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Author: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley

We seem to be in an age of increasing government mandates that strike at the very core of the freedom of religion. The HHS Mandate in just one example of government mandates that disregard freedom of religion. The latest example comes from Hutchinson, Kansas, a small town northwest of Wichita. If the Hutchinson Human Relations Commission has its way, churches will be mandated to rent out their facilities for same-sex “marriage” ceremonies.

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By Michael Gryboski , Christian Post Reporter

Dozens of faculty and staff at a Georgian Christian academic institute are resigning over a statement from school officials in which employees must pledge to refrain from activities including drug use, alcohol, adultery, and homosexuality.

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By Jennifer LeClaire

Eric Weathers was just trying to answer a few of his coworker’s questions about the Bible. But the Chicago FedEx employee’s boss told him that discussions about religion and politics were “forbidden in the workplace.”

When the boss refused to tell Weathers why, the Christian employee asked a human resources representative for an explanation. The response: His speech was an “act detrimental to the company”—a designation given to sexual harassment, possession of illegal drugs or weapons in the workplace, theft, workplace violence and other egregious acts.

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By Jeffrey T. Kuhner – The Washington Times

President Obama has made it official: He now supports same-sex marriage. It is his latest onslaught on traditional America. Mr. Obama has made history. He is our first commander in chief to openly embrace legalizing homosexual and lesbian unions. He has crossed a cultural watershed, paving the way for the eventual triumph of the homosexual agenda. Rather than being a victory for “civil rights” or “marital equality,” Mr. Obama’s decision puts America on the path to moral disintegration. We are one step closer to becoming like secular, post-Christian Europe.

For years, Mr. Obama claimed his position was “evolving.” Facing re-election and under growing pressure from liberal interest groups, especially the powerful homosexual lobby, he finally capitulated. His decision was not based on principle, but cynical politics. Mr. Obama needs the gay and lesbian vote to win in November. Immediately upon his announcement Wednesday, Hollywood donors opened their checkbooks. Millions were pumped into the Obama campaign coffers; the liberal base has been energized, and the cultural left is hailing Mr. Obama as the Martin Luther King of our time. The president believes it is an electoral masterstroke.

Instead, he has made a big mistake. Same-sex marriage is opposed by most Americans. On Tuesday, North Carolina became the 31st state to vote for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. The referendum was not even close: More than 60 percent of voters supported Amendment One. The liberal media, such as the New York Times, consistently portray anti-gay-marriage advocates as bigots.

This is nonsense. Most Americans are neither intolerant nor bigoted. Rather, they understand that marriage is the basic institution of society. For thousands of years in the West, it has had a privileged role. Marriage solidifies the bonds between a man and a woman, laying the foundation for raising children in stable families. It is the glue that binds a functioning, viable social order. Marriage is the natural unit that enables society to perpetuate itself from one generation to the next. This is not hate; it’s common sense.

It is why, for example, the drive to ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina was led by black pastors and churches. It also is why the black and Hispanic vote was pivotal to passing California’s Proposition 8, which also upholds traditional marriage. Blacks and Hispanics – although key Democratic voting blocs – tend to be deeply Christian and socially conservative. Mr. Obama has put himself on a collision course with large segments of his base. He has kissed away major swing states, such as North Carolina and Virginia. He also is further alienating Middle America, which still believes in pro-family values. In short, Mr. Obama is committing political suicide.

Yet the same-sex-marriage issue is more important than simple politics. It is about the future of America’s civilization. Within hours of Amendment One’s victory, the pro-homosexual-marriage forces announced they would sue to block North Carolina’s constitutional ban. In other words, they repeated the Proposition 8 model: Circumvent defeat at the ballot box by asking leftist judges to trump the democratic will of the people. This is judicial tyranny masquerading as civil rights – a naked attempt by a minority to impose its neo-pagan immorality upon the majority. The homosexual agenda is a manifestation of the totalitarian impulse at the heart of liberalism: the desire by a ruling cartel to impose a social revolution from above.

