Washington Post editor Melinda Henneberger on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews last night made this startling statement ‘defending’ the Catholic Church: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment but that is what they did and I don’t think we have to choose here.” Here’s a transcript of [...]

                                                     (Image via Wikipedia) This is a story that continues to escalate and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. Here’s a link to my first article on the confrontation between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church over a new requirement to provide for contraceptives and after-morning abortive pills in their health-care coverage [...]

                     (Image by elycefeliz via Flickr) Last Sunday, Catholic churches all across America read a letter to congregants supporting the church’s stance against the Obama administration order that employers must include contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in their health-care coverage. Churches are exempt from the order but not allied ministries including hospitals, schools, and colleges regardless [...]

                (Image via Wikipedia) The dictator is gone and the ‘free’ elections in Egypt are over and have produced an Islamist majority in Parliament. Even though their were many incidences where the Coptic Christians were kept from voting, former president Jimmy Carter judged the elections to be “acceptable” Now Coptic Christians who make up approximately [...]

        (Bloomberg via Wikipedia) 32 out of 51 members of the New York City council protested, along with over 300 people including pastors from all over the city, the upcoming expulsion of over 60 churches  from meeting in NYC public schools. Since the U.S. Supreme court refused to hear the case in December, notices of [...]

                                                (Image via Wikipedia) A New York City Council member and 6 other church leaders were arrested on Thursday for holding a prayer vigil in front of a government building protesting the new city policy prohibiting churches from meeting in public buildings. City Councilman Fernando Cabrera along with other pastors and church leaders were arrested [...]

                                               (Image via Wikipedia) For once, here’s a case where the ACLU is actually supporting the freedom of religion rather than trying to restrict it in the public square: “NYCLU to City and Brookfield: Accommodate Christmas Prayer Vigil in Zuccotti Park” NEW YORK — The New York Civil Liberties Union today wrote to New York [...]