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Category Archives: Church and State
The Red Mass 2010
[Photo: CNS] Below from CNN.Com Vice President Joe Biden joined five Supreme Court justices to attend Sunday’s annual Red Mass, the Roman Catholic service for the courts that has drawn criticism in recent years. Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate … Continue reading
Doesn’t Louisiana have enough on its plate?
I’m not sure this school board in Louisiana has thought this through. Benton said that under provisions of the Science Education Act enacted last year by the Louisiana Legislature, schools can present what she termed “critical thinking and creationism” in … Continue reading
A discussion of Christianist militia groups
I’m not up on my contemporary American eschatology, but some of the comments here pinpointed some rather nuanced, for me, distinctions. The most startling comment was by Prof. Butler from Univ. of Pennsylvania when she made the distinction between merely … Continue reading
Posted in Church and State, Politics, Religion Blog, Violence
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Air Force adds paganism to the list
Well, I’d rather have them do this than be guilty of the intense Christian proselytizing they were doing.
Posted in Christianity, Church and State, Paganism, Religion Blog
Tagged Paganism, US Air Force
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What’s in a name?
I want to say this is “stunning” news, but given the state of things in the world, sadly, it was to be expected. There were protests in Malaysia yesterday and four arson attacks on Christian churches, apparently provoked by a … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Church and State, Islam, Religion Blog
Tagged Allah, Kuala Lumpur
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Religious accomodations in employment
It must be getting late because I first thought they were talking about “tribal” issues. Nope. It’s triable, i.e., appropriate issues for a court to decide. A retailer that required a female employee to wear clothing similar to its own … Continue reading
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Not just for the Taliban
This news item from the Guardian: Secular campaigners in the Irish Republic defied a strict new blasphemy law which came into force today by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations online and promising to fight the legislation in court. The … Continue reading
Posted in Church and State, Politics, Religion Blog
Tagged blasphemy, Republic of Ireland
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Minarets of Marseille
This in contrast to the recent Swiss ban on building any new minarets: The minaret of the new Grand Mosque of Marseille, whose cornerstone will be laid here in April, will be silent — no muezzin, live or recorded, will … Continue reading
Posted in Church and State, Islam, PHIL 525, Politics, Religion Blog, Religious Pluarlism
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Prisons and religious freedom
Huh? The warden allegedly turned inmates away from church services for punitive reasons, such as their hair being too long. The warden at Virginia’s largest women’s prison is retiring amid allegations the prison discriminated against gay inmates and denied others … Continue reading
Prayer on college campuses
What were they thinking? No, seriously. I wonder what they were thinking to allow this. The suit alleges that one campus, Saddleback College, routinely opened events with prayers and showed a faculty-training video, called God Bless the U.S.A., that included … Continue reading