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Almost half of Americans believe that Christians in the United States are being persecuted by homosexual "marriage" advocates who take legal action against them over their religious beliefs, and almost one in three Democrats believes such treatment is "necessary," according to the alarming results of a new poll. The results are from a WND/WENZEL Poll conducted for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. The scientific telephone survey was conducted April 19-21 and has a margin of error of 3.23 percentage points. It found that 49.2 percent of all respondents consider the legal activism against Christians...

Jason Levin, the middle school teacher behind the Crash The Tea Party project, is dismissing claims that he misused his position to organize the scheme. Levin is currently on a paid leave from the Beaverton, Oregon school district where he works while school officials investigate charges that he used school time and equipment to create the website CrashTheTeaParty.org. He told me his attorneys have advised him not to do any interviews while the investigation runs its course. But in a written statement he emailed me this morning, Levin said the charges are without merit. "Any allegation that I used school...

<p>ALL FREEDOM LOVING FREEPERS WE CAN FIGHT AGAINST PEOPLE WHO WISH TO INFRINGE UPON OUR RIGHTS!</p> <p>The crashtheteaparty.org founder Jason Levin was exposed here on FR through our collective efforts. There is something else we can do!</p> <p>Jason Levin's Facebook page for his crashtheteaparty.org group is in violation of Facebook's use policy because individuals must register and represent "real people."</p>

Okay, so the radicals want to chill the speech of law abiding citizens because they don’t agree with their message? How un-American is that? Here’s what you can do to thwart their attempt: 1. Email the “teaparty crashers” at crashtheteaparty@gmail.com email link and let them know you do not support their effort of infringing upon the rights of others to free speech. 2. You can email PayPal at service@paypal.com email link and let them know that www.crashtheteaparty.org is accepting "charitable donations" and is not a registered charity in the state of Oregon so naturally you fear they may be committing...

And, the play is off again. We really shouldn't be surprised at this point, but a controversial play that depicts Jesus Christ as a gay man is once again canceled. We reported Thursday that the play, Corpus Christi, was back on and was going to be held on a Fort Worth stage. The play had originally been scheduled to play at Stephenville's Tarleton State University, where student director John Jordan Otte attends school. The school later rescheduled and then canceled the play over safety concerns. On Thursday, Adam Adolfo, executive director of the Rose Marine Theater, offered the theater free...

Okay, so I have tricare (the insurance for military folks) and my wife has an HMO through her employer. So, I go to the doc and my wife's HMO picks up all but 80% of the bill leaving me 20%. You think tricare would be happy to pick up the other 20% since they didn't need to pay the bigger portion right? WRONG! Tricare says they would only have paid my care provider 30% of what my wife's policy would pay so they characterize my treatment as fully paid leaving me with the remaining 20%. Needless to say, the amount...

Supervisors vote to reopen routes hit by BLM closure. There already have been fights with Washington over health care, gun laws, the Tenth Amendment and other issues. Now a new perspective to America's rebellion against the power of the federal bureaucracy has been added with a vote by supervisors in one California county to reopen county roads that had been shut down by the Bureau of Land Management. According to a report from the Blueribbon Coalition, which advocates for public use of public property in the region, the vote came yesterday at a meeting of the San Benito County board...

Four Republican lawmakers laid out a welcome mat for former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's June visit to California State University, Stanislaus. She's been in the crosshairs of Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, since the university's nonprofit foundation last week signed her to speak at the school's 50th anniversary celebration. State Sens. Jeff Denham of Atwater and Dave Cogdill of Modesto with Assemblymen Tom Berryhill of Modesto and Bill Berryhill of Ceres wrote a letter to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed praising the foundation for bringing Palin to campus. The foundation is charged with raising money to support the school, and...

Hey all. I am relatively new to posting at Free Republic although I have donated and read posts for years. Ironically I have posted to blogs and all other types of groups but I have not had much luck getting my posts published on FR. Is there some guidance I can follow that will help me better place my posts? I can't find a Q&A or other guide. For example, if you a referencing a news article should you post it only under News or under other topic headings as well. Finally, do all the posts end up in the...

"California State Stanislaus Students Want to Ban Sarah Palin from Campus Speech Due to Ideological Reasons" the story headline acurately reads. However, the larger more troubling story is who is behind the student's protest and ban.

Perhaps the ads from Focus on the Family featuring Pam Tebow and her son Tim act as a sort of Rorshach test for some people. Where most viewers would see the ads as playful, light, and welcoming, some see them as a threat — and maybe some don’t see them at all outside of their preconceived notions. Power Line notices that the Associated Press misreports the content of the two ads: But not every commercial was strictly humorous. Automaker Toyota aired several pregame ads to reassure worried owners after its recalls connected with accelerator problems.And a commercial by conservative Christian...

Scott Roeder will take the witness stand to testify on his own behalf, attorney Steve Osburn told The Associated Press in the wake of a heated hearing about which defense evidence jurors will be allowed to hear.Roeder will be allowed to testify about his personally held beliefs, the judge said, not about medical procedures of which he has no knowledge or expertise."He is not going to be able to get up there and just blurb out what he wants to say," {District Judge Warren}Wilbert said.