Posted on December 30th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Arkansas judge lifts ban on gay foster parents, states that the Child Welfare Agency Review board cannot regulate “public morality.”LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An Arkansas judge Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state ban on placing foster children in any household with a gay member. Ruling in a case brought by the Arkansas chapter of the American [...]
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Filed under: Marriage and Family
Posted on December 23rd, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Julian Sanchez, Reason’s Assistant Editor, publishes his rebuttal concerning the “secularization” of Christmas.It’s a Christmas tradition as venerable as mistletoe and caroling: As the days grow shorter, conservative activists claiming to speak for American Christendom raise their voices, not for a rousing round of “”Good King Wenceslaus,”” but to complain that the roughly 75 to [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on December 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
The return of “Davey and Goliath”MOUNT VERNON — Many adults who grew up between 1960 and 1975 will remember the stop-motion animated series featuring a little boy, Davey, and his talking dog, Goliath, that aired on Sunday mornings. After a 30-year hiatus, they are back.According to a news release, issued by the Evangelical Lutheran Church [...]
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Filed under: Music and Movies
Posted on December 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Prince Charles is intervening with Muslim and Christian leaders in hopes that those converting from Islam to Christians will be allowed to live.The Prince of Wales is brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty on converts to other faiths, The Telegraph has learned.He held a private summit of Christian and Muslim leaders at Clarence [...]
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Filed under: By Example
Posted on December 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 12 million adherents worldwide and is preparing to celebrate the bicentennial year of its founder’s birth.NEW YORK – To loyal Mormons, Joseph Smith Jr. was an American prophet whose creed is preparing for Christ’s Second Coming. To skeptics, he was a reprobate impostor, if a remarkably [...]
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Filed under: History
Posted on December 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Appeal to the Supreme Court last hope for Christians“First, symbols of Christianity are removed from the public square; now, Christians are facing 47 years in prison because they preached the gospel in the public square. Stalin would be proud,” – Brian Fahling, AFA Center for Law and Policy Senior Trial Attorney.Tupelo, MS - After a [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on December 19th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
It’s a simple case of ‘ask and ye shall receive,’ but in this case many are asking if the right people are on the receiving end.BOISE - There was a flood of angry calls to KBOI’s radio talk show Wednesday morning. Callers were upset about a Christian Church group that is offering to pay [...]
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Filed under: Missions
Posted on December 19th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
A pilot sex-education program that teaches “teaches homosexuality is genetically predetermined and that same-sex couples are one type of family.”A group of Montgomery County parents yesterday asked the school board to delay implementation of a pilot sex-education program this spring that teaches homosexuality is genetically predetermined and that same-sex couples are one type of family.Board [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on December 19th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan showed up Monday at his Covington County courtroom in southern Alabama wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold.MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to his wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on [...]
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Filed under: Church and State
Posted on December 18th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Catch the Fire Ministries pastors Daniel Nalliah and Daniel Scot were found guilty of religious vilification. A first for the new race and religion hate laws.An evangelical Christian group incited hatred and severe ridicule of Muslims when it called them demons, liars and terrorists, a tribunal ruled yesterday.In the landmark ruling, Catch the Fire [...]
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Filed under: Church and State
Posted on December 17th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Is Christmas too “Christian?” or the “Bah, Humbug” effects of political correctness.TORONTO – A few years ago, while working on an article, I spent a day with a group of teachers. Somehow - we may have been discussing the present continuous tense - the sentence “Christmas is coming” ended up on a blackboard. From there, [...]
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Filed under: General
Posted on December 17th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Catch the Fire Ministries found guilty of hatred against Muslims. But was it hatred or ridicule of the Muslim religion?An Australian court ruled today that a fundamentalist Christian ministry had vilified Muslims in a test case that could have repercussions for a proposed British law on incitement to religious hatred.A court in the southern [...]
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Filed under: Church and State
Posted on December 15th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Local group, Pawn, was to play at anti-drug school assembly next weekRossford High School officials were considering letting a Christian rock band play during an anti-drug assembly next week, but decided yesterday to cancel the performance because of concerns over having religious music played in a public school.“We are just shutting the whole thing down,” [...]
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Filed under: General
Posted on December 6th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
“I think there is Christianophobia out there and it’s not recognised,” said Drew Christiansen, deputy editor of America magazine in New York. “Christians have a sense of being a privileged majority, so we don’t see ourselves as victims.”PARIS – A Vatican diplomatic campaign to have “Christianophobia” recognised as an evil equal to hatred of Jews [...]
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Filed under: Persecution
Posted on December 1st, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Effort punishes ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ icon, claims chain offending millions of customersImmortalized in a 1947 Christmas movie classic, Macy’s is now the focus of a boycott campaign protesting the department-store chain’s replacement of “Merry Christmas” with politically correct greetings.A group called the Committee to Save Merry Christmas says Macy’s and its umbrella Federated Department [...]
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