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		<title>Catholic Church gives DC an ultimatum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cassy Fiano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when you let the government start messing around with private industry &#8212; and if they&#8217;re allowed to start messing around with religion.  This country was founded on the basis of religious freedom, that anyone could come here and practice their faith freely and without fear of repercussions.  The Roman [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what happens when you let the government start messing around with private industry &#8212; and if they&#8217;re allowed to start messing around with religion.  This country was founded on the basis of religious freedom, that anyone could come here and practice their faith freely and without fear of repercussions.  The Roman Catholic Church has been a staunch defender of the pro-life movement and of traditional marriage.  In the America that our founders built, the government would not be able to put the church into such a tough position.  Forcing a church, after all, to either betray some of its most precious, sacred beliefs or cut off approximately 68,000 people from the social services offered by Catholic Charities is despicable.  But it&#8217;s <a href=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/11/AR2009111116943.html?hpid=topnews&#038;sid=ST2009042801406>the situation the Catholic Church is in now</a> &#8212; and liberals, of course, are blaming the Catholic Church.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn&#8217;t change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care. </p>
<p>Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for same-sex weddings. But they would have to obey city laws prohibiting discrimination against gay men and lesbians. </p>
<p>Fearful that they could be forced, among other things, to extend employee benefits to same-sex married couples, church officials said they would have no choice but to abandon their contracts with the city. </p>
<p>&#8220;If the city requires this, we can&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said Wednesday. &#8220;The city is saying in order to provide social services, you need to be secular. For us, that&#8217;s really a problem.&#8221; </p>
<p>Several D.C. Council members said the Catholic Church is trying to erode the city&#8217;s long-standing laws protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination.</p>
<p>The clash escalates the dispute over the same-sex marriage proposal between the council and the archdiocese, which has generally stayed out of city politics. </p>
<p>Catholic Charities, the church&#8217;s social services arm, is one of dozens of nonprofit organizations that partner with the District. It serves 68,000 people in the city, including the one-third of Washington&#8217;s homeless people who go to city-owned shelters managed by the church. City leaders said the church is not the dominant provider of any particular social service, but the church pointed out that it supplements funding for city programs with $10 million from its own coffers. </p>
<p>&#8220;All of those services will be adversely impacted if the exemption language remains so narrow,&#8221; Jane G. Belford, chancellor of the Washington Archdiocese, wrote to the council this week. </p>
<p>The church&#8217;s influence seems limited. In separate interviews Wednesday, council member Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) referred to the church as &#8220;somewhat childish.&#8221; Another council member, David A. Catania (I-At Large), said he would rather end the city&#8217;s relationship with the church than give in to its demands. </p>
<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t represent, in my mind, an indispensable component of our social services infrastructure,&#8221; said Catania, the sponsor of the same-sex marriage bill and the chairman of the Health Committee. </p>
<p>The standoff appears to be among the harshest between a government and a faith-based group over the rights of same-sex couples. Advocates for same-sex couples said they could not immediately think of other places where a same-sex marriage law had set off a break with a major faith-based provider of social services. </p>
<p>The council is expected to pass the same-sex marriage bill next month, but the measure continues to face strong opposition from a number of groups that are pushing for a referendum on the issue. </p>
<p>The archdiocese&#8217;s statement follows a vote Tuesday by the council&#8217;s Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary to reject an amendment that would have allowed individuals, based on their religious beliefs, to decline to provide services for same-sex weddings.</p></blockquote>
<p>How pathetic.  D.C.&#8217;s stance is basically that the Catholic Church should abandon its principles if it wants to keep working with the city, because this is going to pass whether they like it or not, and they have to make this awful choice &#8212; but they, of course, are the bad guys.  This is, of course, the liberal meme, because anyone who is against gay marriage is prejudiced and backward and wrong and might as well be the KKK.  Check out <a href=http://www.feministing.com/archives/018882.html>this explanation from Feministing</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The closing of a major homeless shelter and budget cuts have worsened the situation in a city already struggling to serve its poor and homeless residents. As someone who organizes for access to abortion I have obvious problems with gaps in the services provided by Catholic Charities. But that does not discount the vital work they do for the 68,000 D.C. residents who rely on Catholic Charities for shelters, health care, and food programs. </p>
