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Tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance, and acceptance is not the same thing as an endorsement. The message A&E’s decision sends is that there is zero tolerance on television for Christians who are conscientious objectors to homosexuality. More than that, it implicitly suggests that the campaign for tolerance has advanced to a campaign to pressure 45 percent of Americans to recant their beliefs and endorse a lifestyle to which they are opposed, conscience be damned. We stand at a crossroads. The country must decide. Is the endgame here to be that orthodox Christians will henceforth have no voice...

Tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance, and acceptance is not the same thing as an endorsement. The message A&E’s decision sends is that there is zero tolerance on television for Christians who are conscientious objectors to homosexuality. More than that, it implicitly suggests that the campaign for tolerance has advanced to a campaign to pressure 45 percent of Americans to recant their beliefs and endorse a lifestyle to which they are opposed, conscience be damned. We stand at a crossroads. The country must decide. Is the endgame here to be that orthodox Christians will henceforth have no voice...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, in the Republican Party's weekly message, said today that confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be respectful, but he also warned that any evidence her personal history would shape her decision-making will be challenged forcefully. "Although we sometimes take our heritage of neutral and independent judiciary for granted, the truth is, this great tradition is under attack. And the American people are rightly concerned," Sessions said in the GOP address distributed nationally as a counterpoint to President Barack Obama's weekly address. ... In his remarks, Sessions maintained his cordial approach to...

In the highly-acclaimed movie "The Queen," theater patrons see Queen Elizabeth, played by actress Helen Mirren, express her faith in God after the death of Princess Diana. But in the version of the movie shown as in-flight entertainment on some airlines, only lip readers get the message. Every reference to God in the movie is censored - replaced by a beep. At least two airlines, Delta and New Zealand Air, have shown passengers the censored version of the film, prompting complaints. Eric Johnston, an attorney with the nonprofit Southeastern Law Institute in Birmingham, compared the censoring of God in the...

In the highly-acclaimed movie "The Queen," theater patrons see Queen Elizabeth, played by actress Helen Mirren, express her faith in God after the death of Princess Diana. But in the version of the movie shown as in-flight entertainment on some airlines, only lip readers get the message. Every reference to God in the movie is censored - replaced by a beep. At least two airlines, Delta and New Zealand Air, have shown passengers the censored version of the film, prompting complaints. Eric Johnston, an attorney with the nonprofit Southeastern Law Institute in Birmingham, compared the censoring of God in the...

Siegelman guilty on 10 counts; Scrushy guilty on all counts; Hamrick and Roberts not guilty.

The words still sting, just hearing them secondhand: "You wetback, tortilla-and-salsa-eatin', low-rider-drivin', mariachi-playin', job-stealin', fast-speakin', greasy (I just can't say it). Are you all named Jesus or what? Do you always have to cram 40 into a car and 70 into an apartment? Learn to speak English." The language makes me ill. It makes me think of white robes and fire and senseless hatred. Of times past. Times I thought shamed us into a little humility. The quote, to be fair, did not come from a redneck hillbilly bent on driving Hispanics back whence they came. It didn't even come...