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Archives for August 2010

9th Circuit: World Vision Can Continue Faith-Based Hiring

August 25, 2010 by Michael Peabody

On August 23, 2010, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that World Vision is a religious organization and is therefore exempt from Title VII prohibitions on religious discrimination. Three  former employees Silvia Spencer, Ted Youngberg, and Vicki Hulse had had filed suit against the well-known humanitarian organization in 2007, claiming they had been victims […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Current Events, Discrimination, Employment Law, Legal Issues Tagged With: 9th Circuit, Andrew Kleinfield, Silvia Spencer, Ted Youngberg, Vicki Hulse, World Vision

Islamophobia: Stoking Fears about an American Community

August 19, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

As a country that has long prided itself on representing a superior national enterprise, we must learn from our past. We have not yet taken unconscionable measures against our Muslim citizens and must avoid doing so at all costs. As our history indicates, our Constitutional values may well be at stake when we fear and […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Human Rights, In the News Tagged With: Daisy Khan, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, islamophobia, Joshua Stanton, Park51 Center, Rauf, ReligiousFreedomUSA, Spectrum Magazine

Mau-Mauing the Mosque: The dispute over the “Ground Zero mosque” is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance. (Slate)

August 17, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

By Christopher Hitchens Read the full article here: http://www.slate.com/id/2263334 EXCERPTS: The dispute over the construction of an Islamic center at “Ground Zero” in Lower Manhattan has now sunk to a level of stupidity that really does shame the memory and the victims of that terrible day in September 2001. One might think that a mosque […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Discrimination, Religion Tagged With: Abraham Foxman, Anti-Defamation League, Barack Obama, Christopher Hitchens, Cordoba House, Slate

Religious intolerance now driving persecution of minorities across the world (Minority Rights Group)

August 16, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2010reports that the rise of religious nationalism, the economic marginalization of religious minorities and the abuse of counter-terrorism laws have all led to a growing pattern of persecution against religious minorities globally.

Filed Under: International

A Christian Nation: But Which Christianity? (Baptist Joint Committee)

August 14, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

A Christian Nation: But Which Christianity? from Jeff Huett on Vimeo. Mercer University President William D. Underwood delivers the keynote address at the 2010 Religious Liberty Council Luncheon in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Read more at BJCOnline.org)

Filed Under: Featured Video

An Analysis of the Results of the Federal Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Trial

August 5, 2010 by Michael Peabody

In short, Judge Walker ruled based on the evidence presented, as any trial judge should, and regardless of his own personal sexual orientation or biases, Prop 8 supporters simply did not make a viable case for themselves. Sloganeering may have won the election but did not win a trial where real evidence was required. Prop 8 supporters may later look at the ruling and claim it was wrongly decided but as this essay points out, the reality is that they did a poor job presenting their evidence and only put two witnesses on the stand, both of whom had previously written statements that contradicted their testimony in favor of Prop 8. When both of these witnesses were neutralized, Prop 8 advocates had nothing left with which to prove their case and any effort by any judge to add in facts to uphold Prop 8 would have been the very definition of judicial activism.

Filed Under: Church and State, Civil Rights, Current Events, In the News, Legal Issues Tagged With: Due Process Clause, gay marriage, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Same-Sex Marriage

Transcript of Mayor Bloomberg’s Speech on Ground Zero Mosque

August 3, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Delivered August 3, 2010 at Governors Island in New York. “We’ve come here to Governors Island to stand where the earliest settlers first set foot in New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of religious tolerance were first planted. We come here to see the inspiring symbol of liberty that more than 250 years later would […]

Filed Under: Current Events, In the News

Mayor Bloomberg Gives Stirring Speech on Mosque

August 3, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Filed Under: Discrimination, Featured Video, History, In the News, Politics, Religion

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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.

Boston City Hall - photo from Supreme Court Opinion

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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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that … of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

— Thomas Jefferson

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