Earlier this month, during a meeting of the Monte Vista City Council in Colorado, the members discussed adding an invocation to their meetings. As we know, those invocations are legal as long as people of any faith and no faith are allowed to speak. That clearly wasn’t what they had in mind. Councilor Gary Johnson spoke in …
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New polling finds that their support for the president remains strikingly high. But are they mortgaging the future of the faith? With two alleged extramarital affairs looming over the presidency, white evangelicals are doubling down on their support for Donald Trump. But the near-term political gains their support is yielding may come at a high …
As we learned a couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan now has a “Missing Man” table dedicated to prisoners of war or those missing in action. That’s perfectly fine, but this particular table included a Bible, suggesting that POW/MIAs were only Christian and that atheists and people of other faiths didn’t …
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Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV. The Music City campus of the Trinity Broadcasting Network is about a half-hour drive from Music City itself, in a placid Nashville suburb on a bend in the Cumberland River where the main road through town is called the Johnny Cash Parkway. TBN, America’s …
Last year, Texas passed a law saying all fetal remains had to be buried or cremated. That used to be the case only for fetuses older than 20 weeks, but the new anti-abortion measure made the age irrelevant. The law also banned donation of that tissue for research purposes. It was blocked by a federal judge earlier this …
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This week dozens of prominent evangelical leaders gathered at conservative Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL, to address the “grotesque caricature” of their faith in the Trump era. The organizer of the gathering, Doug Birdsall, told the Washington Post that under Trump’s leadership, the term “evangelical” has taken on too many negative associations, especially when it comes to racism and …
A record number of white evangelical Christians say they support President Donald Trump. According to a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute released on Thursday, 75 percent on white evangelicals said they had a favourable view of the president and just 22 percent saying they had an unfavourable view. And white evangelical men are the most …
Mississippi’s governor just signed a law, more restrictive than in any state, banning abortions after 15 weeks. Iowa’s state Senate is trying to go even further and stop abortions at around six weeks. And 20 Ohio legislators have proposed outlawing all abortions, even if the woman’s life is in danger. In many state capitols, Republican …
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an Ohio law that blocked public funds from going to Planned Parenthood. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in favor of the women’s health-care provider on the law, which stopped funds from going to organizations that offer or promote abortions, according to The Associated Press. Planned Parenthood said the law violated its …
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One of the conclusions of the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Greece v. Galloway was the understanding that if a government body allowed invocations at all, they had to be open to people of all religious backgrounds, including people without religion. It specifically applied to city councils, but what about Congress? That’s what atheist Dan Barker wanted to know. In 2016, …
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