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"Rick Warren: Contraception Debate about Greater Principle of Religious Freedom"
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in California, explains his religious freedom-based opposition to the administration's HHS contraceptives and abortion-drugs mandate. Says Warren: "Now, I don't have a problem with contraceptives. I'm a Protestant. I'm an evangelical. But I do support my Catholic brothers and sisters to believe what they want to believe."
"Catholic Leaders Remain Critical of Obama Administration"
On the Sunday morning news shows, diverse religious leaders - including Pastor Rick Warren, Catholic Bishop William Lori, and Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the Reverend Billy Graham - continued to express their commitment to challenge new and unprecedented restrictions on religious freedom.
"Do You Have Faith in the Media?"
A new academic survey on media coverage of religion in politics finds that reporters and their audiences "agree that the news media does a poor job of explaining religion in society." Read More>>
Bishops say Obama Compromise is 'Unconstitutional'
David Gibson recaps an internal memo in which the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops outlines the grave flaws in the HHS "preventive services" mandate - which requires most religious employers to pay for abortion-inducing drugs - and in the Obama administration's "tentative and complex" proposal to change the mandate in some still-unspecified manner.
Catholic Group Leaves Vanderbilt Over Membership Rules
The Washington Post reports on Vanderbilt University's use of its "non-discrimination" policy to eliminate religious student groups that have faith-based standards for their student leaders.
New York Pulls Plans to Ban Words From Standardized Tests
CNN reports on the NYC education department’s decision to reverse its policy forbidding words it deems controversial – including “Christmas” and “religion” – from being used in standardized tests.
Ringing a Bell for Liberty
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia summarizes why religious freedom is so important in an interview with National Review Online. Read More >>
Some Christians See Contraception Mandate as Attack on Religious Freedom
This article from the Tennessean covers one of the second wave of rallies that Americans held in 50 cities across the nation to protest recent federal-government threats to religious freedom.
When the Archbishop Met the President
The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto reports on then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan's shock and dismay at the Obama administration's abortion-drug ("preventive services") mandate after the president had personally assured (now-Cardinal) Dolan that religious institutions would not face government interference in their ministries. Read More >>
Vanderbilt's Right to Despise Christianity
In light of Vanderbilt University's exclusion of creedal Christian organizations from official sanction as student groups, University of St. Thomas Michael Stokes Paulsen opposes the exclusion while noting that Vanderbilt is acting lawfully. Read More >>
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