If groovy tea is OK, so is communion wine.

Posted on January 18, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Church And State, News, Supreme Court | Comments Off

CNS News: Senator Criticized Over Move to Restrict Alcohol in Church
A bid by a Nebraska lawmaker to expand underage drinking restrictions to include alcohol consumed in church has drawn criticism from Catholics who say it will infringe on religious rights.
Democratic State Sen. Lowen Kruse has introduced a bill that would eliminate two provisions to Nebraska’s [...]

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Democrat-controlled Congress will “restore” the Constitution…right?

Posted on January 18, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, News | 6 Comments

Wrong. As if this is a surprise.
Not only is Senate Bill 1, a provision of which is a direct assault on the First Amendment rights of anyone who, well, has an opinion that a couple hundred people might hear, on the table, now we have this:
Kucinich: Congress To Take On FCC
Over the weekend, the [...]

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Iraq: The Democrats Have A Plan! Run For The Hills!!!

Posted on January 18, 2007 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off

Many of those who are reading this have probably never traveled to Marin County and Sonoma Valley, north of San Francisco. To give you an idea, it’s beautiful, rich, and very much to the left. Picture Berkeley hippies driving around in BMWs.
Now, meet Lynn Woolsey, the “unapologetically progressive” congresswoman who represents that little slice of [...]

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North Carolina Appeals Court Allows ACLU Lawsuit Over Court Swearing-in Practice to Go Forward

Posted on January 18, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Church And State | 4 Comments

More of the ACLU “selective” appealing of cases upholding freedom of religion.
“A unanimous North Carolina Court of Appeals today ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina can proceed with its lawsuit challenging state courts’ practice of refusing to allow people of non-Christian faiths to swear religious oaths using any text other than [...]

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ACLU complains even though “antiwar” groups were removed from database

Posted on January 18, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Communism, News, War On Terror | 1 Comment

From the Boston Globe: Antiwar protests listed as threats in terror database
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department listed 2,821 organizations or events involving Americans in a terrorist threat database as of December 2005, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, including at least 186 antimilitary protests in the United States.
The ACLU yesterday released a Pentagon memo [...]

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ANOTHER MISLEADING ANALYSIS OF CONSERVATISM BY LEFTIST PSYCHOLOGISTS

Posted on January 18, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 5 Comments

Psychology Today has just put out a big article on the psychology of politics. It purports to explain why people hew to the Left or the Right.
It bases its conclusions, however, on research that has no scholarly worth whatsoever. The two main pieces of research it relies on to support the differentiations it [...]

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