FreeThoughtAction

Stephen Hawking's Explosive New Theory

In this theory, the early universe can be described by a mathematical object called a wave function and, in a similar way to the light particle, the team proposed two years ago that this means that there was no unique origin to the cosmos: instead the wave function of the universe embraced a multitude of means to develop.

More...

Cassini To Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!'

ScienceDaily -- NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets -- Titan and Enceladus.

More...

See also:

Phoenix Scrapes To Icy Soil In Wonderland

Phoenix Mars Lander Returns Treasure Trove For Science

Asteroid-hunting Satellite A World First

And...

Quantum Computing Breakthrough Arises From Unknown Molecule

Evangelical Grunts

The process of creating good Christian soldiers starts early, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a group fighting to maintain the secularism of the armed forces. At Fort Jackson army base in Columbia, South Carolina, the director of the Christian outreach group Military Ministry, Frank Bussey, tells soldiers that "government authorities, police and the military = God's ministers". Photographs exist of Bussey's student-soldiers posing in their fatigues with rifle in one hand and Bible in the other, an eerily similar pose to jihadist martyrs with their rifles and Qur'ans. His Bible study classes are known as "God's Basic Training", where attending cadets learn "when you join the military, you've really joined the ministry."

More...

Louisiana Gov. Signs Controversial Education Bill

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill that critics say could allow for the teaching of "creationism" alongside evolution in public schools.

More...

See also:

Americans United Will Monitor Implementation Of New Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

Mechanism And Function Of Humor Identified By New Evolutionary Theory

ScienceDaily -- A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants.

Alastair Clarke explains: "The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively it explains that humour occurs when the brain recognizes a pattern that surprises it, and that recognition of this sort is rewarded with the experience of the humorous response, an element of which is broadcast as laughter.

"By removing stipulations of content we have been forced to study the structures underlying any instance of humour, and it has become clear that it is not the content of the stimulus but the patterns underlying it that provide the potential for sources of humour. For patterns to exist it is necessary to have some form of content, but once that content exists, it is the level of the pattern at which humour operates and for which it delivers its rewards."

More...

Earlier:

Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill

Baby Jesus Back After 6 Years

In January 2002, Tricia Hoffman noticed the statue of baby Jesus missing when her family took down their large Nativity scene display.

--snip--

Rather than spend more than $1,000 on a new set, Hoffman used dolls or her son, Jack, now 10, as stand-ins for the last six years while Jesus was away from his manger at the West Des Moines Police Department's evidence locker.

"Jack usually didn't last too long," Hoffman said. "It was hard to convince him to lie out there in the freezing cold."

More...

See also:

'Bleeding' Christ attracts thousands

Dallas Residents See Jesus In Granite Slab

Evangelical Movement Touts 'Jesus For President'

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- They're spiritual misfits. Rabble-rousers. They packed the shell of the old Baptist church on Negley Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to hear author, Christian activist and fellow misfit Shane Claiborne stump on the campaign for a third party candidate, Jesus.

More...

See also:

Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Survey: More Have Dropped Dogma For Spirituality In U.S.

Religion today in the USA is a salad bar where people heap on upbeat beliefs they like and often leave the veggies - like strict doctrines - behind.

There are so many ways of seeing God, public policy expert Barry Kosmin says, that "the highest authority is now the lowest common denominator."

More...

See also:

Study: Most Americans say many religions can lead to eternal life

Americans religious, not rigid, study finds

Ariz. churchgoer rate is far behind nation's

Your Brain Lies To You

FALSE beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found.

More...

Prosecutors Say SC Scammers Took $80M

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The three men, claiming to have been rescued from financial ruin by divine intervention, went to homes and churches across North and South Carolina spreading tales of financial rescue. With an investment of just pennies on the dollar, they promised an end to credit card debt, mortgages and hefty car loans.

More...

Texas Supreme Court Rules Church Can't Be Sued In Exorcism

A divided Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former Colleyville church Friday, saying church members who were involved in a traumatic exorcism that ultimately injured a young woman are protected by the First Amendment.

More...

Va. Judge: Church Secession Law Is Constitutional

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Eleven conservative Episcopal churches won a legal victory Friday when a circuit court judge upheld a Virginia law allowing congregations to vote to secede from their parent denominations.

More...

Homosexuality A Result Of Genetics And Random Environmental Factors, Says Twins Study

Homosexual behavior is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins.

More...

Anglicans Form 'New Church' In Gay Clergy Row

The Anglican Church faces what is in effect a schism this weekend after the declaration last night of conservative evangelicals to create a "church within a church". The new body, called the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, will have its own bishops, clergy and theological colleges.

