2 Feb 2012

New Jersey General Assembly considers another one today.

1 Feb 2012

Washington Senate set to vote today; Maryland Senate Judiciary Committee vote may come this week.

1 Feb 2012

Win makes him first back-to-back victor of primary season.

31 Jan 2012

Late last week, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., introduced a bill aiming to protect chaplains and other members of the Armed Services who oppose homosexuality from being targeted for discrimination. It also seeks to keep military property from being used to perform same-sex ceremonies.

In part, the Military Religious Freedom Protection Act (HR 3828) reads that “a service member cannot be denied promotion or other training opportunities for any sincerely held beliefs he has about the appropriate or inappropriate expression of human sexuality.”

31 Jan 2012

State law says cities can’t determine for themselves who deserves special protections.

30 Jan 2012

Churches from across the state of Maryland are gathering in Annapolis for a rally tonight, before the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing Wednesday on a bill seeking to redefine marriage.

If the bill passes out of the committee, it could receive a vote by the full Senate as early as Thursday.

That’s something state Del. Emmett Burns says is not going to happen if the churches have anything to say about it. And they’ve got plenty to say.

27 Jan 2012

Meanwhile, poll reveals most state residents think lawmakers should be working on other issues.

26 Jan 2012

When it comes to winning elections, no one single group holds the most power — but politicians from all parties would do well to pay attention to Latinos and the issues that most closely concern them in 2012.

In 2004, they helped carry George W. Bush to victory — and in 2008, by a slim margin, they voted for Barack Obama. They will play a pivotal role on Jan. 31, when the Florida primary takes place.

And with 10 million members and counting, Hispanic evangelicals are becoming a prominent part of the voting bloc. And this year, they’re working harder than ever to get people to the polls.

25 Jan 2012

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn was not the only federal official to skip President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address Tuesday.

As cameras scanned the audience assembled in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, it was hard to miss the fact that only five of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices were present — Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

Though Justice Sonia Sotomayor — one of Obama’s appointees — was likely on her way to Guam, where she’s scheduled to speak at an upcoming judicial conference, conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were conspicuously absent.

24 Jan 2012

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed by voice votes two separate bills concerning expressions of faith for war veterans.

HR 2070, sponsored by Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, adds President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer to the existing World War II Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. HR 290, sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., would allow symbols of veterans’ various religious faiths to be displayed on existing and future war memorials.