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8 Feb 2007, 11:40 pm
Christian Exodus is a group of conservative Christians that is trying to encourage like-minded people to move to South Carolina in order to attain political power and transform government to reflect Christian values. [read post]
12 Aug 2018, 3:41 pm by Harry Styron
More facilities are planned for the west and east ends of Christian County. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Many of those practicing these new Christian faiths sought religious freedom in America and found refuge from the tyranny inflicted by sectarian governments....We do not know the religious faiths of the 2013-2014 Jackson County Commissioners. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 5:45 am
Governmental bodies in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina, continue to open their meetings with sectarian Christian prayers. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
And because that content is exclusively Christian, by delivering the prayers, the Commissionersare effectively endorsing a specific religion....What is more, the prayer givers are exclusively Christian because of an intentional decision by the Board of Commissioners.... [read post]
" When the government forces such prayer on its people in this manner, she explained, it violates the "norm of religious equality" and the right of every citizen to "[p]articipate in the business of government not as Christians, Jews, Muslims (and more), but only as Americans. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 7:12 am by Richard B. Katskee
” If that’s right, the counties should have recognized from the moment they chose to make the cross their own that the pre-eminent symbol of the Christian faith as an official monument to all veterans disrespects non-Christian veterans, their families and their faiths. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 6:35 am
However the vast majority of clergy offering invocations have been Christian. [read post]
4 May 2011, 8:22 am by Rob Boston
” The county’s official pre-meeting invocations have often taken the form of Christian prayers but have sometimes been […] Read More [read post]
1 Oct 2017, 9:48 am by Howard Friedman
By including a Latin cross on the Seal, the County has chosen to celebrate the Christian values important throughout its history. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 2:06 pm
  The Christian Index reports that a nine-document display presented by the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro was installed at the county courthouse on Sept. 20. [read post]
19 Jul 2017, 2:30 pm
In Rowan County, North Carolina, the county board of commissioners was intent on taking government prayer to a whole new level. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 8:13 pm
I wrote an item for this blog a few months ago about a flap in Florida after a county government gave tax funds to a Christian clergy group to help pay for a religious festival last summer. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 4:33 pm
There's no need for the government to be using religion to be cruel to other people whether it be Christians or Muslims or whoever it is. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 4:42 am
The commissioners, all professed Christians, approved the gift and its placement outside the building in the center of town that is home to several government agencies, including the County Commission. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The dominant religious content of the display communicates to a reasonable observer a governmental endorsement of Christianity, a matter as to which governments must remain neutral. [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 1:17 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
No one should be made to feel like a second-class citizen by his or her own local government, but for the past six years the Rowan County Board of Commissioners have sidelined and excluded Americans of other faiths through the systematic use of prayers specific to only one religion – Christianity. [read post]