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5/22/2008 | U.S. Military, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, American History
Hamilton Strategies
The Spirit of the Liberty Bell is one of the only traveling full-scale replicas of the original Liberty Bell, from the Whitechapel Foundry in London, maker of the original Liberty Bell. The Spirit of the Liberty Bell stands 6 feet tall, weighs 3,200 pounds, and peals in E-flat exactly as the original. The yoke of the bell incorporates wood from the last of the 13 original Liberty Trees. The Spirit of the Liberty Bell has crisscrossed our Nation taking center stage at this year's National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C., where it will be used in the Moment of Remembrance ceremony.
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Major Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Frank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security Policy
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
5/8/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech
The Telegraph UK
By 2035, there will be about 1.96 million active Muslims in Britain, compared with 1.63 million church-going Christians, according to calculations by Christian Research, a think- tank.
The figures are published in the latest in a series of reports entitled Religious Trends.
The think-tank has warned that 4,000 churches could close by 2020 if congregations continue to shrink at current rates.
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
5/7/2008 | American History, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Religion
USA Today
An "evangelical manifesto" being released today by a group of Christian scholars and theologians is expected to try to take back the term "evangelical" from politics and return it to its theological roots.
"Evangelical" has been widely used to refer to Christians who have conservative political views, but the Evangelical Theological Society requires members to agree on just two points: inerrancy of Scripture, and belief in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as "separate but equal in attributes and glory" and essential for salvation.
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studie, Phoenix Seminary
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Jennifer Marshall, Director of Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Stuart Migdon, Author
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
K. Scott Oliphint, Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Vern Poythress, Westminster Theological Seminary
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phil Ryken, President-Elect , Wheaton College
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
5/7/2008 | Education, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Presidential Issues
Financial Times
John McCain promised on Tuesday to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court and for other judicial vacancies, seeking to quash doubts among some Republicans about his conservative credentials.
The Republican presidential candidate said he would use John Roberts and Samuel Alito, who were appointed to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush, as his “model” when choosing nominees.
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
James Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLC
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Frank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security Policy
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Lowman Henry, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc.
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Harold Naylor, Co-Founder, DiscoverChristianSchools.com
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
5/6/2008 | Foreign Policy, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech
Yahoo News
DENVER - With the Beijing Games less than 100 days away, the International Olympic Committee clarified its protest rules Monday, saying that athletes' external appearance, clothing and gestures would be scrutinized in China.
The IOC sent a six-point letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, to the national Olympic federations in response to their request for interpretations of Rule 51.3 of the Olympic charter. That rule states "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas."
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Frank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security Policy
Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT Publications
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Cliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
5/1/2008 | Character and Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
MLIVE.Com
Kristoff Wennersten figured his prom proposal had to be one-of-a-kind if it would have any chance of being accepted.
But the Huron High School senior never imagined it would result in a suspension for himself and 12 of his varsity lacrosse teammates, whom he recruited to help spell out the message at a school soccer match via their derrieres.
Recommended Guests:
Barry Asmus, Senior Economist, National Center for Policy Analysis
Michael Barry, Director of Pastoral Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phila.
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Phil Burress, President, Citizens for Community Values
Alan Chambers, President, Exodus International
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Phil Clements, Managing Director, Center for Christian Business Ethics Today, LLC.
Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Jeffrey Conway, Former CFO, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
Scott Davis, Director of Student Ministries, Exodus International
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
William Edgar, Professor of Apologetics, Coordinator of the Apolo, Westminster Theological Seminary
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Ron Ferner, Dean of the School of Business and Leadership, Philadelphia Biblical University
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Lou Giuliano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (r, ITT Corporation
Mike Gottfried, Founder, Team Focus
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studie, Phoenix Seminary
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Lowman Henry, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc.
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Julius Kim, Westminster Seminary California
Phillip Kim, Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resour, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Jennifer Marshall, Director of Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Fran McGowen, Founder and President , CarSense
David "Mac" Mcquiston, President/CEO, CEO Forum, Inc.
