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Archives for May 2012

3,000 Lynched In Tanzania For ‘Witchcraft’ In Past Six Years – The Huffington Post

May 30, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

EXCERPT: Over the past six years, more than 3,000 people were lynched in Tanzania by frightened neighbors who thought they were witches, according to a new report from the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC). Between 2005 and 2011, Tanzanians lynched an average of 500 people per year on suspicion of witchcraft, with most killings […]

Filed Under: Current Events

Give Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington Letter To Synagogue to Be Displayed

May 24, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

U.S. President George Washington traveled to Newport, Rhode Island where he met with the congregation at the Touro Synagogue. While there, the leader of the congregation, Moses Seixas, handed Washington a letter that noted past persecution and expressed hope that liberty of conscience would prevail in the new nation.

Filed Under: Current Events, History, Inspiration Tagged With: George Washington, Jewish, Moses Seixas, Newport, religious tolerance, Touro Synagogue

U.S. House Committee Votes to Strengthen Military Chaplains’ Liberty of Conscience

May 23, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has adopted Congressman Todd Akin’s (R-Missouri) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which creates a statutory conscience protection clause for members of the military in general and military chaplains in particular.

Filed Under: Constitution, Current Events, In the News, Marriage, Military Tagged With: Armed Services Committee, Chaplain, Military, Military Chaplain, Todd Akin, U.S. House

2nd Circuit Rules Town Should Encourage Diverse Groups to Pray at Town Meetings

May 21, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

n May 17, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Galloway v. Town of Greece, 0-3635-cv) ruled that the town of Greece,  New York violated the U.S. Constitution by opening meetings with prayers that favored Christianity over other religions. Linda Galloway and Linda Stephens filed suit in 2008 claiming that the town’s […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Constitution, Current Events, Legal Issues, Politics Tagged With: 2nd Circuit, Galloway, Greece, Guido Calabresi, NY, Second Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court

Inspiration: Dr. Ben Carson’s Speech at Emory

May 18, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Ben Carson: “Many people came to this nation and they were trying to escape from societies that tried to tell them what they could say and what they could think and here we come reintroducing it through the back door. And we need to remember that it is not important that we all think the same thing and the emphasis should not be on us all saying the same thing. The emphasis should be on learning how to be respectful of individuals who have a different opinion.”

Filed Under: Featured Video Tagged With: Ben Carson, Commencement, creation, Emory University, Evolution, Inspiration, Johns Hopkins, Neurosurgery, Petition, Quotation

Ninth Circuit to Determine Whether “Spiritualist” Charter Schools Get Tax Dollars

May 17, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

CASE NOTE: 10-17720 Plans Inc. v. Sacramento City Unified School District SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 17, 2012 – he Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a case this morning on the issue of whether the Sacramento Unified School District is violating constitutional principles of separation of church and state in awarding Waldorf-method charter […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Current Events, Education, Religion Tagged With: Charter School, Ninth Circuit, People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools, PLANS, Rufolf Steiner, spiritualism, Waldorf School

Romney’s 12/6/2007 Speech on Religion and the Presidency

May 16, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Filed Under: Featured Video

We Separate Church and State for a Reason – Romney’s Perspective on Religion and the Presidency

May 16, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

  On December 6, 2007, candidate Mitt Romney gave this speech at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas in order to reach evangelicals who were concerned about how Romney’s Mormon religion might affect his presidency.  Michael Luo of The New York Times gives some background on the speech. The transcript […]

Filed Under: Current Events, History, In the News, Politics, Religion Tagged With: Ann Hutchinson, Brigham Young, christian, George H.W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Mormon, Mormonism, Presidential Library, Religion, religious liberty, Roger Williams

Burden of Proof: Why Most American Evangelicals Reject Long-Earth Evolution

May 11, 2012 by Michael Peabody

Within the larger context of American Protestant Christianity the debate continues without resolution. Among Christians, creationists are often asked to consider various forms of evidence of a long-history of the earth, but those advocating for a long-earth have largely ignored discussion of the genealogies of the New Testament and the concepts of original sin and salvation. Christian evolutionists have failed to provide a verse-by-verse rebuttal to the Biblical Creation narrative or to acknowledge the extent to which acceptance of creation would impact theology.

Instead theistic evolutionists operate on the supposition that Creationists will eventually bifurcate their religious beliefs from scientific understanding, because incompatibilities must be resolved in favor of science. This places faith directly in conflict with science and any resultant battle on these issues will take centuries if true academic freedom is to be granted, but can resolve faster if the voices of religious dissent are silenced and those who have openly criticized evolution are denied a seat at the academic table.

The attempt to “purify” academia by silencing the voices of critics such as Dr. Carson would be the first step toward a secular Dark Ages. So far, it appears that

Filed Under: Current Events, In the News, New, Science Tagged With: Ben Carson, Catholic, christian, creation, creationism, Dr. Ben Carson, Emory University, Evangelical, Evolution, Protestant, theistic evolution

Letter from Pastor Youcef Thanks Supporters and Urges Prayer | Iran, American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ

May 10, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

http://ACLJ.org/iran/letter-pastor-youcef-thanks-supporters-urges-prayer

Filed Under: Current Events

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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.

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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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