An excerpt of the work was removed from the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture following
protests by a religious group and conservative politicians.
Not exact matches
By Vivienne Foley, CNN New York (CNN)- Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to
protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on
religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.
The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but
religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches,
protests over attacks on Christians
by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority
religious groups to collect signatures from local majority
groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its
religious groups.
And second this blog has often reported news bits about atheist billboard campaigns or atheist conventions that get
protested by various
religious groups or when atheists try to enforce legislation to remove offensive
religious material from government and education.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul responded to those
protests by issuing a statement rejecting «acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam» and adding that «Americans from all
religious and ethnic backgrounds reject the offensive initiative
by this small
group in Florida.»
Religion News Service: Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party
protests in Ohio The «Nuns on the Bus» have been a consistently popular and effective faith - based tool for
religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a
group of demonstrators apparently organized
by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.
Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The
Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms
by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983
protest by a
group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....
Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals,
religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported
by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist
groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass
protests in the first place.