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By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsWhen Brigham Young University basketball star Brandon Davies was dismissed from the team for reportedly violating the school honor code by having premarital sex, many observers were stunned. After all, having sex seems something of a rite of passage for American college students. The scandal has brought lots of attention to BYU's honor code, which also asks that students stay away from tea and coffee (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormon Church, frowns on caffeine) and adhere to strict clothing and grooming standards (no beards for men; only one piercing per ear for ...
Westboro Court Decision Pits Free Speech Against Common Decency
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church may have won their case in the U.S. Supreme Court today, but not even the most ardent advocates of free speech are rejoicing. "On a personal level, I can't imagine a single person in this country who doesn't feel the pain of this father" whose Marine son's funeral was picketed by the hate-spewing church, said Gene Policinski, executive director of the First Amendment Center. "But a free and open marketplace of ideas requires us to hear positions and views that we don't like and which deeply offend us." The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that ...
Opinion: Religious Right and the Tea Party: A Marriage of Convenience?
By Barry W. Lynn - AOL News
(Sept. 28) -- Many Americans were alarmed in the 1980s when the religious right seemed determined to control everyone's life from the moment of conception until the moment of death. These days, many share a similar distaste for the tea party movement, which believes some mystical force called "The Market" will make all of America's problems dissipate in a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions that will trickle benefits to the unemployed, the uninsured and the underserved. ANOTHER VIEW The Tea Party Unites Fiscal and Social Conservatism -- Penny Nance, CEO, Concerned Women for ...
Glenn Beck Unites Mormons and Baptists: Opposing Obama Trumps Doctrine
By David Gibson - Politics DailyGlenn Beck's Mormon faith had drawn some criticism from Baptists and evangelical leaders after the Fox News celebrity and Tea Party prophet was invited to deliver the commencement address last weekend at Liberty University, a flagship institution of the Christian right. Mainstream Christians don't consider Mormons part of the faith, and conservatives in particular often refer to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the formal name of the Mormon church -- as a "cult" because of its unusual birth in the 1830s in upstate New York, its unorthodox practices and beliefs about God, ...
Commencement Speakers 2010: Barack Obama, Glenn Beck Hit Campuses
By Aaron Steiner - Politics DailyCommencement season is arriving, and that means all the top schools are engaging in bouts of competitive name dropping. Commencement speakers tend to be a highly anticipated announcement among the nation's top schools, seeing who can secure the big brand names like "Clinton" or "Immelt." Speaker selection can often cause a bit of student unrest (see: Syracuse protests over this year's selection, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon), and, at times, nationwide controversy (see: protests at Notre Dame over President Barack Obama's speech last year). More and more, commencement addresses ...
Have You Prayed for a Liberal Today?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThat's the question -- and challenge -- posed by a new "Adopt a Liberal" program from the Liberty Counsel, which is affiliated with the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. As the program's Web site makes clear, they sure need it. "The undeniable fact is that the 111th Pelosi-Reid Congress and the Obama Administration demonstrate a far left political philosophy. And since the President nominates federal judges and Justices of the United States Supreme Court, the judicial branch of government could take on a decidedly more liberal bent as the Obama Administration wears on. "Liberty ...
Pander-Fest '08
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe following definitions come to us from the Oxford English Dictionary:pander v. 1. trans. To act as a pander to: to minister to the gratification of (another's lust).2. To lay the pander, to sub-serve or minister to base passions, tendencies, or designs. For another dimension of just what it means to "pander," we might also consult a thesaurus and look up the word "politics." Yes, political campaigns are, by definition, all about ministering to the gratification of another's lusts. Paid political consultants are hired to locate our basest desires, so that each candidate can exploit them. It ...
The Reality of Recent Religious Endorsements
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyWhile we contemplate the actual efficacy of any endorsement conferred on any candidate, one thing is for sure - if it prays it brays. Not much has captured the American media quite so much this past week as the endorsement by the hateful Louis Farrakhan of Barack Obama. An endorsement, I might note, that was not sought by the candidate and was quickly denounced and then rejected. On the other side, which I'm sure you've heard much less about, are two recent religious community endorsements received by John McCain that not only were not rejected, renounced and denounced, but actively ...
White House Loses Records Ruling
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA U.S. District Court Judge ruled today in a case brought by a public watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The suits sought release of White House visitor logs compiled by the Secret Service. The Justice Department argued on behalf of the White House that the documents were subject to extra safeguards as "Sensitive Security Records," and that the release of the logs might "reveal sensitive information about the methods used by the Secret Service to carry out its protective function."In his ruling, Judge Royce C. Lamberth rejected that argument, saying ...
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