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Apple Valley Residents Advise Commission Against Hindu Temple

January 31, 2005

Source: Daily Press

http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/110718138232245.html

On January 31, 2005 the Daily Press reported, "neighbors of a proposed Hindu temple off Apple Valley and Ottawa roads are asking the Planning Commission to just say no. Local Hindus asked the Planning Commission for permission to build a 7,950-square-foot religious temple two weeks ago, but were denied. Commissioners cited the increase of traffic and the building's non-conforming architecture as...

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PETA Finds Some Religious Partners and Foes

January 29, 2005

Source: The Ledger

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050129/NEWS/501290321/1021

On January 29, 2005 The Ledger reported, "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has launched an advertising campaign with a bite -- one that suggests good Christians steer clear of flesh consumption, and that Jesus would have agreed with such advice. Spearheaded by Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan campaigns, the...

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Editorial: Religion in the Classroom Issue Riddled with Tensions

January 27, 2005

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0127/p11s01-legn.html

On January 27, 2005 The Christian Science Monitor reported, "when it comes to religion, there's an odd patchwork of what's allowed and banned in schools around the country, and the questions raised in the [...] controversy are complex: Does separating church and state mean omitting religion from public schools entirely? If it is permissible to teach about religion, where is the...

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Islamic Center of Nashville Faces Hurdles to Offering Course on Islam

January 26, 2005

Source: The Tennessean

http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/05/01/64599695.shtml?Element_ID=64599695

On January 26, 2005 The Tennessean reported, "one week before the scheduled start of a free course on Islam at Tennessee State University, members of the Islamic Center of Nashville have been told they won't be able to use a room at the campus, a mosque leader said yesterday. TSU officials could not immediately explain why the...

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Scalia Insists History and Tradition Should Decide Religious Court Cases

January 26, 2005

Source: First Amendment Press Release

Wire Service: AP

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=14747

On January 26, 2005 the Associated Press reported, "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says judges should look to tradition and historical practices when deciding religious cases. In a speech last night at the University of Michigan, Scalia discussed the religion clauses of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...

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U.S. Indian Immigrants Unite to Aid Tsunami Relief

January 25, 2005

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0125/p03s01-ussc.html

On January 25, 2005 The Christian Science Monitor reported, "Here [gathered in a Sunnyvale, CA Hindu temple] are Punjabis and Gujaratis, Tamils and Bengalis, and the only sound is the high waver of traditional Indian singing nearby. So often divided by ties to two dozen states, more than 10 languages, and a kaleidoscope of faiths, Indian immigrants are finding unity in a time of...

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Ongoing Controversy Over Religious Invocations at City Meetings

January 22, 2005

Source: San Bernardino County Sun News

http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/top

On January 22, 2005 San Bernardino County Sun News reported, "twenty months after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a ruling that bars religion-specific prayers at government meetings, many cities continue to allow them. It's yet another issue in the ongoing church-state debate. During the past year, people of all beliefs have been united, at least philosophically, in their zeal to practice what they preach not what...

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US Christian Aid Groups Raising Concern Amid Claims of Proselytizing

January 22, 2005

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/international/worldspecial4/22preach.html?pagewanted=1

On January 22, 2005 The New York Times reported, "A dozen Americans walked into a relief camp here, showering bereft parents and traumatized children with gifts, attention and affection. They also quietly offered camp residents something else: Jesus... The attempts at proselytizing are angering local Christian leaders...

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Christian Inaugural Prayers Acknowledged Other Faiths

January 21, 2005

Source: The New York Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/10698674.htm

On January 21, 2005 The New York Times reported, "the president who swept to victory by mobilizing his conservative Christian base used his inauguration Thursday to signal that his administration is well aware that when it comes to religion, the United States is both diverse and divided. The tone was set in the opening invocation by the Rev. Luis Leon, an...

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Hamilton County School Board Backs Decision to Allow Headscarf

January 20, 2005

Source: Chattanoogan

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_61358.asp

On January 20, 2005 Chattanoogan reported, "county School board members on Thursday backed the administration on allowing a female Muslim student at East Ridge High School to wear a head scarf. Scott Bennett, an attorney for the board, said the East Ridge High principal acted correctly in allowing the scarf. Board member Rhonda Thurman had said she disagreed, saying the school system should...

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The Debate Over 'Intelligent Design' in the Classroom Continues

January 19, 2005

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/national/19evolution.html?pagewanted=all

On January 19, 2005 The New York Times reported, "a school district in Pennsylvania and another in Georgia have pressed ahead with their challenges to the teaching of evolution in their public schools. The school board in Dover, Pa., south of Harrisburg, had an administrator read a one-minute statement to ninth graders in biology class yesterday...

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Atheists Hold "Inauguration Summit" to Decry Faith-Based Initiatives

January 16, 2005

Source: Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/159/cont

On January 16, 2005 Beliefnet reported, "an 'inauguration summit' of some 50 humanists, atheists and secular Jews has been held in Washington to plan how to fight faith-based initiatives. The activists met this weekend at a Dupont Circle hotel to make plans to hire lobbyists to block federal legislation that would limit abortion rights, deny homosexual rights and oppose federal funding to religious social-service programs,...

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Fremont Sikh Temple Election Controversy Ends

January 16, 2005

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/10659258.htm

On January 16, 2005 the Contra Costa Times reported, "five Sikh men have been elected temple leaders of the Fremont Gurdwara Sahib -- or Sikh temple -- after a three-year legal battle. The new members of the Supreme Council cried tears of joy Thursday before stepping out of their shoes, as is proper in Sikh tradition, to pray in the hallway thanking God. The results were...

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