Every major religious faith – Christianity, Islam, Orthodox Judaism – teaches that homosexuality is an abomination. Homosexual behavior, especially sodomy, is unnatural and immoral. It is absurd, bordering on social madness, to elevate gay and lesbian relationships to the sanctified status of marriage – a form of moral anarchy characterized by radical individualism, hedonism and sexual liberation. Same-sex marriage is a symptom of cultural decay.

Our Judeo-Christian ancestors understood something that postmodern liberals do not: The primary purpose of sexual activity is to procreate – to have children – within the boundaries of marriage. Romantic love, personal fulfillment, burning passion – all of these things are nice, but secondary to the real purpose and mission of marriage. Secular liberals are engaged in social engineering. They are fostering the myth that women and men are the same and interchangeable. According to Mr. Obama, a child needs two committed and loving parents – regardless of their gender. This is fantasy. A child needs a committed mother and father. Women and men are profoundly different; they have distinct natures, with unique biological, emotional and psychological characteristics. It is the fusion of these two divergent genders that provides the balance and harmony necessary for the healthy development of children. Hence, same-sex “marriage” is an oxymoron. It is akin to redefining gravity: an act of hubris destined to fail.

For decades, liberals – aided and abetted by the popular culture – have been bringing homosexuality into the mainstream. It is slowly being promoted in public schools and constantly being glamorized in television shows and movies. The more the homosexual agenda is spread, the more militant its advocates become. They no longer want toleration. They seek full social acceptance. Once marriage falls, only one institution will be left standing in their way: traditional Christianity. The ultimate aim of the radical left has been to destroy religion – especially Western Christendom. Once a religion dies, so does the culture and civilization it spawned. America is at a crossroads, enmeshed in a cultural war with homosexual advocates like Mr. Obama who are determined to strike at the very nexus of our civilization.

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The United States had a troubling year in 1958 when it came to transporting nuclear weapons. There was the incident where a nuclear bomb was dropped on a little girl’s playhouse. There was the plane carrying a nuclear warhead that caught fire and burned for seven hours, in Morocco.

And then there’s one incident that still haunts the coast of the Southeastern United States five decades later — the loss of a four ton thermonuclear bomb off the shore of Savannah, Georgia.

Playing war games with a nuclear bomb
A mid-air collision between a United States F-86 fighter and a B-47 bomber carrying a Mark 15 Mod 0 nuclear bomb during a simulated combat scenario left the fighter destroyed and the bomber with a damaged fuel tank and engine. And yes, flying a simulation with a detonation-ready nuclear bomb is bizarre, but it provides the most accurate preparation for a combat scenario.

After attempting to land the broken bomber (one to three times, depending on the source), the pilot of the B-47 obtained permission to jettison the nuclear bomb off the coast of Georgia.

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Charlie Butts

 Traditional family groups are disappointed that the Campbell’s Soup Company is sponsoring a homosexual event in Philadelphia this week.

The American Family Association of Pennsylvania‘s Diane Gramley says the company has “tainted its clean-cut image.”… Continue reading →

Charlie Butts

(ONN) – Ophthalmologist Peter Francis has received permanent resident status in the U.S. on the basis of the country’s interest in clinical researchers. In 2002, while still in Britain, he won the National Research prize for “Best up… Continue reading →

World-renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is under fire from several biology professors at Emory University, where he’s scheduled to give the commencement address.

They wrote a letter to the school newspaper after learning Carson does not believe in… Continue reading →

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Senate Bill 1172, which would remove the ability of psychologists, therapists, and counselors to aid clients with sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE), has passed its first committee hearing. Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) says SB 1172 requires a new consent form for adults, which contains statements about sexual orientation that many counselors would dispute — and professionals who continue SOCE would be penalized under the measure.

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The boycott of PepsiCo launched by a pro-life ministry is over. That ministry reports the food and soft drink giant has agreed to stop using a cell line from aborted babies to test flavor enhancers.

Children of God for Life (CGL) launched the boycott last year after discovering PepsiCo had a large contract with Senomyx to use human embryonic kidney cells to test the flavor enhancers. As recently as March, PepsiCo had denied its involvement in the practice and, according to Children of God for Life, its business relationship with Senomyx.
 
