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A Judge Stopped An East Texas School District On Thursday From Barring Cheerleaders From Quoting Bible Verses On Banners At High School Football Games, Saying The Policy Appears To Violate Their Free Speech Rights
Associated PressDistrict Judge Steve Thomas granted an injunction requested by the Kountze High School cheerleaders allowing them to continue displaying religious-themed banners pending the outcome of a lawsuit, which is set to go to trial next June 24, Texas Attorney...Tags: Justice System, Steve Thomas, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Belief and Faith
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Mitchell remembered as pioneer, fighter for justice
In the midst of one of many tributes to former state Sen. Clarence M. Mitchell III at his memorial service in an Upton church Sunday night, hundreds of family members, friends and fellow politicians broke out into an impromptu singing of the hymn "Lift...
Tags: Executive Branch, Martin O'Malley, Human Interest, Barbara A. Mikulski, Civil Rights
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Letters to the Editor - Oct. 20
Federal government remains important to everyone To the editor: Almost daily, I hear people assailing the federal government with claims that it would be best downsized or all rights given to the states. Of course, President Obama is the target for...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, National Government, Belief and Faith, Social Issues
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Judge: Bible Verses OK on Cheerleaders' Banners
CNNCheerleaders from a small eastern Texas town have won the first battle in their crusade to display Christian religious messages on banners at their high school's football games. State District Judge Steve Thomas of Hardin County implemented a temporary...Tags: Executive Branch, Steve Thomas, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Justice and Rights
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He got it right
I have a message that I hope will provoke some thought, by those of any stripe, who would inject religion into our government. "Hypetia was the hot chick who worked at the local library. On her way home from work one day, she was met by a contingent of...Tags: Religion and Belief, Separation of Church and State, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Churches using 'souls to polls' to rally vote
MIAMI (AP) — It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting congregations to register to...
Tags: Elections, Gays and Lesbians, Democratic Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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A genuine freedom fighter heads for peril in Libya — again
On Friday, the Lehigh Valley's gutsiest freedom fighter will once again head for Libya, his native land. He was there when the monstrous Moammar Gadhafi took power in a 1969 coup, he was there for the first eight years of Gadhafi's rule, resisting the...Tags: Libya, Benghazi, Moravian College, Political Systems, NATO
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Pakistan Protest Against Anti-Muslim Film Turns Deadly
CNNThe United States braced Saturday for more protests over an independently produced anti-Islam film that has ignited anger in the Muslim world, temporarily closing some of its diplomatic missions and warning American citizens in some countries to be...Tags: Executive Branch, Movies, Sudan, Interreligious Dialogue, Malaysia
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Religious freedom under increasing threat worldwide, study says
World NowMore countries around the world are clamping down on religious freedom and harassment and intimidation of religious groups has surged, according to a new study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. The new report tracked changes in religious... -
Gov. Jerry Brown approves limits on funeral protests
PolitiCalProtesters on public property will need to stay 300 feet away when picketing funerals, thanks to new legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday. That bill was part of the latest batch approved by the governor. The full story...... -
Understanding freedom of speech
Seventeen countries in the Middle East are protesting against the United States because one of our citizens made a horrible, hate-filled film demeaning the Prophet Mohammed, placed it on the Internet, and watched gleefully as the violence grew in that...Tags: Government, Justice and Rights, Freedom of the Press, Civil Rights, Religion and Belief
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Atheists organizing Maryland lobbying group
Maryland atheists may soon have a lobbying group of their own. The Secular Coalition for America, a nonprofit that lobbies of behalf of atheists, agnostics, free thinkers and "other nontheistic Americans," announced plans Wednesday to organize a...Tags: Religion and Belief, Lobbying, Belief and Faith, Annapolis, Politics
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Sep 15, 2012
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