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Orrin Hatch: Obama thinks he’s Jesus Christ
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is offended that President Barack Obama quoted scripture to make the case for a fairer tax policy. Speaking to a group of mostly-conservative politicians at the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, the president proved that conservatives do not have a monopoly on using religion to…
Santorum’s is latest name to crop up in Ensign scandal
Former Pennsylvania Senator and 2012 presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is only the latest in a string of prominent right-leaning public figures named in the scandal surrounding Senator John Ensign’s affair with the wife of a top aide. Senator Tom Coburn, Ensign’s parents, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, and even a…
Air Force Academy should drop ‘Lord’s army’ speaker for prayer luncheon, religious freedom advocate demands
The US Air Force Academy should withdraw its invitation for a former Marine to address the Academy’s National Prayer Luncheon next month, according to a religious freedom advocacy group. “Egregiously sectarian statements like [those] from former Lt. McClary blatantly exclude not only non-Christians, but also the many Christians who do…
DC prayer breakfast organizers took money from ‘terrorist organization’: report
A religious group that organizes the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington and has been linked to an effort to sentence gay people to death in Uganda has been accused of taking money from an “alleged terrorist organization,” the Washington Post reports. ClergyVoice, a Christian activist group, has asked the…
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