Today’s Blogmarks
Posted on March 01st, 2006 in Quick Links
Grabbed from my blogmarks.
One in 1,000 Know First Amendment
Americans apparently know more about “The Simpsons” than they do about the First Amendment. Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half can name at least two members of the cartoon family, according to a survey.
I was only able to name 4 of the 5 guarantees in the 1st Amendment. (I left out “petition for redress of grievances.”)
High up on my list of annoyances are references to the United States as a democracy and the suggestion that Iraq should become a democracy. The word “democracy” appears in neither of our founding documents – the Declaration of Independence nor the U.S. Constitution.
Conference tackles ‘War on Christians’
A first-of-its-kind conference on “The War on Christians” will be held in Washington, D.C., this month to examine attacks from the news media, Hollywood, courts and activist groups.
Washington prayer too true for school
A federal judge has ruled against a public school teacher who filed a lawsuit after administrators removed Christian-themed postings from his classroom, including a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge and news clippings about the faith of President Bush and former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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