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Congress isn't planning to tackle climate change anytime soon, which means the Environmental Protection Agency is now the last line of defense.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.
Greenpeace protester arrestedCourier Mail - 2 hours ago Arrested: A protester was arrested after leaving a Shell-contracted ... Seven protesters, including actor Lucy Lawless, boarded the Arctic bound ship, ... |
Xena's Lucy Lawless spends night with protesters in New ZealandBikya Masr - 8 hours ago SYDNEY: In protest against oil giant Shell's efforts to drill oil off the Alaskan coast, television star of Xena: Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless spent the ... |
Oil-drilling ship protester arrested upon pulling outTVNZ - 8 hours ago Earlier today actor Lucy Lawless and the other protesters on-board were told by ... Lawless said, "Shell has said that they are very disappointed with ... |
Drill ship protestor arrestedRadio New Zealand - 9 hours ago Five Greenpeace activists and the actor Lucy Lawless remain in occupation of an ... Shell says it is good that he has come down, and looks forward to other ... |
Activists Vow to Continue Arctic Drill Ship OccupationScoop.co.nz (press release) - 9 hours ago Auckland, 25 February 2012 — Actor Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace New Zealand activists this afternoon vowed to continue their occupation of Arctic bound Shell ... |
Protestors will occupy ship a third dayNewstalk ZB - 10 hours ago Lucy Lawless says overnight 95 thousand people have written to Shell, to ask boss Peter Voser to cancel its plans to open up the Arctic to oil drilling. |
One gone, five remain on ship with Lawless3News NZ - 10 hours ago Actress Lucy Lawless and five other protesters remain onboard as the ship prepares ... and are demanding Shell cancel the ship's exploration to the Arctic. |
One arrested in Lawless' Greenpeace protestManawatu Standard - 10 hours ago ATTENTION-GRABBING: Greenpeace protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, boarded the Noble Discoverer at Port Taranaki on Friday. |
Second activist in custodyStuff.co.nz - 11 hours ago ... from Port Taranaki by police after he came down from the Shell drill ship. ... including actress Lucy Lawless, were still very committed to the cause. |
'Xena', Greenpeace activists climb oil-drilling ship in protestHamilton Spectator - 14 hours ago WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND Television actress Lucy Lawless climbed aboard an ... The ship is chartered by oil company Shell. Shona Geary, the company's New ... |