Has Political Success Triggered a Jihad? By Ed Vitagliano July 26, 2005 (AgapePress) – This bulletin just in: The culture wars have turned nastier than ever. And if conservative Christians are offended by being called insane, stupid, sinister — or even the next incarnation of fascist storm troopers — they’d better get used to it.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 By Wendy McElroy The publicly funded William Paterson University (search) in New Jersey reprimanded Jihad Daniel for discrimination and sexual harassment. The 63-year-old Daniel, who is both an employee and a student at the university, is now at the center of a free speech controversy. He is also a fine example
By Jody Brown and AFA Journal July 27, 2005 (AgapePress) – Emmy Awards or not, an online activism group that includes thousands of moms and housewives finds no redeeming value in Desperate Housewives, the prime-time series that chronicles the “sex-ploits” of a group of suburban women. The second season of ABC’s sex-laden Desperate Housewives is
Parent Protests High School Making Profanity Required Reading By Jim Brown July 27, 2005 (AgapePress) – Massachusetts parent Rick Plouffe is asking his local high school to remove a profanity-filled book from his daughter’s required summer reading assignment. In an effort to enlighten students about the topic of autism, Wellesley High School is having students
By Jim Brown July 25, 2005 (AgapePress) – The Diversity Committee of the Broward County (Florida) School District has rejected a tolerance video featuring the cartoon character Sponge Bob and other popular children’s TV figures. The committee recently voted 10 to 7 not to recommend the “We Are Family” DVD to the school board, which
By Rory Lieshman Issue: July/August, 2005 In ruling last December on the constitutionality of same-sex “marriage,” the Supreme Court of Canada claimed that the protection of freedom of religion afforded by s. 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “is broad and jealously guarded in our Charter jurisprudence.” If that is so, how
July 24, 2005 A surprisingly informative piece in the Christian Science Monitor updates this March 2004 BBC article and explores how preachers of Islamic jihad use Islamic religious language to recruit people like the recent London bombers. Still no explanation from Iqbal Sacranie or anyone else about how to combat this sort of thing. GREENWICH,
Arkansas Parents Uncover Volumes of Vile Literature in School Libraries By Jim Brown July 22, 2005 (AgapePress) – An Arkansas mother who succeeded in getting three sexually explicit books removed from Fayetteville school libraries says she has found there are more than a hundred books of that nature in the school district. Now a mental
Believers in the U.K. Demand Changes from the Church Feature by Ed Vitagliano July 18, 2005 (AgapePress) – When Lord Bromley Betchworth returned to the United Kingdom (U.K.) after living in the U.S. for 12 years, he returned to a culture that had dramatically changed. “I was shocked at how moral values had changed in
July 19, 2005 Eric Rudolph: Christian Terrorist? Eric Rudolph is certainly a terrorist. But did he inflict terror in the name of Jesus? Quoting from letters to his mother, this CNN story suggests that it is more likely that he is an atheist: …In another he refers to people who send him money and books.