Examining Faith

An Open Letter to Religious Leaders on Abortion as a Moral Decision signed by 1,000 alleged religious leaders insist that abortion on demand is a divine imperative, and that God wants taxpayer funding for abortion in the federal health care plan.

The Grinch struck early this fall when government authorities banned religious messages from the ornaments displayed on the Christmas tree at the US Capitol building.

San Diego County is demanding a local pastor pay thousands of dollars for hosting Bible studies at his home. The county says Pastor David Jones of Southbay Community Church has been praying at his house every Tuesday and Jones needs a permit to host a Bible study.

Don Feder, editor of the Boycott The New York Times website, called a Times editorial demanding “equal space” for the display of religious symbols part of the paper’s “relentless drive to secularize society.”

In a November 12 editorial, The Times urged the Supreme Court to rule that a Ten Commandments display in a public park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause because the municipality rejected a request by a group called Summum, which wanted to erect its own monument.

The information in this article was taken directly from the official website of president-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday, November 11, 2008. This allows readers to easily verify all quotes for themselves.

The site allows the visitor to navigate to a section entitled, “People” with a subsection entitled, “People of Faith”. It is here where the visitor reads, “Barack Obama is a committed Christian.” The visitor may also download the file ObamaonFaith.pdf which highlights “key values in Barack Obama’s public statements on faith and politics.”

A San Jose City College professor was recently fired for expressing an alternative view on the causes of homosexuality and lesbianism. If all it takes to end a teaching career is one brief, evidence-based foray outside the narrow boundaries of politically correctness, freedom will vanish from college campuses.

Presidential hopefuls Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose an unprecedented venue and format for their first joint appearance in the campaign.  For the first time in American history, the presumptive nominees had a formal, televised conversation with one of the nation’s leading pastors – Dr. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church – at [...]

I have always been a lover of history. The following historical quotes help us understand the thinking of our national leaders prior to this current generation.