I might pick up former GOP Sen. John Danforth's book, "Faith & Politics: How the 'Moral Values' Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together," when it appears in the bargain bin. Why? According to National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru, the book doesn't do a very good job of describing how to move forward together […]
Both of them require government (campus or state) control over Christian groups. Or did, Georgetown has kicked six protestant Christian groups off campus. Officials of the Catholic university said that they felt unable to keep track of precisely how the groups were ministering to students and that group officials had not attended school-run religious services […]
I've written repeatedly that the Democratic Party is at best a little antagonistic toward religious believers. At worst, the Democrats are too often seen as downright hostile and unserious. During the 2004 election, presidential hopeful Howard Dean tried to reach out to religious believers by sharing the fact that his favorite New Testament book was […]
I've commented before on the anti-Christian undercurrents at too many of the nation's universities. Well, here's news from the University of Wisconsin refusing to recognize -- or derecognizing previously recognized -- Christian groups in defiance of federal law. Apparently, the administrators at Wisconsin are being advised on this issue by the Judicial Equality Foundation. Blogger […]
Kathleen Parker had an informative column in Sunday's Union-Tribune Insight section -- the headline says it all: "Christians have differing world views." Among paranoiacs who see a Jerry Falwell or a John Hagee in every burning bush, U.S. support for Israel isn't about protecting the only healthy democracy in the Middle East, but about advancing […]
The New York Times had an interesting article in its Sunday paper on Rev. Gregory A. Boyd in Minnesota. The headline: "Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock." There's a lot to the article, but as you're reading, you also have to try to sift and sort through the Times' "cosmopolitan" viewpoint -- sometimes you […]
The Episcopal bishop of Arkansas of all places has given his subordinates the go-ahead to "bless" homosexual "unions." At St. Michael's in Little Rock, the Rev. Ed Wills said a same-sex couple is planning a blessing ceremony that is tentatively set for September. "God is about community, about belonging, about a relationship," Wills said. Couples […]
Former Vermont governor and current Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean continues to demonstrate that any wacko can run Vermont -- or the Democrat Party. In a ruling today, New York's high court decided that there in no "right" to gay marriage in that state's constitution. This prompted Dean -- who is obviously one of […]
Matthew J. Franck has a brief note over on National Review's "Bench Memos" blog on another case that pitted civil rights law against freedom of religion. The good news: freedom of religion won. In that light, here’s a good-news story: last week a panel of the Third Circuit held that Ursuline Academy, a girls’ Catholic […]
A sane district court judge in San Francisco of all places has tossed out Michael Newdow's latest lawsuit claiming that "In God We Trust" on legal tender is, well, illegal. Newdow claimed that by using coins and currency bearing the phrase, he is forced to carry religious dogma, proselytise and evangelise for monotheism. You know, […]