More...

See also:

Conservative Anglicans form breakaway church in revolution led from the south

Anglican Head Warns Against Conservative Challenge

An Anglican Schism: Headed for US?

'Safe' Catholic School That Let Killer Deal Drugs, Have Sex And Worship The Devil

Scotland -- ST DAVID'S High School in Dalkeith was a place where most parents felt secure in the belief their children were being educated in a moral environment which protected them from some of the more disturbing aspects of youth culture.

But the trial of Luke Mitchell for the gruesome murder of Jodi Jones has rocked that assumption to its foundations.

More...

Priest Sacked For Affair Takes Catholic Church To Tribunal

A PRIEST is to sue the Catholic Church for sacking him over an 18-year affair with a woman.

Former monsignor Joseph Creegan is the first Scottish priest to take the Church to court, claiming for lost wages via an employment tribunal.

More...

Christians Challenge Teaching Of Evolution

New Zealand -- A Christian group promoting intelligent design theory over evolution has sent teaching material to schools that critics say is religious propaganda and sloppy pseudoscience.

More...

Russian Prosecutors Charge Jehovah's Witnesses With Incitement Of Religious Hatred

Prosecutors in Asbest, Russia (Sverdlovsk region) have charged local Jehovah's Witnesses with inciting religious hatred and have asked a court to brand their publications extremist materials, according to a June 24, 2008 report by the Interfax news agency.

More...

Protests Over Disputed Shrine Paralyze Indian Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India -- Thousands of police attempted unsuccessfully to keep people off the streets in Indian Kashmir on Sunday as mass protests continued for a seventh day against what demonstrators charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements in the Muslim-majority region.

More...

Muslims Will Be Searched By Sniffer Dogs Despite Religious Objections, Say Police

England -- Some Muslims had raised objections over being searched by the explosive-detecting animals, but British Transport Police have said they will continue to use the specially trained animals.

More...

Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows In Pakistan

Just as it had on the day before 9/11, Al Qaeda now has a band of terrorist camps from which to plan and train for attacks against Western targets, including the United States.

More...

See also:

Pakistan claims success in battling militants

Smoke and mirrors in the Khyber Valley

Pakistani soldiers uncover Taliban 'kidnap jail'

32 Militants Killed In Afghan Violence

(AP) Troops fought gunbattles and called in airstrikes against insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 32 militants, the U.S.-led coalition said.

More...

See also:

Taliban use swords to slit the throats of Afghan 'traitors' in public executions before thousands

Taliban flourishing, Pentagon reports

Resurgent Taliban May Step Up Attacks, Pentagon Says

Taliban to intensify insurgency, says Pentagon

Afghan Civilian Deaths Up 62%, U.N. Says

U.S., NATO deaths in Afghanistan pass Iraq toll

Iraqi Judges Targets Of Bombing Attacks

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four Iraqi judges were targeted in separate bombing attacks Monday in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

More...

See also:

Truck bomb kills 7, wounds 3 in Iraq

Iraq judge gunned down

Program in Iraq against al-Qaida faces uncertainty

Changing Colors

The rise and fall of a Sons of Iraq warrior

ACLU Might File Suit To End Lunch Prayer

The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue the U.S. Naval Academy unless it abolishes its daily lunchtime prayer, saying that some midshipmen have felt pressured to participate.

More...

Bush, White House Push 'Faith-Based' Agenda Despite Mounting Record Of Misuse

President George W. Bush's "faith-based" initiative has been riddled with abuses and should be scrapped, not celebrated, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

More...

Mormons Urged To Back Ban On Same-Sex Marriage

The Mormon Church, a major backer of the 2000 ballot measure that reaffirmed California's ban on same-sex marriage, is asking its members to "do all you can" to support a November initiative that would reinstate the ban as a state constitutional amendment.

More...

See also:

Mormons seek distance from polygamist sects

San Diego County Pastor Rallies Clergy Against Gay Marriage

Efforts will include a 40-day fasting period before election day and 100 days of prayer.

More...

Lawsuits: Archdiocese Covered Up Abuse

MIAMI -- Two new lawsuits accuse the Archdiocese of Miami of covering up a priest's abuse of two boys in the 1980s.

More...

Dutch Prepare For Maya Apocalypse

Thousands of Dutch people are buying boats and rations and building bunkers to await an apocalypse predicted by the Maya of South America.

