Federal Appeals Court Says For-Profit Firm Is Not A Person With Right To Exercise Religious Freedom10/25/2013 "A Michigan-based for-profit business that produces organic foods has no right to an exemption from the Obama administration’s birth control mandate, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday."
What do you think? Click here to read the full article. Atheist group says Montgomery won't respond, plans suit over dispatching clergy to crime scenes10/22/2013 "In a letter dated Oct. 7 addressed to Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange and Montgomery Police Chief Kevin Murphy, American Atheists stated it had received complaints from Alabama residents about Operation Good Shepherd 'whereby public funds and public employees are to be used to promote the Christian religion in an attempt to reduce crime in the State of Alabama.'"
What do you think? Click here to read the full article. "[D]espite the separation of church and state, the IRS is involved in determining what’s a legitimate religion . . . We may have a hard time deciding what is a legitimate church or religion. But if we taxed them, it might be a whole lot less important."
What do you think? Click here to read the full article. - “We do live in a democratic society, and I personally feel like our community would support that decision, regardless of the rest of the world."
- “I think that’s one of the greatest things we’ve ever done." The "rest of the world", incidentally, includes the rest of the United States. Anything to give preference to Christianity in public schools. Click here to read the full article. Phil Howard, superintendent of the Jackson City Schools, said [Friday] that the portrait was moved this week at the request of the Hi-Y club, which put it up in 1947 in a building that is now the middle school.
… “We have to respect the rights of the club,” Howard said. “Failure to do so might open the district to even another lawsuit — this time by the [Hi-Y] club” — or violate the U.S Constitution by “turning the portrait into government speech.” Officials have maintained that taking the portrait down would censor students’ private speech. “It belongs to the club,” Howard said. “It’s student speech, not government speech.” We find this ridiculous. What do you think? Click here to check out the full article. "The governor, a former Jesuit seminarian, is under pressure to veto the bill from Catholic dioceses and other Church officials, as well as from organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America and USA Swimming–all entities that could face lawsuits if the bill is passed into law."
Par for the course, I'm afraid. Click here to read the full article. |