 A circuslike atmosphere broke out Thursday during a rally to launch Rep. Sally Kern's proclamation for morality.
Protesters repeatedly interrupted Kern, R-Oklahoma City, and her supporters, chanting for the separation of church and state and calling Kern and her supporters hypocrites.
A crowd of as many as 250 Kern supporters and protesters attended the event on the first floor of the state Capitol.
Among Kern's supporters were Republican Reps. Mike Reynolds of Oklahoma City and Lisa Billy of Lindsay.
The proclamation, the bulk of which was written by Kern, calls for a national awakening of righteousness. Read On
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 PRIVATE CLUB A private suburban swim club accused of racism after it canceled the memberships of dozens of minority children says it will seek a meeting with the kids' camps to work out an agreement for them to return.
Amy Goldman, a member of The Valley Club, said those able to attend a hastily called meeting Sunday afternoon voted unanimously in support of reinstating the memberships of the Creative Steps day camp and two other camps as long as safety issues, times and terms can be agreed upon.
The Creative Steps camp had arranged for 65 mostly black and Hispanic children to swim each Monday afternoon at the gated Huntingdon Valley club, which is on a leafy hillside in a village straddling two overwhelmingly white townships. Read On |
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 The sad tale of Michael Jackson will be retold a few thousand times more as autopsy reports and estate details emerge.
Meanwhile, the presumed verdict is that Jackson died of prescription drugs. On CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" Thursday, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, said that Jackson's death was a wake-up call to the country about prescription drugs.
Maybe. Maybe not. We all know that abusing prescription drugs -- taking them for purposes other than prescribed -- is bad for our health. Potentially deadly, in fact. Read On
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 Michael Jackson was killed by a band of greedy hangers-on, his sister La Toya alleges in interviews with British Sunday newspapers. The King of Pop's sister spoke about her younger brother's death and the aftermath with The Mail on Sunday and the News of the World weeklies. PHOTOS: Click for scenes from Jackson's Los Angeles memorial Click here for all of FOXNews.com's coverage of Michael Jackson."I believe Michael was murdered, I felt that from the start,'' the 53-year-old said. Read On |
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 The Rise and Fall of the Christian Coalition To this day, the words "Christian Coalition" are likely to evince a strong reaction from those who hear them — on both sides of the ideological aisle. To many self-proclaimed liberals, the organization is viewed as one of the main culprits of what Hillary Clinton called a "vast right-wing conspiracy." To many socially conservative believers, though, especially those who embraced public-policy activism in the 1990s, the Coalition is remembered as one of the decade's most active and effective engines for advancing pro-family laws and electing pro-family lawmakers. But what happened to the group that billed itself as "giving Christians a voice in their government again" — and famously succeeded on that promise? In 1994, the Christian Coalition was credited with helping Newt Gingrich orchestrate the takeover of both houses of Congress — remember the Contract with America? — yet just a few years later it existed in little more than name only. Read On |
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