When it comes to religion in public education, Americans struggle between aspects of the First Amendment forbidding establishment of religion (government sanctioning religion) and prohibiting government from hindering the free exercise of religion (government rules of worship or non-worship). What is important in education is making the study of religion a part of education. And…
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In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in ways they never had to…
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This evening, Vanderbilt University will hold a town hall “discussion” about its new nondiscrimination policy that prevents belief-based student groups from making belief-based decisions about their leadership. Vanderbilt effectively is discriminating against political and religious groups that seek to promote a common message. Vanderbilt has told students that their organizations are engaging in prohibited discrimination…
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Despite what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana says, a pro-family advocate assures that a bill pending in the Indiana Legislature that would allow public schools to teach about creationism is constitutional. The one-sentence bill, proposed by Republican Sen. Dennis Kruse, passed 8-2 in the Senate’s Education Committee, but the ACLU says it…
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Hours before the Republican debate in Jacksonville on Jan. 26, Florida Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told the grassroots organization Veterans For A Stronger America that he feels the most pressing threats against the United States are recent advancements in Chinese military strength and radical Islam. “Islamism” in particular was a heavily hit…
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This is the first of a series of presentations on public education and its counterpart, Christian education. The Right Wing Reverend begins by comparing public or state education to a destructive Trojan Horse. Can that really be the case? How can he say such a thing? Listen as he carefully develops the case that state…
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Having been a faith-based and committed Christian for over a decade, you could easily think I had become accustomed to the strange looks when I tell people more about myself; for example, that on Sunday mornings I go to church instead of recovering from a boozy session with friends, that my life manual is the…
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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a trial at the district level for a graduate level counseling student who was dismissed from her program for asking that a client with “gay” issues be referred to another counselor because as a Christian she could not affirm that lifestyle choice. Officials at Eastern Michigan…
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Fireproof star Kirk Cameron is trying to put out a major inferno, and he is hoping American families can help him. Moved by the major economic, political, and moral woes facing the United States, Cameron has been at work over the past couple years on a film project that chronicles his personal journey to historic…
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The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg is being criticized for saying Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini would love the country’s public school system because it teaches all children one set of beliefs. Bishop Joseph P. McFadden made the remark while advocating for school vouchers during an interview last week with Dennis Owens,…
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