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

Posted on November 21, 2008November 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.

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

Posted on 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 ).

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BREAKING NEWS – Russia Moves to Liquidate Fifty-Six Religious Groups

Posted on October 29, 2008October 29, 2008 by Derek Davis

By Derek H. Davis – On October 15 the Russian Ministry of Justice took steps to begin liquidating 56 non-Russian Orthodox religious organizations. The groups face dissolution, Russian news sources reported, because they failed to file required annual reports on their activities. Those targeted include a range of non-Russian Orthodox organizations and churches but hardest hit were various Christian groups, both Protestant and Catholic. Baptist groups were prominent on the list, but Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Seventh-day Adventist and Pentecostal groups were also included. Well known humanitarian groups such as World Vision and Youth with a Mission were also named, as was the Russian branch of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Non-Christian organizations were also named, including Muslim and Buddhist associations.

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VIDEO: Palin linked political success to prayer of Kenyan witch hunter

Posted on September 16, 2008September 18, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.

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The Politics of Obama’s Faith and the Evangelical Left – Stephen Manfield

Posted on September 15, 2008September 18, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

According to Stephen Mansfield, the author of this book, Barack is “raising the banner of what he hopes will be the faith-based politics of a new generation . . . and he will carry that banner to whatever heights of power his God and the American people allow.”

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Martin Sheen on Church / State Separation

Posted on September 9, 2008September 8, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Television president, Martin Sheen, narrates this video, produced by People For the American Way, about the history of separation of church & state and efforts by the Religious Right to undermine it. It was produced some years back.

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VIDEO: VP Candidate Joe Biden on Religion, Government, and the Presidency (Fora.TV)

Posted on August 23, 2008August 26, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Recorded in May 2007, Delaware Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden discusses the role of religion in American society, and gives his thoughts on the separation between church and state.

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INTERVIEW: Barry Lynn – Why Churches Should Stay out of Politics (SpectrumMagazine.org)

Posted on August 19, 2008August 19, 2008 by Michael Peabody

Spectrum Magazine has just interviewed Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Lynn is an attorney, activist, and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

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OPINION: O’Connor’s 4th Circuit Ruling on City Council Prayer

Posted on August 6, 2008 by John Stevens

On Wednesday, July 23, 2008,  in Turner v. City Council of Fredericksburg, (4th Cir., July 23, 2008), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of appeals upheld the policy of Fredericksburg, Virginia’s city council requiring prayers which open its sessions to be non-denominational. In an opinion by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, sitting by designation on…

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Namibia: Divine Right and ‘Moron’ (namibian.com.na)

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Administrator

This is a fascinating article about the relationship between church and state in Namibia.  http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/July/letters/08193A2750.html EXCERPTS: Churches were major driving forces in getting Namibia’s independence on the formal international agenda through resistive courage, a record that worldwide is, unfortunately, neither consistent nor unblemished; they do support the wrong side sometimes! But in Namibia’s case they…

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