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If the Senate approves, student leaders will be allowed to summon Jesus Christ in prayer to help calm student nerves before a TAKS test, Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, said of the hypothetical situation.
Or a student leader can call on Allah if he or she is a Muslim. Or a student leader can tell other [...]
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I’ll be taking a break until after Christmas. And after the flap regarding Keith Ellison taking the oath on the Koran rather than the Bible, it shouldn’t matter to Dennis Prager if I celebrate Christmas as a religious or secular holiday, just as long as I celebrate it as part of my American heritage. Merry [...]
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University workers dismissed after praying at employee’s cubicle
DALLAS — Two former employees of the University of Texas at Arlington said they were fired after praying over another staff member’s cubicle and anointing it with olive oil.
What those two former employees fail to mention is that the other staff member was not present, nor did she [...]
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Christmas horror movie offends religious groups - CNN.com
Movie studio Dimension Films has remade a cult hit from 1974 about a group of female students being terrorized by a killer during Christmas and is releasing the film, “Black Christmas,” on December 25 — tagging it as the “ultimate slay ride.”But religious groups have condemned the timing [...]
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There’s an excellent interview on Salon that I encourage everyone to read.
“These people should be court-martialed” | Salon News
Dec. 13, 2006 | When a Christian group shot a video inside the Pentagon that featured uniformed senior military officers talking about their evangelical faith, Mikey Weinstein went on the attack. Himself a former Air Force lawyer [...]
Filed under: Bob Varney, Christians, Constitution, Constitutional Rights, Evangelical Christians, MRFF, Mikey Weinstein, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Uncategorized, religious freedom | 1 Comment »
