PUBLIC MARKS from jasontromm with tag california

Compare and contrast... In Dallas, a school district strikes the words "In God We Trust" from the photo of an enlarged nickel on a yearbook cover for fear of offending students of differing religions. In California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (the one that outlawed the Pledge of Allegiance for its reference to God) approved putting public school students through Muslim role-playing exercises.

Pro-abortion advocates are attacking pharmacists for having a conscience. Now, here’s the great irony: These attacks on pharmacists are coming at the very time that the California Medical Association is attempting to bar doctors from getting involved in death-row executions -- even if the doctors have no objections to taking part. You can’t kill murderers, but you must kill babies. Health-care providers, it appears, are allowed to have a conscience, so long as those consciences object only to politically correct moral evils.

A former graduate student who lost an internship for discussing her Christian faith with co-workers has filed a federal lawsuit. Jacqueline Escobar was completing a master's degree in social work at California State University Long Beach when she interned with the Department of Children and Family Services, or DCFS.

Association can't exclude homosexuals, non-believers as members A state university in California refuses to recognize a Christian student organization because it requires members to live according to the group's religious faith.

The entire gay marriage debate, intensified by the California legislature's approval of a bill granting licenses for homosexual marriages and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to veto it, misses the big picture. The real question is: Why is government licensing marriages in the first place?

Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became a leader of the anti-war movement after her son died in Iraq, was arrested Monday along with hundreds of others protesting outside the White House.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, citing a ballot measure supporting traditional marriage, promised yesterday to veto the first state legislation approving same-sex marriage.