Thursday, March 12, 2009

Headlines: Separation of Church and State (T23R-2)


Christian Science Monitor

Catholics protest Connecticut church finance bill
Reuters
Lawmakers effectively killed the legislation on Tuesday but nearly 4000 Catholics still held a protest at the gold-domed state Capitol to express opposition to what they said was a threat to the separation of church and state. ...
Take on Life: A double standard for 'church and state' in Connecticut Danbury News Times
Catholic outrage kills bill that would take bishop’s power Darien Times
Catholics protest bill at Connecticut Capitol Norwich Bulletin
Westport Minuteman - MSNBC
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Glenn Beck's Roundtable on Freedom of Religion
FOXNews
I think I agree with what you're saying here, but here's the problem â€" people don't look at â€" you know, the separation of church and state meant something different. We have gotten so far off the beaten path of our Constitution. ...

Speaker promotes separation
UNLV The Rebel Yell, NV
More than 75 people filed into the Thomas & Mack Moot Court Auditorium at the Boyd School of Law Monday night, with either questions, concerns or fears regarding the separation of church and state. John Witte Jr., professor of law and the director at ...

Washington Times

Rolling Back Religious Liberty: Virginia Group Attacks Church ...
Americans United, DC
In an op-ed in today’s Washington Times, Stephen Strehle argues that the US Supreme Court erred in 1947 when it upheld Jefferson’s wall of separation between church and state. Strehle, a religion and philosophy professor at Christopher Newport ...
STREHLE: Slippery church-state separation Washington Times
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Local legislators united against church bill
Stratford Star, CT
“We believe this is a violation of the separation of church and state, and directly attacks the Catholic Church's right to govern itself as it wishes,” the legislators wrote. The bill was pulled by its sponsors, Democrats Sen. ...

NJ.com

Prayer in the locker room: Supreme Court dropped the ball in East ...
NJ.com, NJ
Richard Katskee, an attorney with the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, was quoted by the Star-Ledger's Sue Epstein as saying that "children have a clear right to attend public schools without religious pressures being brought to ...
Supreme Court will not hear football prayer case Howell Tri Town News
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Opinion: Tibet, the true and the false
CNN
Watch a recent history of Tibet » Anyone in a major Western country advocating freedom of religion to the disregard of separation of church and state will be either marginalized or held with ultra suspicion. If a clergy does so in the United States, ...

With Shekels Come Shackles
North Country Gazette, NY
Just this month, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal appeals court to allow taxpayers to challenge public funding of a Baptist childcare agency in Kentucky that Americans United ...
Will Faith Based Programs Go Sour on Obama? Beliefnet.com
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State today praised the U.S. Senate for refusing to provide funding indefinitely for a controversial private school voucher plan in Washington, D.C. Americans United asserts that the program, initially funded as a five-year experiment, serves mainly to...

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