Parishioners lobby the legislature for the bill after former pastor pilfered over $1 million dollars from parish coffers. Folks, I briefly break my Lenten blogging moratorium to comment on this development from Connecticut, where the state legislature has taken up a bill that would strip the local C...

From a Washington Times editorial: Mrs. Clinton's wrong message on religion Monday, February 23, 2009 During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Asian tour, a Japanese student asked her how to "eliminate the prejudice towards the Islamic world" in the context of the war on terrorism. Mrs. Clinton r...

The Religious Freedom Act was born in Virginia. It is part of the basis for the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Virginia state troopers put their lives on the line every day. If the chaplains want to invoke the name of Jesus Christ in prayers prior to them going out and keeping ou...

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later “mediation” in West Java, as Ross finds out. Before I disappear off on my travels for a while, I feel another ration of railing is required with regard to the report in Saturday’s Jakarta Post (10th January) on the la...

Ross rails that Gestapo style methods of interrogation are used by the sharia police in Aceh. Editor’s Note - this post was written on 30th December 2008. Gestapo Interrogations in Aceh Not much of 2008 left, but even up through the year’s dying days, goat-bearded Islamonazis managed to ...

Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at London, 21 December, 1118 (?); died at Canterbury, 29 December, 1170. St. Thomas was born of parents who, coming from Normandy, had settled in England some years previously. No reliance can be placed upon the legend that his mother was a Saracen. In after li...

In the public realm? The gay folks are really ticked at Mormons because they enthusiastically supported Prop 8. Sore losers. It's against the law to bus people in for rallies? Better tell that to Obama. And they had to back off complaining about blacks voting for Prop 8. They were stepping in doo-do...

THE FOUNDATION “Go on, then, in your generous enterprise with gratitude to Heaven for past success, and confidence of it in the future. For my own part, I ask no greater blessing than to share with you the common danger and common glory … that these American States may never cease to be ...

Folks, another good column by Mr. Thomas Sowell, about the newest right "conjured out of thin air," the "right" to win.  Appropriately titled The Right to Win, Mr. Sowell decries the attitude of those losers who whine who believe that, "if you don't win, somebody has put up a barrier or a ceili...

Rod Dreher, "On gay marriage, no tenable compromise" (Beliefnet, November 16, 2008): Here's my column from today's Dallas Morning News, in which I write that conservatives may have won the Prop 8 battle, but we're losing, and are going to lose, the war over same-sex marriage rights. Why? Two reasons...