believers, and may cast doubt upon the veracity of religious beliefs, but unless such actions penalize faith, they do not burden religion … Circuit held that Arizona’s bar on using gravel from “sacred” private property was not unconstitutional because American Indian religion … under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), enacted in 1993 to strengthen judicial review of government acts affecting religion…
Whether it's actor Ben Affleck calling Bush "almost criminal" for "touting religion absent any thought" or Joe Biden suggesting that … Bush uses religion "in a way … to avoid having to know the hard things," they think he's stupid, just as they thought President Reagan…
A panel supposedly intended to foster accurate coverage of religion quickly turned into a political strategizing session aimed at “ … organization targeting the religious community.Gold said, “The single biggest [obstacle] to gays having equal rights in the country is religion … One of the panelists, Ann Craig, director of Religion, Faith & Values for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD),…
religion into the closet, and they cannot stand to watch a politician speaking publicly about her faith. … Those in the media who are assailing Sarah Palin's religion would do well to reflect on the words of Mr. … Their attempts to exorcise religion from the public square will inevitably cause more harm than good.…
drawn, helpless and mesmerized -- like beetles to the vivid, blue paradise of the bug zapper -- toward criticizing Sarah Palin's religion … Deriding Palin's religion has been a poor strategy -- and the mistake has been made before. … The critics of religion, as is often the case, did not get the last word.…
For Biden -- if you take him at his word -- the question of when life begins is not determined by science but by religion. … Let's say one religion says polar-bear life begins at conception; another, when the polar-bear fetus is viable; another, in the third … But Biden has in fact voted to force taxpayers -- no matter what their religion -- to fund the deliberate killing of human embryos,…