Tag Archive for 'free-speech'
Hate Crimes Bill Could Inhibit Free Religious Speech
Published by April 18th, 2009 in Breaking News and Culture. 0 Comments
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will vote on a controversial legislation as soon as April 20th that seeks to add homosexual and transgender people to the list of classes federally protected from hate crimes. It is expected that the bill will be passed by the committee and will come to a vote on the House floor this spring.
The new H.R. 1913, named the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of… Keep reading
ACLU Doesn’t Want to Protect Your Kids from Pornography
Published by July 25th, 2008 in Culture. 0 Comments
By Jeff Johnson
OneNewsNow reports -- Congress has been trying for more than a decade to protect children from violent and pornographic content on the Internet. Earlier this week, the federal courts again stopped their efforts.
The Child Online Protection Act would impose penalties on websites that make pornographic content available without some type of age verification – such as submitting a credit card number – to insure that viewers… Keep reading
Prayer “In Jesus’ Name” Banned by Appeals Court
Published by July 24th, 2008 in Culture and Spiritual Warfare. 1 Comment
WASHINGTON -- The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that the city council of Fredericksburg, Virginia had proper authority to require "non-sectarian" prayer content and exclude council-member Rev. Hashmel Turner from the prayer rotation because he prayed "in Jesus' name."
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing the decision, said:
"The restriction that prayers be nonsectarian in nature is designed to make the prayers accessible to people who come from… Keep reading | 1 Comment
Judge denies Christian group’s request to display cross by Austin Wright
Published by July 2nd, 2008 in Breaking News and Culture. 1 Comment
The Virginian-Pilot - A local Christian group has a right to free speech but they “don’t have to shout,” a federal judge in Norfolk said Tuesday when he denied the group’s request to display a 12-foot-tall cross at a Fourth of July celebration in a Chesapeake city park.
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Last year city employees asked Christian Rights Ministries to remove the… Keep reading | 1 Comment
Attacks on First Amendment freedoms threaten to silence God’s voice.
Published by December 31st, 2007 in Culture and Politics. 1 CommentCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. – The First Amendment
The First Amendment is unmistakably clear, yet… Keep reading | 1 Comment
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