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Let us not pray
I wish atheist lawmaker Juan Mendez hadn't delivered his "prayer" to open the Tuesday afternoon session of the Arizona House of Representatives. Mendez, a freshman Democrat who represents Tempe, began by asking his assembled colleagues not to bow their...
Tags: Religion and Belief, National Government, Rituals, Politics, Religious Events
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Let us not pray A hopeful wish for the end of religious exercises at the beginning of government meetings
Change of SubjectI wish atheist lawmaker Juan Mendez hadn't delivered his "prayer" to open the Tuesday afternoon session of the Arizona House of Representatives. Mendez, a freshman Democrat who represents Tempe, began by asking his assembled colleagues not to bow their... -
Mandating birth-control benefits unlawful, appeals court told
Tribune reporterLawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First Amendment rights....Tags: Court Preliminary, Separation of Church and State, Medical Procedures and Tests, Business, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
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Kosher meals fight continues
Florida's Department of Corrections got a stern rebuke from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals last week when the court sent a lawsuit brought by a Jewish prisoner over the right to receive kosher meals back to a lower court. The appeals court...Tags: Rick Scott, Vegetarian Diet, Boca Raton, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch
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Group claims Ball State prof teaching creationism
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Ball State University is investigating an atheist organization's complaint that one of the professors at the Indiana college is teaching religion rather than science. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a formal...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief, Science, Students, Science and Technology
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Supreme Court to revisit church-state separation
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can begin most of its monthly meetings with a prayer from a Christian pastor. Thirty years ago, the court upheld a state...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief, Punishment, Christianity
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Supreme Court to hear prayer case
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can begin its monthly meetings with a prayer from a Christian pastor. Thirty years ago, the court upheld a state legislature’s...Tags: Belief and Faith, Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief, Michael Jackson, Christianity
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Supreme Court weighing public school graduation in a church
WASHINGTON — Can a public high school hold its graduation ceremony in a local church? The Supreme Court has been pondering that question in its private conference for six weeks, discussing whether to take up a Wisconsin case that could reset the...
Tags: Symbols and Symbolism, Washington, DC, Islam, Religion and Belief, Separation of Church and State
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Catholic 'Sharia' in Pittsburgh
In the post-9/11 culture wars over Islamic fundamentalism, American conservatives — properly — have condemned attempts in Muslim countries to punish blasphemy or insults to the prophet Muhammad. It will be interesting to see if they are...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Freedom of the Press, Health Insurance Cost, Islam
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Lincoln County High School grapples with prayer at graduation
ben@theinteriorjournal.comSTANFORD — A dust-up over prayer at Lincoln County High School's upcoming graduation ceremony has ruffled feathers and garnered national headlines, but some involved say the real issues at hand seem to be getting lost in a sea of misinformation....Tags: U.S. Congress, Separation of Church and State, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups, U.S. Supreme Court
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Global Voices: Ahmadis' mission of peace in an age of terror
This post has been updated and corrected. See the notes below for details.Just weeks after the terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon, the global leader of the world’s 10-million-plus Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has brought his religion’s message of peace, public service and uplift to the faithful of Southern...Tags: United Nations, Elections, Pakistan, Separation of Church and State, Islam
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Washington County residents weigh in on separation of church and state
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comBill Morris of Hagerstown said Wednesday that he thinks the United States has gone too far in protecting separation of church and state and that he has always thought there is no such thing, pointing out that those words are not explicitly written in...Tags: Entertainment, U.S. Congress, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief
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