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28 Mar 2013, 7:13 am by jgconrad
[Editor's Note: We are pleased to publish this piece from Qiang Lu and Jack Conrad, both of whom worked with Thomson Reuters R&D on the WestlawNext research team. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 5:44 pm by Alfred Brophy
 Nat's father even -- Foster supposes -- made him a trustee of the Turner Baptist Church. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 7:05 am by Derek Allen
  These zones seem like a great idea when they involve, for example, Fred Phelps and the rest of his Westboro Baptist Church knotheads being relegated to a location far away from whatever soldier/child/Ronnie James Dio funeral they decide to spew vile towards. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 8:38 am by Lorene Park
Recent news reports have proclaimed that a White House petition to recognize the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group had become the most popular petition ever. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 11:37 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Just last year, for example, in the case of the Westboro Baptist Church, the Supreme Court upheld the Church’s right to picket and protest the funerals of our soldiers with signs bearing repulsive messages: “God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11,” “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” and “Thank God for IEDs. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
Thus, while this documentary is about the institution of the Catholic Church, it is also about Penn State, the Boy Scouts, The Horace Mann School, Poly Prep Country Day School, Orthodox Jews and Hasidic Orthodox Jews, the Red Sox, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Baptists, Olympic coaches and athletes, pediatricians and patients, Pop Warner football leagues, little leagues, orphanages, and every public and private school. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 1:00 pm by Lawrence Solum
Phelps, which held that the Westboro Baptist Church had a First Amendment right to picket the funeral of a young soldier killed in Iraq. [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 9:11 am by brown
Read moreLifeWay Research, Southern Baptist Convention, Perry Noble, Alliance Defending Freedom [read post]
17 Oct 2012, 3:25 pm by Jason Cheung
I realize that comparing the AFDI to the KKK and the Westboro Baptist Church isn’t a flattering comparison. [read post]
17 Oct 2012, 3:25 pm by Jason Cheung
I realize that comparing the AFDI to the KKK and the Westboro Baptist Church isn’t a flattering comparison. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 7:14 am by Howard Friedman
., Aug. 10, 2012), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a suit brought by a group from a nearby Baptist church that sought to proselytize for several years at the annual festival of Chicago's St. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 10:05 am by conn
I’d break out the champagne, but I fear that this is a mere change of personnel, not policy.The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was once a staunch supporter of church-state separation. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 10:09 am by Sina Kian
It’s also how the members of the Westboro Baptist Church avoided civil liability when they picketed a funeral and were subsequently sued:  when sued, they successfully argued that their protest was protected by the First Amendment. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 12:58 pm by Kevin
These practices became so commonplace as to shock the freedom-loving colonials into a feeling of abhorrence. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 9:13 am by conn
(I hope Richard Land and the other gay bashers in the Southern Baptist denominational hierarchy don’t find out.) [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 8:33 am by brown
Jonathan Falwell, pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church (and son of the late TV preacher Jerry Falwell).That the likes of Perkins, Land, Falwell and Co. would have anything to do with Reed is shocking, given that the Religious Right claims to oppose gambling, not to mention that Reed totally scammed the entire movement.But Religious Right leaders can be very forgiving – when it’s in their interest. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:10 pm by ebcarpenter
Once considered the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is now known for giving lifers, who make up nearly three-quarters of its population, the chance to build meaningful lives behind bars, even as they are unlikely to taste freedom again. [read post]
3 May 2012, 7:13 am by Alfred Brophy
  No government in this country can require a church to marry anyone against its faith. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 9:18 am by brown
“Inevitably, it will put school officials in a position of evaluating and judging the truth or appropriateness of the content of religious materials,” Guy Sayles, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Asheville, said, according to the Citizen-Times. [read post]