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IT'S THE apology, stupid. NAACP board Chairman Julian Bond took to the podium Sunday to address the organization's 96th convention in Milwaukee. Once again, Bond pretended to bemoan President George W. Bush's decision not to address the convention. ... Bond proceeded to bash Bush, saying "the president likes to talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk" on civil rights. That's because Bond's definition of "civil rights" flies in the face of the very language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law calls for things to be done without regard to race, color or creed. So do...

WASHINGTON - Liberals say they believe in God, too. It's one of the hottest trends in politics today. Prominent Democrats are suddenly quoting from the Bible - as John Kerry said recently, "I went back and reread the whole New Testament" - but what's truly striking is the determination of liberal Christians to create an effective religious left. That's why Tim Simpson trekked to Washington yesterday. A Presbyterian pastor from Tallahassee, Fla., he wants to counter the power of the religious right, which works in tandem with the Republican Party, and, as he sees it, "has taken control of the...

Just check out the link. I can't believe the membership of these churches would actually support the left wing agenda of this orgnanization. Shouldn't church leaders spend more time on matters of the faith and less on political idiocy? And honouring a phony impregnating Jesse Jackson just takes the cake.

It's almost beyond satire: A resolution affirming that Christ is Lord put forward in the United Church of Christ is not expected to pass. "It is highly detrimental to the health and growth of UCC churches and extremely embarrassing for UCC pastors and members to be viewed as non-Christians," the resolution notes, adding that the denomination has long been viewed as being a magnet for "Unitarians Considering Christ." The Rev. Albert W. Kovacs, who supports the resolution, says that the denomination now has "significant numbers of clergy who don’t believe in God." The story added: "A Haworth pastor said the...

In not untypical fashion, the faithfully left-leaning National Council of Churches (NCC) has issued a poisonous little July 4 greeting to the American people. The statement from the NCC Governing Board is not a celebration of two centuries of American democracy and religious liberty, with gratitude to God. It is instead a screed against the "dishonorable" war in Iraq. "It has become clear that the rationale for invasion was at best a tragic mistake, at worst a clever deception," the statement generously opines. Although comprised of denominations totaling over 40 million mainstream Americans, the NCC has for 40 years been...

National Council of Churches(NCC): Celebrate July 4th by Slamming the War, Calling for Withdrawal, Caving to the Jihadists From the NCC website: The Governing Board of the National Council of Churches USA invites you to join them in this call to pursue peace and justice in Iraq. A Call to Speak Out. July 4, 2005 This year our nation is at war as we observe the 4th of July, a day that honors those founders who spoke out for independence from tyranny. Today in Iraq a cruel dictator has been deposed, yet the suffering of the Iraqi people continues. Mandated...

The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) will consider a proposal to withdraw its membership from the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches. The proposal will be presented at its 14th All-American Council in Toronto, Ontario, July 17-22. "[O]ur participation and the participation of other Orthodox Churches lend credibility and legitimacy to ecumenical organizations which, in the public perception, are espousing beliefs often antithetical to the Orthodox convictions," the proposal says. Instead of the WCC and NCC, the report says, "Ecumenical Christian relations should be sought with conservative Christian bodies." It also asked other Orthodox communions to...

Greetings from Faithful America: As a person of faith, please step up and help us make sure our elected officials keep their covenant with the American people on Social Security. Like you, we think it's more than a matter of economics. It's a matter of keeping faith with every man, woman, and child in America. In case you don't know who we are, FaithfulAmerica is an online community of folks (more than 100,000 strong) who believe our faith - however expressed - has a word to say about political things. Through our website ( www.faithfulamerica.org) and e-mail we make taking...

Since its initial gathering in 2001, Christian Churches Together has sought to form a fellowship of the broadest spectrum of Christian churches and traditions in the USA. The gathering at Los Altos brought together a wider, more diverse circle of Christian church leaders than at any of the previous four meetings.

A month or so back, when some conservative Christians asserted that Democrats and liberals attempting to block the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees were anti-Christian, Bob Edgar, head of the National Council of Churches Nobody Goes To Anymore, pretended to be shocked and offended:We are surprised and grieved by a campaign launched this week by Family Research Council and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who said that those who disagree with them on President Bush’s judicial nominees are "against people of faith."  This campaign, which they are calling ’Justice Sunday,’ should properly be called "Just-Us" Sunday. Their attempt to...

