ACLU Won’t Pursue Legal Action Against Idaho Wedding Chapel, Says It Provides Religious Services

Last updated on: December 17, 2014 at 11:54 am By Rebecca Hamilton

The ACLU has declined to pursue legal action against The Hitching Post wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho because the chapel only provides religious services. Donald and Evelyn Knapp, owners of the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel, were facing possible jail time and enormous fines that would have put them out of business because they do not offer same sex wedding services at their facility. The Knapps are ordained ministers in the International Church of the Four Square Gospel. The denomination’s... Read more

Following Jesus Means Supporting Human Rights for Homosexuals.

Last updated on: October 25, 2014 at 10:07 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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If you’ve got gay fatigue, you’re not alone. I’ve been hearing muttering from some surprising places, including people who are strongly in support of gay rights, that they’re “tired” of the obsessive focus our society has on homosexuality. The endless circular debates about forcing people to bake a wedding cake or if ordained ministers should be allowed to not perform gay weddings is beginning to try the patience of people from all points on the ideological compass. However, there is... Read more

A Look at Ebola from Inside Medicine

Last updated on: October 25, 2014 at 10:16 am By Rebecca Hamilton

My fellow Catholic Patheosi, Dr Tod Worner published a post today concerning the Ebola crisis. I hope you will click on the links in this post and read it. Dr Worner gives us a glimpse of the concerns that medical practitioners face when deciding how they would treat this illness. It also evaluates our government’s reaction to Ebola without the distorting prism of political one-upsmanship and ambition. It is precisely the kind of non-political, rational discussion of this killer disease that... Read more

NYC Police Commissioner Says Hatchet Attack was Act of Terror

Last updated on: October 24, 2014 at 10:06 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Photo Source: ABC News New York City’s Police Commissioner has said that the hatchet attack that wounded two police officers was a terror attack. It’s time our government officials were more forthcoming with the truth. Let’s look at the line of events. Fort Hood. Boston Marathon. Oklahoma. Canada. New York. It appears that the tripwire to truth was — finally — New York. I was beginning to wonder how long the American people were going to allow themselves to be... Read more

Suspect Arrested for Driving Car into Oklahoma Ten Commandment Monument

Last updated on: October 24, 2014 at 12:02 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Law enforcement has arrested a man who allegedly drove his vehicle into the Ten Commandments monument on the Oklahoma state Capitol grounds last night. The monument has been the subject of attacks from all over the country, including court challenges and an attempt by satanists to place a statue of satan beside it. According to KOCO.com, someone drove their car into the monument at around 9pm Thursday, smashing the monument to pieces. They then left their car at the site.... Read more

Life Sentences Without Parole Serve a Necessary Function in Good Governance

Last updated on: August 9, 2018 at 4:09 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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According to an article I read in The Guardian, Pope Francis has issued a call to do away with life sentences, calling them a ‘hidden death penalty.’ I know that the Holy Father comes from Argentina, and that he lived through a brutal regime in which the government engaged in random arrests, incarceration, torture and even murder of its own citizens. I have no doubt that his feelings about life sentences are informed by his own life experiences. I... Read more

New York Doctor Diagnosed with Ebola

Last updated on: October 24, 2014 at 10:21 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Dr Craig Spencer Dr Craig Spencer, who had recently been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, has been diagnosed with Ebola. Dr Spencer is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Health care officials are attempting to reconstruct his activities in the recent past to identify people who might have been exposed to the disease. According to reports, “at least three people have been placed in isolation” as a result of this. Among other things, Dr Spencer used the subways... Read more

New York Police Officers Wounded in Hatchet Attack. Possible Terrorist Connections.

Last updated on: October 24, 2014 at 10:19 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Photo Source: Zale Thompson’s web site. The New York Police Department is investigating a possible terrorist attack/murder of a police officer with a hatchet. Police officers shot and killed Zale Thompson after he fractured the skull of Officer Kenneth Healey. Mr Thompson also injured a second police officer, wounding his arm. Also, a woman who was walking near the incident when it happened was struck by a stray bullet. “There’s nothing we know at this time that would indicate that... Read more

You Raise Me Up

Last updated on: October 23, 2014 at 6:04 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Conversion Story: Jennifer Fulwiler

Last updated on: October 23, 2014 at 5:44 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

How did Jesus heal the mute and deaf man in Decapolis?