Search for "VIPREG2024 how to get free promo code in 1xbet Panama hat"

Is Wisconsin Union-Busting Religiously Sanctioned?

By Julie Ingersoll

…cific group. His American Vision is explicitly Reconstructionist, arguing that there is no neutrality and that all the positions he takes are rooted in biblical law. Vision2America, though, has a slightly different audience, so while the article focuses only on the Wisconsin budget crisis, it’s important to remember that busting a teachers’ union is just the first step. These folks want to eliminate the Federal Department of Education too, because…

Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence

By Ira Chernus

…s active form) a universal law, as Gandhi claimed. Prof. Goldman believes that the Mahatma based his claim on the following argument: “…there is an element of truth in each side of a dispute. Conflict can be resolved through a process in which each side can see the kernel of truth in the other side’s position. Missing from Gandhi’s analysis: a scenario in which one side denies the possibility of dialogue and rests its claim on total force and the…

RDPulpit: EFCA Needed to Stop Employers from Bearing False Witness

By Kim Bobo

…sage to all other workers. One study by American Rights at Work estimated that for every worker fired, 395 coworkers receive the message that if you attempt to organize you’ll get fired. Over the years I’ve asked hundreds of religious audiences what they think would happen to them if they tried to organize a union. Almost to a person, the response is: “I’d get fired.” Even those who work for religious institutions believe they would be fired for o…

Sex Buys the Pulitzer Prize

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y up until the last segment of the news. Sex sells. A free society needs a free press, of that the Founders were certain. Investigative reporting is the true fifth column, a crucial further “check and balance” on the relentless consolidation of power in the electronic age. But with increasingly scarce resources, isn’t it important that investigative reporters are working to save lives, both at home and abroad, rather than titillate us with more ne…

Booing Gay Soldiers and Expressing Faith in the Public Square

By Sarah Posner

…going to recognize a group of people and give them a special privilege.” What that special privilege is, exactly, Santorum didn’t say. A special privilege to have sex when straight soldiers should not? In any case, Santorum’s sheds light on Michele Bachmann’s non-answer to what at first blush appears to be a completely different question: the separation of church and state. Just before she played the clip of Stephen Hill’s question for Santorum,…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hose who suggest homosexuality is an “un-African” western concept, saying that “to suggest that Africa has no place for homosexuals is to imagine the continent’s history as beginning when prude missionaries brought Bibles, long skirts and umbrellas as a marker of civilization.” The construction of sin and categorical notions of sexuality over the past four centuries on the continent are inextricably linked to colonialism, the Church and the ambiti…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…ampion open government and civil society and fight corruption. We bolster freedom of assembly and a free press…. At times, we are compelled to make tough choices when the immediate need to defend our national security requires us to work with governments that do not share our fundamental commitment to human rights. No one knows that better than all of you. We look to you to strike the extremely difficult balance that both preserves critical bil…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…edge Indigenous land is the very same territory that they also call home. That’s what a land acknowledgement is: recognizing that Indigenous sovereignty was not erased by treaties or the Indian Act. Increasingly common at the beginning of public events and in school classrooms across the nation, land acknowledgements are a ritual enunciation of Indigenous territory. They also call settlers to learn about the treaties that allowed earlier Canadians…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…ace, and World Affairs, along with leading constitutional law experts. At that event, Alvaré argued that the Institute of Medicine recommendation, on which the HHS mandate is based, was made by “a panel stacked with abortion advocates” who “completely ignor[ed] all the evidence being put out over the last 30 years.” That “evidence,” Alvaré maintained, demonstrates that government-subsidized birth control causes “the immiseration of women.” That th…

Your Prayer is Spoken! For Just $3.95 Per Month

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ing in the car – all for free!), but it seems to be a mark of today’s pay to play society. There’s no free lunch, not even with God, apparently. As a final sop, the IAP Web owners promise, though, that they will send 10 percent of whatever they collect to charity. I don’t think Tetzel ever made such a generous guarantee. Heaven help us. (That will be $3.95, please.)…