Chaplain #39;s Choice: #39;Religious Freedom or Your Career #39;
A Navy chaplain is facing career-ending discipline for expressing his Christian faith during private counseling sessions with sailors.

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http://www.fulllifefoundation.com -Wednesday Service - 11th Mar. 2015.

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By Joey LoMonaco March 11 at 10:52 PM

Its nearing 8 p.m. Tuesday, and James West entreats his up-and-coming point guard to get on up. At his coachs behest, the gangly sophomore currently writhing on the business end of a ball screen manages to lift himself off the hardwood at Freedom High School in Woodbridge much like hes helped resurrect this Eagles program to its first state tournament appearance since 2007.

The young mans name is also James West.

Several hours earlier, Potomac (Va.) Coach Keith Honore made the drive back from Charlottesville following the 5A North region coaches meeting at Albemarle High. It was a good haul for the Panthers head honcho he claimed the coach of the year honor, and Belgium transplant Armond Griebe his offensive-minded center made the second team.

Yet, Honores pride brimmed most for a four-year player he described as having worn many different hats during his Potomac career. From humble origins as a freshman backup whose sole responsibility was to not make mistakes during the scant minutes he saw, to a valued role player, to a starter and state champion last season, the freshly minted 5A North player of the year joined Honores staff as a coach on the floor in 2014-15. The pair also shares a Dumfries home and a surname.

In fact, for Keijon Honore and James West IV the pair of starting point guards who will represent area squads Potomac and Freedom-Woodbridge in the Thursdays Virginia 5A state semifinals at VCUs Siegel Center, the head coach also goes by another name Dad. The Eagles (15-12) take on defending state-runner up Henrico at 7 p.m., followed immediately by the No. 5 Panthers (22-3), who have a 9 p.m. date with Norview.

Sitting inside the kitchen of his comfortable Woodbridge home a few hours ahead of Tuesdays practice, West III Freedoms seventh-year coach is quick to brush away any inkling of nepotism.

Hes not the first freshman to make our team as a varsity guy, he starts, referring to his son, slouched in a chair opposite him.

But hes certainly the one whose name entails the highest expectations.

On the nearby living room wall, a framed newspaper clipping from 2012 hangs bearing the headline Making the best choice.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. The co-owners of Freedom Communications and its flagship newspaper, the Orange County Register, have resigned all executive duties, two years after buying the company and pushing through sweeping changes.

The Register reports (http://bit.ly/1E4gurI ) Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz announced their decision Tuesday, although Spitz will stay on as Freedom's chairman of the board.

Publisher Rich Mirman has assumed executive duties as Freedom's chief executive and president. Mirman is a former casino marketing executive who has run the paper's day-to-day operations since October.

Kushner, Spitz and their 2100 Trust bought Freedom Communications in 2012 and focused on its print rather than its online presence. They doubled the Register's newsroom staff, bought the Riverside Press-Enterprise and launched a new paper, the Los Angeles Register, which closed after five months, leading to layoffs.

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An increasingly aggressive war on religious freedom is something American Christians must proactively battle back against and not leave to the nations political and religious leaders, according to possible presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who spoke Tuesday evening at a religious freedom rally hosted by Imago Dei Christian Fellowship in West Chester Twp.

Santorum, a former two-term U.S. senator representing Pennsylvania and presidential candidate, told the Journal-News prior to the speech that he expects to decide on a 2016 presidential bid by sometime late spring, early summer say June, give or take a month.

In the meantime, he plans to tour the nation to gauge reaction on his message of religious freedom, including in Ohio, which he said is very important to the presidential race.

We wouldnt have the (2016 Republican National) convention here if we didnt think it was important, Santorum said.

During his 45-minute speech punctuated by Amens and applause, Santorum pressed a crowd of approximately 400 to react to a direct assault on people of faith for living their faith out in the public square.

Were battling and theres only two institutions in America to battle back, said Santorum, a 56-year-old social conservative, practicing Catholic and father of seven. One is the church and the other is the family. Thats why if you look at everything the left is trying to do in America, everything the secular society is trying to do, theyre trying to tear those two institutions down and they are coming after you.

Santorum, who in 2012 scored what he described then as a huge upset in the Iowa Republican caucuses before eventually finishing as runner-up to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney on the national level, urged audience members to be more proactive in defense of their faith.

We have to understand that unless we are out there forming and informing, the other side is going to win the battle, he said. You cannot win an argument you dont make.

America, he said, is a product of the American Revolution, which was founded on the Declaration of Independences principle ofWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.

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Bellarmine College Prep ran into a dangerous opponent Wednesday night in the first round of the Northern California Division I regionals.

Freedom had superior height and, as its coach put it after the Falcons' 56-48 victory at Bellarmine, a nothing-to-lose frame of mind.

Two weeks after it thought its season was over when it lost a North Coast Section quarterfinal in heartbreaking fashion to Berkeley, Freedom took full advantage of the second chance it got Sunday when the California Interscholastic Federation put NCS D-I champ Monte Vista in the Open Division, clearing room for Freedom to resurrect its season.

Bellarmine College Prep Bells' Kieran Bradford (35) fights for a loose ball against Freedom Falcons' Devin Pierce (5) in the fourth quarter at Bellarmine College Prep for the first round of the Northern California Division I regional boys basketball playoffs in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) ( Nhat V. Meyer )

After fifth-seeded Bellarmine pulled within 48-47 with 21/2 minutes left, Freedom showed why it reached the Northern California Division I final last season, scoring eight of the final nine points to return to Oakley with the win.

Kendall McIntosh, a 6-foot-8 post, and guard Nick Evans each had 17 points for Freedom, which moves on to play at fourth-seeded Woodcreek on Saturday.

Kyle Owens (12 points) and Angelo Athens (11) led Bellarmine in scoring.

"It's a very surreal feeling right now because we lost at the buzzer (to Berkeley) and everyone is crying in the locker room thinking our season is done," said Freedom coach Drew Torres, whose team reached the NorCal final last season. "But then all of a sudden they said you might get an opportunity. Sure enough, we got in, the last seed. But we don't feel like we're a last-seeded team. We're just glad to be playing. No pressure's on us."

Bellarmine coach Patrick Schneider agreed that Freedom is much better than its seed. "But, still, it's not about rankings, it's not about seedings," Schneider said. "We had to come onto the court and play a much cleaner game than we played tonight. Freedom deserves all the credit for what they did. McIntosh, even with him alone, there is enough of a height advantage. But the other guys are long reach, quick."

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