--snip--

Petra Faile and her husband have bought a life raft and other survival equipment in preparation for Armageddon.

--snip--

Mrs Faile said she was concerned that immigration was pushing the Netherlands, a low lying country protected by dikes and sea walls, beneath the waves.

"They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse," she said.

More...

Spanish Parliament To Extend Rights To Apes

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.

More...

Band T-Shirt Draws Charge

IT is blasphemous, will get you arrested and has sparked debate about Australia's lack of a Bill of Rights.

More...

Eccentric Cleric Finally Evicted From Vicarage

An eccentric vicar whose alleged bizarre behaviour has been attributed to the "voice of God" he apparently routinely hears in his head is finally on the verge of being evicted from his vicarage, following a two-year legal battle with the Church of England.

More...

Thousands Of Somali Children Need Urgent Medical Aid

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somalia needs urgent medical aid to save thousands of malnourished children and wounded adults who are trapped in one of the most violent, lawless countries in the world, an international aid group said Thursday.

--snip--

"Somalia is no longer on the verge of a catastrophe, the disaster is happening now"

--snip--

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and turned on each other. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Somalia since 2007, caught in vicious disputes over ancient clan loyalties, religion and government.

More...

Salman Rushdie Is Knighted By The Queen

Salman Rushdie received his knighthood from the Queen today amid fears it could trigger a backlash among Muslim extremists.

More...

Indonesia Backs Sharia Law, Poll Shows

A majority of Indonesians would like to see Sharia law implemented in their country, a new poll shows, although only a minority favour the harsh measures sometimes associated with the system.

More...

Forsake Lipstick 'To Avoid Rape'

Women in a northern Malaysian city ruled by conservative Islamists are being urged by the city's authorities to forsake bright lipstick and noisy high-heels "to preserve their dignity and avoid rape".

More...

Algeria Court To Rule Next Week In Trial Of Christian Converts

ALGIERS (AFP) -- An Algerian court is to hand down its judgement on July 2 following the trial of two Christian converts accused of proselytising....

More...

See also:

Muslims should be free to convert, says cardinal, after death threats

Saudi Arrests 700 Islamists Plotting 'Oil Attacks'

OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 Islamists in the past six months on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil industry installations...

More...

Afghanistan Blast Kills 3 Coalition Soldiers

KABUL, Afghanistan - Three more foreign soldiers serving in Afghanistan were killed Thursday in an attack by Islamic militants, raising the number who have died so far this year to at least 114.

More...

See also:

Rise in Taliban attacks worries U.S.

GAO Audit: $6B To Pakistan, For What?

Iraq Blast Kills 23, Including 3 Marines

(CBS/AP) A suicide bomber attacked a meeting Thursday of pro-government Sunni sheiks west of Baghdad, killing at least 23 people, including three U.S. Marines. At least 18 more people died in a car bombing in the northern city of Mosul.

More...

See also:

3 U.S. Troops Dead In Northern Iraq Blast

American grad student dies in Iraq

Iraqi military to take control of Anbar province

For Iraqi Christians, Money Bought Survival

Israeli Cabinet To Consider Swap With Hezbollah

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will ask his Cabinet on Sunday to approve a deal with Hezbollah that would involve exchanging prisoners for two captured Israeli soldiers.

More...

See also:

Israel closes Gaza crossings

Israel Prodding U.S. To Attack Iran

Lander Finds Conditions For Life On Mars

(AP) The Phoenix lander's first taste test of soil near Mars' north pole reveals a briny environment similar to what can be found in backyards on Earth, scientists said Thursday.

More...

See also:

Moon-Bound NASA Spacecraft Passes Major Preflight Tests

And...

Accidental Discovery Could Enable Development Of Faster Computers

Neuroscientists Discover A Sense Of Adventure

ScienceDaily -- Wellcome Trust scientists have identified a key region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous. The region, located in a primitive area of the brain, is activated when we choose unfamiliar options, suggesting an evolutionary advantage for sampling the unknown. It may also explain why re-branding of familiar products encourages to pick them off the supermarket shelves.

More...

See also:

How Switching Language Can Change Your Personality

New Fossils Of Extremely Primitive 4-Legged Creatures Close The Gap Between Fish And Land Animals

ScienceDaily -- New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researchers Per Ahlberg and Henning Blom from Uppsala University have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation in the new issue of Nature.

More...

