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April 2014

April 10, 2014

Christian Professor Awarded Back Pay, Promotion for Violation of His First Amendment Rights

“No individual loses his ability to speak as a private citizen by virtue of...

April 04, 2014

Resisting the New Blacklist

There’s a new blacklist. Its members are anyone who dares to oppose gay marriage,...

April 03, 2014

Mozilla CEO Steps Down Over Donating $1,000 for Prop 8

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned from his position with Mozilla. He also resigned from his...

April 01, 2014

Meet the President They Said …

Source: Photobucket This was Pope Francis’ tweet a couple of days after meeting President...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Is Religious Freedom Threatened? Duhhh … Is This a Trick Question?

When the roll is called down yonder, we'll all line up according to our...

March 26, 2014

Hobby Lobby Founders Discuss the Supreme Court Arguments on the HHS Mandate

I'm not going to do a post mortem on the arguments the Supreme Court...

March 24, 2014

Join the Religious Freedom Tweet Storm

Join tomorrow’s Religious Freedom Tweet Storm. From Stand Up For Religious Freedom: Tomorrow is the...

March 11, 2014

Atheists File Another Suit Over Ground Zero Cross

American Atheists have filed suit to block inclusion of the ground zero cross in...

March 04, 2014

Department of Homeland Security Tells Romeike Family “You Can Stay”

It appears that the Romeike family will be staying in the United States, after all....

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Conscientious Objection About Wedding Cakes and Flowers is not About Slavery, Lynchings, Segregation or a Refusal of Service

Conscientious objection about wedding cakes and flowers is not the same thing as slavery, lynching,...

February 27, 2014

The New Zeitgeist: A Majority of Americans Now Favor Gay Marriage

According to a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, support for gay marriage...

February 26, 2014

Governor Brewer Vetoes Religious Freedom Bill

Governor Brewer did what everyone expected and vetoed the religious freedom bill. You can find...

February 25, 2014

Money Talks. And Democracy Walks. Arizona Style.

I don’t know how accurate this is, but it does seem likely to be true....

February 25, 2014

Getting Real: The Marriage Protection Amendment

Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and...

February 18, 2014

Denmark Bans Religious Slaughter of Animals. Minister Says “Animal Rights Come Before Religion.”

Denmark’s government has banned the religious killing of animals for the production of halal and...

February 10, 2014

Cardinal Designate Calls Homosexuality a Defect. Spanish Government Investigates.

This is the sort of story that makes you want to kiss the Bill of...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

Gay Marriage, the Rights of Children, and Religious Liberty

I've received permission to reprint Ryan Anderson's testimony concerning gay marriage in full. The video...

January 11, 2014

World Watch List: Number of Christians Who Died for Their Faith Doubled in 2013

While Christians in the West grapple an almost-constant barrage of attacks on their faith from...

January 09, 2014

Little Sisters of the Poor: Doing God’s Work. Fighting Goliath.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, the stand up nuns who've taken on the...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

2013 Favs: Is Anti-Christian Bias in Academia Creating a Christian-Bashing Culture?

This video is longer than the videos I usually put up. But if you're...

December 31, 2013

2013 Favs: Massachusetts Schools Put Transgendereds in Restrooms, on Sports Teams of Their Choice

Massachusetts public schools have issued guidelines to require their public schools -- get ready for...

December 31, 2013

2013 Favs: Street Preacher Recounts his UK Arrest

Reverend Tony Miano was arrested in London for using "homophobic speech." He was preaching on...

December 29, 2013

2013 Favs: President Obama, Religious Liberty and Lying in Plain Sight

I'm close to a breaking point vis a vis our President and his deliberate disingenuous...

December 28, 2013

2013 Favs: Christian Persecution: Are We the ‘New Jews’?

Yesterday's news of fresh scandal and rumors of scandal in the Church left me feeling...

December 28, 2013

2013 Favs: Battling Sisters of Stone Park, IL Hold Their Own Against Strip Club

When the city fathers of Stone Park Il came out in support of the worthy...

December 10, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium Cliff Notes Part 2: The Beam in My Eye

And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Religious Freedom and Gay Marriage: Are They Intrinsically Inimical?

Does the First Amendment apply to individual people or only to the institutional church,...

November 14, 2013

Christian Persecution and Conversion in Nigeria

Nigerian Christians have suffered a decade of murderous attacks from militant islamists, in particular the...

November 14, 2013

Is It Possible to Have Individual Freedom of Conscience and Gay Marriage?

The debate is boiling down to a wall-punching, head-butting disaster. On the one side,...

November 12, 2013

Dolan: Christian Persecution is “a Humanitarian Catastrophe’

God love Cardinal Timothy Dolan. He took the podium at the annual fall assembly...