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22 Mar 2012, 12:17 pm
Issues: Religious Groups’ Involvement in Candidate ElectionsTags: Pew Forum On Religion & Public Life, LifeWay Research Center, Southern Baptist Convention [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 8:15 am
Even LifeWay Research, a polling arm of the Southern Baptist Convention (hardly a font of political or theological liberalism), has found that 85 percent of Americans believe it is not “appropriate for churches to use their resources to campaign for candidates for public office,” and 87 percent do not ‘believe it is appropriate for pastors to publicly endorse candidates for public office during a church service. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 8:52 pm
According to ENInews, in a petition to Parliament by HCLU and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, signed also by Human Rights Without Frontiers and the Southern Baptist Convention among others, the law is a “serious setback for religious freedom in Hungary. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 3:00 am
(emphasis added) And here's what the statesman Kennedy said when confronting the concerns of the Southern Baptist Convention that a Catholic in office would implement the laws under the dictate of the Pontiff in Rome rather than the U.S. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 9:02 am
Last week Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said of the mayor's decision on who would participate in the ceremony: "Unfortunately Mayor Bloomberg's decision demonstrates the mindless secularist prejudice of the political establishment on our nation's Eastern Seaboard. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 3:28 pm
Given that the state slashed funding for vocational and traditional education in Texas prisons this year, it seems counter-intuitive that a new religious seminary will open Monday in the Darrington Unit giving four-year religious degrees (from my preacher-brother's alma mater at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, no less), but that's what's happening according to this item in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:Texas' newest seminary will launch Monday -- inside a… [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 11:58 am
You've got people like Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry who seem more interested in running for President of the Southern Baptist Convention than POTUS. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:57 am
The USBIC also contends that the bill’s approach, awarding a patent to the first person to file, as opposed to the first person to invent, “was rejected by the Constitutional Convention and by the First Congress, in which many of the Constitution’s framers sat. [read post]
12 May 2011, 4:15 am
It is expected that in his formal announcement speech at the Georgia Republican Party convention on Friday, Gingrich will tie together the concepts of American exceptionalism and God-endowed rights. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:32 am
EEOC (Granted )Docket: 10-553Issue(s): Whether the ministerial exception, which prohibits most employment-related lawsuits against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions, applies to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes, is a commissioned minister, and regularly leads students in prayer and worship.Certiorari stage documents:Opinion below (6th Circuit)Petition for certiorariBrief in… [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 12:53 pm
EEOCDocket: 10-553Issue(s): Whether the ministerial exception, which prohibits most employment-related lawsuits against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions, applies to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes, is a commissioned minister, and regularly leads students in prayer and worship.Certiorari stage documents:Opinion below (6th Circuit)Petition for certiorariBrief in opposition of… [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 6:39 am
§ Amicus brief of International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention et al. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 8:12 pm
EEOCDocket: 10-553Issue(s): Whether the ministerial exception, which prohibits most employment-related lawsuits against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions, applies to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes, is a commissioned minister, and regularly leads students in prayer and worship.Certiorari stage documents:Opinion below (6th Circuit) Petition for certiorariBrief in opposition of… [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 12:13 pm
Amicus brief of International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention et al. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 9:11 am
This edition of “Petitions to watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ March 4 conference. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 1:34 pm
§ Amicus brief of International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention et al. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 1:26 pm
EEOCDocket: 10-553Issue(s): Whether the ministerial exception, which prohibits most employment-related lawsuits against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions, applies to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes, is a commissioned minister, and regularly leads students in prayer and worship.Certiorari stage documents:Opinion below (6th Cir.)Petition for certiorariBrief in opposition of the… [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 4:00 am
Last Friday, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee, Richard Land, withdrew from the interfaith Coalition, explaining: “While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is 'a… [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 6:44 am
EEOCDocket: 10-553Issue(s): Whether the ministerial exception, which prohibits most employment-related lawsuits against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions, applies to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes, is a commissioned minister, and regularly leads students in prayer and worship.Certiorari-Stage Documents:Opinion below (6th Cir.)Petition for certiorariAmicus brief of religious… [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 7:25 pm
The Baptists, certainly those in the Southern Baptist Convention, are associated with efforts to forge tight connections between church and state. [read post]