<p>The Archdiosese is making a clear statement: it considers keeping rights from same sex couples more important than the needs of this city&#8217;s most vulnerable. Their willingness to use the lives and health of 68,000 people in need as pawns in their fight for the right to discriminate is unconscionable. D.C. needs more social services, not less. I hope the Archdiosese can put aside the politics of hate for a moment to recognize what I would think they would consider a moral obligation to do vital life saving work.</p></blockquote>
<p>With all due respect, this isn&#8217;t a choice the church can fairly make.  They didn&#8217;t ask for this bill, and their input was completely ignored when it came to amendments in the bill.  The passage of this bill puts Catholic Charities in the worst kind of situation.  For the Catholic Church, this isn&#8217;t a political situation, which is what liberals want to make it into.  For the Catholic Church, this is a <em>religious</em> issue, it&#8217;s a <em>moral</em> one.  The church cannot just abandon its principles, and that&#8217;s what liberals are forcing the church to do.  And if the church caves on this, it won&#8217;t stop here.  Liberals will start putting the pressure on about abortion, and performing gay marriages, and who knows what else.  Where will it stop?  It&#8217;s disgusting that liberals are putting the blame on the church here, when they are the ones being forced between a rock and a hard place.  The church is not the one using homeless people as pawns; the city is.  And it is wrong for the government to be legislating religious beliefs, which is basically what has happened here.  This is, at its core, a subtle attack on our rights to religious freedom.  And apparently, there is no one who is going to stand up for religion in this case.  </p>
<p>If this is the change you voted for, then I hope you&#8217;re happy.</p>
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<p><em>Cross-posted from Cassy&#8217;s <a href=http://www.cassyfiano.com>blog</a>.  Stop by for more original commentary, or follow her on <a href=http://twitter.com/cassyfiano>Twitter</a>!</em></p>
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		<title>ISI Conference Part Two: Christ in Our Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warner Todd Huston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[-By Warner Todd Huston
This is part two of my three part report on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s one day conference on The Roots of American Order. So here is part two of mine titled Lift a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition or a New Covenant? (Part one can be seen here)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>-By Warner Todd Huston</b></p>
<p><img vspace="10" hspace="10" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.isi.org/images/isi_logos/isi_home_logo.jpg" />This is part two of my three part report on the <a href="http://www.isi.org/">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a>’s one day conference on <i>The Roots of American Order</i>. So here is part two of mine titled <i>Lift a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition or a New Covenant?</i> (Part one can be seen <a href="http://www.publiusforum.com/2009/11/16/lift-a-glass-to-the-past-america-rooted-in-tradition-or-a-new-covenant/">here</a>)</p>
<p>The second speaker of the day was <a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/display_profile.asp?cid=858990150">Brad Birzer</a> who regaled us on <i>America&#8217;s Judeo-Christian History</i>.</p>
<p>Bizer began his session by noting that historian Donald Lutz discovered that the founders used Christian references in their pre-war writing far more than any other source. St. Paul was the most referenced New Testament figure with Micah 4:4 being the most referenced Old Testament verse.<br />
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But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
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<p>On this Lutz quotation, though, I want to clarify something. Many have bandied about the claim that Donald Lutz said that 34 percent of the founder&#8217;s writing contain direct Biblical citations. This claim is not altogether true. On the other hand, it is not something to quickly dismiss as fans of the Enlightenment influence want to do, either.</p>
<p>The problem is that Lutz&#8217; research <i>didn&#8217;t</i> reveal that this 34 percent came &#8220;directly&#8221; from Biblical citations. What Lutz found was that the Bible <i>and</i> quotes from sermons of the period added up to his finding of 34 percent. Lutz <i>wasn&#8217;t</i> saying the 34 percent was made up solely of Biblical quotations. It is a bit misleading to say that this large number of citations &#8220;came from the Bible&#8221; when a portion came from the sermons of famous preachers of the era &#8212; and political sermons at that. Granted sermons are generally of religious content, but a quote for a sermon isn&#8217;t the same thing as a direct citation from the Bible. </p>
<p>Add to this the fact that Lutz also found that the Federalist Papers and the debates about the Constitution contain very few Biblical citations and we get another shade of this debate that is necessary to consider. Many Atheists and Enlightenment influence fans claim that the lack of Biblical citations during this second period of the American founding proves that religion was meaningless. But I warn these deniers that Lutz was also not saying that the Bible was meaningless. In his study, after he notes that the Biblical influence seemed to disappear from the founder&#8217;s writing during the Constitutional phase, Lutz says it isn&#8217;t &#8220;surprising since the debate centered upon specific institutions about which the Bible has little to say.&#8221;</p>
