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05/09/2006 - Commandments Could Be Put on Public Buildings
"The Ten Commandments could be coming to a courthouse or other local government building near you if legislation endorsed by the Louisiana Senate on Monday becomes law." Read on in The Advocate.
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01/02/2006 - Nearer, My God, to the G.O.P.
"Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, sounded like an Old Testament prophet recently when she denounced the Republican budget for its “injustice and immorality” and urged her colleagues to cast their no votes “as an act of worship” during this religious season." Read on in the New York Times.
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11/18/2005 - Phony Theory, False Conflict
"Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance, insists on hearing yet another appeal of the Scopes monkey trial, I feel obliged to point out what would otherwise be superfluous: that the two greatest scientists in the history of our species were Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and they were both religious." Read on in the Washington Post.
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10/28/2005 - Evolution Debate in Kansas Spurs Battle Over School Materials
"In an escalation of the nation's culture war over the teaching of evolution, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association announced yesterday that they will not allow Kansas to use key science materials developed by the two organizations." Read on in the Washington Post.
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10/20/2005 - Bush's Faith Plan Faces Judgement
"Chalk up a big legal victory for President Bush’s effort to help religious charities get taxpayer funding. And score a symbolic win, too, for those who think Bush’s “faith-based initiative” is just pork-barrel politics in disguise." Read on in the Washington Post.
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10/20/2005 - The Evolution of Creationism
"In 1987, the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that forbade teaching evolution in public schools unless creationism were also taught. The court found creationism to be a religous belief. But evolution's challengers have since adapted their cause to the new legal climate, just like Darwin's famed finches that formed special beaks to survive on the Galapagos Islands." Read on in The Christian Science Monitor.
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10/18/2005 - Pa. Professor Testifies Of Doubts About Darwin
"Charles Darwin's theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here MOnday as biochemistry professor Michale J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biologicla machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell." Read on in the Washington Post.
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10/12/2005 - Religious References Cloud Real Issues
"A journalist's opinion of the recent federal appeals court ruling on our Pledge of Allegiance being recited in schools motivates me to share a different point of view." Read on in the Shreveport Times.
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10/11/2005 - Air Force Withdraws Paper for Chaplains
"The Air Force, facing a lawsuit over alleged proselytizing, has withdrawn a document that permitted chaplains to evangelize military personnel who were not affiliated with any faither, Pentagon officials said yesterday." Read on in the Washington Post.
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10/02/2005 - What's Not Evolving Is Public Opinion
"What do most Americans believe -- that God created the universe in seven days, or that life on earth evolved over billions of years?" Read on in the Washington Post.
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09/27/2005 - Pa. Case Is Newest Round in Evolution Debate
"New barrages sounded in the evolution war Monday as lawyers for a group of parents challenged the teaching of “intelligent design” as nothing more that an old argument for God’s hand wrapped in fancy new cloth." Read on in the Washington Post.
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09/27/2005 - FEMA Plans to Reimburse Faith Groups for Aid
"After weeks of prodding by Republican lawmakers and the American Red Corss, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday that it will use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have opened their doors to provide shelter, food and supplies to survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita." Read on in the Washington Post.
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08/12/2005 - Ousted Church Keeps the Faith
"The Rev. Dexter Brecht says his faith in humanity has been restored." Read on in the Times-Picayune.
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08/11/2005 - Gay Church Evicted by N.O. Archdiocese
"In the spring, the Rev. Dexter Brecht thought he had found a home for his 45-member congregation for the next 12 months, as the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater New Orleans looked for a permanent home. And within the Project Lazarus complex, the congregation's new quarters, the church seemed to have found a perfect way station." Read on in the Times-Picayune.
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07/06/2005 - Devoted to God, but Not the Pledge
"Edward R. Myers used to ride motorcycles and fly his own airplane. But all that seemed too dangerous after he got married and had children. So the Sterling man took up a new pastime: suing the government." Read on in the Washington Post.
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07/05/2005 - With Antipoverty Call, Evangelicals Seek New Tone
"Concerned that the nation’s incendiary culture wars have taken a toll on their image, Christian conservatives are joining liberals in calling for more government spending to combat global poverty and are urging fellow evangelicals to remember that their primary calling is personal ministry, not politics." Read on in the Boston Globe.
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07/01/2005 - A Church's Struggle Over Gay Marriage
"As a federal constitutional amendment on marriage garners growing public support, one American Protestant church could soon go against the grain." Read on in The Christian Science Monitor.
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03/04/2005 - Hypocrite Nation
Rev. John Dear S.J., a Jesuit Priest, Peace Acvitist and author of 20 books, received a strange reaction to his speach on nonviolence at a Christian college in Pennsylvania. Studens began changint the US President's name in support of the war in Iraq. Rev. Dear reflects on conflict between a religious nation and a nation at war in editorial, Hypocrite Nation.
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