House votes to curb military funeral racket

House votes to curb military funeral racket: "Larry Spalding of the ACLU described the church's tactics as 'despicable' but said that government agencies should not be passing laws 'or in this case, adding onto laws' that prohibit free speech.

He gave the example of two groups of people demonstrating at a military funeral. If one group is preaching the kind of speech that Phelps promotes and a similarly sized and equally loud group is touting the fallen soldier as a hero and a patriot, why should one group be suppressed and not the other?"

The Carpetbagger Report � Blog Archive � The national motto as the 'American trust in the Christian Deity'

The national motto as the 'American trust in the Christian Deity'
"U.S. Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., has plans to introduce a resolution reaffirming the motto, one that would call on Americans to celebrate it on or around its July 30 anniversary with patriotic and sacred assemblies and prayer. […]

[The resolution includes a] list of 16 historical findings, including that 'the fundamental trust of the American people upon the God of the Bible is irrefutable.' It also cites Psalm 33:12 ('Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord') and proclaims that 'This American trust in the Christian Deity dates from the earliest colonial days.'"