See also:

Huge Genome-Scale Phylogenetic Study Of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-life

"The Family"

It's one of the most influential and least well known organizations in the country. The Family, also known as The Fellowship, consider themselves followers of Christ, and individuals responsible for changing the the world. An inside look at the power and history of The Family with Jeff Sharlet (a contributing editor for "Harper's" and "Rolling Stone," and an associate research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media) on Tuesday's edition of The Diane Rehm Show.

Listen by clicking on one of the related audio links HERE.

Humanists File Legal Brief In Summum Case: No Permanent Religion In Public Parks

Washington, D.C. -- The American Humanist Association today filed a legal brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Pleasant Grove City, UT, et al. v. Summum. The amicus brief argued against allowing the Summum religious group to display its aphorisms in the same public park where a Ten Commandments monument appears. In addition, the American Humanist Association urged the Court to hold that permanent religious monuments in city parks constitute government endorsement of religion in violation of the Establishment Clause.

"It's a question of fairness," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. "If you allow one religious display, to be fair you must allow them all. But government shouldn't be in the religious display business, and there are too many religions to be able to do that anyway. Churches, mosques and synagogues should erect their own displays on their own property and let the government worry about governance."

The case brings up 1st Amendment concerns of government endorsement of religion. According to the AHA's legal brief, "By itself, the text of the Ten Commandments sends an overwhelmingly religious message, and the context in which the monument is displayed here only heightens the effect of government endorsement of this message."

The brief also addresses the legal question of equal access. "The display of the Ten Commandments sends the message to nonadherents of Judeo-Christian religions that they are not full members of the political community... Although the Supreme Court has characterized a nearly identical Ten Commandments monument as nothing more than 'acknowledgement' of the role played by religion, there is no principled or neutral way to decide which beliefs are deserving of the government's 'acknowledgment' and which are not."

"We had two purposes for writing this brief," said Bob Ritter, coordinator of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, the legal arm of the American Humanist Association. "Our first priority was to inform the Court that public parks are not permanent public forums for donated permanent monuments. Although monuments erected on public land may have been donated by a private donor, by virtue of government taking ownership and control of such displays, they represent government-endorsed speech and not the free speech of the donor."

Other organizations signing on to the Amicus Brief include The American Ethical Union, Atheist Alliance International, the Institute for Humanist Studies, the Secular Student Alliance, the Society for Humanistic Judaism, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.

LINK

See also:

Americans United Files Brief In Supreme Court Religious Display Case

State/Church Watchdog Asks AG To Investigate, Enjoin Sale Of Holmen Star Hill Site

The Wisconsin Attorney General is being asked to immediately investigate a suspected open meetings violation by the Village of Holmen, Wis., and to enjoin its sale of a parcel of land at the end of June to the Lions Club. A $1,200 bid by the Freedom From Religion Foundation for a parcel of property on Star Hill, circling a huge cross and Christmas star, was rejected by the village in May, in favor of a $600 bid by the Lions Club.

More...

Teaching Not Preaching In CA Bible Belt

Like many other places, Modesto is becoming more religiously diverse.

But unlike any other place, religion is a required course in high school here.

More...

States Refusing Grants For Abstinence Education

WASHINGTON - Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.

More...

The Myth Of The Moral Majority

Here's the church. Here's the steeple. Open the doors and -- hey, where did all the evangelicals go?

More...

See also:

Americans religious, not rigid, study finds

New Discovery Proves 'Selfish Gene' Exists

ScienceDaily -- A new discovery by a scientist from The University of Western Ontario provides conclusive evidence which supports decades-old evolutionary doctrines long accepted as fact.

More...

See also:

Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain

Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

And...

Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill

Science Is Not Philosophy

ID is often referred to as Creationism light. In fact it's more Creationism in drag. Though its proponents claim scientific neutrality, they are usually overtly religious people affiliated with overtly religious institutions. They have written essays and books about why ID is science. And yet when all the sophistry is boiled down, the theory amounts to "living things are complicated. Some-one must have made them."

It may be a sublime idea worthy of religious and philosophical contemplation, but it fails to meet the definition of science. It can't be proven and it can't be tested. Complaining that science won't take ID seriously is like grieving the fact that mathematicians won't consider a flower pot to be a number.

More...

Philadelphia Set To Honor Darwin And Evolution

PHILADELPHIA -- In the long-running culture war between evolution and creationism, Philadelphia is firing the latest shot.

More...

See also:

How Darwin won the evolution race

Ex-Traffic Cop Says He's Jesus

Deep in the heart of Siberia's birch forests lies one of the largest and most remote religious communes of the planet. More than 5,000 people have left their families and their homes to move here and join the Church of the Last Testament, which has more than 10,000 followers worldwide. The church centers on one man. He is known simply as Vissarion, meaning "he who gives new life," or simply as the teacher, and he claims that he is Jesus Christ.

