Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Resurgence Of Religious Right Among Top Concerns
The resurgence of conservative Christianity was one of the key issues affecting American Jewry in the past year, according to a new report.
The attempt by evangelical groups to reclaim America for Christianity was named as a key domestic challenge to the Jewish community in the Anti-Defamation Leagues annual top-ten list.
The increased role played by religion in the countrys public sphere was reflected elsewhere on the hate watchdogs list, highlighting the intense public debate on Americas legally-enshrined separation of church and state.
The list points out that a special report commissioned in June supported claims of a pernicious climate of religious intolerance at a Colarado Air Force base and that a new Congressional petition backing the right of chaplains to use specifically Christian language proved the problem was still current.
The list points out that a special report commissioned in June supported claims of a pernicious climate of religious intolerance at a Colarado Air Force base and that a new Congressional petition backing the right of chaplains to use specifically Christian language proved the problem was still current.
http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/world/?content_id=2333
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Monday, December 05, 2005
Professor who opposes 'Intelligent Design' physically assaulted
Paul Mirecki, the Kansas University professor who's under fire for a verbal outlash against Christian fundamentalists, was treated at a hospital for injuries this morning after being beaten by two men on a roadside in rural Douglas County.
It wasn't immediately clear if the beating had anything to do with the controversy that has propelled Mirecki into the headlines in recent days.
But reached by his cell phone this afternoon, Mirecki said he'd never met the two men who beat him.
"I didn't know them, but I'm sure they knew me," he said. "I was on the way to breakfast and a bad situation developed."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/5/19373/9077
It wasn't immediately clear if the beating had anything to do with the controversy that has propelled Mirecki into the headlines in recent days.
But reached by his cell phone this afternoon, Mirecki said he'd never met the two men who beat him.
"I didn't know them, but I'm sure they knew me," he said. "I was on the way to breakfast and a bad situation developed."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/5/19373/9077
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