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The dramatic door-smashing was captured by ABC Action News and broadcast repeatedly that evening along with the sensational capture of the purportedly dangerous criminal who was holed up inside: Bishop Chuck Leigh. A soft-spoken, bespectacled man with a Santa Claus beard, Leigh has been conducting Sunday sermons and providing counseling to the poor out of his modest oak-shaded church just a few feet from Nebraska Avenue for over 17 years.
The Apostolic Catholic Church, which is not connected with the Roman Catholic church, is a small denomination with approximately 7,000 members in the U.S. According to Tampa police, at least one of those relationships went too far. “I’m not going to allow the State to use the church to enhance a penalty,” Leigh said. “It’s laughable,” Leigh says. OpenID warns of 'psychic paper' authentication attack. High performance access to file storage OpenID has warned of bugs in its authentication technology that create a possible means for hackers to modify data sent between sites.
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Even though he had been targeted by would-be assassins, he still came down firmly for the right of an individual to defend himself, his family and his state. In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the pope cited the Catechism of the Catholic Church that "legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the state. ... Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. " That's why it's so disheartening to hear Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi lining up behind President Obama's gun restrictions. The American Catholic bishops have been leading the legal fight against the Obamacare mandate that all businesses and organizations including churches must carry insurance that covers contraceptives and abortions despite religious objections.
Government Can’t Require Churches to Abandon Constitutional Freedoms - Erik Stanley. In the wake of the most successful Pulpit Freedom Sunday to date, a look at opponents who have commented publicly about the event in recent days shows that they are still attacking it for something it’s clearly not.
In other words, the arguments against Pulpit Freedom Sunday fail because the premise for those arguments is all wrong. This year, as part of the event, nearly 1,600 pastors nationwide preached sermons that analyzed the positions of various political candidates—an exercise in free speech that violates a flawed Internal Revenue Service rule known as the Johnson Amendment.
The goal is to create a court case that will challenge the constitutionality of the rule in court. But objectors—such as Bloomberg View, as just one example—have made several fundamental errors in their assertion that this is really just all a taxation issue that has nothing to do with free speech. But pastors who participate in Pulpit Freedom Sunday are not engaging in a “political crusade.”