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
K. Scott Oliphint, Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
Andrew Peterson, Reformed Theological Seminary, Virtual Campus
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Vern Poythress, Westminster Theological Seminary
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Gale Radebaugh, Vice President, Pharmaceutical Sciences (Ret.), Pfizer Research
Phil Ryken, President-Elect , Wheaton College
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Christopher Slattery, Founder and President, EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers
David Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family Institute
Chuck Stetson, Co-founder and Managing Director, PEI Funds
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Randy Thomas, Executive Vice President, Exodus International
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
John Weiser, Board Member, Westminster Theological Seminary , In Medias Res
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
4/30/2008 | Foreign Policy, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech
The New York TImes
The Olympic torch returned to China on Wednesday in preparation for its first relay on Chinese soil after a troubled worldwide tour.
There were no reports of protests but several anti-China activists had already been deported ahead of the torch’s arrival. The torch’s relay through Hong Kong will take place on Friday.
Its arrival in Hong Kong has been depicted as part of a broader struggle over Hong Kong’s evolving role as an autonomous territory of China. It arrived from Vietnam at Hong Kong airport, where it was greeted by a marching band and flag-waving children dressed in red and white tracksuits, The Associated Press reported.
The torch was then taken to a welcoming ceremony at a cultural center.
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Frank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security Policy
Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT Publications
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Cliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
4/24/2008 | American History, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech
Breitbart.Com
MIAMI (AP) - Florida drivers can order more than 100 specialty license plates celebrating everything from manatees to the Miami Heat, but one now under consideration would be the first in the nation to explicitly promote a specific religion.
The Florida Legislature is considering a specialty plate with a design that includes a Christian cross, a stained-glass window and the words "I Believe."
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
4/21/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Religious Persecution, Religion
My Way News
NEW YORK (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI began the final day of his American journey by blessing the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and pleading with God to bring "peace to our violent world."
The visit by Benedict to ground zero was a poignant moment in a trip marked by unexpectedly festive crowds anxious to see the former academic who for three years has led the world's Roman Catholics.
Benedict was driven in the popemobile part-way down a ramp now used mostly by construction trucks to a spot by the north tower's footprint. He walked the final steps, knelt in silent prayer for a few moments, then rose to light a memorial candle.
Addressing a group that including survivors, clergy and public officials, he acknowledged the many faiths of the victims at the "scene of incredible violence and pain."
Recommended Guests:
Zakariah Anani, Shoebat Foundation
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studie, Phoenix Seminary
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Jan Markell, President, Olive Tree Ministries
Jennifer Marshall, Director of Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Stuart Migdon, Author
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
K. Scott Oliphint, Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Vern Poythress, Westminster Theological Seminary
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phil Ryken, President-Elect , Wheaton College
Kamal Saleem, Shoebat Foundation
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
4/10/2008 | Equal Rights, Foreign Policy, Freedom of Speech
Ruters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - On the only day in which runners carried the Olympic torch across an American city in 2008, Chinese-Americans and protesters started with sharp divisions over the so-called "Journey of Harmony."
By day's end, city and Olympic officials had achieved a harmony between the divergent groups few had predicted -- everyone seemed angry and disappointed the route was radically changed without notice.
"I feel tricked," said onlooker Terry Costales, 61, of San Francisco. "I feel the mayor tricked the city. ... I've been down here for hours. The torch bearers should have their moment in the sun and now they are sneaking around."
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Frank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security Policy
Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT Publications
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Cliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
4/1/2008 | American History, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, God and Government, Governmental Control
USA Today
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to look at when cities can keep certain religious displays off public grounds, revisiting an enduring free speech issue in a case brought by the unconventional Summum faith.
The Summum church wants to erect a monument of its "seven aphorisms" near a Ten Commandments monument in a Utah park.
Government regulation of expressive displays on public grounds has become one of the most controversial areas of the law. The questions test the constitutional guarantee of free speech and, often, the separation of church and state.
Recommended Guests:
David Bossie, President, Citizens United
Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource Network
Phil Clements, Managing Director, Center for Christian Business Ethics Today, LLC.
Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship
Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Chuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage Foundation
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Frank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security Policy
James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Cliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Jennifer Marshall, Director of Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ryan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage Foundation
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit Ministries
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Charl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
3/31/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution
Reuters United Kingdom
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.
"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.
He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.
The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.
Formenti said that while the number of Catholics as a proportion of the world's population was fairly stable, the percentage of Muslims was growing because of higher birth rates.
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3/24/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution
Reuters News Service
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Muslim author and critic of Islamic fundamentalism who was baptized a Catholic by Pope Benedict said on Sunday Islam is "physiologically violent" and he is now in great danger because of his conversion.
"I realize what I am going up against but I will confront my fate with my head high, with my back straight and the interior strength of one who is certain about his faith," said Magdi Allam.
In a surprise move on Saturday night, the pope baptized the 55-year-old, Egyptian-born Allam at an Easter eve service in St Peter's Basilica that was broadcast around the world.
The conversion of Allam to Christianity -- he took the name "Christian" for his baptism -- was kept secret until the Vatican disclosed it in a statement less than an hour before it began.
Writing in Sunday's edition of the leading Corriere della Sera, the newspaper of which he is a deputy director, Allam said: "... the root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictual."
Allam, who is a strong supporter of Israel and who an Israeli newspaper once called a "Muslim Zionist," has lived under police protection following threats against him, particularly after he criticized Iran's position on Israel.
He said before converting he had continually asked himself why someone who had struggled for what he called "moderate Islam" was then "condemned to death in the name of Islam and on the basis of a Koranic legitimization."
His conversion, which he called "the happiest day of my life," came just two days after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused the pope of being part of a "new crusade" against Islam.
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3/18/2008 | Freedom of Speech
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a legal fight over the use of curse words on the airwaves, the high court's first major case on broadcast indecency in 30 years.
The case concerns a Federal Communications Commission policy that allows for fines against broadcasters for so-called "fleeting expletives," one-time uses of the F-word or its close cousins.
Fox Broadcasting Co., along with ABC, CBS and NBC, challenged the new policy after the commission said broadcasts of entertainment awards shows in 2002 and 2003 were indecent because of profanity uttered by Bono, Cher and Nicole Richie.
A federal appeals court said the new policy was invalid and could violate the First Amendment.
No fines were issued in the incidents, but the FCC could impose fines for future violations of the policy.
The case before the court technically involves only two airings on Fox of the "Billboard Music Awards" in which celebrities' expletives were broadcast over the airwaves. NBC is separately challenging an FCC decision that rapped the network for airing Bono's use of the F-word during a Golden Globes awards show in 2003.
The case will be argued in the fall.
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3/12/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech
Statesman.com
In Nashville today, during a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, President Bush said there’s nothing fair about the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” that once required broadcasters to offer air time for competing ideologies.
The FCC got rid of it about 20 years ago. Now, some Democrats in Congress - long the target of popular conservative radio talk-show hosts - think it’s time to bring it back.
Perish the thought, Bush told the religious broadcasters in the following passage that ends with a veto promise.
“This organization has had many important missions, but none more important than ensuring our airways - America’s airways - stay open to those who preach the ‘Good News.’ The very first amendment to our Constitution includes the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. Founders believed these unalienable rights were endowed to us by our Creator. They are vital to a healthy democracy, and we must never let anyone take those freedoms away.”
” I mention this because there’s an effort afoot that would jeopardize your right to express your views on public airways. Some members of Congress want to reinstate a regulation that was repealed 20 years ago. It has the Orwellian name called the Fairness Doctrine. Supporters of this regulation say we need to mandate that any discussion of so-called controversial issues on the public airwaves includes equal time for all sides. This means that many programs wanting to stay on the air would have to meet Washington’s definition of balance. Of course, for some in Washington, the only opinions that require balancing are the ones they don’t like.”
