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Haynes: Surprising support for separating church and state
It’s been a good month for the much-maligned, often misunderstood principle of church-state separation.
A whopping 67 percent of the American people agree that the First Amendment “requires a clear separation of church and state,”...Tags: National Government, Constitutional Issues, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Unrest
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Gay marriage and the Catholic Church's selective concern for Constitutional rights
Edwin F. O'Brien, the former archbishop of Baltimore, and his colleagues from Washington and Delaware sent a 16-page statement to parishes arguing that allowing same-sex marriage would violate religious freedom. The call for Catholics to oppose gay...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Minority Groups, Marriage, Gays and Lesbians
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If you believe in freedom of religion, you must support marriage equality
This week Maryland's Catholic bishops, men of deeply help moral and theological convictions, issued a call to their parishioners and to the public to protect freedom of religion in Maryland ("Bishops assail same-sex marriage," Nov. 10). It is an...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Minority Groups, Marriage, Maryland General Assembly
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Bishops' stance legitimizes discrimination against gays
In a directive worthy of the oxymoron "slavery is freedom," from George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm," the Roman Catholic Church in effect has said that "discrimination is religious liberty" ("Bishops assail same-sex marriage," Nov. 10). In their...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism
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Gay marriage: Catholic Church is the one curtailing religious liberties
So Maryland's Roman Catholic bishops are claiming that same-sex marriage threatens "religious liberty" are they? ("Bishops assail same-sex marriage," Nov. 10.) From where I sit the attack on religious freedom comes from the Catholic Church with its...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Gay marriage does not diminish religious liberty in Maryland
In a recent statement by the Maryland Catholic Conference, the Catholic bishops of Maryland extolled the right of religious freedom ("U.S. Catholic bishops to meet in city this week," Nov. 14). I couldn't agree more. Yet I find it puzzling that these...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Justice and Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Civil Rights, Politics
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Judge rules inmate has no right to matzoh
ReutersA federal judge has ruled that a Jewish inmate in a New York jail does not have a constitutionally protected right to matzoh and grape juice. Christopher Henry, who was charged with first-degree sodomy, claimed permanent trauma and malnourishment and...Tags: Passover, Prisons, New York, Judaism, Judges
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Religious freedom shrinking worldwide
Looks like the screaming was wrong. On both sides.
A decade back, the religious right said secularists would sacrifice freedom of religion to a tyrannical, God-denying state.
Meanwhile, secularists were warning that "fundamentalists" would seize power...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Justice and Rights, Censorship, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Small towns, big love
How do we love thee, oh small towns of Maryland? Let us count the ways.
When earlier this year, a Budget Travel magazine poll named Lewisburg, W.Va., as "America's Coolest Small Town," it got us thinking: aren't Maryland's small towns worth bragging...Tags: Arts and Culture, Forestry and Timber, Elections, Fishing, Rivers
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Haynes: The Mormon elephant in the presidential arena
For better or for worse, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain likes to say out loud what others only whisper.
A few weeks ago, for example, Cain mentioned what his rivals for the nomination dare not mention: Mitt Romney has a religion problem....Tags: John F. Kennedy, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, Elections, Harry Reid
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Burning Twin Towers Used in Ad for Weiner Seat
pix11.comRepublican candidate Bob Turner -- who's running for the 9th district Congressional seat vacated by former Rep. Anthony Weiner after his sexting scandal -- is defending his use of the burning Twin Towers in a campaign ad targeting Democratic rival,...Tags: Elections, Health, Television, Islam, Howard Beach
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On same-sex marriage, O'Malley should heed O'Brien
As a Catholic, a 20-year member of the Virginia General Assembly, the author of Virginia's 2006 voter-approved one-man, one-woman Constitutional Marriage Amendment, and a graduate ofMaryland public schools, I take issue with Gov. Martin O'Malley's...Tags: Elections, Minority Groups, Marriage, Judges, Government
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