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Oct 18 2012
News
'View' takes religion, military, abortion shots at Ann Romney after playing 'romantic' softball with Obamas
Whoopi Goldberg barely let Ann Romney settle into her seat on ABC's "The View" before pouncing on the first lady hopeful, asking why Mitt Romney didn't serve in Vietnam and if the couple is prepared to console families of fallen soldiers if voted into the White House. Unlike a recent joint appearance on the show by President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during which questioning ranged
Fox News (Online News)Feb 28 2024
News
Alabama, religious freedom and frozen embryos
The Alabama Constitution provides that "no religion shall be established by law" and that "the civil rights, privileges, and capacities of any citizen shall not be in any manner affected by his religious principles." Those prohibitions were forcefully reinforced in a 1998 Religious Freedom Amendment. Like similar provisions of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, those prohibitions
Richard PerrinsFeb 29 2024
Opinion
Christian nationalists are a small and dangerous group with outsized power
Public Religion Research Institute CEO Robert Jones shared new data this week that shines light on the disturbing popularity of Christian nationalism — summed up as a belief that America's national identity is interwoven with Christianity — in regions of the country controlled by Republicans.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it was a clear sign that the upper echelon
MSNBCSep 24 2013
News
"Engaged in Some Sort of False Religion": Pastor-Turned-Politico Issues Controversial Words About Non-Christians
E.W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia, is no stranger to making controversial remarks.
The BlazeFeb 21 2024
News
Iowa Senate Passes "Blank Check To Discriminate" Bill - Joe.My.God.
The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that Republicans say will protect religious freedom, but that Democrats have described as a “blank check to discriminate” against LGBTQ Iowans and others. The Senate voted 31-16 to pass Senate File 2095 on Tuesday. The legislation would say that state and local governments shall not “substantially burden” someone’s exercise of religion. “I believe that it is
JoeMyGodMar 18 2024
Perspectives Blog
What is the Building Civic Bridges Act and Why Support it?
Written by supporters of the Building Civic Bridges Act: Kara Jarzynski, General Michael Hayden, Charles L. Welch, Richard Eidlin, Cameron Lange, Alice Siu, Tania Israel, and Megan Rawlins Woods.
What is the Building Civic Bridges Act?By Kara Jarzynski, Executive Director of Resolutionaries.
In the early 2020s, a YMCA near Seattle was stunned when physical fights began
Multiple Writers - MixedFeb 06 2024
News
Toby Keith Leaned on His Faith During Dark Days of Cancer Treatment and Had Brain 'Wrapped Around' Death
Keith's family confirmed that the musician had died at age 62 on Monday night Toby Keith leaned on religion in his final days. In an interview with in late January, the country singer, who died at age 62 on Monday night , revealed that he's relied on his faith to get through his diagnosis. “You take it for granted on the days that things are good, and you lean on it when days are bad,” Keith
PeopleFeb 17 2024
Opinion
Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting is the nation’s new brand of terror
By one widely accepted definition, the gunfire that killed one person, wounded 22 others and ruined the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration on Wednesday does not qualify as a “mass shooting.” Not enough people died.
So common is random gun violence in the United States that we must distinguish between those shootings that were merely deadly and those in which four or more
Los Angeles TimesJan 31 2024
News
Hate Crime: Christian Navy Veteran Charged for Tearing Down Satan Statue in Iowa Capitol
A Christian U.S. Navy veteran has been charged with a hate crime after admitting to beheading the Satanic Temple’s statue on display at the Iowa State Capitol in December. Michael Cassidy was initially charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief on December 15, but the Polk County Attorney’s Office indicated that the Mississippi man’s admission that he “destroyed the property because of the
Breitbart NewsFeb 02 2024
News
Former Louisville teacher faces child porn charges
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – A federal criminal complaint and arrest warrant were issued on Friday, charging a Louisville school teacher with distributing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and distributing child pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky says according to court records, in December 2023 and January 2024, Jordan A. Fautz, 39, while
Kentucky Today