religious Freedom will be held in in Honolulu, and meetings are planned […]

Filed Under: International

Unlikely Allies on Prison Reform – Coming together on a wedge issue (New York Times)

June 28, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

For conservatives and liberals, issues such as crime and punishment are losing their divisiveness as the left recognizes the importance of fighting crime and the right finds practical reasons for reform.  We will see more of this as the former religious right is pushed into irrelevance. By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN EXCERPT: In those moments of […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights Tagged With: Chuck Colson, Crime, Mark Earley, Prison Fellowship ministries, prison reform, Samuel C. Freedman

VIDEO: Michael Newdow in Panel at Boston College on Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance

June 28, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

This is particularly relevant this election year. From http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/newdow/  October 18, 2006 – Boston College – Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Every day millions of schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the American flag and “the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Michael Newdow […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Civil Rights, Constitution, History, Religion, Video Tagged With: Alan Wolfe, Atheism, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College, First Amendment, Michael Newdow, Phillip Munoz, Pledge of Allegiance, Religion, Video, Wendy Kaminer

Historical Profile: John Wycliffe – Morning Star of the Reformation (Excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs)

June 28, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

One of my favorite reformers has to be John Wycliffe, who translated the language of the Latin Vulgate into language that everybody could understand.  This weekend, as part of our weekend inspirational series, we are pleased to present this excerpt from the classic, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, not because of any connection with a particular […]

Filed Under: Free Speech, History Tagged With: Bible, Britain, christian, Christianity, faith, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Free Speech, injustice, jew, John Wycliffe, kingdom, peace, persecution, Politics, Religion, War, World

ADVOCACY: There’s More to Faith than James Dobson (FaithfulAmerica.org)

June 27, 2008 by Alexander Carpenter

Is Focus on the Family president James Dobson’s opinion worth more than the beliefs of the entire American population? The cable news networks seem to think so. Early this week, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a groundbreaking survey of 35,000 Americans documenting the diversity and tolerance of people of faith and […]

Filed Under: Current Events

This Fourth of July, Celebrate Religious Freedom (The Baptist Standard)

June 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Brent Walker, Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty says that it is time to celebrate our religious freedom this 4th of July. Our founders protected our God-given freedom by barring government from meddling in religion or taking sides in religious disputes. As a result, and as a consequence of their foresight […]

Filed Under: Current Events

Professor Steven Calabresi on Enforcing Morality (Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy)

June 26, 2008 by Michael Peabody

In this essay published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Steven Calabresi, the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law, Northwestern University School of Law, comments on Judge Robert Bork’s thought-provoking book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, specifically focusing on governmental efforts to enforce morality.  Calabresi argues that there is a place in the […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Human Life Tagged With: abortion, assisted suicide, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Human Life, Judge Bork, lottery, moral, morality, Northwestern University School of Law, Opinion, prostitution, Robert Bork, scholarly, Steven Calabresi, Steven G. Calabresi, Supreme Court

VIDEO: Increasing American Religious Comity (Pew Forum by way of Spectrum Magazine)

June 25, 2008 by Michael Peabody

Thanks to Alexander Carpenter for finding this great video.   Click here to watch and review the analysis: http://spectrummagazine.org/blog/2008/06/25/pew_video_increasing_american_religious_comity Although a majority of Americans say religion is very important to them, nearly three-quarters of them say they believe that many faiths besides their own can lead to salvation, according to a survey by the Pew Forum […]

Filed Under: Religion, Video Tagged With: coexist, holy day, Opinion, pluralism, Religion, religious clothing, religious diversity, religious dress, religious garb, Video

RAW MATERIALS: This week’s Obama / Dobson broughaha

June 25, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

To help understand what’s going on between Focus on the Family’s Dr. James Dobson and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, we have assembled the raw materials and news stories about the subject. 1. Read Obama’s Speech from June 28, 2006 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Constitution, Current Events, Politics, Religion Tagged With: Barack Obama, Buddhist, CBN, christian, Christian Broadcasting Network, David Brody, Deborah White, fruitcake, hindu, James Dobson, Johannah Cornblatt, Max Lucado, muslim, Religion, Rob Boston, Robert Schlesinger, T.D. Jakes

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Biden admin could hand over US control of health emergencies to WHO next week

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The ultimate control over America’s health care and its national sovereignty will be put up for a vote next week at a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).  On May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at the United Nations […]

Statement on the Leak in Dobbs

The leak was intended to disrupt the processing of the decision and we are not going to dignify the leak or the unidentified leaker by analyzing it prematurely. As a constitutional republic we cannot go down that road without doing severe damage to the institution of the Supreme Court where there must be professional courtesy between the justices and their staffs.

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Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Boston violated 1st Amendment in refusing Christian flag at City Hall

This morning the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Shurtleff v. Boston (Dec’d 5/2/2022) that the city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group when it refused to allow them to participate in a city flag raising program.

Active Liberty - a survey of Justice Stephen Breyer's religion clause jurisprudence - Supreme Court

Active Liberty: A Survey of Justice Stephen Breyer’s Religion Clause Decisions

A comprehensive review of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s decisions in Free Exercise and Establishment Clause cases.

Canadian gov’t calculates that expansion of assisted suicide will save taxpayers millions of dollars

In Canada, it is easier for the disabled who do not suffer terminal illness to get approval for assisted suicide than approval for affordable housing. The government has calculated the cost of providing healthcare versus providing assisted suicide.

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Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

— Criss Jami

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