More...

Cracks Begin To Show At Summit Discussing Gay Clergy Rift

The people gathered on the Mount of Olives were united in voice as they sang their officially approved hymns, but on the second day of a conference which has laid bare the divisions in the Anglican communion over homosexuality, notes of discord could already be heard.

More...

Australian Group Plans Protest Over Pope's Visit

SYDNEY (AFP) - A coalition of Christians, atheists and gay groups will stage a protest against Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Australia for World Youth Day next month, organisers said Monday.

More...

See also:

World Youth Day condom protest against Pope

And...

Girl missing since 1983 was kidnapped on Vatican archbishop's orders, police told

Saudi Marriage Officiant : 'It Is Allowed To Marry A Girl At The Age Of One'

The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow. He took 'Aisha to be his wife when she was six, but he had sex with her only when she was nine.

More...

Female Circumcision: A Tradition Steeped In Blood

Research commissioned by the Department of Health suggests that more than 20,000 British girls are at risk of being forced into the agonising procedure, where all or part of their external genitals are cut off and stitched up. Officers will question all adults taking girls on certain flights, believing it is their best chance of saving thousands of children from female genital mutilation at the hands of tribal "elders" called in by their own families.

More...

Young Muslims 'Are Turning To Extremism'

Extremists are winning the battle for the hearts and minds of Britain's young Muslims, a disturbing police report warns.

More...

In Algeria, A Tug Of War For Young Minds

ALGIERS -- First, Abdel Malek Outas's teachers taught him to write math equations in Arabic, and embrace Islam and the Arab world. Then they told him to write in Latin letters that are no longer branded unpatriotic, and open his mind to the West.

More...

Routing Of Fighters Brings Anxious Calm To Kandahar

Afghan security officials have repeatedly blamed the resurgent Taliban activity in Kandahar on an influx of foreign fighters who have crossed into southern Afghanistan from Pakistan. Many of the inmates freed in last week's prison break are from Pakistan's lawless tribal areas on Afghanistan's eastern border, which have become a hotbed of training for suicide bombers and Islamist fighters, according to Afghan officials in Kandahar.

More...

See also:

55 Afghan Militants Killed, Coalition Says

Afghanistan foreign troop deaths in June exceed those in Iraq

U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Streched Thin

From Afghanistan, NATO Shells Militants in Pakistan

Award-Winning Comedian George Carlin Dies

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Comedian-actor George Carlin, know for his raunchy, but insightful humor, died Sunday in Los Angeles, his publicist said. He was 71.

More...

See also:

GEORGE CARLIN DEAD AT 71 -- Comedian, Critic, Atheist

Carlin on Religion (YouTube video)

Yesterday and Today...

Today marks the beginning of Camp Quest in Ohio, which runs through the 28th. It is also the birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980).

Yesterday was the Summer Solstice. AP covered the "Druids, New Agers and people just looking for a party" that converged for Summer Solstice At Stonehenge.

Also see:

Scientific reasons for Earth's seasons

Summer solstice celebrations:ancient and modern

Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice

Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.

More...

Report Rules Out Subatomic Doomsday

Europe's CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. The new report, like earlier safety studies, rules out the possibility of global danger.

More...

We Urgently Need Your Help Now!!

Please help stop the Discovery Institute from boldly introducing religion into public education.

More...

Lawsuit Filed Over 'I Believe' Plates In S.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A group that advocates separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to prevent South Carolina from becoming the first state to create "I Believe" license plates.

More...

See also:

Americans United Files Lawsuit Challenging South Carolina's 'I Believe' License Plate

Watchdog Asks Wisconsin Assembly to Stop Praying

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national watchdog working to keep church and state separate, has asked leadership in the Wisconsin State Assembly to stop opening sessions with prayer, pointing out that one representative went so far as to "exorcize the Assembly Chamber."

More...

See also:

FFRF Asks Immigration Office to Drop Religious Oath for Naturalized Citizens

Pastors Challenge Law, Endorse Candidates From Pulpit

Few Americans would invite an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, but that's exactly what Minnesota pastor Gus Booth wanted when he stood behind his pulpit and told his congregation God wanted them to vote Republican.

More...

Rapture-Ready Evangelicals Impersonate Army Officers

A few days ago, a tip was sent to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) research department to check out an organization called Marshall Minutes Military Ministries.

More...

Previous Posts

Archives

Monday, June 30, 2008