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Apr 07 2015
News
Rush Limbaugh: Left Has 'Fear and Hatred of Christianity'
The left's "fear and hatred of Christianity" and religion in general has driven America's culture wars for the past 30 years, Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience Monday.
"That is what people on the left just have the biggest struggle with. It's a giant enemy," he said in comments reported by Breitbart.
Newsmax (News)Oct 17 2019
News
In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their
Pew Research CenterFeb 06 2021
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Supreme Court Rules Against California Ban On In-Person Worship Amid The Pandemic
A divided Supreme Court has ruled that California can no longer continue with a ban on indoor church services put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but said the state can keep in place restrictions on singing and chanting inside.
The two cases at the center of Friday's rulings marked a test of how far states can go to safeguard public health before running afoul of
NPR (Online News)Dec 30 2015
News
Americans prize religious freedom for Christians — less for Muslims or atheists
Eight in 10 Americans say it’s very or extremely important for people like themselves to be allowed to practice their religion freely.
However, support for religious freedom plummeted when people were asked about other traditions, according to a survey released Wednesday (Dec. 30) by the National Opinion Research Center for Public Affairs Research and The Associated Press.
The
CNN (Online News)May 26 2016
News
Obama: Trump More Interested In ‘Tweets And Headlines’ Than Keeping America Safe
U.S. President Barack Obama addressed global concerns about Donald Trump during one of the year’s most prominent diplomatic events: the G7 summit.
The president said during a press conference on Thursday that world leaders have “good reason” to worry about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has proposed banning an entire religion of people from the U.S.
HuffPostSep 25 2012
News
In U.N. Speech, Obama Warns Time Runs Short on Iran
UNITED NATIONS  President Obama challenged the Arab world to use its newfound embrace of democracy to ensure protection for freedom of religion and speech and even life, using the last address of his first term to the General Assembly on Tuesday to call for a renewed focus on the “painstaking work of reform.
New York Times (News)Dec 15 2019
Analysis
Trump Signs Order Interpreting Judaism As A Nationality And Race
UPDATE: With his son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner hovering inches behind him, President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that interprets Judaism as a nationality or race and religion so that the federal government can threaten to withhold funds from schools deemed to be fostering anti-semitism in school activities, programs, curricula and classrooms. What it really will do
The American ConservativeApr 12 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Is America Hopelessly Polarized, or Just Allergic to Politics?
The good news about polarization is that it’s overstated — most Americans just really don’t like partisan squabbles.
It seems that the only thing Americans can agree on is that we are living in an era of extreme political polarization. As we head into the 2020 presidential campaign, a striking 91 percent of people said in a recent PRRI survey that the country is divided over politics.
Guest Writer - LeftJul 23 2020
News
Biden Courts '1 Million Muslim Voters', Wants American Children to Study Islam in Public Schools
Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden told attendees at the Muslim Voters Summit this week that more should be taught about Islam in our public schools.
Biden included Islam as one of the "great confessional faiths" and said, "I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. I wish we talked about all the great confessional faiths. It's one of the great
CBNSep 29 2020
News
Are Amy Coney Barrett’s religious views fair game?
Some see the Constitution’s “no religious test” clause as preventing such inquiries. But others say asking about how religion shapes a nominee’s outlook isn’t necessarily discriminatory – and is, in fact, vital.
President Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, a federal judge and former standout Notre Dame law professor, has set the stage for a high-stakes confirmation
Christian Science Monitor