<p>The fact is that this 34 percent of Protestant Religious citations isn&#8217;t meaningless. It still shows that a great preponderance of the founder&#8217;s citations were religiously based, and of the Protestant religion at that. It also shows that religious appeals formed a large part of the thinking of the founding era as they geared up both for war with Britain and the formation of the United States of America.</p>
<p>I sort of wish that Birzer had gone into this further, but I understand why he didn&#8217;t. He had a finite amount of time and this diversion would have moved away from his main point. In any case, both sides make at the same time too much and too little of Lutz’ study.</p>
<p>Birzer next noted that America was, indeed, a land of religious freedom even if its particular parts were &#8220;islands of intolerance.&#8221; He notes that the religious freedom that our early years are famous for did exist, but not in the laissez faire style we&#8217;d like to wish it were. Sure it was illegal to be a Catholic in Maryland after 1689, for instance, or one had to be an Anglican to hold office in Virginia but those particular restrictions were less extent in other parts of the country. Each segment had its particular religious sect as the officially recognized religion, but there wasn&#8217;t a single religion for all of the colonies leaving people free to choose where they might like to live in accordance with their individual principles.</p>
<p>The summation is that religion played a supremely important part in the early days from the first colonists to the founding era.</p>
<p>As an example Birzer notes that as laid out in his &#8220;<a href="http://burke.classicauthors.net/ConciliationAmerica/">On Conciliation With America</a>,&#8221; Edmund Burke&#8217;s characterization of the American Colonies was that the colonies were born of English liberty and religion.</p>
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In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole… This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth, and this from a great variety of powerful causes…</p>
<p>If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect. Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favorable to liberty, but built upon it.
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<p>Birzer, though, also pointed out that a chief motivating factor in rallying Americans to the revolutionary cause was an anti-Catholicism that was inflamed by the Crown&#8217;s 1774 <a href="http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h648.html">Quebec Act</a> that gave an official Crown-recognized status to French Catholics in Canada. This fear of &#8220;Papism&#8221; led many Americans to fear for their liberties expecting a creeping Catholic tyranny to invade their colonies through the Crown&#8217;s apostasy.</p>
<p>Birzer notes, though, that in many ways the establishment of local rule in the colonies was a bloodless coup of sorts. He gives the example of Charles Carroll of Carrollton a Roman Catholic who led Marylanders to form an extra legal government that eventually simply took over the colony as the official government in the minds of the people. At some point, the poor Royal Governor had to just go home because he was simply ignored by the whole colony as they favored their fellows instead. </p>
<p>Of course, Carroll&#8217;s efforts led him to become a celebrated citizen despite his Catholic religion and this, in turn, broke down some of those religious barriers for Catholics, at least in Maryland.</p>
<p>Birzer really pressed the point, though, that the main reason that colonists feared Papism was because of the top-down leadership of the Church, a style that necessarily negated, as far as they were concerned, the liberties that the colonists valued above all else.</p>
<p>He summed up his talk by asking of us all a question. In some parts of the colonies, men were required by law to bring two things to church with them on a Sunday morning: Their Bible and their rifle. These men were ready to give their all to protect their liberties. But are we today still ready to reclaim what is ours? With all the world flexing its muscles, from North Korea, to China to Iran, are we as Americans ready to fight to reclaim our legacy of freedom or are we to roll over and allow an out-of-control, socialist government to usurp our liberties as enemies gather at our gates?</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.publiusforum.com/2009/11/16/isi-conference-part-three-more-british-than-the-british/">Next: More British Than the British!</a></b></p>
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		<title>Want To Feed The Homeless? Not In Phoenix</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Teach</dc:creator>
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A Phoenix ordinance banning charity dining halls in residential neighborhoods withstood a challenge by a north-central Phoenix church.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unless you arrive with the phrase &#8220;we&#8217;re from the government, and we&#8217;re here to help&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>A <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2009/11/10/20091110Church1110.html" target="_blank">Phoenix ordinance banning charity dining halls</a> in residential neighborhoods withstood a challenge by a north-central Phoenix church.</p>
