Judge Plays God to Ban 'Unimportant' Bible Verse
The military's highest court ruled yesterday that men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces can be punished for exercising their religion if judges deem the practice not religiously "important." The ruling upholds the government's criminal prosecution of a U.S. Marine for refusing to discard personal notes...
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A Man of Faith, Even on the Job, Even in State Government
When you meet Tim Jeffries, the first impression you get is: integrated whole. He’s a man of faith, and he takes the missionary disciple aspect of the Christian Gospels seriously. Which means he introduces himself with no hesitation about what’s most important to him...
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An After School Satan Club Could Be Coming to Your Kid’s Elementary School
It’s a hot summer night, and leaders of the Satanic Temple have gathered in the crimson-walled living room of a Victorian manse in this city renowned for its witch trials in the 17th century. They’re watching a sepia-toned video, in which children dance around a maypole, a spider crawls across a clown’s face...
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Brave New World Should Be Campaign Issue
Over at First Things I get into how one of the most important questions of our time–how to maintain a moral biotech sector–is being ignored in this election season. Human cloning is being perfected, we are already engaging in embryonic experiments into genetic engineering, and there is a great silence from the media...
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Satanist Group Has No Right to Disrupt School
An atheist group masquerading as a so-called Satanic Temple recently made news when it stated it planned to petition school officials to allow its purported club on campus after school beginning with this upcoming academic year. The group states it intends to target the schools in districts where Good News Clubs meet ....
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ISIS Says Its 'Soldiers' Attacked Church in France, Killing Priest
Attendance was sparse at the 9 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at the Église St.-Étienne, a 17th-century church in a working-class town in Normandy. Many parishioners were on vacation; so was the parish priest....
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Abortion Poll: Trump-Pence Mainstream, Clinton-Kaine Extreme
Although Hillary Clinton and the beleaguered Democratic National Committee (DNC) are attempting to paint Donald Trump and Mike Pence as out of step with the country on abortion, recent polling shows that a majority of Americans actually agree with Trump-Pence on this hot-button issue...
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