UN Human Rights Council statement prepares the way for international criminalization of religiously offensive speech
In a move designed to firm up faith-based opposition to embryonic stem cell research and other cutting-edge biomedical technologies, the Vatican has released a 32-page document titled “Dignitas Personae” – meaning “the dignity of a person.”
Please consider the following scenario: a woman—one of the 17 million who rely on publicly funded health care providers for family planning—could go to a clinic and be refused emergency contraception because the receptionist believes, wrongly, that it causes an early abortion. The provider doesn’t have to give the woman a referral to another provider, [...]
The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools – after all, it has no truth value. But [...]
Several groups including one led by Alabama’s ousted Ten Commandments judge, Roy Moore, have filed briefs in a Missouri case about distributing Bibles to public school children.
The South Iron R-1 School District for years allowed representatives of Gideons International to give away Bibles to grade schoolers, but a federal judge declared the practice unconstitutional.
The district [...]
The New York Times has an article about the coach of the U.S. Olympic archery team, Kisik Lee. Lee is a Korean and a hardcore evangelical Christian who apparently thinks his job is to convert those under his tutelage to Christianity while teaching them archery. He’s baptized several members of his team and presses them [...]
At the risk of heresy, let it be said that setting up the two presidential candidates for religious interrogation by an evangelical minister — no matter how beloved — is supremely wrong.
It is also un-American.
For the past several days, since mega-pastor Rick Warren interviewed Barack Obama and John McCain at his Saddleback Church, most political [...]
California’s highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession.
What is Religion? And what is a school? In history Religion is looked at through three stages and phases (i) Idol worship (ii) Polytheism and (iii) Monotheism.
When technology was inferior to the extent that human begins could not easily penetrate their neighbourly geographical environment, such items like big trees, mountains, rivers, lakes, were thought of [...]
