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Month: August 2012

GOP Platform Includes War on Religion Claim (BJC)

Posted on August 30, 2012September 10, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Republican Party platform adopted yesterday includes a section on religious liberty, repeating the claim that the Obama Administration has engaged in a “war on religion.”  The problem is, it ignores the facts… read more here >>> http://bjcmobile.org/gop-platform-includes-war-on-religion-claim/

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on International Religious Freedom (Carnegie Endowment)

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

A transcript of the event is available at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website.

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Why Liberty of Conscience Is the Most Important Issue in 2012

Posted on August 14, 2012August 15, 2012 by Stephen Allred

By Stephen N. Allred – [dc]W[/dc]hen it comes to discussing political viewpoints with fellow church members silence is often eloquence. After all, haven’t we been wisely counseled to check our political viewpoints at the door when we come together as believers in Christ?[i] Besides, most of us have learned this from experience. I’ve been “un-friended”…

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Kmiec: Is Paul Ryan Romney’s New Religion Problem? (Huffington Post)

Posted on August 14, 2012August 14, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Constitutional law scholar Douglas Kmiec shares his views on how the Paul Ryan pick will affect the Catholic vote in an article published today in the Huffington Post. Read the full article at the Huffington Post.

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Judge Allows Muslims to Use Murfreesboro Mosque (NYTimes.com)

Posted on August 12, 2012January 6, 2014 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Excerpt: “What the judge did was wrong in that he held the mosque to a much higher standard than any other institution applying for a land-use permit in Rutherford County,” said Eric Rassbach, a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm that helped file the lawsuit on behalf of the…

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Publisher Pulls David Barton’s Controversial Thomas Jefferson Book, Citing Loss Of Confidence. (NPR)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Citing a loss of confidence in the book’s details, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson is ending the publication and distribution of the bestseller, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson. The controversial book was written by Texas evangelical David Barton, who NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty profiled on All Things Considered Wednesday….

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Hawaii Judge Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban (Honolulu Civil Beat)

Posted on August 8, 2012August 8, 2012 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Excerpt:  A U.S. District Court judge in Honolulu has rejected arguments from two lesbians who said that Hawaii’s 1998 ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. According to court documents released Wednesday, Judge Alan Kay dismissed the lawsuit, Jackson v. Abercrombie, saying that a decision like this should be left to the Legislature – not the…

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