But a recent letter to CGL from PepsiCo’s VP of global public policy, Paul Boykas, stated Senomyx “will not use [human embryonic kidney] cells or any other tissues or cell lines derived from human embryos or fetuses for research performed on behalf of PepsiCo.”

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Tamil Nadu, India, April 30 (CDN) — About 100 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers led by A. Raja and another identified only as Chidambaram on April 21 beat 15 Christians for proclaiming Christ in Paganeri, Shivagangai. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that the Hindu extremists beat them, burned their Bibles and tracts, seized their vehicle key and destroyed their megaphone. The Christian group, led by an evangelist identified only as Jessudoss from Kandanur, had gone to the area in a van fitted with a megaphone; they filed a complaint at the Paganeri police station against the attackers, but officers took no action, according to the GCIC. The Christians then went to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, who immediately sent officers to the site; they helped arrange an agreement between the assailants and the victims with the help of the village head, and the Hindu extremists returned the vehicle key to the pastor. Later that same evening, however, the BJP members returned and beat Jessudoss, the GCIC reported. They told Christians they would not hesitate to attack them again.

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(ASSIST News) – Attackers armed with bombs and guns opened fire at church services at a Nigerian university, killing about 20 people as worshippers tried to flee, witnesses and officials said.

“Explosions and gunfire rocked Bayero University in the northern city of Kano, with witnesses reporting that two church services were targeted as they were being held on campus,” said a report from the AFP news agency.

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By Todd Starnes

US (Foxnews) – As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”

The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars. Savage also writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love.”

Savage, and his husband, were also guests at the White House for President Obama’s 2011 LGBT Pride Month reception. He was also invited to a White House anti-bullying conference.

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The following is from “Scientists Denounce NASA’s Unproven Remarks,” NewsMax.com, April 15, 2012

“Fifty top scientists, astronauts, and engineers who have worked for NASA are attacking the space agency’s stance that man-made carbon dioxide is responsible for global climate change.… Continue reading →

Ed Stetzer

We released some new research yesterday at LifeWay Research showing 84% of Protestant pastors disagree that eternal life can be obtained through religions other than Christianity. That view is generally called “universalism” or “pluralism” (though technically not the same thing, they are often used interchangeably and relate to one another). So, based on this data, Protestant pastors are overwhelmingly not pluralist/universalist.

However, the same cannot be said of their church members. When presented with the same statement, just 48 percent of adults who attend a Protestant church once a month or more disagree strongly and 9 percent disagree somewhat. A total of 26 percent agree. In other words, protestant church attendees are substantially more pluralist/universalist than their pastors.

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NEW DELHI, April 12 (CDN) — Islamic extremists in India attacked a Christian prayer meeting in West Bengal state, beating a 65-year-old widow and other women less than a month after they helped drive a young woman out of her home and village for her faith.

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By Lillian Kwon , Christian Post Reporter

False conversions are a serious problem that could lead not only to the “suicide of the church” but also to the defaming of God’s name, an evangelical pastor warned.

Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., told some 8,000 ministers Tuesday at the Together for the Gospel conference that he fears there are thousands, if not millions, of people in churches who are not truly converted.

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By: Alex Murashko |The Christian Post

“It’s obviously deliberate when on Christmas Day and on Easter Sunday you have these violent attacks against churches and Christians. It’s not coincidental,” Open Doors Senior Communications Specialist Paul Estabrooks told The Christian Post… Continue reading →

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The following is excerpted from “Swedish Home-School Family ‘Broken to Pieces,’” CBN News, March 21, 2012):

It has been called one of the worst cases of government abuse ever committed against a home schooling family: the abduction by Swedish authorities of Domenic Johansson,  a happy, healthy, 7-year-old boy taken from his parents Christer and Annie Johansson in 2009 as they waited to leave Sweden on a flight to India. Continue reading →

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by Sharayah Colter

ATHENS, Texas (BP) — The man who threatened to sue a Texas county for placing a nativity scene on the courthouse lawn has had a shift in perspective, dropped the lawsuit and now plans to move to the county with his wife and cat.

