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NC House Speaker’s office: So-called “state religion” resolution “dead”

Posted by: ST on April 4, 2013 at 6:07 pm » 3 Comments

Via ABC11/WTVD: RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis’ office said Thursday that a resolution asserting North Carolina has the power to set an official state religion is dead, and won’t go any further. The resolution, filed by two Republicans from Rowan County, declared “each state is sovereign and may independently determine how the [...]

 

Clearing up confusion on the “NC wants to establish a state religion” nonsense

Posted by: ST on April 3, 2013 at 4:56 pm » 5 Comments

A brouhaha is erupting both in this state and nationwide over reports that the state of North Carolina wants to “establish a state religion” by way of a “bill” introduced in the state house. I’m hoping to clear up some confusion about this as our local Democrat-friendly mainstream media seems to want to throw misleading [...]

 

Egyptian Muslim cleric threatens Copts with genocide

Posted by: Phineas on December 28, 2012 at 7:33 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas It’s that Religion of Peace-thing, you know: Islamic leaders continue to portray the popular protests against President Morsi and his recently passed Sharia-heavy constitution as products of Egypt’s Christians. Recently, Muslim Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy said in an open rally, as captured on video: “A message to the church of Egypt, from an [...]

 

NC Roman Catholic college wins in court over ObamaCare contraceptive mandate

Posted by: ST on December 20, 2012 at 10:38 am » 6 Comments

Victory is sweet: WASHINGTON A three-judge U.S. District Court panel has sided with Belmont Abbey College in its case against the Obama administration over the requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that employers must provide free contraceptives in employee insurance plans. In a decision announced Tuesday, the judges ordered administration officials to [...]

 

Cult of Personality Watch: “The Gospel According to the Apostle Barack”

Posted by: Phineas on November 14, 2012 at 1:16 pm » 11 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I truly thought this was satire when I read the headline, something Iowahawk would come up with. But, no. It’s real, and the author is serious: The book’s premise is God spoke to Professor [Barbara A. Thompson, Florida A&M], telling her that Apostle Barack Obama’s 155 speeches made between February 10, 2007 [...]

 

Egyptian jihad group calls for Christian genocide

Posted by: Phineas on August 14, 2012 at 4:32 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Via Raymond Ibrahim: According to today’s issue of El Fegr, “Elements of terrorist, jihadi organizations distributed leaflets today inciting for the killing of Copts in Suez, Ismailia, and Upper Egypt, promising them [Copts] a tragic end if they do not return to the truth.” An image of a copy of the letter [...]

 

And speaking of “freedom of conscience”

Posted by: Phineas on August 1, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 11 Comments

**Posted by Phineas ObamaCare’s contraceptive and abortifacient mandates took effect today: As of July 31, 2012 a business owner who objects to abortion had the freedom of conscience to make sure that her company’s insurance policies did not pay to facilitate the practice. But as of today, August 1, she no longer has that freedom. [...]

 

First he’s our first Gay President, now he’s our first Jewish president?

Posted by: Phineas on May 31, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I mean, that’s kind of the idea when he told Conservative Jewish rabbis that he knows more about Judaism than any past president: In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more “about Judaism” than all past presidents. He said he [...]

 

Liberals just don’t like what the Founders did, do they?

Posted by: Phineas on February 16, 2012 at 2:44 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas A little while back, I featured Justice Ginsburg opining that the US Constitution really wasn’t a suitable model for the modern age. Now we have a Washington Post editor wondering if, perhaps, the first Congress got it wrong when it guaranteed the free exercise of religion in the First Amendment: That‘s what [...]

 

Religious unity against HHS decision

Posted by: Phineas on February 4, 2012 at 6:18 pm » 11 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I wrote earlier that Catholic bishops across America had come out strongly against the Obama administration decision requiring religious organizations to pay for the cost of providing contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees. Jewish and Protestant groups aligned themselves with the bishops. Now Orthodox Christian bishops have joined in: The First Amendment [...]