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Advances in Religious Freedom Under Trump vs. Biden’s War on Faith: An NFAB AnalysisWhen Donald Trump was sworn in as president, many of us were doubtful that he would keep the promises he made to the religious community during his campaign. We had heard similar promises before by many elected officials who only made those promises to garner our votes. But they left us abandoned and disillusioned. Trump was a political outsider and a man of action. So we held hope that he might be different.Not only were we not disappointed, we were very often amazed. No president in recent...

DES MOINES - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) declared people of faith under assault Friday, rallying evangelical voters at an hours-long event and sparring with an Academy-Award nominated actress over gay rights at the Iowa state fair. --- "Is the next victim of persecution your pastor?" Cruz asked. "Your charity, where you volunteer your time at a crisis pregnancy center?" --- Here in Iowa, 57 percent of Republican caucus-goers identified as evangelical Christians, according to entrance polls. Cruz has been courting faith leaders here, dispatching his father Rafael, a pastor, to speak at events around the state and announcing Friday that...

How about trying this one on for size? Here is the press release headline from Congressman Tim Huelskamp’s office this afternoon: Obama Administration Denies Mass to Catholics Apparently, a priest was denied access to a military chapel this weekend. Father Ray Leonard serves at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia but because of the government shutdown, he wasn’t allowed to go to celebrate Mass this past weekend. He is contracted by the Defense Department to meet the spiritual needs of Catholics, but not now. The chapel doors were locked and the sign said, “Shutdown: No Catholic service till further...

The Permian Extinction: Good Science, Bad Assumptions by Brian Thomas, M.S.* Ninety percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial creatures perished suddenly in an event variously called the Permian extinction, the Permian–Triassic (P-Tr) extinction, or the Great Dying. The calamity’s cause, referred to as the K-T event, remains unknown, even though asteroid impact has been in vogue. At least, this is the account that has been repeated for several decades. Now, a recently-published study is showing that evidence of the Permian extinction is not limited to a single rock stratum.1 The whole story must be rewritten...

In response to a complaint by the Anti-Defamation League (how readily everyone dances to their tune!), a California courtroom will cover over a seventy-year-old wall panel containing a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “The true Christian is the true citizen.” Alison Mayersohn of the ADL said that the quote could easily be perceived as “equating Christianity and good citizenship.” To anyone who knows or cares anything about American history, the remark is counterintuitive. When John Adams said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” what religion do you think he was he talking about? Can you have...