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Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data.

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(BTFY Comment: This secular story is of a type that has significance to Christians. We believe that a fundamental human right is to have a reasonable degree of personal privacy and not to be investigated by governments or employers who are on a “fishing expedition” to see if they can find out anything about you that can be used against you. Since Christians are increasingly coming under legal persecution in western nations we are under greater threat by what is described here, and this form of personal intrusion should be of concern to all people and particularly Christians.)

“It’s akin to requiring someone’s house keys,” said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor and former federal prosecutor who calls it “an egregious privacy violation.”

By Manuel Valdes and Shannon McFarland

When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.

Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn't see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.

Bassett refused and withdrew his application, saying he didn't want to work for a company that would seek such personal information. But as the job market steadily improves, other job candidates are confronting the same question from prospective employers, and some of them cannot afford to say No.

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Merah had been under intelligence surveillance and the MEMRI Middle East think tank said he appeared to belong to a French al Qaeda branch called Fursan Al-Izza, ideologically aligned with a movement to Islamize Western states by implementing sharia law.

By John Irish and Nicholas Vinocur

A 23-year-old gunman who said al Qaeda inspired him to kill seven people in France died in a hail of bullets on Thursday as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gunbattle with elite police commandos.

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Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, leads prayers at a Riyadh mosque to mark the end of Ramadan on September 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

By Patrick Goodenough

(CNSNews.com) – Ten days after Saudi Arabia’s foremost religious leader called for a demolition of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – in line with a purported injunction by Mohammed – the U.S. government and other allies of the kingdom have yet to react.

Major media outlets also have largely ignored the incident; a Nexis search finds reporting on the issue has been restricted to blogs and opinion columns, including a Washington Times editorial on March 16.

On March 12, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh was quoted in Arabic media reports as telling a visiting Kuwaiti delegation that it was “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.”

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Gina Meeks

A school campus founded by famed evangelist D.L. Moody is up for grabs in the small town of Northfield, Mass.—with one important catch.

A billionaire family from Oklahoma has pledged to give away the 217-acre campus to a suitor who commits to provide an education based on traditional Christian beliefs and proves to have enough money to maintain the property. Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (BP) — Two more countries — Turkey and Tajikistan — are worthy of inclusion on a list of the world’s worst violators of religious liberty, a congressionally approved watchdog on the issue has recommended

In its annual report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urged the State Department to designate the two governments as “countries of particular concern” (CPCs), which is reserved for regimes that participate in or tolerate “particularly severe” violations of religious liberty. If added by the State Department, Turkey and Tajikistan would increase the number of CPCs to 10.

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By Charlie Butts

PepsiCo is telling concerned customers and pro-life advocates that it does not use cells from fetal kidney tissue for artificial flavor enhancers. Children of God for Life and OneNewsNow, however, are pointing to evidence that shows otherwise.

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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Christian groups that challenged a discrimination policy at California state universities.

The justices on Monday are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the policy doesn’t violate the Constitution. The policy says officially recognized campus groups can’t discriminate based on religion or sexual orientation.

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By: Damaris Kremida

In a rare crackdown on a concentrated area, Iranian authorities have arrested Christians living in the country’s third largest city in what is seen as a tactic to discourage Muslims and converts to Christianity from attending official churches.

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Tasmania – The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has expressed concern at comments made by Attorney-General Brian Wightman recently in Tasmanian parliament about proposed changes to the Anti-Discrimination Act.

ACL’s state director Mark Brown said Mr Wightman has muted changes to “increase some of the protections under the act, including the prohibition of engaging in conduct which offends, humiliates, intimidates, insults or ridicules another person on the basis of certain attributes by extending this to cover the full range of attributes listed in the act including age, race, sexual orientation and disability”.

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Charlie Butts

OneNewsNow has long drawn attention to the human rights abuses against Christians in the country. Last year, that nation was included in the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s annual report, which lists countries whose persecutory environments are “of particular concern.

