Firefighters from Brooklyn’s Red Hook station arrived at the Twin Towers before the second plane hit on 9/11. All seven men of Ladder 101 lost their lives that day. This summer, the city renamed part of a neighborhood street in their honor.
But the new name, Seven in Heaven Way, isn’t to everyone’s liking.
Atheist [...]
On March 2, gunmen unleashed 50 rounds of bullets into Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister of Minority Affairs. A Roman Catholic and the only Christian in the Pakistani Cabinet, Bhatti was assassinated by the Taliban and al Qaeda because of his opposition to Pakistan’s arbitrary and egregious blasphemy law. The U.S. Government’s response regarding this [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next few days, the booklet Protecting Religious Liberty in Public Schools: A School Official’s Guide will arrive in the mailbox of every public school principal and superintendent in New Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) developed this booklet as a comprehensive yet easy-to-use resource for schools [...]
My usual year-in-review piece is a countdown of the top stories of the year in religious liberty. And to be sure, 2010 had its share of good ones, including the most recent news that President Barack Obama finally issued an executive order implementing many of the constitutional safeguards recommended by the Advisory [...]
It’s the holiday that got away.
Today is the 219th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, a critical turning point in the history of this country and one that transformed this nation forever. Still, you won’t find any Bill of Rights greeting cards in local stores.
It’s not that Americans are short [...]
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