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Florida bipartisan bill would impose privacy regulations on anti-abortion pregnancy centers

Two state lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — have come together to file legislation that would require pregnancy resource centers, or crisis pregnancy centers, to protect the private medical information of women who visit them.

Former congressman who says Muslim Brotherhood is behind Occupy Wall Street endorses Gingrich

Mother Jones reports that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has received an endorsement from former Rep. Fred Grandy, R-Iowa, an anti-Islam activist.

Florida lawmaker inadvertently caught up in Florida Family Association hacking

By | 12.14.11 | 1:12 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Florida Rep. Daphne Campbell, D-Miami Shores, has been inadvertently caught up in the ongoing controversy over the decision by home improvement giant Lowe’s to pull advertising from the TLC show All-American Muslim, a decision made due to pressure from the Tampa-based Florida Family Association.

Florida churches will host conservative get-out-the-vote effort

By | 11.11.11 | 12:19 pm | More from The Florida Independent

This Saturday, 34 churches in Florida will host a viewing of “One Nation Under God,” which is being promoted as a “two-hour premiere DVD event featuring top American thinkers and political leaders who will bring the truth about God and America to people gathered

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Crisis pregnancy centers join anti-abortion groups in support of N.C. ultrasound law

By | 11.11.11 | 10:40 am | More from The Florida Independent

Crisis pregnancy centers have joined anti-abortion groups that filed a motion to intervene in a court ruling blocking the implementation of a North Carolina law that would have forced doctors to show women an ultrasound and describe it to them before providing an abortion.

(Video) Ellison challenger, known as anti-abortionist, releases anti-Muslim ad

By | 11.10.11 | 11:42 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Gary Boisclair, an anti-abortion activist running in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District as a Democrat, launched an anti-Islam ad last weekend.

Freedom From Religion Foundation: Florida school prayer bill ‘patently unconstitutional’

By | 11.09.11 | 1:14 pm | More from The Florida Independent

In a letter to state legislators, the co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation warn policy-makers that a new school prayer bill is “patently unconstitutional.”

Focus on the Family, NOM will host GOP presidential forum

By | 11.09.11 | 9:36 am | More from The Colorado Independent

The weekend before thanksgiving, Colorado Springs-based evangelical group Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage will host a Republican presidential candidate forum in Des Moines centered on social issues.

Florida Tea Party Convention rescinds invitation to Muslim organization

By | 11.03.11 | 3:42 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Hassan Shibly of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been disinvited by organizers of the upcoming Florida Tea Party Convention.

Anti-Defamation League speaks out against school prayer bill in Florida

By | 11.03.11 | 10:34 am | More from The Florida Independent

The Anti-Defamation League expressed disappointment with yesterday’s vote by the Florida Senate Pre K-12 Education Committee “in favor of an amended version of a divisive and constitutionally defective statewide school prayer bill.”

According to a summary of the bill, it would “authorize district school boards to More…