<p>Retired Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Corcoran, serving as a hearing officer, ruled Monday that feeding the homeless at a place of worship can be banned by city ordinance. The decision affects all Phoenix churches with underlying residential zoning.</p>
<p>Over the summer, city officials maintained that CrossRoads United Methodist Church, 7901 N. Central Ave., violated Phoenix zoning code by feeding the poor and homeless on its property, a use that can only occur in commercial or industrial zones. City officials said the decision is effective immediately.</p></blockquote>
<p>Amazing, eh? Rather then say &#8220;thank you for helping these people out,&#8221; and perhaps changing the ordinance, Phoenix decided the best thing to do was be typical government weenies. There was a time when most charity and help came from churches and individuals. People with compassion. Now said charity can only come from certain legal restrictions. Bet it makes the homeless feel great. Where is the ACLU when you need them to stand up for the rights of citizens and the downtrodden?</p>
<p>Oh, there they are. They&#8217;re <a href="http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2009/11/aclu_suit_graduation_rates_palm_beach_county.php" target="_blank">suing government leaders</a>, including Charlie Crist, in Florida due to the pathetic state of the government run schools. Visibly absent from the suit are the teacher&#8217;s unions.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><i>When criminal females want to abort their children, one might think that to be rather a good thing for future generations  &#8212; as personality, like ability, is highly hereditary.  And even if it weren&#8217;t hereditary, a criminal mother is not exactly likely to bring up a child in the ways of the Lord.  I gather, however, that Sheriff Joe is a Catholic and therefore wants to save that little life.  My heart is with him in that, even though I am an atheist.  But Leftists have only pretend-hearts and their attitude to abortion shows that.  In the report below, a court has backed an ACLU petition to make Sheriff Joe facilitate abortions.  No civil liberties for the unborn, apparently.  But Sheriff Joe is very good at doing an end-run around restrictions he doesn&#8217;t like so I have confidence that he will rapidly find a new lifesaving tactic. </i> </b></p>
<blockquote><p>In a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, an Arizona court found today that Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio can no longer require inmates seeking abortion care to prepay their transportation and security costs before they can obtain an abortion. </p>
<p>Earlier this year, as part of a partial settlement in an ACLU lawsuit involving the right of women prisoners to obtain timely, safe and legal abortions, Arpaio agreed to follow a 2005 court order prohibiting Maricopa County correctional facilities from requiring inmates to obtain a court order before an abortion. However, in the course of settlement negotiations, Arpaio decided inmates must prepay transportation and security costs associated with obtaining the procedure. In his ruling today, Judge Robert H. Oberbilling of the Superior Court of Arizona indicated that requiring inmates to prepay security and transportation costs could be more onerous than the court order Sheriff Arpaio previously required.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are so pleased that Sheriff Arpaio can no longer pull a bait and switch by requiring women prisoners to pay transportation and security costs before obtaining an abortion,&#8221; said Brigitte Amiri, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project who argued the case today before the court. &#8220;Arpaio&#8217;s new prepayment requirement was yet another way for him to do an end run around the law and to interfere with a woman&#8217;s private decision about whether to end a pregnancy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In May 2004, on behalf of a woman inmate seeking an abortion, the ACLU challenged an unwritten Maricopa County Jail policy that required inmates to obtain a court order before officials would transport for abortion care. The Maricopa County Superior Court struck down the unwritten policy in August 2005, holding that it violated women&#8217;s reproductive rights and served &#8220;no legitimate penological purpose.&#8221; The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld that decision; both the Arizona and the United States Supreme Courts refused to hear the case.</p>
<p>Sheriff Arpaio defied these rulings and continued to require women to obtain a court order before an abortion. As a result, in August 2008, the ACLU asked the court to hold Arpaio in contempt. In the course of settlement negotiations in that case, Arpaio shifted tactics and began insisting that inmates who seek abortions must pay upfront for transportation and security costs.  Inmates requiring transportation for other medical care are not charged for transport either before or after receiving services.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sheriff Arpaio has reached the end of the line here. The courts have already confirmed that Arizona prison officials can not put up roadblocks to abortion care simply because they do not agree with the decision to end a pregnancy,&#8221; said Alessandra Soler Meetze, Executive Director of the ACLU of Arizona. &#8220;It is time for Sheriff Arpaio to stop wasting taxpayer dollars to impose his own morality on women in his jails and to start upholding the law. Game over.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.aclu.org/reproductiverights/abortion/41321prs20091020.html">SOURCE</a></p>
