A Christian Response to Brittany Maynard’s Decision to Die. Cardboard Stories That Will Make You Rethink The Way You Feel About Homeless People - #RethinkHomelessness. Critical Thinking Video Series: Should Felons Be Allowed to Vote? - Felon Voting - ProCon.org.
18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs. Florida executes mentally ill man despite constitutional prohibition. Florida has executed a schizophrenic man who believed that he was the immortal prince of God vested with superhuman powers including an ability to control the sun, despite the US constitution's prohibition against putting mentally ill people to death.
John Ferguson, 65, was killed by lethal injection at 6pm on Monday. Earlier in the evening the US supreme court declined to hear a final petition from his lawyers. Do Corporations Have Religious Rights? New Crux of Contraceptives Court Fight. For-profit companies are still not exempt from the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) employer-provided contraceptives mandate, but that could change if Hobby Lobby successfully argues its case in federal court.
In the highest-profile of 60 lawsuits of this nature, the retail-craft giant asked the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for an exemption from the HHS mandate Thursday, arguing that for-profit business owners " shouldn't face fines for not complying with mandatory contraceptive coverage simply because their business makes a profit. " It's an argument that courts previously have been hesitant to address, because it means weighing in on a key question , which CT addressed in February: Do corporations have federal religious freedom protection under the First Amendment?
According to the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life, individuals and faith-based organizations have clear religious liberty protections. Federal appeals courts have split thus far. You Can't Buy Your Way to Social Justice. I'm afraid of some American Christians.
I am an American, but I haven't lived in the United States in a while. I live in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa, and when you pick me up at the Minneapolis airport, I might invite you to coffee and suggest the wrong place—you know, one that doesn't serve fair-trade coffee. I will arrive wearing the wrong jeans—ones sold by companies that don't offer fair wages. Should Christians Be Rich? How Not to Die - Jonathan Rauch. Eric Ogden.
Astounding View Of The US-Mexican Border. Richard Cohen: Seeking vengeance, not justice, for Colorado theater killings. GOP should stand firm against drug legalization. For his part, President Obama has said more about the NCAA men’s basketball bracket than he has about the dangers posed by illegal drugs.
Gil Kerlikowske, the president’s “drug czar,” said last month that “The administration has not done a particularly good job of, one, talking about marijuana as a public health issue, and number two, talking about what can be done and where we should be headed on our drug policy.” This is a startling admission, and there is a cost to abdication. The drug-legalization movement is well-funded and making inroads. Voters in Washington state and Colorado passed ballot initiatives in November legalizing marijuana for recreational use. A bill to legalize marijuana was introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates last month.
A Mighty River or a Slippery Slope? - Leadership Journal - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com. A Mighty River or a Slippery Slope?
Examining the cultural and theological forces behind the new interest in justice.Mark Labberton September 27, 2010. Obama Affirms 'Evangelical' Principles for Immigration Reform. Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," the late Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) famously quipped. Why Matthew Vines Is Wrong About the Bible and Homosexuality. Matthew Vines has made a name for himself.
He took two years off from college to study the question of homosexuality and the church.
Out of Ur: Gay Rights & Religious Liberty. *NOTE: This message was delivered at the Q Cities conference in Denver on September 27, 2012.
My actual comments may have been slightly different from what is written here. Q restricts presentations to a maximum of 18 minutes, so this message could only skim the surface of the complicated intersection of gay rights and religious liberty. When I was a freshman in college, the GLBA–the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Alliance–organized an annual Gay Awareness week. Science Proves the Unborn Are Human Beings. Scholars Online. Choices Program. The Choices Program provides a number of teaching tools for use with Choices resources in the classroom.
They include teaching activities, graphic organizers, and assessment tools. Most can be used with a range of units. Scholars Online Videos Brings university scholars into your classroom. Each video features a scholar answering a specific question in his or her field of expertise. Considering the Role of Values in Public Policy Activity One of our mandates as teachers is to help students become active citizens by entering into the national dialogue on public policy issues. Online Learning Module Social Studies Excellence: The Choices Approach is a self-paced, noncredit learning module designed to introduce educators to the Choices approach and resources for teaching about contested international issues.
Guidelines for Deliberation These guidelines are designed to help students understand and practice deliberative dialogue. Doing the Right Thing. Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View. Forty-one years I’d lived, and nobody—least of all gay activists—had wanted me to speak honestly about the complicated gay threads of my life. If for no other reason than this, Mark Regnerus deserves tremendous credit—and the gay community ought to be crediting him rather than trying to silence him. Dr. Lopez is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge. Let Chick-fil-A Fly Free. RECENTLY, Dan Cathy, the president of the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, commented publicly on his beliefs about same-sex marriage.
He emphasized that his business is very supportive of family and that Chick-fil-A is family-owned and family-led. He advocated for what he called “the biblical definition of the family unit” and observed that supporting same-sex marriage invites “God’s judgment on our nation.” Predictably, Mr. ProCon.org - Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues.
Gay Marriage. Abortion.