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Thought & Crime (Liberty Magazine – March/April 2008) – An Update

June 9, 2008 by Michael Peabody

Update on “Thought and Crime” published in the March/April 2008 issue of Liberty magazine. You may recall that Pastor Stephen Boissoin had gotten himself in hot water with the Alberta Human Rights Commission when he wrote a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate that was critical of the “homosexual agenda.”  The community […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Free Speech, International, Legal Issues Tagged With: alberta human rights commission, boissoin, canada, chipeur, Free Speech, Trials

Balancing Government Secrecy and Accountability – What Should the Next President Do?

June 9, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

In attempting to increase national security, has the Bush administration gone too far in sacrificing accountability for secrecy? What does this mean for the next president? The American Constitution Society (ACS) has recently published a new issue brief by Geoff Stone, entitled, On Secrecy and Transparency: Thoughts for Congress and a New Administration, in which […]

Filed Under: Constitution, Current Events, Free Speech, Privacy Tagged With: American Constitution Society, Free Speech, Geoff Stone, government secrecy, John Yoo, national security, On Secrecy and Transparance, Privacy

America’s Democratic Collapse – A Speech by Chris Hedges

June 8, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

On May 28, Pulitzer Award winning journalist, Chris Hedges, gave a speech at Furman University in South Carolina. Although we do not necessarily agree with all of it, it does raise some interesting points for discussion. Here is the speech -click on the link to read the rest at Alternet.org: I used to live in […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: Chris Hedges, speech

VIDEO: Religious Freedom Worldwide Worsens (Voice of America)

June 6, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

A U.S. advisory panel on May 2, 2008 asked the State Department to expand the list of governments the U.S. considers the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom lists eleven “countries of particular concern.” The congressionally mandated panel also wants the U.S. to keep an eye on religious […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Human Rights, International Tagged With: Commission on International Religious Freedom, global issues, international issues, persecution, religious freedom, ReligiousLiberty.TV, state department, voice of america

NEWS BRIEFS: Global Privacy, Free Speech Issues

June 5, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US (AP) Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home. The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: blogger, cell phone, ethics, Free Speech, Privacy, Singapore

NEWS / OPINION: Law Professor Denied Communion Because He Supports Obama

June 3, 2008 by Michael Peabody

No Religious Tests for Public Office? What about Political Tests to Receive Sacraments? Pepperdine University School of Law Professor, and former Constitutional law advisor for President Ronald Reagan, Douglas Kmiec was denied communion recently at a mass connected with a gathering of Catholic business people. The priest denounced Kmiec’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, then […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Politics, Religion Tagged With: 2008 campaign, 501(c)(3), Audio Files, Barack Obama, Catholic, communion, Douglas Kmiec, endorsement, Michael Peabody, Pepperdine, Politics of Apostacy, Religion, religious test, Separation of Church and State, tax exempt

VIDEO: Could Gay Marriage Erode Non-Profit Tax-Exempt Status?

June 3, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

On March 26, 2007, Brian Brown, Executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, testified before the judiciary committee of the state legislature in regard to raised House Bill 7395: An Act Concerning Marriage Equality. In this video, Brown argues that even if churches are not required to perform the ceremonies, legalizing same-sex marriage might […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, Family, Video Tagged With: Catholic, gay marriage, Video

Significant Differences Emerging Between McCain and Obama in Prospective Judicial Nominees (NY Times)

May 27, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

It is looking more and more likely that either Barack Obama or John McCain will be the next President of the United States.  They will leave a lasting legacy in the form of their judicial appointments. The New York Times today posted a good analysis of how they may decide who interprets the law.  Thanks […]

Filed Under: Constitution, Current Events, Politics, Supreme Court Tagged With: McCain, obama, supreme court nominee

Belarus: ‘We are reclaiming our history as a land of religious freedom’ (ChristianToday.com)

May 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Read the full version, which includes a fascinating review of the history of religious liberty in Belarus, online at http://www.christiantoday.com/articledir/print.htm?id=19015 by By Antoni Bokun, Pastor of John the Baptist Pentecostal Church in Minsk Posted: Saturday, May 24, 2008, 10:54 (BST) Belarus has been renowned [for its] freedom of conscience for centuries. This is why religious […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Current Events, History, Human Rights, International Tagged With: Belarus, History, Soviet Union

Does Constitution apply to enemy combatant on U.S. soil? (AP)

May 24, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

In the War Against Terror, it may be difficult to determine who the enemy is.  Does the Constitution apply to a U.S. resident held on U.S. soil? WASHINGTON (AP) — If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Constitution, Current Events, Human Rights, Military Tagged With: Crime

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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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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

— Robert H. Jackson

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