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Blog From The Capital 
Blog from the Capital is the weblog of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, a Baptist church-state separation advocacy group in D.C. for the last 70 years.
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White House Faith-Based Funding Report: "The Quiet Revolution"
Posted on February 26, 2008The White House has released a large report detailing the state of the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives project. Called "The Quiet Revolution", the publication argues that Bush's program has overhauled the funding mechanisms of government with respect to social...
Des Moines Register: Iowa Learns Church-State Lesson
Posted on February 26, 2008Iowa will be ending its use of the Innerchange prison ministry program run by Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministry. Late last year, the 8th Circuit agreed with a lower court that the program's use of taxpayer money was an unconstitutional...
Summum Group Asks Supreme Court to Decline Involvement
Posted on February 25, 2008The Utah-based Summum religion is asking the US Supreme Court not to intervene in a recent victory handed down by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, who said that the group should be allowed to build a monument in a...
Senator Grassley Continues Exploration of Ministries' Finances
Posted on February 25, 2008AP offers this update. I couldn't help but notice the not-so-veiled threat in Senator Grassley's response to the idea that some of the ministries may continue to refuse to cooperate with his committee investigation. Grassley said he doesn't want to...
The Aims of the New Baptist Covenant Require a Commitment to Religious Freedom
Posted on February 22, 2008The new issue of Report From the Capital - the flagship monthly publication of the Baptist Joint Committee - is available now online. Included this month are reflections on the New Baptist Covenant meeting by Holly Hollman and news coverage...
Bargaining for Religious Freedom
Posted on February 21, 2008Today's Wall Street Journal includes this piece from James Hookway detailing the slow advances in religious liberty being made in Vietnam as the country goes in search of economic concessions from the US. Vietnam's leaders believe they can't afford disputes...
Random Thursday Thought
Posted on February 21, 2008Apropos of nothing in particular, it occurs to me that after a flurry of talk, early in the presidential campaign, about the religion of the candidates (it seems like there was a story daily) that phenomenon has mostly declined, and...
Lynchburg, VA School Board Debates Religious Exemption from School Activities
Posted on February 20, 2008The Lynchburg, VA School Board is looking for ways to "make uniform" its policies regarding school exemptions on religious grounds - you know, religious holidays, objections and the like. Here's what the city came up with to get the ball...
More on Evolution in Florida's Science Curriculum
Posted on February 20, 2008From the National Center for Science Education: The Florida state board of education voted 4-3 at its February 19, 2008, meeting to adopt a new set of state science standards in which evolution is presented as a "fundamental concept underlying...
Charitable Choice Battle Renewed
Posted on February 19, 2008Yesterday's Washington Times reports on the controversy surrounding government funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In 2000, a provision known as "charitable choice" was added that allowed religious groups receiving grants to discriminate in hiring...
FL Education Board Approves Changes in Science Curriculum Standards
Posted on February 19, 2008Michael Bender of the Palm Beach Post reports that the Florida Board of Education voted 4-3 this afternoon to change scientific standards emphasizing the fundamental role of evolution, which will be referred to as a "scientific theory," in biology. That...
Missouri House Votes for New Rights - Same as the Old Rights
Posted on February 19, 2008The Missouri House approved a constitutional amendment that would affirm the right to pray in public. Of course, an amendment is not needed to establish that right. Nor is one needed for some of the things they decided against in...
West Virginia Debates RFRA
Posted on February 18, 2008The Mountaineer State is the latest to consider a state-level Religious Freedom Restoration Act. ?The intent is to level the playing field by returning the ?compelling interest? test that worked well for over 30 years,? says the man behind the...
Workplace Religious Freedom Act Debated
Posted on February 18, 2008Thanks for Melissa Rogers for pointing to this RNS story about the recent House subcommittee hearing on workplace discrimination, including religious discrimination. Legislators are considering the Workplace Religious Freedom Act - which has long been in the pipeline with broad...
What Role Should Religious Courts Play in Civil Justice?
Posted on February 17, 2008Yesterday's NYTimes Week in Review included a piece by Adam Liptak - "When God and the Law Don't Square" - on the questions that arise when a civil court cedes some authority to a religious tribunal. The larger question, legal...