<p><i>Posted by <a href="http://jonjayray.tripod.com/main.html">John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.)</a>.</i>  <i>  For a daily critique of Leftist activities,  see <a href="http://dissectleft.blogspot.com">DISSECTING LEFTISM</a>.  To keep up with attacks on free speech see <a href="http://snorphty.blogspot.com/">TONGUE-TIED</a>. Also, don&#8217;t forget your daily roundup  of pro-environment but anti-Greenie  news and commentary at <a href="http://antigreen.blogspot.com/">GREENIE WATCH </a>.  Email me  <a href="mailto:jonjayray@hotmail.com">here</a></i></p>
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		<title>Voters Seeing Red Over ACLU Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Joseph Infranco and Rees Lloyd&#8217;s email:
General Douglas MacArthur famously noted that &#8220;old soldiers never die; they just fade away.&#8221; Sometimes, though, before they fade away, they get angry. And a case being argued in the Supreme Court Wednesday has veterans seeing red, white, and blue-but mostly red. 
Unsurprisingly, the case will go to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Joseph Infranco and Rees Lloyd&#8217;s email:</p>
<blockquote><p>General Douglas MacArthur famously noted that &#8220;old soldiers never die; they just fade away.&#8221; Sometimes, though, before they fade away, they get angry. And a case being argued in the Supreme Court Wednesday has veterans seeing red, white, and blue-but mostly red. </p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the case will go to the court courtesy of an ACLU lawsuit. </p>
<p>The object at the center of the case is a small, unadorned cross sitting in a remote part of the Mojave Desert Preserve in Southeast California. A veterans&#8217; group erected this memorial cross on private land in 1934 to honor the dead of all wars. </p>
<p>Driving by this secluded location today, however, you&#8217;ll see a curious-looking plywood box hiding the memorial, the way someone might cover a condemned building. That box is there because one person filed suit, with the help of ACLU attorneys, claiming he was &#8220;offended&#8221; by the memorial cross. One offended man has somehow trumped the wishes of millions of veterans. </p>
<p>If a federal appeals court has its way, the box and the memorial soon will be gone forever. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court will review the ruling at the request of the Department of Justice, and in this case, millions of veterans, speaking through The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, have added their voices in support. In fact, the American Legion Department of California and the Alliance Defense Fund have joined forces and filed a brief in support of the Department of Justice, asking the Supreme Court to dismiss the lawsuit. </p>
<p>The U.S. Government recently acquired the land on which the memorial sits when the site became part of the Mojave Federal Preserve. After the ACLU lawsuit was filed, Congress worked with veterans to honor their wishes and preserve the monument. It took an act of Congress to rescue the memorial from a federal court decision ordering its destruction. As part of its action, Congress voted to give an acre of land containing the memorial back to the veterans who maintained it for decades, in exchange for five acres deeded to the government. Giving up one acre to get five, and honoring veterans in the process, seemed like a good deal. </p>
<p>But not to the ACLU and its &#8220;offended&#8221; client.<br />
To them, even this reasonable arrangement was intolerable. They pressed forward with their lawsuit saying the memorial must not be allowed to stand and the land transfer must be overturned; their hostility to a passive symbol of this sort is simply too great. </p>
<p>However, as bad as this case is, veterans know much more is at stake in this case than one memorial in the California desert. </p>
<p>Military memorials commonly use the cross as part of a display to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend our nation. While the cross is a religious symbol, the military has also used it as a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and honor. For example, the nation&#8217;s second highest military award is the Distinguished Service Cross. Visitors to the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery can see several commemorative crosses, like the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice, a gift from former Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King that was dedicated at Arlington in 1927. </p>
<p>If the Supreme Court does not overturn the appeals court, religious symbols that have graced monuments for many decades may become a thing of the past. Memorials to military veterans, police officers, firefighters, and other heroes will be whitewashed, covered up, or torn out to appease the politically correct agenda of intolerant extremists. </p>
<p>Veterans are being asked to surrender to the thin-skinned sensitivity of an individual who has managed to be offended by a small memorial, literally in the middle of a desert. Is this truly an offense worthy of a lawsuit? Apparently, the fanatical agenda of the ACLU to expunge religious symbols has really come this far, and now the Supreme Court has the opportunity to weigh in. </p>
<p>One person&#8217;s offense should not diminish the sacrifice made by America&#8217;s heroes and their families. Why would we not wish to allow the men and women who have served and defended this nation to choose how they wish to honor their dead? Even if old soldiers &#8220;fade away,&#8221; their memory should not.
