I can’t believe that a city in the US would try to force ministers of the gospel to act contrary to their consciences in their practice of Christian ministry. Yet that is…
Tag: freedom of religion
A piece of good news
See you at the pole is a national day of prayer for students. I was happy to see it made at least one internet news page. Our nation needs courageous young people…
All private schooling endangered by the Justice Department’s arguments
I never thought I would see the sad day when the US government argued against both educational and religious freedom. But it has just happened. It sounds more and more like they…
Senate vote is very misguided
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10548839-senate-defeats-limit-on-birth-control-coverage It is very sad that the religious freedom of our country has become a partisan issue. Somehow the spin artists have tried to make it a women’s issue rather than a…
The First Amendment covers institutions expressing religious convictions
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/opinion_today_bishops_treating.html This opinion is given great press by the Post Standard, probably because they consider it politically correct. But it contains an obvious logical disconnect. The illogical assumption that is that institutions,…
I support Bishop Cunningham
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/bishop_takes_up_catholics_chur.html I wholeheartedly support the noncompliance stance of Bishop Robert J. Cunningham of the Syracuse Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church as he takes a firm stand against the Obama administration’s continuing…
Why we should pray at the 9/11 event.
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/09/09/bloomberg-sundays-911-ceremony-a-civil-not-religious-occasion/ I do not agree with Mayor Bloomsburg that there should have been no prayers at the official 9/11 remembrance time. Ken Klulowski wrote: “Bloomberg’s sad exclusion of all prayer and…
Teacher’s persecution is so wrong
http://mystateline.com/fulltext-news/?nxd_id=272457 Teacher unjustly persecuted What is happening to this teacher is so wrong. First of all it is a gross violation of his right to free speech. More fundamentally, he is being…
Why I Signed the Manhattan Declaration (Sep 8, 2010)
Today I decided to sign the Manhattan Declaration. The time has come for Christians to speak out strongly in unison about these values that are essential without clouding the picture with…