As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state

The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office.

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Supposed Agnostics, Presidents Washington and Lincoln Called On Americans To Thank The Almighty On Thanksgiving Day. The Christian Barack Obama? Not So Much.

I invite everyone to look at the Thanksgiving proclamations of Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Obama

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A Democrat in Congress has called for changes to the IRS rules on church issue advocacy. That's not likely to change, but perhaps some transparency is in order.

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Were it not for moral outrage America would be under British rule and the Emancipation Proclamation would never have been penned. Moral outrage, by its very definition, is the intersection of morality and deep seated convictions. The following are 10 reasons for moral outrage:

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A clutch of jurors huddled in the corner with one reading aloud from the Book of Numbers: "The murderer shall surely be put to death" and "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer."

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To drive through downtown Fort Oglethorpe is to feel overwhelmed by marquees barking out in blocky, black letters messages both sacred and secular: "AMERICA WHERE IS GOD" "5 BURGERS FOR 5.95" "TRUTH IS NOT SOMETHING TRUTH IS SOMEONE"

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The area is under the control of the National Park Service and when, in the 1990s, a local resident applied to put up a Buddhist shrine near the cross he was refused permission.

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Mojave Desert Cross

The US Supreme Court is to hear a case involving a cross in rememberance of war veterans erected in 1934 on government property in the Mojave Desert. Another case of "church and state." Another example of the fringe extremeists causing an unwarranted tempest in a teapot.

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A public high school in Georgia that recently banned banners containing Bible verses from being displayed at its football games will designate an area roughly 50 yards away from the field for cheerleaders, students and others to erect signs with religious themes, the school's pri …

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Community members are rallying around Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School cheerleaders after they were banned from displaying signs with Bible verses urging fans and players to "commit to the Lord" and "take courage and do it."

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"We tell people not to mess with Texas but that's because we reserve the right to mess it up ourselves, which we are doing quite effectively....But this is Texas and the long, proud march backwards presses on; except we may soon begin dragging the nation with us into the 18th cen …

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Demonstrating His generosity and love, God did not smite the State of Kentucky with a terrorist attack today, even though a judge has ordered that references to the almighty in the law creating Kentucky's Department of Homeland Security be stricken:

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Three Florida school employees will go to federal court on September 17 to see if they'll be thrown behind bars. The reason? Prayer. Their school made a deal with the ACLU to stop praying and this ridiculous situation proves that you can't make a deal with the devil.

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If any question remains about the religious and political motivations of certain members of the Texas Board of Education, one need only read the words of their social studies curriculum experts.

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There is an interesting entanglement case filed in Atlanta, Georgia where Rabbi Shalom Lewis has challenged Georgia's Kosher Food Labeling Act (OCGA Sec. 26-2-330 ff.) on the ground that it codifies the definition of kosher by the orthodox rabbis.

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After the Connecticut state government included links to gay-friendly churches on their Department of Children and Families web site, the Family Institute of Connecticut complained, prompting the state to remove the links.

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The White House has announced it will mark Thursday's National Day of Prayer with a proclamation but not with a public ceremony involving the event's organizers, something that had become commonplace during George W. Bush's administration.

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Florida is now allowing custom designed license plates that are generating some serious controversy. See the article for a sample picture. Governor Crist says if you don't like the plates, don't buy them. He's wrong, because that's not the issue.

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Legislation that would restructure the way parishes are organized in Connecticut has spurred opposition from church officials there, who charge that the measure is unconstitutional and, according to Bridgeport Bishop William Lori "a thinly-veiled attempt to silence the Catholic …

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The Italian government has been plunged into a constitutional crisis over the fate of a 38-year-old woman who has been in a coma for the past 17 years. Eluana Englaro was left in a vegetative state after a car crash in 1992.

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Thank God for Tradition

I think it's time that we Americans remember how our nation was founded! It's been a while, so let's see what the people who actually did it said:

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I hope this does not signal what I think it signals. Only yesterday I remarked to my wife that I was afraid the "religious right" was not going to answer the call of the new administration to work across the aisles for the good of the American people.

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One single mention of "non-believers" in one inaugural speech hardly makes up for the non-stop invocation of a diety throughout the rest of the day's events and speeches.

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Should a Baptist minister be allowed to pray in the name of Jesus at a presidential inauguration but not a city council meeting? That's what we'll find out next Tuesday at President-elect Obama's swearing-in, where Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Rick Warren will deliver the i …

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At a church meeting that included South Carolina's lieutenant governor and attorney general, Rev. Arnold Hiette had stern words of warning for those involved in a lawsuit seeking to stop production of a state license plate with a Christian message.

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Barack Obama's choice of evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration has provoked outrage from progressives, who have condemned it as a slap at his base and at gay and lesbian supporters in particular.

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