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Oklahoma health care workers are divided along familiar lines with respect to a new federal rule. The “right of conscience” rule, signed by President George W. Bush on Dec. 18, extends federal protection to health care workers who have a “reasonable” connection to the delivery of health care services, including pharmacists, nurses and, conceivably, custodians, […]

On Nov. 4, more than one million Oklahomans ” nearly 79 percent of voters ” voted in favor of State Question 743, a ballot initiative that proponents hope will bolster Oklahoma’s growing wine industry. The verbiage in the question was a result of compromises between Oklahoma liquor wholesalers on one side and Oklahoma winemakers and […]

Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, along with U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., chairs Catholics for McCain, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying and grassroots-organizing group. According to Keating, approximately one in four voters in the November election will be Catholic, and that number makes for a huge voting bloc, especially in battleground states like Florida, Pennsylvania and […]

Richard Land, a well-known conservative radio host and political activist, will be the keynote speaker for this year’s Capital Baptist Association’s ethics and religious liberty seminar Tuesday at the First Baptist Church, 6400 S. Sooner in Del City. Land is the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and was named […]

Oklahoma Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe are signatories on a new environmental statement co-written by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Family Research Council and the Institute on Religion & Democracy, among others. The declaration is part of a larger campaign called We Get It! MANHATTAN DECLARATIONEVANGELICAL LEADERS The We […]

Nonprofit charities control $2 trillion in assets in the United States. These charities fall under the Internal Revenue Service’s tax code category 501(c)(3), a provision that allows charities and other nonprofits, both religious and secular, to be exempt from federal income taxes. Many of these charities are churches, and the smaller they are, the more […]

American Indian activists will be in Oklahoma through Tuesday participating in The Longest Walk 2, a commemoration of the original Longest Walk in 1978. Participants left Berkeley, Calif., on Feb. 10 this year taking two routes, a northern and southern, on their way to Washington, D.C. The two groups plan to meet outside Washington on […]

Super Tuesday is less than two weeks away, but Oklahoma Republicans, reflecting a national trend, are still divided over GOP candidates Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Mitt Romney. The rift in the Republican Party is being felt by Oklahoma evangelicals ” a voting bloc that, since President Ronald Reagan, has been almost uniform in its […]

o not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.”   For Oklahomans, LDS became part of state politics in 1992 when Ernest Istook ran for and won the 5th Congressional District. Istook went on to serve seven […]

Southern Baptists meeting in San Antonio, Texas, recently for their annual convention approved a motion made by an Enid pastor that is the first step in creating a database of ministers who are child predators. The June 12 vote in favor was nearly unanimous among the 8,600 messengers present. Burleson’s motion calls on the SBC’s […]