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We also have a list of religious intolerance news
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 | 2001-DEC-6: USA: Americans improve their view of
Muslims: The Pew
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| 2001-DEC-11: USA: Inter-faith meals and services: Christian and other faith groups are meeting with Muslims in various inter-faith events. Some examples:
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2001-DEC-20: Texas: Judge decides Ethical Culture is a
religion: According to the Corpus Christi Caller Times, the Ethical
Society of Austin applied for and received a tax exempt status from
the state in 1997-JUN. Former Comptroller John Sharp cancelled their
status one day later. He cited a long-standing principle that groups who
do not require their members to believe in a supreme being are not
religions and thus are not allowed to have tax exempt status. The
Society sued and won. State District Judge Paul
Davis said that "ESA, in its pursuit of the 'Ethical Ideal' acts like a
traditional religion and functions as a traditional religious organization
for its members." He also noted that many other Ethical Culture groups
have been granted religious tax exemption in other states. Current
state Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander has
promised to appeal the decision "as far as we have to appeal
it...Anyone who dresses up and parades down Sixth Street on Halloween will
by [sic] applying for an exemption."
The lawyer who represented the Ethical Society, Peter Kennedy,
commented: "The ruling poses no threat to Texas taxpayers and opens no
door to fakes...[the society] "plays the same central role in its members'
lives as do other religions for people of other faiths." 12 | ||||||
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2001-DEC: USA: Beliefnet.com selects winner: For their Most Inspiring Person of the Year Award, Beliefnet selected the passengers and crew of Flight 93. They wrote: "It would have been easier for the passengers of Flight 93 to do nothing but cower and pray in the back until the plane plowed levelly into the White House and their lives ended painlessly in a millisecond. Instead they chose the hard, awful way because that is what morality demanded." 13 |
References:
- DayWatch is a daily service of Maranatha Christian Journal. It provides "a daily summary of news headlines with a Christian perspective..." The newsletter is free on request. Their web site is at: http://www.mcjonline.com
- ENI (Ecumenical News International) provides free bulletins and subscriptions to full text articles. Their home page is at: http://www.eni.ch Its postal address is: PO Box 2100, CH - 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
- Newsroom is a service of Worldwide Newsroom Inc. Their articles are written by "a network of journalists, scholars and other professional contacts in country." You can subscribe to their free service from their website at http://www.newsroom.org/
- ReligionToday provides free newsletters to which you can subscribe at: http://www.ReligionToday.com. These summaries are part of GOSHEN.net, which also includes LiveIt.net, Devotionals.net, ChristianShareware.net, ChristianClassifieds.net, ChristianMessageBoards.net, BibleStudyTools.net, MediaManagement.net, WorldNewsToday.net, WebCastGuide.net, and ChristianCollegeGuide.net
- Reuters is "the world's leading financial information and news group. Their web page is at: http://www.reuters.com/
- CitizenLink is a service of Focus on the Family. They send regular Emails containing news items interpreted from a Fundamentalist Christian perspective. Signup is at: http://www.family.org/cforum/clinksignup.cfm
- Earth Religions Legal Assistance Network is a leading anti-defamation group which fights discrimination against Neopagans. See: http://www.conjure.com/ERAL/eral.html
- Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) maintains a free mailing list. Go to http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/ to subscribe.
- EWTN is a news service of the Roman Catholic Church. It posts news items from Newsline, Newslink, and The World Over on its Internet site at: http://www.ewtn.com/news/index.htm
- Alternative Religions Educational Network (AREN) is an information organization located in Philadelphia. It has monitored discrimination against Wiccans throughout North America for three decades. Their web page is at: http://aren.org
- "U.S. Muslims' Image Gains, Poll Finds," Associated Press, 2001-DEC-7, at: http://www.latimes.com/news/
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"Judge says group qualifies as religion, comptroller vows appeal," Corpus Christi Caller Times, 2001-DEC-20, at: http://www.caller.com/ccct/home
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Steven Waldman, "Passengers and Crew of Flight 93: Why We Chose Them,"
Beliefnet.com, 2001-DEC-, at: http://beliefnet.com/index/index_903.html
Copyright © 2001 by Ontario Consultants on Religious
Tolerance
Originally written: 2001-DEC-8
Latest update: 2001-DEC-30
Compiler: B.A. Robinson
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