(RNS1-MAR08) The influential Christian law firm Liberty Counsel has issued 51 "Adopt a Liberal" trading cards that encourage prayer for some of the nation's most liberal figures in politics, the arts and media. For use with RNS-LIBERAL-ADOPT, transmitted March 8, 2010. RNS photo courtesy Liberty Counsel. | Download/Purchase this photo
I’ll trade your Nancy Pelosi for my Barack Obama …
By Adelle M. Banks
WASHINGTON (RNS) Attention Californians: Your governor has just been adopted. Next up: your bleeding-heart senator, Barbara Boxer, and not far behind, her Democratic colleague, Dianne Feinstein.
Not by a new set of parents, mind you, but rather an army of conservative prayer warriors committed to restoring “poor leaders to right thinking.”
The Republican governor’s alleged sins? Supporting abortion funding and “imposing same-sex `marriage’” on the Golden State while allowing “out-of-control liberal spending.”
Boxer, a Democrat, is cited as a “radical environmentalist” and embracing “ultraliberal” positions. Feinstein “encourages closing Guantanamo” and shipping terror suspects to …
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Tuesday’s roundup
President Obama's faith advisory council will present its recommendations for transforming the White House faith-based office to the administration today. Church-state separators say they are "extremely disappointed" at how Obama has handled the office thus far.
Prospects are good for a compromise on abortion that would pass muster in the House on the health care reform bill, says Rep. Bart Stupak, the leading anti-abortion Dem in the House. The AP has a helpful Q&A about how the bill would change federal abortion policy.
A …
RNS CHURCH FORGIVE (RNS2-MAR08) Jose Feliciano is accused in the murder of the Rev. Edward Hinds, pastor of St. Patrick Church in Chatham, N.J. Feliciano, a former janitor for the church, is suspected after Hinds reportedly made plans to fire Feliciano for failing to pass a routine background check. For use with RNS-CHURCH-FORGIVE, transmitted March 8, 2010. RNS photo by Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger.
(RNS3-MAR03) Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, the powerful Christian law firm, is representing Lisa Miller, a lesbian-turned-evangelical who is on the run in a long and bitter custody dispute with her former partner. For use with RNS-10-MINUTES, transmitted March 3, 2010. RNS photo courtesy Liberty Counsel. | Download/Purchase this photo
10 Minutes with … Mat Staver
By Adelle M. Banks
(RNS) Just when it seemed things couldn’t get more acrimonious, the long-running custody case involving Lisa Miller, an evangelical Christian and former lesbian, and her ex-partner, Janet Jenkins, has taken yet another turn.
A judge in Vermont, where the couple entered a civil union in 2000, ordered Miller’s arrest so that Jenkins could assume custody of their 7-year-old daughter Isabella after Miller refused visitations and missed court hearings.
Since then, Miller has been on the run and no one can seem to find her. The case has pitted state laws in Vermont against those in Virginia, …