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Can a Wisconsin atheist group keep a Florida preacher from meeting with local kids who want to pray at their school’s flagpole before classes begin? School Attorney Bruce Bickner for the Clay County School Board says the atheists can, indeed – that their threat of an expensive lawsuit means the kids need to stop praying.…

The next time you feel like complaining about your life, consider Sara Coiner. She cannot speak. She cannot walk. She cannot move her hands with enough control to type on a keyboard. But she has a driving desire to tell people about how good Jesus is to her. She cannot feed herself. She must be…

Florida State Senator Larcenia Bullard says she’s alive because of the power of prayer — and that’s why she’s fighting for the right of Florida students to pray. Recently, she was brought to tears during debate over proposed state legislation that would allow student-initiated prayer in all Florida schools. “Had it not been for prayer, even…

President Barack Obama Was President Obama mocking Congress for reaffirming the nation’s official motto “In God We Trust?”   In the video, the President reaffirms his belief in God, then speaks for the Almighty — stating that the Creator wants Congress to approve legislation that would put people back to work. Then Obama seems to…

A Montreal judge has ruled that Paula Celani worshiped illegally — fining her $144 — charted with cult activity.  “On a Sunday morning two years ago,” reports Graeme Hamilton in Canada’s National Post newspaper, she and “about 80 members of her Catholic lay group gathered in a hall they had rented from the city.  They watched an…

So, now is it cool to mock Quarterback Tim Tebow’s faith? Apparently Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch thinks so. He openly mimicked Tebow’s familiar prayer pose after sacking Tebow in the second quarter this week. “Ridicule Tim Tebow for his slow release, for missing open receivers, for throwing passes that sail out of bounds, and for sometimes dancing in…

In what the Parent’s Television Council called “a sucker-punch to families everywhere” a court ruling which “reaches the level of judicial stupidity,” has ruled that there was nothing indecent about pop singer Janet Jackson’s breast being bared before 90 million people during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. The Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals has…

“There were some times that you just had to reach down and find that faith that you were going to find him,” said County Sheriff David Hines. The lawman was speaking to reporters after mute, autistic 8-year-old Robbie Wood — missing for five days — turned up near a rock quarry about a mile from a…

It’s not exactly a new idea — that America’s motto should be “In God We Trust.” However, the House of Representatives made it official once again Wednesday by a vote of 396 to 9. The Senate passed a similar resolution in 2006. In fact, “In God We Trust” has been America’s legal, official motto since 1956. In…

After more than a month of protests demanding better employment opportunities and benefits, the Washington, D.C.-based media watchdog group Accuracy in Media decided to offer protesters camping out at “Occupy DC” real jobs. AIM’s “headhunters” set up a table in the middle of the protest area near the Capital and offered job application forms from a wide…

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