A Mount Vernon science teacher said yesterday that he will refuse to remove a Bible from his classroom desk despite his school district’s order.”Thousands of citizens in this community have built their lives on deeply held religious convictions, and it is for them that I stand today,” John Freshwater, 51, who teaches at Mount Vernon Middle School, said in a news release.

The religious activist Dave Daubenmire, Freshwater’s friend, acted as his spokesman yesterday. “This is not a religion issue; this is a free-speech issue,” Daubenmire said. “He didn’t take the Bible to read to anybody.”

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Staff members for a prominent pro-family organization that has been key to the battle against California’s mandated homosexual indoctrination programs for public schools are working off-site while an investigation is conducted into threats that someone would arrive at the office and “punish” them, officials confirmed today.The investigation into the threats follows several days of aggressive attacks on the website for Capitol Resource Family Impact, which has restored the site multiple times, only to see another hacker attack disable the location.

Karen England, chief of the organization that has played a prominent role in a challenge to the implementation of SB777, a legislative plan to mandate only positive messages about homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in public schools, confirmed the web attacks, and the subsequent threat.

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In his first major speech on religion, Tony Blair said last night that religion must be rescued from extremism and irrelevance and used as a force for good at a time of global turmoil.Blair, who converted to Catholicism last year, made the call in a lecture on faith and globalisation at Westminster Cathedral, the first in ‘The Cardinal’s Lectures’ series organised by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor to examine faith and life in Britain.

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