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Embracing Exclusivity: How civic religion at inauguration abridges religious freedom

Posted on February 4, 2009February 4, 2009 by Michael Newdow

By Michael Newdow – EXCERPT: “Two months ago, when the American people chose Barack Obama to serve in the highest office in the land, it seemed that Homer Plessy’s dream had finally been realized. America, we thought then, truly stands for the justice and equality guaranteed in its Constitution. Yet, in a few days, as our new president steps up to the inaugural podium, the reality will be that government-sanctioned favoritism – now for religion, instead of race – will continue.”

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The First Baptist in America (Florida Baptist Witness)

Posted on February 2, 2009January 29, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The earliest Baptists in America stemmed from a group of like-minded individuals who surrounded Roger Williams. It was on Feb. 5, 1631, that Roger Williams (1603-1683) and his wife sailed from Bristol on the ship Lyon and landed at Nantasket, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Workplace Discrimination Claims On the Rise (BeliefNet – RNS)

Posted on January 29, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The proposed Workplace Religious Freedom Act would provide greater protections but has languished in Congress for more than a decade, despite broad bipartisan support and support from an unusually diverse range of religious groups.

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Illinois law requiring moment of silence in public schools ruled unconstitutional

Posted on January 21, 2009January 21, 2009 by Michael Peabody

The court upheld the principle that students have a constitutional right to pray on their own at any time and that the government or the schools should not arbitrate when and how students pray.

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Judge Bork predicts ‘terrible conflict’ will endanger U.S. Catholics’ religious freedom (CNA)

Posted on January 21, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Former Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert Bork has predicted that upcoming legal battles will have significant ramifications for religious freedom. He names as issues of major concern the continued freedom of Catholic hospitals to refuse to perform abortions and the likely “terrible conflict” resulting from the advancement of homosexual rights.

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Workplace Religious Accommodation: Man Refuses to Drive ‘No God’ Bus (BBC)

Posted on January 17, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming “There’s probably no God”.

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RITSEMA: Supreme Court deals death blow to the 4th Amendment (Civics News)

Posted on January 15, 2009January 15, 2009 by Scott Ritsema

Now, any the time that law enforcement makes a “mistake” that prevents them from doing a proper search, they will get away with it, and the evidence can be admitted into the court proceedings. The incentive to do the search in a legal fashion has now been removed; instead, and an incentive to do illegal searches and then say “oops” has now been introduced.

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Soldier alleges military pattern of Christian bias (AP)

Posted on December 29, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – An atheist soldier suing over prayers at military formations claims a larger pattern of religious discrimination exists in the military, citing attempts to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and an evangelical bias in a suicide prevention manual.

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New Religions: A Small Sect Makes it to the Supreme Court

Posted on December 22, 2008December 22, 2008 by Monte Sahlin

By Monte Sahlin – The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted an appeal from a religion that you probably never heard of until it hit the news yesterday. Summum is rooted in gnostic Christianity (or, at least modern understandings of gnosticism) and ancient Egyptian religion (or, at least contemporary understandings of ancient Egyptian religion). It was founded in 1975 and has its headquarters in (of all places) Utah.

The case before the Supreme Court is based on the fact that the small town in Utah has a large, stone monument in the city park of the Ten Commandments. The believers in Summum petitioned the city council to add another monument with their seven principles of good behavior. The city council refused, thereby establishing the religions of the Ten Commandments (Judaism and Christianity) over the little sect of Summum. The small religion has raised enough funds to hire attorneys and appeal their case all the way to the top court in America.

There are serious constitutional issues about religious liberty in this case even if you have a hard time taking Summum seriously. But, I want to focus on something else: The way new religions are being invented and why so many people are moving away from the large, historic faiths.

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U.S. Muslims worry about new federal rules (MSNBC)

Posted on December 4, 2008November 30, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The revised guidelines going into effect Monday will allow agents to use undercover sources to gather information, interview people without identifying themselves and spy on suspects without evidence of wrongdoing.

Critics say the rules will allow for abuses, including more racial and religious profiling.

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