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		<title>Another  perversion of  the meaning of establishing a church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The constitutional prohibition  was written to forbid the government endorsing one particular denomination as the true faith  &#8212; which was the status of the &#8220;established&#8221; Church of England in Britain at the time.  Nothing like that has ever been contemplated in America
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The constitutional prohibition  was written to forbid the <em>government</em> endorsing one particular denomination as the true faith  &#8212; which was the status of the &#8220;established&#8221; Church of England in Britain at the time.  Nothing like that has ever been contemplated in America</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It would be easy to miss among the yucca and Joshua trees of this vast place &#8212; a small plywood box, set back from a gentle curve in a lonesome desert road. It looks like nothing so much as a miniature billboard without a message.</p>
<p>But inside the box is a 6 1/2 -foot white cross, built to honor the war dead of World War I. And because its perch on a prominent outcropping of rock is on federal land, it has been judged to be an unconstitutional display of government favoritism of one religion over another.</p>
<p>Whether the Mojave cross is ever unveiled again &#8212; or taken down for good &#8212; is up to the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Next week, it will get its first major chance to divine the meaning of the First Amendment command that &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.&#8221;</p>
<p>If the court reaches the constitutional issues at hand, all sides agree it could provide clarity to the court&#8217;s blurry rules on church-and-state separations. It could also carry important implications for the fate of war memorials around the country that feature religious imagery &#8212; the Argonne Cross in Arlington National Cemetery, for instance, or the Memorial Peace Cross in Bladensburg.</p>
<p>The Mojave cross&#8217;s protectors, which include veterans groups and the federal government, say the symbol is a historic, secular tribute; its original plaque from the 1930s said it was erected to honor &#8220;the dead of all wars.&#8221; They argue that Congress has taken the steps to distance itself from any appearance of endorsing a religious display.</p>
<p>But the American Civil Liberties Union, Jewish and Muslim veterans, and others say government actions have only deepened the problem. In an effort to avoid the lower courts&#8217; rulings that it must come down, Congress has designated the site the country&#8217;s only official national memorial to the dead of World War I, elevating it to an exclusive group of national treasures that includes the Washington Monument and Mount Rushmore.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092803075.html">Source</a> </p></blockquote>
<p><i>Posted by <a href="http://jonjayray.tripod.com/main.html">John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.)</a>.</i>  <i>  For a daily critique of Leftist activities,  see <a href="http://dissectleft.blogspot.com">DISSECTING LEFTISM</a>.  To keep up with attacks on free speech see <a href="http://snorphty.blogspot.com/">TONGUE-TIED</a>. Also, don&#8217;t forget your daily roundup  of pro-environment but anti-Greenie  news and commentary at <a href="http://antigreen.blogspot.com/">GREENIE WATCH </a>.  Email me (John Ray) <a href="mailto:jonjayray@hotmail.com">here</a></i></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warner Todd Huston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[-By Warner Todd Huston
**Update** below from children’s book author Charisse Carney-Nunes
As school kids in New Jersey are being indoctrinated to think that Barack Hussein Obama is a suitable replacement for Jesus of Nazareth, the extremist leftist website FireDogLake rose to defend the propaganda. But even the left-wingers over at FDL must realize how indefensible their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>-By Warner Todd Huston</b></p>
<p><b>**Update** below from children’s book author Charisse Carney-Nunes</b></p>
<p>As school kids in New Jersey are being indoctrinated to think that Barack Hussein Obama is a suitable replacement for Jesus of Nazareth, the extremist leftist website FireDogLake rose to defend the propaganda. But even the left-wingers over at FDL must realize how indefensible their support of this indoctrination effort in Jersey is because a recent post they made to defend the incident is weak tea, indeed.</p>
<p>At the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey, the author of the book &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Am-Barack-Obama-Charisse-Carney-Nunes/dp/0974814245">I Am Barack Obama</a>,&#8221; a children&#8217;s book propagandizing kids about the president, was allowed the opportunity to teach kids a couple of cult-like songs about The One. The author, one Charisse Carney-Nunes, claims to have been a Harvard classmate of President Obama.</p>
<p>Carney-Nunes wrote an absurdly hortatory series of songs for Black History day for the grade schoolers to sing at the Jersey elementary school, one of which appropriated a stanza of the ages old Christian standard, &#8220;Jesus Loves the Little Children&#8221; &#8212; suitably altered to make Barack Obama the focus instead of Jesus Christ, of course.</p>
<blockquote><p>
Barack Hussein Obama<br />
He said Red, Yellow, Black or White<br />
All are equal in his sight<br />
Mmm, mmm, mm!
