As Senator Obama said during the 2008 campaign, words matter. Modern “liberalism” is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of “tolerance” are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent; and those who profess to “celebrate diversity” coerce ever more ruthlessly a narrow homogeneity. Thus, the Obama administration’s insistence that Catholic institutions must be compelled to provide…
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In a land of faith and flag, Justin Griffith is challenging the US military to abandon its religious ties. When he was a child growing up in Plano, Texas – a place he describes as the “oversized, goofy buckle on the Bible belt” – he would bring his bible to science class and debate his…
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The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation is challenging prayers in the North Carolina General Assembly that it says favor Christianity. On Thursday, the ACLU said it sent a letter to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper outlining concerns about the use of sectarian prayers to open meetings at the Legislature. The…
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Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Obama defended his hardest-left positions using Christianity, citing Scripture and personal prayer as the impetus for Dodd-Frank, among other policies. Say, does that include stomping on religious freedom by mandating that Catholic charities violate the basic tenets of their faith and provide contraceptives? Injury, meet insult.…
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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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Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his success and achievement were evidence of something unethical and immoral? President Obama and other redistributionists must be rejoicing that their assumptions about rugged capitalism and the…
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave good reason for celebration for the hundreds of thousands who will arrive in Washington for the 39th annual March for Life on Monday. The court last week upheld the constitutionality of a new law in Texas requiring that abortion providers do ultrasound exams and that a woman…
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America may have already replaced the $680,000 in funding it lost from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation for its breast-cancer prevention programs, the group said today. Riding a wave of Internet appeals, Planned Parenthood received pledges of $400,000 from 6,000 donors as of 2 p.m. yesterday, said Tait…
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There is new drama this morning over Iran’s nuclear program. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Iran is ready to retaliate against any action taken to halt that program – this after Israeli leaders issued unusually blunt warnings about possibly striking Iranian nuclear sites. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly believes that could…
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Opening Friday, Universal’s new film “Big Miracle,” starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski, is the fictionalized retelling of the 1988 rescue of three California gray whales trapped off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, and the media circus that sprung up around the efforts to cut a path through the arctic ice to set them free.…
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