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  • Christian Today: School bans Lord's Prayer following complaints from parents
    September 21st, 2011
    A government school in western Australia has banned students from reciting the Lord's prayer after receiving complaints from parents.
  • New American: Cross in Front Yard Brings Clash with City
    September 21st, 2011
    When a woman in a Los Angeles, California neighborhood placed a two-story cross in her front yard, neighbors grew frustrated and called in city officials. Homeowner Laly Dobener said she put the religious symbol in her yard to express devotion to her Catholic faith. But according to neighbors’ complaints, the cross is an eyesore which attracts unwanted attention to their cul-de-sac and hurts their property values.
  • LJ World: City to consider ‘gender identity’ as protected class
    September 21st, 2011
    Lawrence city commissioners now are ready to begin a debate about whether transsexuals and others who don’t identify with the gender of their birth deserve new protections from discrimination.
  • Dr Peter Saunders (blog): Growing pressure on disabled people heightens fears about euthanasia
    September 21st, 2011
    Disabled people are being put under much more pressure in the current social and economic climate.
  • Creation Ministries: Heavyweights move to ban creation
    September 21st, 2011
    In May of this year, CMI-UK’s Philip Bell addressed some pupils at a Religious Education study day at a Church of England school in Exeter. As a result, the self-styled ‘British Centre for Science Education’ (BCSE) launched its ‘Creationism In Schools Isn’t Science’ (CrISIS) campaign, supported by the National Secular Society. This took the form of a letter to the UK Secretary of State for Education, signed by a number of prominent scientists, demanding that action be taken to prevent creationism being taught in schools as having any kind of scientific validity.
  • One News Now: Blasphemy law killing Pakistani Christians
    September 21st, 2011
    A Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy has died in a prison from a treatable illness, and one religious freedom activist believes he was overlooked because of his beliefs.
  • Hudson NY: The Real Iran
    September 21st, 2011
    In a globalized world where debate and diplomacy predominate, there is one sure way to discern the sincerity of any particular government: see how it behaves at home, where it is in power; see especially how it treats its minorities.
  • Daily Express: Promotion of marriage is what matters
    September 21st, 2011
    THE Lib Dem minister Lynne Featherstone says the Government wants to see Britain become a world leader in gay rights.
  • Cranmer (blog): Church of England’s guilty silence on Fatherhood
    September 21st, 2011
    Jesus taught his followers to pray to 'Our Father which art in heaven' (Mt 6:9). It is therefore incongruous that the Church of England is not more vociferous and assiduous in speaking up for fatherhood.
  • LifeSiteNews: New legal defense fund supports parents’ fight against gay agenda, moral relativism in schools
    September 21st, 2011
    TORONTO, September 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a first for Canada, a group of volunteers has set up a fund to help defray the legal costs of parents who, fed up with government and school board policies aimed at eradicating all traces of Judeo-Christian morality from the education system, are willing to launch lawsuits to defend their parental rights to be the primary moral educators of their children.