Unless believers are members of recognized denominations, they are rounded up and jailed in hot, unsanitary shipping containers or filthy prisons. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), thousands are detained arbitrarily for political purposes, suffering routine deprivation and torture. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 Christians alone are inhumanely and indefinitely detained without trial.

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Amy McNeilage, with Jonathan Swan

Sydney Morning Herald

The public meltdown of one of the co-founders of lobby group Invisible Children has seen discussion shift from #Kony2012 to #Bony2012.

Jason Russell was briefly detained last week after he was seen pacing a Californian street naked, screaming, clapping and bashing his fists on the pavement.

He has since been transferred to a medical facility where he is receiving further evaluation and treatment.

The Twitter hashtag #Kony2012, which has been trending worldwide since the campaign video of the same name emerged this month, has recently been overshadowed by a new hashtag – #Bony2012 – mocking the Russell episode.

The activist’s wife, Danica Russell, has denied claims her husband’s bizarre behaviour was fuelled by drugs or alcohol.

“But yes, he did some irrational things brought on by extreme exhaustion and dehydration,” she said in a statement.

“There will always be a lowest common denominator out there to vandalise and to ridicule, to record and to Tweet for cruelty’s sake. I only hope that most of us can cultivate a sensitivity to the fact that any of us could drop to the floor and convulse with a seizure, or appear stark raving mad in the street after a stroke, or suffer an episode of psychosis as the sentinel sign of a tumour.”

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Charlie Butts

USA Christian Ministries launched a boycott of Starbucks when that corporation endorsed a homosexual “marriage” bill in Washington state, which passed and was signed into law recently.
 
Steven Andrew, who heads USA Christian Ministries, says: “We have expanded the boycott of Starbucks to other companies that are promoting homosexual sin. These other companies include Nike, Amazon, and … other companies like Google and Microsoft, which are of course hard to boycott. But what we are asking people to do is to boycott as many companies as they are able to.”

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by Bob Unruh

A Muslim leader in Saudi Arabia is calling for the destruction of all Christian churches in Kuwait because he believes that is what Islam demands, according to a report.

In an article published by the Middle East Forum, Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum, cites several Arabic language web publications that quoted Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, declaring it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.”

"Imagine what would happen if a Christian counterpart to the grand mufti, say the pope, were to declare that all mosques in Italy must be destroyed; imagine the nonstop Western media frenzy that would erupt, all the shrill screams of ‘intolerance’ and ‘bigot,’ demands for apologies if not resignation, nonstop handwringing by sensitive politicians, and worse.”

by Michael Foust

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) — When Kirk Cameron went on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” to discuss his upcoming patriotic-themed documentary “Monumental,” he didn’t expect to get pulled into a national debate over homosexuality.

But in hindsight, it may have been a good thing, particularly for getting the word out about the movie, which is in theaters nationally for only one night — March 27 — and then in select markets March 30.

“It seemed that perhaps the Lord was in this,” Cameron told Baptist Press.

In Monumental, Cameron follows the footsteps of America’s founders — first the Pilgrims (he travels to England) and then America’s forefathers, interviewing experts and historians along the way. His goal is to find the source that inspired the founders and to explore whether America can be turned around economically, morally and spiritually. He thinks it can. Publicists have promoted the movie with the catchy phrase: “Sometimes the only way forward is to go back.”

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by Ava Thomas

DAMASCUS, Syria (BP) — Syrians were complacent for a long time — at least that’s how one person familiar with the war-torn Mideast country described its people.

They were “a people who felt they were more blessed than others,” as Dan David* put it, “because natural disasters and wars had not been a part of their modern history.”

But war has broken out in the past year, bloodshed has escalated and people have run for the country’s borders with their children in tow. The peace they enjoyed has been shattered.

So there’s a big question mark over the extent to which Good News is being shared inside Syria amid the tumult.

