Nurse fired over ‘morning-after’ pill wins case
A federal jury ordered a Riverside County public health clinic to pay $47,000 to a nurse who was fired for refusing to dispense ”morning-after” contraceptives. The nurse, Michelle Diaz, said that dispensing the pills would violate her religious beliefs. The jury found that the clinic had violated her civil rights.
This is another case of liberals having a cow over protecting sacred beliefs. Secular Humanism forbid *chuckle* someone actually try to defend a CONSISTENT set of beliefs.
Catholic campuses head for showdown over obedience to church, academic freedom
A deadline looms Saturday that could ignite a smoldering conflict over academic freedom between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and theologians at the nation's 235 Catholic colleges and universities.
The winners and losers won't be immediately clear, but in coming years jobs and the shape of Catholic higher learning may be at stake.
Acting on instructions from the Vatican, U.S. bishops have ordered Catholics who teach their faith's doctrine, morality, Scripture, law or history at Catholic schools to obtain a "mandatum" (mandate, in English) from the bishop of the diocese where the college is located.
The document, which the bishops agreed should be obtained by June 1 — this Saturday — attests the theologian teaches only authentic Catholicism.
The ACLJ can be a bit reactionary at times, but they have this right.
Religious
Freedom of Speech Petition
“Churches and Christian organizations should be free to take strong positions
on moral issues, even issues of political consequence, for the sake of our nation’s
spiritual health. The Internal Revenue Service should not have effective censorship
power over religious speech by wielding the power to deny tax-exempt status to a
religious organization. ”
Update: The original link is dead, but I think this one is pretty similar in content.
Schools demand ‘biblical right to smack children’
Private Christian schools must be allowed to smack pupils with parents’ consent, the Court of Appeal has heard. Forty schools, spearheaded by the Christian Fellowship School in Liverpool, want a change in the law to allow them to use corporal punishment. Their attempt to challenge legislation banning smacking in schools by claiming it did not apply to independents was rejected by the High Court last year. They claim it is part of a religious doctrine protected by the European Convention on Human Rights.
I give you John Paul II: Poet, philosopher, theologian, bane of Communism, world
leader, web-surfer.
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OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE 36th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY