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Archives for November 2008

Pastor who helped get “under God” in Pledge dies

November 30, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

ALEXANDRIA, Pa. (AP) – The Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died at 97.

Filed Under: Current Events

OPINION: Obama vs. Pope Benedict (Washington Times)

November 30, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

“The first thing I will do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” Obama said at an address before Planned Parenthood on July 17, 2007. And if he does, it will trigger a harsh response from Pope Benedict XVI, as well as a political revolt among practicing American Catholics.

Filed Under: Current Events, Politics, Religion, Top Story Tagged With: Barack Obama, Freedom of Choice Act, Jeffery T. Kuhner, Pope Benedict, Vatican

An idea lost on fanatics: Those behind the Mumbai attacks will never fathom religious liberty (LA Times)

November 30, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

By Tim Rutten – Los Angeles Times – The places the killers struck — luxury hotels, a railway station, a hospital for women and children, the Chabad Jewish center — are all powerfully linked in the popular mind with the modern world. As the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy has argued, the jihadis have linked anti-Americanism, anti-British sentiment (the assumption is that London is Washington’s lap dog) and anti-Semitic antagonism toward Zionism into a potent new ideology. To the extent it seems to find an increasingly sympathetic hearing in some fashionable sectors of the intellectual West, including the U.S., Levy correctly labels it “the socialism of imbeciles.”

Filed Under: Current Events, International, Top Story Tagged With: Mumbai, Terrorist Attacks

Bishops insist on work-free Sunday protection by European Parliament (DI-VE)

November 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Communities (COMECE) on Thursday expressed its regret at the refusal to put to vote several amendments aimed at the inclusion of a work-free Sunday in the new Working Time Directive by the chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Filed Under: Church and State, Current Events, Economics, Politics, Religion Tagged With: Bishops, COMEE, EP, European Parliament, Sunday

European Church leaders call for protection of ‘Sunday rest’ (SofiaEcho)

November 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The church representatives expressed their wish to see the Sunday rest day being better protected in national legislations as well as in the future EU working time directive which currently is being revised.

Filed Under: Church and State, Current Events, Politics, Religion Tagged With: CEC, Churches in Europe, COMECE, Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community, EU, European union, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Sunday rest, working time directive

Pilgrims among first to recognize that socialism doesn’t work (Salem News)

November 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

America’s first experiment with socialism was an abject failure that cost the lives of more than half of the foundering settlers by 1627. After living the liberal philosophy for half a decade of want, Gov. Bradford and the other founders of the Plymouth Plantation came to recognize that, despite their struggles, perseverance and faith, something was very wrong; something needed to change if they were to survive.

Filed Under: Economics, History Tagged With: Barbara Anderson, Governor Bradford, Plymouth Plantation Socialism, Thanksgiving

São Paulo passes religious freedom charter (ANN)

November 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and religious freedom proponents in Brazil say the passage this month of the Brazilian Charter of Religious Liberty helps galvanize freedoms of belief already established by the country’s constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Filed Under: Human Rights, International Tagged With: ABLIRC, Adventist, Aldir Soriano, Brazilian Association of Religious Freedom and Citizenship, Brazilian Charter of Religious Liberty, International Religious Liberty Association, John Graz, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

VIDEO – Sign company removes pro-atheist billboard at request of California city

November 21, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The city of Rancho Cucamonga, CA asked the General Outdoor sign company to remove an atheist billboard after several complaints from religious groups. Yet, religious groups would be up in arms if they were asked to remove a religious sign.

Filed Under: Church and State, Free Speech, Top Story Tagged With: Atheism, atheist, billboard, Freedom from Religion Foundation, General Outdoor, Rancho Cucamonga

The Coming “War” Between the Obama Administration and the Catholic Church (LifeSiteNews.com)

November 20, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

he possible signing of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) by President-Elect Barack Obama would be “the equivalent of a war” an unnamed senior Vatican official recently told TIME magazine.

The startling comments make the second time this week that a Vatican official has forthrightly and in the strongest language condemned Obama’s extreme policies on abortion. Speaking at the Catholic University of America a few days ago, Vatican Cardinal James Stafford labeled Obama’s anti-life policies as “aggressive, disruptive, and apocalyptic,” also noting that, “On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake” (see coverage: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111703.html ).

Filed Under: Church and State, Constitution, Family, Human Life Tagged With: Barack Obama, Benedict, FOCA, Freedom of Choice Act, Pope, Ratzinger

VIDEO – BREAKING NEWS: Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, on the Rule of Law

November 18, 2008 by Michael Peabody

Earlier this year, he gave a lecture for the ACS convention regarding the importance of restoring the rule of law. He called upon the United States to reverse “the disastrous course” set by the Bush administration in the struggle against terrorism, arguing “the next president must move immediately to reclaim America’s standing in the world as a nation that cherishes and protects individual freedom and basic human rights.”

Filed Under: Constitution, Human Rights, Legal Issues, Top Story Tagged With: Attorney General, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Constitution, Eric Holder, extraordinary rendition, religious liberty

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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.

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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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