“Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!” they chanted, lined up shoulder to shoulder for a few hundred yards stretching a street in front of the Capitol. http://bit.ly/d7CuZI Before last week when is the last time you heard a citizen crying out in the public square, “Raise my taxes?” I don’t know about... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: At the end of this article you will find names of the EPC, OPC, and PCA chaplains who signed the letter (18 of the 41) plus a list of other denominations represented. Over 40 retired military chaplains are urging President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to consider the impairment of religious liberty... Continue Reading

“We believe that through discovery we may well uncover evidence that the Notre Dame police engaged in ‘viewpoint discrimination:’ that the university singled out the ND88 for especially harsh treatment” In a major ruling that may prove decisive for the defense of pro-lifers arrested on Notre Dame’s campus last year, an Indiana Judge has lifted... Continue Reading

The church’s pastor, Bishop Rick Painter, was found guilty in city court and sentenced to 10 days in jail and three years probation, though he never served time in jail. A federal court on Monday (April 19) ruled an ordinance in Phoenix, Ariz., trying to limit the sound of church bells is an unconstitutional impingement... Continue Reading

The court noted that the governmental message is disseminated by the volunteers who display the specialty plates on their private vehicles: “There is no reason to doubt that a group’s ability to secure a specialty plate amounts to state approval.” A Tennessee Attorney General’s opinion does not support the issuance of a new “Jesus is... Continue Reading

Texas, Georgia, and Pennsylvania have considered “pole taxes” — for buyers of pornography and patrons of strip clubs and escort services. In tough fiscal times, everything needs to be monetized. Including morality. And governors and legislators in many cash-strapped states have decided that vice can be lucrative, in the form of sin taxes. Texas, Georgia,... Continue Reading

The law currently reads, “The President shall issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals.” The National Day of Prayer Task Force (NDPTF)... Continue Reading

With the mobilizing power of dozens of religious right organizations behind it, why was the firstattended by only a few hundred people? The Freedom Federation Summit taking place April 15-16 at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia was billed as the next Great Awakening, the inaugural gathering of “a new movement [that] is forming... Continue Reading

A different twist was added to the turbulent immigration reform debate this week. In a conference call with reporters, a network of conservative political activists and evangelical church leaders announced a campaign to push for the legalization of millions of undocumented people in the United States. “From reading the news, you’d think all conservatives are... Continue Reading

By some estimates, this is a 70-30 center-right nation. How, then, is a far-left liberal nominee considered mainstream and a moderate-to-conservative one not mainstream? Wouldn’t it be nice (as the Beach Boys sang in a completely different context) if once, just once, a liberal Democrat president nominated to the Supreme Court someone he believed reflected... Continue Reading