In 2012 (the latest year statistics are available), there were 1,340 hate crimes based on religion. Too many to be sure. … We would tolerate that pass of no other religion where millions in the name of their God committed truly gross and racist acts. … Our local Muslim leader, Zuhdi Jasser, of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, has it right in confronting his religion and its…
without fear of violence, freedom to leave a religion, equality for women, equality for minorities -- including homosexuals. … It's like 90 percent of them believe death is the appropriate response to leaving the religion. … different than any other dominant religion.…
Bill Maher is no one's idea of a disinterested scholar on religion. … It is a sophomoric, boorish attack on religion, wholly dependent on yuk-yuk lines. … Chris Matthews declared, "I'm with Affleck because knocking someone's religion is the way to start or escalate a fight.…
Of course, secularism has been waging war against religion for centuries, but more recently, in America and Europe, the rhetoric of … Among the manifesto’s demands, not all of which are outrageous, are the calls for the, “Separation of religion from public policy,…
in brief from Obama: A man in Canada shot and killed a religious figure who was demonstrating his profound commitment to the “religion … In related news a hatchet-wielding man, also a member of the religion of peace, attacked police officers in New York City. … that we can stop those lone-wolf attacks from intolerant people like police officers and sergeants-at-arms interfering with the religion…
Houston lay people and pastors, It would endanger protected Civil Rights already covered by the First Amendment, i.e., freedom of religion … Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom … Notice the so-called "progressives" in Houston are establishing a de facto religion of tolerant intolerance while seeking to prohibit…
the ordinance is unconstitutional as applied to the Knapps, as it violates their right to free speech, their free exercise of religion … their right to equal protection under the law, their due process rights and the applicable Idaho statute, the Free Exercise of Religion…