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Friday Links: Obama Controversy, an Army Capt. Recounts Discrimination, a Tangipahoa Update and More E-mail
Written by Don Byrd   
Friday, 21 August 2009

AP reports on yesterday's 2nd Circuit ruling that some religious displays in a church-run Post Office violated the Constitution.

Ed Brayton passes along the first-person account of an Army Captain who experienced persistent discrimination in the military for not being Christian.

President Obama's call to religious leaders urging support for his health insurance reform proposals, is drawing a range of criticisms: Barry Lynn thinks the President may be improperly suggesting God supports his plan, Don Swarthout wrongly believes it's unconstitutional to invoke religious beliefs to promote secular policy positions, and the White House's grassroots faith-based effort "40 Days for Health Reform " is being called "remarkably similar to the White House's own 'Reality Check' Internet campaign." (me: I don't see it.)

Via Religion Clause, the Tangipahoa (LA) School Board has changed its prayer policy to expand the faiths invited to deliver opening prayers. The Board faces a trial in November over its use of Christian prayers as government invocations.

A controversy continues to grow over the EEOC's determination that  Belmont Abbey College (NC)'s policy excluding birth control from health coverage discriminates against women.

 
 
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