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Church-state watchdog claims taxpayer-funded charter school more parochial than publicnew

"Because God has positioned me and put me in this garden called San Antonio, he has given me the jurisdiction to operate with dominion in San Antonio, amen?" – Cheryl Washington

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 06-25-2012 | Religion

Tags: charter schools

Scientology showdown reveals claims of torture, abuse of dissenting membersnew

Debbie Cook had already spent seven weeks confined in a facility known ominously as “The Hole” inside a small room with barred windows where she says she was forced to sleep on a bug-infested floor and served only bowls of inedible "slop."

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 02-16-2012 | Religion

Tags: Scientology, Debbie Cook

John Hagee Recovers from Surgery and Finds Himself in Barack Obama's Americanew

When Hagee returns to the helm at the Cornerstone Church on Nov. 16, he will deliver his first sermon as a citizen of Barack Obama's America, and it's safe to say he won't be one of the new administration's most ardent boosters. But has his brand of Armageddon fear-mongering run its course?

San Antonio Current | Gilbert Garcia | 11-14-2008 | Religion

Tags: Barack Obama, religion, evangelicals, John McCain, politics, Conservative, John Hagee, Cornerstone Church

Rev. Barry W. Lynn Stumps for the Constitution's Establishment Clausenew

The executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State has supported vigorous national debate on a host of Religious Right pet initiatives, and he continues with his book Piety & Politics.

San Antonio Current | Elaine Wolff | 11-21-2007 | Religion

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