Christian Home-School Advocate: Kids Have “No Fundamental Right” to an Education

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The California couple that allegedly held captive their 13 home-schooled children has provoked national debate about home-schooling regulations. The Home School Legal Defense Association’s Mike Smith recently did an interview on the Los Angeles radio show KNX In Depth with Charles Feldman and Mike Simpson, along with Rachel Coleman of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, during which he gave the following bizarre statement. …

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Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?

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White evangelicals have consistently told pollsters that life in the U.S. has gotten worse since the 1950s. But in longing for an American past, white evangelical Protestants may be neglecting their future. As a group, they’re drifting further away — politically and culturally — from the American mainstream. There are growing signs that white evangelical Protestantism is no longer immune …

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A Satanist Fights for Her Religious Right to an Abortion in MO’s Supreme Court

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Today, Satanists will be arguing in front of the Missouri Supreme Court for their religious right to an abortion, in spite of the state’s medically unnecessary 72-hour waiting period. The controversy began in 2015 when “Mary Doe” sued the state. She needed an abortion, but the nearest clinic was hundreds of miles away. On top of that, …

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Florida lawmakers consider requiring schools to post “In God we trust”

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Contending Florida’s school children need closer ties to the state’s foundations, a state House subcommittee on Tuesday unanimously backed a bill to require the posting of the words “In God We Trust” in a “conspicuous place” at all public schools. “It’s important for our students to realize the civic history of our state, and one portion of that history …

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What happened when a public school student sued over prayer

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In Webster Parish, Louisiana 17 year old Kaylee Cole refused to stand for the daily morning prayer at her school. Every day starts the same: Announcements, birthdays and school events are broadcast over the public address system. What comes next is what she dreads. “They say, ‘Please stand for the Prayer and the Pledge.’ And …

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Trump will start the end of the world, claim evangelicals who support him

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Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because they believe he’ll cause the world to end. Many have questioned why devout evangelicals support Trump, a man who has bragged about sexual assault, lies perpetually and once admitted he never asks God for forgiveness. Trump’s lack of knowledge of the Bible is also well-known. “Most evangelicals subscribe to a …

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Atheists Support Abortion Rights More Than Any Other Group (Except One…)

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When it comes to supporting abortion rights — specifically saying that in most or all cases, abortion should be legal — how do the different religions rank? (And let’s include atheists in the mix.) 87% of both atheists and agnostics believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases. But Unitarian Universalists take the …

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The religious activists on the rise inside Trump’s health department

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Critics fret some agency leaders are blurring the lines between church and state. A small cadre of politically prominent religious activists inside the Department of Health and Human Services have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care — a strategy that’s taking shape in a series of policy …

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Mississippi Bill Would Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Every Day

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A Mississippi legislator, Credell Calhoun, has proposed a bill that would force teachers to recite the Ten Commandments at the beginning of every school day. The school board of each school district shall require the teachers in that school district to have the Ten Commandments recited aloud at the beginning of the first hour of class each …

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