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H.S. Cheerleaders Silenced For Motivating Team With Scripture

H.S. Cheerleaders Silenced For Motivating Team With Scripture

A Georgia high school cheerleading squad who has been using bible verses  to motivate the football team since 2003, has been told to stick with their traditional chants and leave the scriptures out.
Lakeview-Fort Oglethrope High School cheerleaders use large banners with biblical terms and verses like “Commit to the Lord” and “Take Charge of It,” [...]

September 30 2009 | Read More »

Trashing Free Speech: Oregon State Univ. Dumps Student Paper Without Notice

Trashing Free Speech: Oregon State Univ. Dumps Student Paper Without Notice

A recognized Oregon State University student organization that publishes an independent student paper found its distribution bins confiscated and thrown next to a dumpster without notice by university officials who disagree with the papers viewpoints.
The Liberty, is a conservative paper published by the OSU Student Alliance that contains articles that aren’t usually favored by university [...]

September 30 2009 | Read More »

U.S. Supreme Court To Decide City Gun Ban Case

U.S. Supreme Court To Decide City Gun Ban Case

The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will hear whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment. The decision to take the case makes is important because it will be a historic development in the interpretation of the Constitution and it will establish basic ground rules for future gun control efforts.
The high [...]

September 30 2009 | Read More »

2010 National Religious Freedom Moot Court Announced

2010 National Religious Freedom Moot Court Announced

The Religious Moot Court Competition has announced that George Washington University Law School will host the 2010 National Religious Freedom Moot Court, February 5 -6, 2010.
This year’s problem deals with the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause, specifically, the problem will focus on issues “regarding the decisions of a local police department to regulate [...]

September 29 2009 | Read More »

Federal Govt: Keep Your Religious Expression Away From The National Christmas Tree

Federal Govt: Keep Your Religious Expression Away From The National Christmas Tree

This year Arizona was given the unique opportunity to showcase the “Grand Canyon State” by providing a Christmas tree that will illuminate the foreground of the Nation’s Capitol, and schoolchildren throughout Arizona will make the 5,000 ornaments to be placed on the – but ornaments with religious references are banned.
Children who wish to create [...]

September 29 2009 | Read More »

Former Democratic Fundraiser Sentenced to 24 Yrs in Federal Prison

Former Democratic Fundraiser Sentenced to 24 Yrs in Federal Prison

Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu (shoo) was sentenced by Manhattan federal court to 24 years in a federal prison for violating campaign finance laws.
Hsu’s, 56, donations became an embarrassment for then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. His arrest led Clinton to return more than $800,000 to donors linked to Hsu.
Prosecutors, who urged the judge to [...]

September 29 2009 | Read More »

Council of Europe To Debate Abortion As Means For Population Control

Council of Europe To Debate Abortion As Means For Population Control

On October 2, the Council of Europe will debate a resolution proposed that promotes abortion as a means of family planning and population control in developing countries.
The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ),  an international non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting human rights and religious freedom, said it “is extremely concerned” over the [...]

September 29 2009 | Read More »

Cop-Turned-Pastor Says He Shot Church Intruder In Self-Defense.

Cop-Turned-Pastor Says He Shot Church Intruder In Self-Defense.

Would be burglars in Detroit will think twice about a late-night robbery at Westside Bible Church, because the pastor might just show up.
Pastor Lawrence Adams, who retired as a Detroit Police lieutenant in 2006, arrived at his church Sunday evening after receiving an alert from the alarm company — to find the front door of [...]

September 28 2009 | Read More »

Attorney: S.C. City Ordinance So “Broad” It Silences Religious Expression

Attorney: S.C. City Ordinance So “Broad” It Silences Religious Expression

A South Carolina man is asking  federal judge to prevent the city of Greenville from using the law governing ‘molesting or disturbing persons’ as a tool to silence his religious expression and free speech.
The issue stems from a late 2007 incident in which Joshua Glidewell, a street preacher, along with another colleague were arrested after complaints [...]

September 28 2009 | Read More »

U.K. Seeing Tenfold Increase In Prenups

U.K. Seeing Tenfold Increase In Prenups

A group of 5,700 family lawyers in Britain say then have seen a tenfold increase in pre-nuptial agreements in recent years, doubled from the last year alone.
The group of attorneys, say the increase in popularity of the agreements results from more independently wealthy women, coupled with greater numbers of people marrying later in life [...]

September 26 2009 | Read More »