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Religion



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Green bullet Principal Jody McLoud of Roane County High School in Kingston, Tennessee, delivered a controversial speech before a school football game.

Green bullet American Atheists oppose incorporating a steel-beam cross found in the WTC rubble into a permanent memorial to the victims who died there on September 11.

Multi bullet Religious symbols and references abound in U.S. capital buildings and the words of America's founders.

Red bullet The ACLU is seeking to have cross-shaped headstones removed from federal cemeteries.

Green bullet A USPS stamp commemorates the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Multi bullet Item cites religious references related to George Washington and the Washington Monument.

Green bullet A holiday shopping flier included an anti-Semitic message.

Green bullet Actor Mel Gibson's father has dismissed historical accounts of the Holocaust as impossible and denied that the September 11 terrorist attacks were perpetrated by Al Qaida hijackers.

Red bullet Imam is questioned about Islamic attitude toward infidels.

White bullet Letter to Dr. Laura highlights fallacy in a particular anti-homosexual argument.

Red bullet Steven Spielberg is planning to direct a film about the Crusades.*

White bullet Judge tells holiday-seeking plaintiff atheists already have their own holiday: April 1.

Green bullet One of the top search results in Google for the word "jew" points to an anti-Semitic site.

Green bullet A sneeze during a graduation ceremony prompts the response of 'God bless you!,' thereby working a blessing into the proceedings.

Green bullet Vietnam veteran Admiral Jeremiah Denton was prevented from speaking before the California Assembly on Independence Day.

Red bullet Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair is circulating a petition to have religious broadcasting banned from American airwaves.

Red bullet Daughter of murder victims decries the removal of "So help me God" from the oath trial witnesses are sworn by.

Red bullet Four Christians in Philadelphia face a potential sentence of 57 years in prison for preaching in public.

Red bullet Atheists are petitioning the FCC to get religious broadcasting banned from American airwaves.

Red bullet The ACLU objected to a U.S. Marine prayer session because it constituted "federal employees praying on federal property and on federal time."

Green bullet NBC will be airing The Book of Daniel, a series about an Episcopal priest who deals with an addiction to painkillers, a gay son, and a daughter who sells pot.

Multi bullet E-mail petition seeks to restore the Pledge of Allegiance to public schools.

Green bullet A viewer received an insulting response after sending a complaint through ABC's web site about the television series The Practice.

Green bullet E-mail quotes statements from Australian government officials about Sharia law and Muslim extremists.

Red bullet A kidney donor demanded her organ back after the recipient changed religions.

Red bullet Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin became a Christian a few weeks before he died.

Red bullet Iran has passed a law requiring Jews and Christians to wear badges identifying them as religious minorities.

Red bullet Evangelist Billy Graham led a parade through New Orleans on a scooter during the March 2006 Celebration of Hope crusade.

Multi-colored bullet News agency conducts online poll about Americans' belief in God.

Multi-colored bullet A newly-elected Muslim Congressman announced he will take his oath of office on the Quran instead of the Bible.

Red bullet New U.S. dollar coins omit the motto "In God We Trust."

Red bullet Schools in the UK no longer teach about the Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students.

Red bullet Public prayer is prohibited at Steak n Shake restaurants.

Red bullet A proposed redesign of the Lincoln Cent will omit the motto "In God We Trust."

Green bullet During an awards ceremony, actress Kathy Griffin told Jesus to "suck it" and said that her Emmy was now her god.

Green bullet The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.

Green bullet Changes to an exhibit at the Washington Monument temporarily made the phrase "Laus Deo" non-viewable by visitors.

Multi-colored bullet Oprah Winfrey is selling an XM Radio show titled 'A Course in Miracles.'

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