Headlines: Separation of Church and State (T23R-2)
A First Amendment Storm New York Times House Republicans and Democrats do not agree on much these days, but they managed to join together last month to breach the proper separation between church and state. By a 354-to-72 vote, the House approved a measure sponsored by ... |
 ABC News | Yoga School Program Brings Separation Of Church And State Law Suit In ... Huffington Post SAN DIEGO -- An attorney representing a family bent out of shape over a public school yoga program in the beach city of Encinitas filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop the district-wide classes. In the lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court, attorney ... This Week in God EUSD sued over yoga program Eye Roll: Parents Sue Over Yoga In Public Schools Because It “Promotes ... |
Separation of church, state key to funding Columbus Dispatch While her column focused on Florida, Georgia and Arizona, the same sort of legislative acts are taking place in Ohio. While there are numerous concerns with these trends, the most egregious is the violation of the separation of church and state, a ... |
Separation of church & state served up as League lunch topic ... Oak Ridger Separation of church & state served up as League lunch topic ... Brother charged with attempted murder ... Morning Minutes: Feb. 23 ... Separation of church & state served up as League lunch topic ... Brother charged with attempted murder ... |
Separation of church and state Canadian Lawyer Magazine But the Western tradition of separating church and state may cause the courts to see “all Islamic law as religious,†he says. “I think marriage in Islam is often misunderstood,†concurs Fareen Jamal, an associate lawyer at Bales Beall LLP in Toronto ... |
Religious values, chuch/state separation at heart of yoga lawsuit U-T San Diego He argues in the suit that the district is violating laws protecting the separation of church and state because its yoga program contains religious elements. photo Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law and Policy, stands at his offices ... |
 TimesLedger | Sandy aid measure raises church/state separation TimesLedger As houses of worship pray for help rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy, one secular organization hopes a bill it believes breaches separation of church and state stalls in the U.S. Senate. Jason Stewart, a board member and New York representative with ... |
It seems that closed-door negotiations between the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have produced a defense spending bill with a provision that could allow for discrimination against gays, lesbians and other minorities in the military.
This is a truth that we can’t handle. Read more
I know it̢۪s not considered polite to speak ill of the dead, but I̢۪m going to bend that rule today to comment on Robert H. Bork, the former federal appeals court judge and failed Supreme Court candidate who died yesterday. Read more
Louisiana officials have often been far from favorable when it comes to church-state separation, so today we are particularly happy to salute school officials in Orleans Parish for doing the right thing.
This week, the Orleans Parish School Board voted to reject any science textbook “which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories.†Read more
The broken record that is Mat Staver, founder of the Religious Right group Liberty Counsel, is at it again: Christmas is under attack. Christmas is under attack. Christmas is under attack.
You could have fooled me. I stopped in a local mall last weekend, and it sure looked to me like Christmas was in full swing. On my way there, I passed more than one church with a Nativity scene on its lawn. Based on the decorations on my block alone, which include both the secular and the sacred, you̢۪d have a hard time not knowing it̢۪s Christmastime. Read more
What sort of person would use a tragedy like the massacre in Newtown, Conn., as an excuse to advance an extreme, theocratic agenda?
If you guessed William J. Murray, you̢۪re correct.
Murray, who heads the Religious Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C., doesn̢۪t blame Adam Lanza for taking the lives of his own mother and 26 others, including 20 children. Instead, the Religious Right activist said it̢۪s lack of school-sponsored prayer that led to the tragedy. Read more
As soon as I heard about Friday̢۪s horrific school shootings in Newtown, Conn., I knew it would only be a matter of time before some Religious Right extremist blamed it on the lack of mandatory prayer in public schools.
It didn̢۪t take long. First out of the crazy box was former Arkansas governor and erstwhile presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Read more
A Kentucky lawmaker seems to have given church-state separation advocates an early holiday gift: a promise not to push creationism in 2013.
Sen. Mike Wilson (R-Bowling Green) will be the new chair of the Senate Education Committee and he has been quick to state that even though he believes in creationism, he won̢۪t try to force it into public schools. Read more
If you̢۪re like me, your email inbox often contains items of a questionable nature. Despite spam filters, I still get the occasional message from a Nigerian government official offering me millions or notice that I̢۪ve won a European lottery that I never entered.
But as far as I̢۪m concerned, chain emails of a political nature are the worst: Here̢۪s proof President Barack Obama̢۪s birth certificate is a fake! Join this plan to bombard the ACLU with Christmas cards! Mitt Romney can still be president if one-third of the states refuse to cast ballots in the Electoral College! Read more
More trouble on the religion-and-healthcare front.
Yesterday my colleague Simon Brown told you about a worrisome development in Austin where the University of Texas is planning to train medical school students at a Catholic-run teaching hospital. Some folks are concerned that Catholic doctrinal mandates will interfere with sound medical training.
Now a similarly problematic situation is emerging again in Louisville. Read more
For those who value church-state separation and responsible health care, there is a growing issue with partnerships between public institutions and religiously affiliated hospitals.Â
Consider the situation at the University of Texas, which plans to open a medical school but train its students at a Catholic-run teaching hospital. Read more
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