The Alliance Defense Fund urged recently the University of Illinois to reinstate a Catholic professor who was fired for teaching Catholic beliefs in his Introduction to Catholicism class.

Dr. Kenneth Howell, a Catholic religion professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has been in the institution’s employ since 2001.

However last year Howell, a highly regarded faculty member with consistently high ratings from students, was fired for talking about the Catholic viewpoint on homosexual behavior, ADF Media said.

Travis Barham, litigator of the ADF, wrote on July 12 to the University of Illinois’ president, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and head of the religion department, seeking Howell’s reinstatement, the Catholic News Agency said.  Read more... (516 words, 1 image, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

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ACLU attorneys in Florida have been naughty. They’ve been endlessly pursuing the defendants in a Santa Rosa School District freedom of speech case without having any plaintiffs to represent.

This is a fact the courts should have been made aware of – because it would make the ACLU’s position moot and could have changed the outcome of the case.

But I’m still waiting for the ACLU to have their hand slapped.  Read more... (728 words, 2 images, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)

A Methodist Church in Loxahatchee, Fla. incorporated recently the stretching movements of yoga and Pilates with Christian prayer and meditation, through a class called Praisemoves, according to the Sun Sentinel.

The class is forwarded by the Community of Hope which always opens in prayer and then ends with a New Testament bible verse such as 2 Corinthians 12:9: “And he said unto me, ‘My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me,’” as their ending meditation, the Sun Sentinel said.  Read more... (351 words, 2 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)