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David Barton

When one observes President Obama’s unwillingness to accommodate America’s four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Catholic. But that characterization would not be correct. Although he has recently singled out Catholics, he has equally targeted traditional Protestant beliefs over the past four years. So since he has attacked Catholics and Protestants, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Christian. But that, too, would be inaccurate. He has been equally disrespectful in his appalling treatment of religious Jews in general and Israel in particular. So perhaps the most accurate description of his antipathy toward Catholics, Protestants, religious Jews, and the Jewish nation would be to characterize him as anti-Biblical. And then when his hostility toward Biblical people of faith is contrasted with his preferential treatment of Muslims and Muslim nations, it further strengthens the accuracy of the anti-Biblical descriptor. In fact, there have been numerous clearly documented times when his pro-Islam positions have been the cause of his anti-Biblical actions.

Listed below in chronological order are (1) numerous records of his attacks on Biblical persons or organizations; (2) examples of the hostility toward Biblical faith that have become evident in the past three years in the Obama-led military; (3) a listing of his open attacks on Biblical values; and finally (4) a listing of numerous incidents of his preferential deference for Islam’s activities and positions, including letting his Islamic advisors guide and influence his hostility toward people of Biblical faith.

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The French government – which has been trying to reverse the pernicious effects of decades of state-sponsored multiculturalism – expressed dismay at what it called “meddling.”

The United States ambassador to Spain recently met with a group of Muslim immigrants in one of the most Islamized neighborhoods of Barcelona to apologize for American foreign policymaking in the Middle East.

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by John-Henry Westen

LARGO, FL, March 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Pepsi Company, which is set to release the new product Pepsi Next in the coming weeks, is facing a more robust boycott as pro-life activists protest the company use of cells derived from an aborted fetus in flavor-enhancing research. But Pepsi has succeeded, with help from the Obama Administration, in keeping its controversial operations from consideration by its shareholders.

In a decision delivered Feb 28th, President Obama’s Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that PepsiCo’s use of cells derived from aborted fetal remains in their research and development agreement with Senomyx to produce flavor enhancers falls under “ordinary business operations.”

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• By Nancy Krause

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) – For the first time in decades, a prayer banner does not adorn the walls at Cranston High School West.

After a long, intense legal battle, the mural was removed over the weekend, the American Civil Liberties Union confirmed Monday afternoon.

“The ACLU has been apprised that, in accordance with Judge Lagueux’s decision, the prayer mural has been permanently removed from Cranston High School West, and on that basis we have agreed to give the defendants a further extension of time, until March 19th, on the issue of attorneys’ fees,” said Rhode Island ACLU Executive Director Steven Brown.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of atheist student Jessica Ahlquist, who said the prayer banner violated her Constitutional rights.

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West Liberty, Ky., was among the hardest-hit communities by tornadoes that struck several states March 2. Photo by Todd Deaton

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Following are reports from several states struck by the March 2 tornadoes.

By Monday, 39 deaths had been reported from Friday's storms, including 21 in Kentucky, 13 in Indiana, three in Ohio and one each in Alabama and Georgia.

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LAHORE, Pakistan, March 1 (CDN) — In a rare triumph of rule of law over mob mentality in Pakistan, police last week resisted intense pressure from violent Muslim protestors and released without charges a Christian woman falsely accused of desecrating the Quran.

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WASHINGTON, US (BP) — A newly released interview from 2004 sheds light on President Obama’s faith, showing that on several major doctrinal issues — including sin, heaven and the Gospel’s exclusivity — he steps outside historic Christianity.

The one-hour interview by Cathleen Falsani was conducted when Obama was running for U.S. Senate, several months before he was introduced to the country during his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. At the time, Falsani was a religion reporter for the Chicago-Sun Times. Although the interview formed part of a book (“The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People”), much of Obama’s answers were not included in it. She calls the interview the “longest and most in-depth he’s granted publicly about his faith,” and she made the transcript available at the Sojourners website in February.

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By: Clara Morris

According to the Daily Mail, in his interview with Timothy Garton Ash for Oxford’s “The Free Speech Debate,” Thompson said that television programs do not have to be as sensitive with satire, jokes, or comments about Christianity because the religion is “an established part of our cultural-built landscape” and “pretty broad shouldered.”

