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Richard Land: A Hope List for Romney’s Speech (Beliefnet)
Richard Land: A Hope List for Romney’s Speech
Nov 5, 2007
Former Massachusetts Governor and current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is going to give a speech on “Religion in America” tomorrow in Texas.
I have been encouraging Governor Romney to give such a speech for over a year now, since I first met with him at his home in Massachusetts. He had invited approximately a dozen evangelical leaders to meet with him to have a free-wheeling discussion about his presidential candidacy and to allow us to ask him questions—and to allow him to ask us questions as well.
Dec 5, 2007
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, Church and State, National, Religious Liberty
TV: Land discusses Romney on Hannity & Colmes
Dr. Richard Land was featured on Fox News Channel’s program Hannity & Colmes on Monday Dec 3, 2007.
Dec 3, 2007
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, Church and State, National, Religious Liberty
Willcox: Why We Still Must Fight
By CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
September 11, 2007; Page D6
In all the grand speeches and requiem tributes today — commemorating the events of Sept. 11, 2001 — there are likely to be few references to Whittaker Chambers. But Norman Podhoretz rightly reminds us of Chambers in “World War IV,” his bracingly mordant account of the West’s battle against Islamofascism. It is a battle that entered a critical phase six years ago with the carnage in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania.
Sep 11, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty, War
Brooks: Our Religious Destiny
Wall Street Journal
Our Religious Destiny
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
August 20, 2007; Page A11
According to data from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, an American is four times likelier than a Frenchman to attend a house of worship regularly, and eight times likelier than a Norwegian. Europeans are more likely to disdain faith openly: In 1998, the average Dane was seven times likelier than an American to agree that, “Religions bring more conflict than peace.”
Aug 21, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Church and State, Religious Liberty, Social Issues
Friedman: Playing At A Theater Near You
New York Times
July 4, 2007
(republished by The Day, Connecticut on July 6, 2007)
I knew something was up when I couldn’t get a cab. Then there were sirens and helicopters whirring overhead. I stopped a passerby to ask what was going on. He said something about a car bomb outside a disco six blocks from my hotel. A few hours later, I finally found a taxi. The driver warned me that it was nearly impossible to get across town. Another bomb had been uncovered in a car park. Next day, more news: a suicide bomber had driven his Jeep into an airport and jumped out, his body on fire, screaming “Allah! Allah!”
Jul 6, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty
Valuing Speech
Valuing Speech
Sunday, June 24, 2007
by George Will
WASHINGTON — Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.
At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city’s government says those words italicized here constitute something akin to hate speech, and can be proscribed from the government’s open e-mail system and employee bulletin board.
Jun 30, 2007
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Religious Liberty
Secularism on the March
Europe’s Culture War: Secularism on the March
This piece was originally published in The Washington Times on May 23, 2007 .
by Paul Belien
Europe is in the middle of a three-way culture war, between the defenders of traditional Judeo-Christian morality, the proponents of secular hedonism and the forces of Islamic Jihadism. In Western Europe, the fight between Christians and secularists is all but over. The secularists have won. Now, the religious vacuum left by the demise of Christianity is being filled by the Muslims. Since one cannot fight something with nothing, the European secularists are no match for Islam.
Jun 30, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Persecution, Religious Liberty
TIME: The Case for Teaching the Bible
The same might be said about public-school courses on the Bible nationwide. There aren’t that many. But they’re rising in popularity. Last year Georgia became the first state in memory to offer funds for high school electives on the Old and New Testaments using the Bible as the core text. Similar funding was discussed in several other legislatures, although the initiatives did not become law. Meanwhile, two privately produced curriculums crafted specifically to pass church-state muster are competing for use in individual schools nationwide. Combined, they are employed in 460 districts in at least 37 states. The numbers are modest, but their publishers expect them to soar. The smaller of the two went into operation just last year but is already into its second 10,000-copy printing, has expressions of interest from a thousand new districts this year and expects many more. The larger publisher claims to be roughly doubling the number of districts it adds each year. These new curriculums plus polls suggesting that over 60% of Americans favor secular teaching about the Bible suggest that a Miss Kendrick may soon be talking about Matthew in a school near you.
Mar 28, 2007
Topic: Faith, Bible, Family, Education, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Religious Liberty
WSJ on the Fairness Doctrine
Rush to Victory
Why is Harry Reid acting like David Koresh? Because conservatives are winning.
BY DANIEL HENNINGER
Friday, April 29, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
In 1987, Rush Limbaugh sat down at a microphone at radio station KFBK-AM in Sacramento and began broadcasting something called “The Rush Limbaugh Show.”
The rest is history.
The “rest”—the inexorable 15-year rise of conservative ideas and clout across what Howard Stern calls “all media”—is described in a provocative new book by Brian C. Anderson, “South Park Conservatives.” What was once a mostly exclusive liberal country club—television, the press, book publishing, even the campuses—has become heavily integrated with aggressive, even crude, conservatives.
Jan 25, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National, Religious Liberty
Fairness Doctrine Comeback?
Over the weekend, the National Conference for Media Reform was held in Memphis, TN, with a number of notable speakers on hand for the event. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made an surprise appearance at the convention to announce that he would be heading up a new House subcommittee which will focus on issues surrounding the Federal Communications Commission.
The Presidential candidate said that the committee would be holding “hearings to push media reform right at the center of Washington.” The Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee was to be officially announced this week in Washington, D.C., but Kucinich opted to make the news public early.
In addition to media ownership, the committee is expected to focus its attention on issues such as net neutrality and major telecommunications mergers. Also in consideration is the “Fairness Doctrine,” which required broadcasters to present controversial topics in a fair and honest manner. It was enforced until it was eliminated in 1987.
Jan 25, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National, Religious Liberty