“Police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier in the day. The father and his 19-year-old son got into an argument on Sunday afternoon. That’s when police said the father went to a car, got a knife and stabbed his son in the [...]
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“Latino lawmakers and others who are pushing for changes in U.S. immigration policy are taking a new approach to the issue, making a humanitarian appeal to Americans to support fellow citizens who have relatives living in fear of detention and deportation.” (CNSNews.com)
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With the only exception being to save the life of the expectant mother, South Dakota has banned all other abortions. Seeing that this ban directly opposes the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, it is hard to imagine that a proposal, however noble or lofty as this, will be able to stand within the current [...]
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The highly cricitized Partiot Act, extended for another four years, empowers the government to continue its infringement on the rights of American citizens as it attempts to thwart terrorism. !/images/content/20051208_partiotAct.jpg(Patriot Act)!
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New British guidelines outline tougher sentences for people who kill their partners in the heat of a jealous rage. “Crimes of passion” with low degrees of provocation are greatly affected under the new rules.
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CONCORD, N.H. – To some, a never-enforced New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before a minor has an abortion is a backward step for women’s rights. To others, it protects parents’ right to know if their child is having an abortion.
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The execution date for Crips gang co-founder, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, is December 13, 2005. Although convicted in 1979 for killing four people, Williams has since authored a number of anti-gang books and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times. Williams’ fate is now hotly debated from the air waves to the classrooms. [...]
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Debate continues over the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. This Arizona Central article focuses on Alito’s allegiance to religious interests.
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Saifullah Parachaa, former Pakistani businessman and accused al-Qaida operative, takes legal actions to get a copy of the King James Version of the Bible.
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In a decision that could reverberate through clergy sexual-abuse cases everywhere, a King County Superior Court jury has awarded $4.2 million to two sisters who were sexually abused for years by their stepfather, a Mormon priest.
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President Bush has selected Judge Samuel A. Alito as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court. Alito’s conspicuous appellate experience contrasts Harriet Miers and mirrors Cheif Justice John Roberts.
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Police protected Christian churches from harm during a series attacks sparked by political differences and the distribution of DVD considered offensive to Muslims.
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Wiccan priestess, Darla Wynne, won her case to get references to Jesus Christ removed from the Great Falls city council prayers. The town is now faced with the dilemma of paying her lawyer’s bill which is 6% of the towns annual budget.
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EDMONTON (CP) – Church leaders, politicians and an American religious rights group are rallying behind a pastor who is to appear before an Alberta human rights tribunal accused of exposing gays to hatred.
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WASHINGTON – While Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers presided over a major Texas law firm, the company was forced to pay more than $30 million to settle claims with investors cheated out of millions by two clients and came under federal scrutiny for its role in a tax-shelter case.
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An evangelical Christian activist group is warning it will attempt to use the British government’s new racial and religious hatred law to prosecute for inciting religious hatred book stores selling the Quran.
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NEW YORK — A divided state appeals court ruled Thursday that a man cannot sue a Manhattan hospital for malpractice (search) in the death of his longtime partner, saying it could not provide tacit approval of same-sex marriages.
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A practicing witch who sought to have her prayers heard at government meetings in a Richmond, Va., suburb had no magic before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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(CNSNews.com) – British Christians on Sunday kicked off three days of eleventh-hour protest, hoping to defeat a government attempt to outlaw religious hatred.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a widely expected move vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have allowed gay couples to marry.
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