Thompson went on to differentiate that other religions closely “identify with ethnic minorities,” and thus warrant special regard when being dealt with on broadcast television. “The point is that for a Muslim, a depiction, particularly a comic or demeaning depiction, of the Prophet Mohammed might have the emotional force of a piece of grotesque child pornography,” he said.

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By Jeff Schapiro

Emotions are running high in the city of Chardon, Ohio, where a gunman went on a horrific shooting spree at Chardon High School on Monday that has resulted in the death of three students and the wounding of two others. But as members of the community mourn, area pastors have banded together to lend an ear, help residents with the grieving process and show people that there is hope in God.

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OSLO, Norway (BP) — The Central Asian country of Kazakhstan has toughened its crackdown on religious freedom, stripping previously recognized religious groups, including Baptists, of their registrations.

Religious freedom monitor Forum 18 is reporting that Kazakh authorities have rescinded the legal registrations of 579 “small religious groups” (groups with fewer than 50 adult members) as part of a new religion law passed last October.

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By Charlie Butts

TEXAS, US (Onenewsnow) – Citizens fought back with the referendum process when Mayor John Cook and city council Reps. Susie Byrd and Steve Ortega approved domestic partner benefits, including for homosexuals. Going against voter wishes, the city council again voted for them, which prompted the recall election effort and the involvement of Pastor Tom Brown, president of Word of Life Church, and other Christians.

The efforts were successful, but the Texas Eighth Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the petitions be decertified and that “no election thereon may be called or held.”

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Judge Mark Martin is an Iraq war veteran and a convert to Islam, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathon Turley. The incident, recorded on video, occurred on October 11, 2011 at the Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Halloween parade. Ernie Perce, an atheist, was attacked by Talaag Elbayomy, a Muslim, because of the former’s costume.

Judge Martin threw out video evidence of the assault, dismissed the testimony of an eyewitness officer, and then lectured the atheist victim about the sensitivities of the Muslim culture. He stated in court that Elbayomy was obligated to attack the victim because of his culture and religion.

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By: Ramon Williams

The Prayer Rally for Marriage, held in Scots Presbyterian Church, Sydney, on Sunday, February 26, 2012, was co-ordinated by the Christian Democratic Party (CDP), churches and various denominations. The meeting included a variety of speakers and was led by Pastor Robyn Peebles of the Church of the Good Shepherd and the Rev. Hon Fred Nile MLC, of the CDP.

Pastor Peebles emphasised that “the battle for the institution of Marriage is a spiritual battle and not just political!”

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By Lisa Daftari

IRAN (Foxnews) – The Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran last week for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity was confirmed alive as of early Sunday, sources close to his attorneys told Fox News.

Iran’s government backtracked over the weekend, stating that no execution order had been announced for Youcef Nadarkhani, and that he was being held not for apostasy, but for rape and “other crimes,” according to the Islamic Republic’s state-controlled Press TV.

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By Todd Starnes

LOUISIANA, US (Foxnews) – A Louisiana church was ordered to stop giving away free water along Mardi Gras parade routes because they did not have the proper permits.

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“You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction,” a government spokesperson said.

by Patrick B. Craine

EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under Alberta’s new Education Act, homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homosexual acts are sinful as part of their academic program, says the spokesperson for Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk.

“Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, told LifeSiteNews on Wednesday evening.

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Dennis Prince takes on the Global Athiest Convention. Photo: Joe Armao

By Barney Zwartz

MELBOURNE, Australia (The Age) - THE front-page headline screams in capital letters something most newspapers tuck away discreetly, if they admit it at all: "I WAS WRONG!" But it is not the Regal Standard admitting error, but "the world's most notorious atheist", philosopher Antony Flew.

One of the 20th century's most influential atheists, Flew changed his mind about the existence of God, largely because of the complexity of DNA. So he is ideal front-page material for a Christian single-handedly taking on the Global Atheist Convention, to be held in Melbourne in April.

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CUMMING, GA, US (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says American Christians face fierce opposition from “radical Islamists who want to kill us” and from “secularists who want to coerce us.”

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