From the NY Times
March 1, 2009
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — Terry Bradshaw stared intently into the camera, his eyes moist, as the interviewer asked him if his faith in God had helped him through his bouts with depression.
“Oh, yeah,” answered Mr. Bradshaw, the Hall of Fame quarterback. “Well, I’m a Christian for one thing so, yeah, [...]
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Obama clearly singled out the policy during a campaign speech last July, declaring that “if you get a federal grant, you can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can’t discriminate against them — or against the people you hire — on the basis of their religion.”
But once he [...]
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New York Times
January 27, 2009
Essay
Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy
By DENNIS OVERBYE
All right, I was weeping too.
To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like a sigh from [...]
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Posted January 19, 2009 | 03:51 PM (EST)
As Barack Obama makes history because of his father’s race, the legacy of his other, white, parent yet looms. Will Obama remember his mother’s humanist values as he embarks on a presidency that seeks to unite not only Americans, but the world?
Stanley Ann Dunham was, like her President [...]
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The Roman Catholic Church has blocked a plan to put atheist slogans on buses in Italy.
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Rob Boston comments on Barack Obama’s decision to ask Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the Inauguration, 2009. On MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”. December 17, 2008 - Click here.
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Bush Initiative Was Focused On Politics, Not Policy, Charges Church-State Watchdog Group
Today’s White House report on President George W. Bush’s “faith-based” initiative seeks to mask the shortcomings of a badly failed policy, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
“The Bush initiative played crass politics with social service funding and jeopardized [...]
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October 18, 2008
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — In a newly disclosed legal memorandum, the Bush administration says it can bypass laws that forbid giving taxpayer money to religious groups that hire only staff members who share their faith.
The administration, which has sought to lower barriers between church and state through its religion-based initiative offices, made the [...]
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This is a commentaries on US Bill (SB-3155, HR-3887, SB-3061) and State Bills (SB-1589, SB-1199, AB-2937)
When I studied American education in the 19th century, I read textbooks and the geography ones always described countries that “respect” women as civilized. It’s still a subtext of many women’s studies. Our country is not that bad for most [...]
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This past Sunday the Democrats unveiled their 2008 convention with an “Interfaith Gathering of Clergy.” I am a Humanist: a proud, active member of the community of millions of Americans who believe in being good without God. So you might think I regarded this as some pernicious “intrusion of religion into the [...]
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