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<p>Nice, eh? Barack as Christ goes down well on a school day, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
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<p>In any case, after the fire storm erupted on the right leaning blogosphere about this outrageous indoctrination of school children, <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/25/flashback-stockton-california-elementary-students-forced-to-hero-worship-george-w-bush-in-2002/" rel="nofollow">FireDogLake rose to defend their Obammessiah</a>. </p>
<p>So what was the lefty website&#8217;s defense of this propagandist&#8217;s effort? </p>
<p>It went sort of like this: &#8220;Yeah, well kids were forced to sing O-Cultish propaganda, sure, but there was a school named after George W. Bush in Texas, so THERE!&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, folks. The reply to this propagandizing of our kids was OK to FireDogLake because some school in Texas was re-named after Bush once. I don&#8217;t know about you but it seems to me that re-naming a school is a bit different than forcing kids to sing songs that tells them that Jesu-Bama Loves the little children, all the children of the world, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p><b>**Update** from children’s book author Charisse Carney-Nunes</b></p>
<p>I have received a press release from the author involved in this school incident. It is presented in its  entirety below:</p>
<blockquote><p>
Statement From Hoverfly Media Regarding Charisse Carney-Nunes and<br />
Recent Events Surrounding Bernice Young Elementary School</p>
<p>Washington DC (September 25, 2009) &#8212; Charisse Carney-Nunes was invited to Bernice Young Elementary School by the Burlington Township School District because of her status as an award-winning children&#8217;s book author. Charisse presented all of her books, including her recent book I Am Barack Obama, a book capturing the example of President Obama to highlight children&#8217;s personal power to change the world.</p>
<p>Charisse did not write, create, teach or lead the song about President Obama in the video. The song was presented to her by a teacher and students as a demonstration of a project that the children had previously put together.</p>
<p>Charisse feels it is unfortunate that an event put together with sincere intentions to encourage literacy while celebrating the contributions of African Americans to our great nation has been become political fodder, and hopes cooler heads will prevail.
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t pretend to know all of the facts in this case like Craig who was personally involved, however I know what my gut says.  Pamela Gellar has been doing extensive research on this case as well.  I respect them both and they are on totally opposing sides on this argument.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t pretend to know all of the facts in this case like <a href="http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/09/14/why-the-facts-in-the-rifqa-bary-case-should-matter-to-christians/">Craig who was personally involved</a>, however I know what my gut says.  <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/railroading-rifqa-the-persecution-of-rifqa-bary-american-apostate.html">Pamela Gellar has been doing extensive research </a>on this case as well.  I respect them both and they are on totally opposing sides on this argument.</p>
<p> Here is the bottom line for me.  Islam preaches mercy killings for Christian converts.  Rifqa has converted to Christianity and is expressing a legitimate fear her parents would do Allah&#8217;s will if the government gave her back.  Perhaps her fear is wrong, but is that possibility worth the chance?  The bottom line for me is she is seventeen and would know her parent&#8217;s capability and devotion to Islam better than anyone.  In a few months she has the legal right to live on her own anyway.  Is giving her back to her parents really worth the risk?  I don&#8217;t think so.</p>
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		<title>Mad King Chucky Still On The &#8220;Creationist&#8221; Kick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Teach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What he writes (don&#8217;t worry, LFGoofballs doesn&#8217;t get the link. Basil does. If you want to see what he writes, add him in a feedreader, so his traffic stays low)
Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill is starting to bear rancid fruit, as the state’s top school board approves new rules intended [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What <a href="http://basilsblog.net/?url=http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34694_Creationists_Win_Another_One_in_Louisiana#rss" target="_blank">he writes</a> (don&#8217;t worry, LFGoofballs doesn&#8217;t get the link. Basil does. If you want to see what he writes, add him in a feedreader, so his traffic stays low)</p>
