Politics

Kerry and Kennedy Fund Religion

by Catholic League November 5, 2009

The following quote appears in [Tuesday's] Los Angeles Times:
“Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical…

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Tuesday was Big Night for Catholic Values

by Catholic League November 5, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue offers the following observations on [Tuesday's] electoral results:
The Catholic Church led the fight in Maine against those seeking to reinvent marriage, and won: the vote was 53-47 to repeal the state’s gay marriage law.…

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European Court of Human Rights Bans Crucifixes in Italian Schools

by Thaddeus M. Baklinski November 4, 2009

The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that displaying crucifixes in Italian classrooms violates parents’ rights to secular education for their children.
The Strasbourg court found that, “The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises…

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God’s Partner: Obama and our Prevailing Prejudices

by Dr. Jeffrey A. Mirus November 3, 2009

First Things editor Joseph Bottum has offered a telling critique of President Obama’s effort to enlist the aid of religious leaders for his health care reform. In the October 2009 issue (“The Day for the Religious”), Bottum describes Obama’s conference…

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End of Life Care Should Not End Life

by Ken Connor November 2, 2009

The subject of how best to honor and care for those facing death due to terminal illness or old age has always been controversial. As talk of “death panels” and “rationing” stirs debate over the government’s proper role in health…

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Washington’s Masque of the Red Death

by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma November 2, 2009

New administrations normally inspire commentators into rummaging through a thesaurus to extract that single phrase or word that is apposite to the times. Instead musing about a reincarnation of The Square Deal, The New Deal, The Great Society, or the…

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Population Control in an Aging Society

by Ken Connor October 31, 2009

Most would agree that conserving resources and minimizing adverse impacts on the environment make sense, but something has gone terribly awry within the Green Movement.  Environmental extremists championing “population control” as a means of protecting Mother Earth show that they…

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Bloomberg Greases Black Ministers

by Catholic League October 31, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an article in today’s New York Times on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his relations with African American ministers:
Rev. Calvin O. Butts III has managed to grab “at least $7…

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Last Conference on Shariah’s Threat to Free Speech?

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. October 31, 2009

The beautiful new auditorium in Washington’s Capitol Visitors Center was the site October 27-28 of an impressive two-day conference that sounded the alarm on our increasingly endangered liberties: freedom of speech and freedom of religion.  If the Muslim Brotherhood and…

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Cap-and-Trade Update

by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson October 31, 2009

On Sept. 30, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) unveiled their proposal for cap-and-trade (C&T) legislation. The Senate bill calls for a 20 percent reduction of U.S. CO2 emissions by 2020, and an 80 percent reduction by 2050—targets…

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