“While Plaintiffs may be inconvenienced or offended by the appearance of the motto on currency, these burdens are a far cry from the coercion, penalty, or denial of benefits required under the ‘substantial burden’ standard,” Judge Harold Baer Jr. wrote.
“Noting that ‘emotions are running high,’ and less than 24 hours after meeting with protestors camped outside his state capitol office, Gov. Rick Scott issued a statewide ‘Day of Prayer for Unity in Florida’ for July 21 as a response to the George Zimmerman verdict in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.”
“Can you name the five freedoms guaranteed to American citizens by the First Amendment?
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans are able to name the freedom of speech. Yet fewer than 1 in 4 are able to name the freedom of religion, according to new research from the First Amendment Center. (Meanwhile, more than one-third of Americans are unable to name any of the five.)”
“The Supreme Court’s rulings last week are merely a legal expression of a profound social shift that has already taken place … . Only practicing Protestants remain opposed to changing laws that enable more freedoms for the LGBTQ community.”
“To acknowledge that England was Catholic in the fifteenth century and Protestant by the seventeenth century, and then to deny that America had a Christian beginning seems pretty naive.” Christian nation? Part 1: Mark Noll, George Washington, and revisionism
“We have an unfortunate tendency to chase what is cool in our culture and make it the centerpiece of our ministry (often denigrating other ministries that don’t share our vision). Meanwhile, we don’t realize that we are really about 10 years behind the cultural trends anyway. We are perennial late-comers to what our world thinks is hip.” The Arrogance of the Urban, Part 2