<blockquote><p>Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill is starting to bear rancid fruit, as the state’s top school board approves new rules intended to make it difficult for residents to <a href="http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/59572962.html?showAll=y&amp;c=y" target="_blank">challenge the teaching of creationism</a> in science classes.</p>
<p>Pseudo-science promoted by ignorant religious fanatics takes another big step forward in Louisiana.</p></blockquote>
<p>What the article, which I am quite sure the Little Green Goofballs readers will ignore, says</p>
<blockquote><p><img class="alignright" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/wteach/signs/BanLGF2-1.png" alt="" width="192" height="192" />The state’s top school board Wednesday approved procedures for residents who object to materials that challenge the teaching of evolution in public school science classes.</p>
<p>The rules, which were praised by evolution critics, stem from a law approved last year by the Legislature.</p>
<p>Backers say the law is needed to give science teachers more freedom to challenge traditional theories, including Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.</p>
<p>The five-member panel will determine whether the materials:</p>
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<li>Promote any religious doctrine, which is banned by the state law.</li>
<li>Are scientifically sound.</li>
<li>Are appropriate for the grade.</li>
</ul>
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<p>So, the laws and the board will give teachers the ability to offer alternative viewpoints, you know, education, opening minds, teaching kids to think for themselves and make decisions based on all the available material, within a specific framework that does not promote any particular religion and is scientifically sound.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="So, the laws and the board will give teachers the ability to offer alternative viewpoints, you know, education, within a specific framework that does not promote any particular religion and is scientifically sound." target="_blank">Ace</a> catches LGF moderator Kilgore Trout spamming Hot Air with racist comments, followed by a pronouncement from Der Lizafuhrer. Hot Air responds by moving LGF from War On Terror to Left Channels. (h/t <a href="http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/09/lgfs-kilgore-trout-attacks-hot-air.html" target="_blank">R.S. McCain</a>)</p>
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		<title>ACLU-CAIR-Obama Triumvirate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Klein:
In his speech to the Muslim world delivered this past June from Cairo, President Obama apologized that “in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation”.  President Obama *(Government) then promised that “I’m committed to work with American Muslims *(religion) to ensure that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/17/aclu/">Joseph Klein:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>In his speech to the Muslim world delivered this past June from Cairo, President Obama apologized that “in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation”.  President Obama *(<b>Government</b>) then promised that “I’m committed to work with American Muslims *(<b>religion</b>) to ensure that they can fulfill zakat [the Islamic duty of charitable contributions].”</p>
<p>The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest Islamic “charity” in the United States eligible for receipt of zakat, was convicted by a federal jury for providing more than $12 million to support the Palestinian militant terrorist organization Hamas. </p>
<p>Obama apparently could not care less.  He sees eye-to-eye with the ACLU, which  represented Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, a fundraiser for the group who was living in the United States illegally.</p>
<p>This is how the ACLU, in a lengthy report issued this past June, characterized the security measures put into place to prevent more Holy Land Foundations:</p>
<p>The ACLU’s research shows that U.S. terrorism financing policies and practices are seriously undermining American Muslims’ protected constitutional liberties and violating their fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, freedom of association, and freedom from discrimination.</p>
<p>The ACLU recommended measures that the Obama administration and Congress should take to redress the violations of  terrorism funders’ “rights’” that it has conjured up.   If Obama’s speech this past June to the Muslim world in Cairo is any indication, he is following the ACLU’s direction.</p>
<p>The ACLU’s legal arm is effectively serving as the Obama administration’s surrogate to restore all rights to Islamic charities and their donors, without regard to whether or not they are funneling the contributions to terrorist organizations such as Hamas.</p></blockquote>
<p>  <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/17/aclu/">Read the entire article.</a></p>
<p>*edited by Lobo for clarity</p>
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