Statements from Workplace Discrimination Hearing Available
Posted on February 15, 2008Opening statements are online from the House hearing on workplace discrimination held by the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee earlier this week. Below are links to those who addressed the issue of religious discrimination, including the Workplace Religious Freedom...
Custody Battles and Religion
Posted on February 14, 2008Yesterday's NYTimes had an gut-wrenching piece about the difficulties judges and families face when custody battles hinge on religious disagreements. Judges do not want to take on custody disputes rooted in religion, said lawyers like Gaetano Ferro, who until recently...
Prominent SBC Minister Under Investigation by IRS
Posted on February 13, 2008Former SBC Vice President Wiley Drake, who got in hot water after endorsing Mike Huckabee for President in a letter using church stationary - then made all Baptists proud by asking God to strike dead the Americans United officials who...
More on Evangelical Diversity
Posted on February 13, 2008ABP's Rob Marus follows up on the recently released Faith in Public Life poll showing political diversity among evangelicals. ?The media is operating with an outdated script, and the experience I?m having on the road confirms the data,? said Jim...
Workplace Accommodation of Religion "Not an Area for Absolutes"
Posted on February 12, 2008The 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Firestone company yesterday in a case brought by the EEOC claiming religious discrimination. The issue was an employee's conflict between work schedule and his religious requirement - as a...
Florida Nears New Science Standards
Posted on February 11, 2008In Florida, efforts to modernize public school science standards have been met with resistance by those who - for religious reasons - oppose the teaching of evolution as a fundamental principle of biology. Today, residents of the state have one...
Guess What? You're Diverse!
Posted on February 11, 2008You don't need me to tell you, but kudos to Faith in Public Life for demonstrating statistically what many have been saying for a while now: evangelicals are a politically diverse constituency, and increasingly so. In the 2008 election, media...
Should Religious School Tuition Be Tax Deductible?
Posted on February 08, 2008That was the question considered by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week in Sklar v. Commissioner. The case stems from an agreement the IRS reached with the Church of Scientology in 1993 to end more than a...
WRFA To Be Considered in Subcommittee Hearing
Posted on February 08, 2008Tuesday, Feb. 12, the House sub-committee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pension will hold a hearing entitled "Protecting American Employees From Workplace Discrimination", that will include discussion of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, which has yet to come to the...
Did Romney's Mormonism Doom His Campaign? Does Religious Bias Doom our Politics?
Posted on February 07, 2008Alan Wolfe of Boston College believes so. Mitt Romney?s losses Tuesday in a string of primary elections in the South likely stand as final proof that many evangelical Christians were unwilling to overlook his Mormon faith, say religious and political...
Civil Rights Commission to Study RLUIPA
Posted on February 07, 2008On Friday, the US Commission on Civil Rights will host a meeting (pdf), in Washington, D.C. , of a... diverse group of experts to discuss issues arising out of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). These include...
MN Appeals Court: Gun Laws Can't Reach Church Door (or Parking Lot)
Posted on February 06, 2008Minnesota's appeals court ruled that the state's concealed weapon law does not preclude churches from banning firearms with signs of their own choosing, or from their parking lots. The Rev. Erik Strand of Edina Community Lutheran Church said he was...
Religious Advocates Survey
Posted on February 05, 2008Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs has published a new report prepared by undergraduates entitled Religious Advocates: A Force in US Politics? (pdf) The report is a compilation of surveys and interviews with religious advocacy organizations...
Bush Budget Adds $300 Million For School Vouchers
Posted on February 05, 2008As proposed in his State of the Union Address, the President's budget just sent to Congress contains yet another attempt to funnel taxpayer money to private schools, including religious schools, through vouchers. Each year, he has proposed a federal voucher...
Faith-Based Initiative Response
Posted on February 04, 2008In the letters to the editor of the NYTimes today, White House Faith-Based Office Director Jay Hein, and Americans United head Rev. Barry Lynn both respond to last week's op-ed by David Kuo, which argued that President Bush's faith-based funding...
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No! Only a Judge can make you do that and that is only after you have your day i...
Is it libel to write blog posts and/or online reviews about a local business that defames one's reputation?
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