“The ceremony was not my suggestion, nor was it my intent, to participate in any ritual that is offensive in any manner to the Jewish community,” Long wrote in a letter sent Saturday to Bill Nigut, Southeast Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League, reports the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. This following the viral video of the January 29th service at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. In the video Rabbi Harold Messer wrapped Long in a...
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This is a commentary by John W. Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute. “The First Amendment was intended to secure something more than an exercise in futility.”—Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting in Minnesota Board for Community Colleges v. Knight (1984) Living in a representative democracy such as ours means that each person has the right to stand outside the halls of government and express his or her opinion on matters of state without fear of...
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This video below pretty much speaks for itself, and addresses an ongoing concern as to how our government and military wields its power. It also makes clear that the conservative GOP candidate, Rick Santorum, has no problem with a calculated program of assassination carried out by our government. It is one thing to be for a strong military and national defense. It seems quite another to have such an aggressive posture in foreign policy...
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