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Norman Norman Lear Weighs In on Religious Cover Pages E-mail
Written by Don Byrd   
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

People For the American Way founder Normal Lear finds inspiration, in the recent discovery of Defense Department war updates adorned with Scripture, to call for a renewed commitment to constitutional principles.

As a people, as Christians and Jews and Muslims, as people of every faith and belief, we must denounce this blasphemous use of religion to support -- if not endorse -- not simply war-like policies but war itself.
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How senseless do we have to be not to see the proximity in this thinking to the words and images that inflame in exactly the same way the insurgent forces we battle across the Middle East today?

That is an outrageous element of this story worth remembering as well. It's not just an affront to our constitutional commitments, it is for many - me included - an insulting use of religious ideals.

 
 
Back to School!
In a decision from late July that I missed, a district judge in Texas ruled against a local school in its decision to black out religious messages in some Christmas cards being sold as part of a fundraiser. Its an interesting case: school officials were concerned about running afoul of the separa...
 
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From former George W. Bush speechwriter and policy advisor Michael Gerson in a Washington Post op-ed: The Christian fundamentalist view of Islam bears a striking resemblance to the New York Times' view of Christian fundamentalism -- a simplistic emphasis on the worst elements of a com...