“We know who these advocates of so-called balance really have in their sights: shows hosted by people like Rush Limbaugh or James Dobson, or many of you here today. By insisting on so-called balance, they want to silence those they don’t agree with. The truth of the matter is, they know they cannot prevail in the public debate of ideas. They don’t acknowledge that you are the balance … The country should not be afraid of the diversity of opinions. After all, we’re strengthened by diversity of opinions.”
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1/29/2008 | Freedom of Speech, Pornography, Pro-Family
DailyPress.Com
WILLIAMSBURG - College of William and Mary President Gene Nichol gave students the go-ahead this morning to hold the controversial Sex Workers' Art Show on campus next month.
In a statement, Nichol said he tried to work with students to hold the event at a venue off the Williamsburg campus.
Students were unable to find an off-campus venue, however, and Nichol said the First Amendment and "defining traditions of openness that sustain universities" required he permit the show be held at the college.
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1/22/2008 | Religious Persecution, Radical Islam, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion
The Washington Times
Malaysian authorities confiscated Christian children's books, claiming the illustrations of prophets such as Moses and Abraham violate Islamic Shariah law.
The independent news agency Malaysakini reported the Internal Security Ministry confiscated the literature from bookstores in two cities and one small town in mid-December.
The Malaysian Embassy declined to comment on the news service's Jan. 11 report.
The Rev. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Malaysian Council of Churches, confirmed the report and accused the government of persecuting Christians.
"The officials have offended the sensitivities of Christians because their publications and depictions of their Biblical personalities have now become targets of unscrupulous Muslim officials bent on curtailing religious freedom in the country," Mr. Shastri said.
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1/17/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, God and Government
Reuters
PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy's increasingly frequent and positive references to God and faith have drawn fire from critics who accuse him of violating France's separation of church and state.
Sarkozy, a taboo-breaker whose whirlwind love life has distracted the media for weeks, broke with traditional presidential reserve about religion to stress France's Christian roots in a speech in a Rome basilica just before Christmas.
In Riyadh on Monday, he hailed Islam as "one of the greatest and most beautiful civilisations the world has known" and described his Saudi hosts as rulers who "appeal to the basic values of Islam to combat the fundamentalism that negates them".
His praise for a kingdom that enforces and propagates a strict version of Islam, during a visit aimed at securing lucrative export contracts, was the last straw for his critics.
"This is not respect for the separation of church and state," Socialist opposition leader Francois Hollande said.
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1/14/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Presidential Issues
My Way News
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Republican Mike Huckabee spoke from the pulpit Sunday, not as a politician but as the preacher he used to be, delivering a sermon on how merely being good isn't enough to get into heaven.
Huckabee is vying for support from the Christian conservatives who dominate the GOP in South Carolina, which chooses a Republican presidential nominee on Saturday. A former Baptist minister and Arkansas governor, Huckabee is competing for their votes with fellow southerner Fred Thompson.
As in Iowa, where he won the Jan. 3 caucuses, Huckabee is rousing pastors to marshal their flocks for him. He pitches himself as someone who not only shares their views against abortion and gay marriage but who actually comes from their ranks.
On Sunday in South Carolina, Huckabee avoided politics entirely, instead preaching about humility and trusting in Jesus to open the gates of heaven.
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1/7/2008 | Freedom of Speech, Radical Islam
ABC News
American Al Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn told his followers to welcome Bush "with bombs and traps" upon his upcoming visit to the Middle East this week.
"The occupied territories are awaiting their first visit by the crusader Bush and the mujahideen are also waiting for him," said Gadahn, a California native and now an Al Qaeda spokesman.
Gadahn is the star of the latest al Qaeda propaganda video to be posted online by the group's media wing, As Sahab.
In his newest dramatic gesture, Gadahn tore up his U.S. passport in protest of the imprisonment of fellow al Qaeda followers Abu Zubaydah, John Walker Lindh and Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman.
"I don't need it to travel anyway," he said afterwards.
Gadahn made reference to November's Annapolis conference of Middle Eastern leaders, saying it was a gathering of Bush's "loyal puppets." He said the United States has been "unmistakably defeated" in Iraq in Afghanistan and has lost the battle for hearts and minds "in spectacular fashion."
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