US
Army defines Christian ministry as ‘domestic hate group’
Several
dozen U.S. Army active duty and reserve troops were told last week that the
American Family Association, a well-respected Christian ministry, should be
classified as a domestic hate group because the group advocates for traditional
family values. The briefing was held at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and listed
the AFA alongside domestic hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the
Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam.
shutdown of Catholic Mass sparks reaction
In what has been
described as “an astonishing attack on religious freedom,” Catholics at a Navy
base were banned from attending worship services because of the partial shutdown
of the federal government. In response, the Thomas More Law Center announced it
has filed a lawsuit over the orders at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in
Georgia. The legal team said a Catholic priest who serves the community on the
military base “has been prohibited from even volunteering to celebrate Holy Mass
without pay and was told that if he violated that order, he could be subject to
arrest.”
Court justice unloads on Satan, demons
Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia made headlines recently when he declared his belief that the
devil is a real being who has a presence in the world today. His interviewer,
Jennifer Senior of New York Magazine, was shocked by Scalia’s statements. But
Karl Payne, author of “Spiritual Warfare: Christians, Demonization, and
Deliverance,” says the reaction is a sign of how secularized certain segments of
American society have become. He believes Scalia is right on the mark.
CNN
Mocks Million Vet March as Tea Party Crazies
CNN.com covered
Sunday’s “Million Vet March” in Washington D.C. against the Obama
administration’s closure of military memorials by castigating the marchers as
Tea Party kooks and fringe crazies. “At tea party-like rally, Obama told to ‘put
the Quran down,’” the headline read.