Political opportunists in its ranks sought a wedge issue to weaken the GOP's coalition of Jews, Catholics and evangelicals and shatter its electoral majority. They passed over obvious headliners and landed on a curious but cunning choice: the environment. Those leading the charge are effective advocates: LBJ alumnus Bill Moyers of PBS fame, members of the National Council of Churches USA and liberal theologians who claim a moral superiority to other people of faith.

On April 29 and 30, liberal activists gathered in New York City for a weekend conference on "Examining the Real Agenda of the Religious Far Right." The program consisted of speeches with alarmist titles like "The Rise of Dominionism in U.S. Government," "Is an Unholy American Theocracy Here?," "Christian Jihad," and "Fundamentalism: The Fear and The Rage." There were no conservative Christians on the program. The conference was sponsored by People for the American Way, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and the National Council of Churches (NCC), along with the left-wing periodicals The Nation and The...

The National Council of Churches USA expresses gratitude to God and appreciation to the U.S. Senate for eliminating the threat to our democracy posed by what has been called the "nuclear option" that would have seriously undermined the democracy in which we live and greatly damaged the fabric of our society.

The Eco-Justice Program of the National Council of Churches USA has launched a new Western Public Lands Initiative to address growing threats to our nation’s public lands and associated resources.

"Dominionist" Fantasies By Anthony Williams FrontPageMagazine.com | May 4, 2005 “This may be the darkest time in our history.” These were the words of Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches (NCC) at a two-day conference at the City University of New York this past weekend, referring to the “threat” of religious fundamentalism. But in a world where Islamism currently represents the greatest persecutor of human rights and freedoms, Edgar wasn’t referring to public stonings, forced marriages, forced gender segregation, honor killings, or female genital mutilation throughout the Islamic Middle East. In a conference entitled, “Examining the...

Communists host meet on religion Author: Susan Webb People's Weekly World Newspaper, 04/28/05 13:46 DES MOINES, Iowa — “The word of God and communism are hand in hand,” said Diana Sowry, a school bus driver from Ashtabula County, Ohio. She was one of a group of clergy and lay people participating in a conference on religion sponsored by the Communist Party USA here April 15-16. Sowry is a union activist and also active in her church, where she sings in the choir. She feels communists and others who are working to defeat the ultra-right and advance peace, social and economic...

PHILADELPHIA - A Methodist minister who had been defrocked for being in a lesbian relationship, then was reinstated, called for an end to discrimination against gays in a speech to hundreds of supporters Sunday. "Other faith traditions out there have tried to shut us down and tell us we're not worthy," said the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud, who spoke along with the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, at an interfaith service. "I pray for a day when no one will experience discrimination." Stroud, who was defrocked after she told her Philadelphia congregation that she was in...

CLEVELAND. — The United Church of Christ, a denomination known for its progressive stand on social issues, will consider opposing resolutions on same-sex marriage at its biennial meeting in July, a church official said Friday. "We take our democratic form of church governance seriously," said the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, spokesman for the Cleveland-based UCC. "This will ensure some heated conversation for our church when we meet in Atlanta." This is the first time the same-sex marriage issue will be debated at the church's General Synod meeting. The United Church of Christ has a membership of 1.3 million. The General...

WASHINGTON, April 21 - As the Senate battle over judicial confirmations became increasingly entwined with religious themes, officials of several major Protestant denominations on Thursday accused the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, of violating the principles of his own Presbyterian church and urged him to drop out of a Sunday telecast that depicts Democrats as "against people of faith." Dr. Frist's participation has rekindled a debate over the role of religion in public life that may be complicating his efforts to overcome the Democrats' use of the filibuster, a parliamentary tactic used by Congressional minorities, to block President Bush's judicial...

No Worshipping Allowed Last week fidel castro made the news when visiting La Catredal in Havana upon the Pope's death. This week, it's back to the business of stifling dissent along with religion: SANTA CLARA, April 11 (Yilybed Santana Quirós, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) Preachers Edelton Villa and Luis Pedraza, of the Church of Christ, told Rosario Irene Barata on April 10 that she was excommunicated and barred from all church activities until she gave up her activities as a dissident from the line of the Cuban government. Barata is a member of the Democratic Christian Movement. Her husband, Alfredo...