Religous fanaticism bubbling along

• Counselor suspended after teens hear Christian music

  • A Southern California counselor with nearly two decades of experience with foster children is challenging a decision that she be punished after four teens she took on an approved day-long outing encountered a beach festival – and heard Christian music.
  
  What is the world coming to? Last week it was about a nurse getting the sack because she offered to pray for a patient ... and yet we are expected to build prayer rooms for Muslims

CATHOLIC bishops in the Holy Land have expressed outrage over what they call "repulsive attacks" on Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary after an Israeli TV program spoofed them ... if we criticise an Israeli, we are branded anti-semetic. Just to keep things balanced, a religious watchdog group has joined a campaign to strip the Arkansas Constitution of a provision prohibiting atheists from holding office and testifying in court.

"The free expression of religious belief, together with what James Madison called 'the full and equal rights of conscience,' should apply to people of all religious traditions -- including atheists. Government should no more penalize a person for professing atheism than for professing a belief in Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam," the Becket Fund letter said. ... and right here on our own back door, the Border Mail wont let Keiran Bennet place an atheist ad in their papers. post by gnaylor