Month: November 2011

Ga. counseling student in court over view on gays

By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — An attorney for a graduate school counseling student told federal judges in Atlanta on Tuesday that the student’s First Amendment rights were violated when professors at a Georgia university sought to punish her for her biblical views on gay rights.… Read the rest

AJC: On alcohol sales, religion gives way to economics

By Mark Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Ray Newman has been studying a state map since last week’s Sunday alcohol sales referendums. A pastor and lobbyist for the Georgia Baptist Convention, Newman can cite one town after another where voters overturned blue laws.… Read the rest

Yet Another Attack on Marriage

The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation

Thomas Messner
November 2, 2011

Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin debate on legislation that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

In 1996, Congress passed DOMA by wide margins, and President Clinton signed the bill into law.… Read the rest

The Coming Church-State Wars

By Pat Buchanan (via Townhall.com)
11/1/2011

Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed.… Read the rest

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