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ACTON.ORG: Wisconsin Democrats Want to Hear Your Confession

“As in other states, clergy in Wisconsin are mandated reporters of suspected cases of child abuse or mistreatment. If passed the Clergy Mandatory Reporting Act would, according to one of the bill’s co-sponsors, require “that members of the clergy report any instances of child abuse, including sexual abuse, ending the loophole of unjust cover-ups and misreporting currently occurring in our state.” The “loophole” referred to is the priest-penitent privilege that exempts clergy from reporting abuse revealed solely in confession (“the seal of confession”).”

GUEST: Fr. Gregory Jensen, is the pastor of Sts. Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Orthodox Mission and the Eastern Orthodox chaplain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published articles in psychology, theology, and economics and is the author of The Cure for Consumerism.

CT: The Rise of the Bible-Teaching, Plato-Loving, Homeschool Elitists

“…Western society today is increasingly eager to cut itself off from both its Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman roots. America’s elite universities, and increasingly non-elite ones, have rapidly jettisoned requirements for courses in Western thought…”

“If the country is preparing to enter a type of second Dark Ages devoid of classical thought, another unlikely group of people is arising to preserve the Great Books of the Western intellectual tradition: conservative evangelical Christians.”

“It has been the Presbyterians and other Calvinists who have lit the way in classical Christian education.”

GUEST: Dr. Louis Markos is professor in English and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University and holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. Dr. Markos is an authority on C. S. Lewis and lectures on Ancient Greece and Rome for HBU’s Honors College. He is the author of 18 books, including From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics (IVP Academic).

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DETROIT NEWS: Group seeks firing of Royal Oak officer who stopped black man

NY TIMES: Daniel Pantaleo, Officer Who Held Eric Garner in Chokehold, Is Fired

“…the Staten Island district attorney and the Justice Department declined to charge him with a crime…”
“The unintended consequence of Mr. Garner’s death must have a consequence of its own,” Commissioner O’Neill said. “It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer effectively serve as a New York City police officer.”

CBS PHILLY: Crowd Taunts Philadelphia Police Officers, Laugh At Them In Midst Of Gunfire During Standoff In Nicetown-Tioga

CBS NEWS: Videos show NYPD officers being doused with water, pelted with buckets while responding to calls