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Letters to the Editor - Dec. 11
Fence creates obstacle for pedestrians downtown To the editor: Please reference The Herald-Mail front page article of Nov. 13, 2011, wherein the lack of pedestrian traffic was mentioned as contributing to the demise of businesses in the downtown...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Frederick County (Maryland), Republican Party, Roger Williams, Crime, Law and Justice
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Tyranny under the guise of religious freedom
John Garvey believes that "in a liberal democratic society, we must also respect the freedom of religion" when he advocates the Catholic church's position that it's right to mask the fact that some pro-life pregnancy resource centers will not provide...Tags: Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Roman Catholicism, Civil Rights, Family Planning
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'Religious freedom' isn't a license to flout the law
The argument that religious groups have the right to dictate social mores in order to protect their religious freedom is hollow and in fact turns the whole concept of religious liberty on its head. To say that any particular religion's duty to its own...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Don't trample religious freedom
There has been a lot of discussion in these pages about a recent statement on religious liberty issued by Maryland's Catholic bishops. Unfortunately, the discussion has ignored most of what the bishops had to say. It has focused almost exclusively on...Tags: Slavery, Hospitals and Clinics, Gays and Lesbians, Family, Roman Catholicism
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Obama announces contraception compromise
CNNPresident Barack Obama announced a compromise Friday in the dispute over whether to require full contraceptioninsurance coverage for female employees at religiously affiliated institutions. Under the new plan, religiously affiliated universities and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Republican Party, Jim Jordan, Mitt Romney, Crime, Law and Justice
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President Obama's remarks on Preventive Care
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. (Laughter.) I was actually going to say good morning. But I guess it's afternoon by now.
As part of the health care reform law that I signed last year, all insurance plans are required to cover preventive care at...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Roman Catholicism, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama announces birth control compromise
Tribune Washington BureauPresident Barack Obama announced a compromise Friday in the dispute over whether to require full contraception insurance coverage for female employees at religiously affiliated institutions. Under the new plan, religiously affiliated universities and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Republican Party, Jim Jordan, Mitt Romney, Crime, Law and Justice
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Analysis: Obama's course correction on birth control politics shifts dynamic
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's opposition is now the divided one.
For three weeks of heated rhetoric, Republicans cast the president's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama's defense of religion
Catholic bishops, evangelical pastors and Republican presidential candidates have been decrying the Obama administration's war on religious liberty. Amid all the uproar, it's easy to overlook something equally important: the administration's many...
Tags: Rentals, Discrimination, Crime, Law and Justice, Roman Catholicism, Rick Santorum
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Inoculating against religious freedom
A few weeks ago, Rick Santorum got some criticism for saying the U.S. Supreme Court erred in saying states may not outlaw contraception. The idea that Americans could legally be forbidden to buy condoms or birth control pills struck most people as a gross...Tags: Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Civil Rights, Hospitals and Clinics
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Silicon Valley gives conservative Christians a boost
Silicon Valley, the politically liberal technology hub, is an unlikely incubator of conservative Christian activism. But a group of its venture capitalists is backing an ambitious project that seeks to affect the 2012 election by registering 5 million...Tags: Social Sciences, Auto Racing, File Sharing, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Protestantism
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Group wants presidential pledge to religious freedom
The Religion WorldOpen Doors USA is presenting the pledge to ask all presidential candidates—including Republican, Democratic, Libertarian and independent—asking each of them to sign a Presidential Pledge for Religious Freedom. A candidate's signature...
Dec 10, 2011
|Story| Herald Mail
Dec 14, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 12, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 7, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 10, 2012
|Story| CNN
Feb 10, 2012
|Story| Handout
Feb 10, 2012
|Story| WGNTV-LTV
Feb 11, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Feb 23, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Feb 2, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Sep 15, 2011
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 29, 2011
| Orlando Sentinel
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