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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Anderson v. Chesterfield County School District

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Anderson v. Chesterfield County School District  is a case in which a law suit is filed by the ACLU(American Civil Liberties Union) on b...
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Virginia Passes Legislation Allowing Private Adoption Agencies to Discriminate

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            The Associated  press wrote for the Washington Post about legislation in Virginia being passed that allows for private adopti...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

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Freedom A man by the name of Hamza Kashgari has been detained by Malaysian authorities. Kashgari is a 23-year old Saudi writer a...
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President Obama Makes a Compromise with the Church

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If you have been keeping up with the news, there has been an uproar regarding President Obama and his new healthcare plan, more specificall...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California

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            The article  is about a federal appeals court that agreed with a lower court’s ruling on Tuesday about Proposition 8. The lowe...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Treatment of Religion in Court - Special or Equal?

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In a recent article on the Religion Dispatches site, there is proposal regarding whether religion should be treated as “special.” While t...
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Is Islamic Law a Threat?

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In the article of New York Times, Islamic law in America is being discussed in terms of its possibility in a Judeo-Christian society. Th...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court Justice fails to "worship" the U.S. Constitution!

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice fails to “worship” the U.S. Constitution! U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sugge...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Ethopia vs Media

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http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_2964_text Ethiopia: Journalists and Politician Sentenced on Terrorism Charges   To ...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Document shows NYPD eyed Shiites based on religion

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In the article , the issue of investigating a person, group, or organization based solely on religion is brought to the forefront.  The pre...
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Special Caucus' and The Question of Accommodation

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An article in today’s NY Times describes a conflict that arose in Las Vegas over a special Caucus held after sundown on Saturday in ord...
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Creation Stories and Public Schools in Indiana

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            In an article from Jan. 26, 2012, ABC news reported that the Indiana Senate passed a bill allowing creationism to be tau...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Should the 14th Amendment Include Unborn Children

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According to TheCaucus, The Politics and Government Blog of the Times many of the Republican presidential candidates are supporting somet...
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FBI Intrusion into Muslim Mosques

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In this article, members of the Muslim community in Des Moines Iowa were upset earlier this week. They were upset because Arvinder Singh wa...
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Christian Students Fight Back!!!

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Christian students at Vanderbilt University are currently in a fight for their right to choose who lead their organizations.  Since Septe...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Muslims Petition Attorney General For NYPD Probe

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This article is about the Muslim American's petition to the Attorney General to resolve the threat that the NYPD has posted on their l...
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