ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said, "The real motive behind secret sting operations like the one that resulted in Sen. Craig's arrest is not to stop people from inappropriate activity. It is to make as many arrests as possible - arrests that sometimes unconstitutionally trap innocent people." Solicitation for private sex is protected speech under the First Amendment, the ACLU argues.
Read moreYet over 100m copies of the Bible are sold or given away every year. Annual Bible sales in America are worth between $425m and $650m; Gideon's International gives away a Bible every second. The Bible is available all or in part in 2,426 languages, covering 95% of the world's population.
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Read moreBut U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn in Dallas upheld the statute this week.
She said the law - amended in 2003 to add the word "pray" to "reflect" and "meditate" as options for students' use of the minute - does not promote an "excessive entanglement between government and religion."
Read moreNot surprisingly, Richard Dawkins offers a "yes"-grounded in Darwinism. According to him, natural selection has produced a moral sense that is shared by all people. While our genes may be, in his words "selfish," there are times when cooperation with others is the selfish gene's best interest. Thus, according to him, natural selection has produced what we call altruism.
Read moreBishop Nazir-Ali's concern that the rapidity and scale of immigration, together with the policy of multiculturalism, threaten Britain's Christian heritage are echoed by the Church of England General Synod, a majority of which worries that large-scale immigration is "diluting the Christian nature of Britain".
Read moreOthers are just beginning to hear of it. In November, NEA President Leith Anderson and NEA Vice President Richard Cizik signed onto a Christian response to an invitation to dialogue from 138 Muslim leaders around the world.
Read moreIn 1988, 74.9% of the American Public thought that sex between two people of the same gender was always wrong. By 1998, the percentage had fallen to 54.6% (National Opinion research Center, The University of Chicago.)
Read moreI strongly recommend this book this Christmas season because it compellingly debunks many of the most recent mythical challenges to Christianity. It is perfect for believers whose perceived spiritual security could be threatened by the crop of fantastic notions now circulating and for nonbelievers who are open to the evidence.
Read moreThe tower is falling apart. The congregation doesn't have $300,000 to rebuild it.
A church committee has unanimously advised the congregation to vote on Jan. 27 to leave the building, put it up for sale and merge with two other United churches in the city.
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