Church targeted by PETA never used any animals

Members at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church in Alaska were a little confused earlier this week when they received a e-mail from PETA, chastising them for subjecting animals to "cruel treatment and danger" by using them in their nativity scenes. Except, they don't. In fact, no animals are used at all in their nativity scenes. The people dress up, but the animals are usually done with puppets, or with people in costumes. PETA said that this mistake, this confusion was more or less their fault, citing that the church uses the words "living nativity" on their website, which to them, means animals. That church doesn't even use a real baby to play Jesus - they use a plastic doll. PETA, for their part, says that many animals have died in cruel and unusual ways as a direct result of having to be in a nativity scene.
(For more details on PETA's opinion, and to read the original article, click here.)

Report: Man removed from airplane because of prayer

On September 1st, an Orthodox Jew started to pray on board a Air Canada Jazz flight that was taxing down the runway, en route from Montreal to New York City. He was described by one passenger as "clearly a Hasidic Jew," with a head covering on and reading from a book. The passenger, Yves Faguy, said that the man "wasn't exactly praying out loud but he was lurching back and forth." Reportedly, the action didn't really seem to bother anyone. Anyone, that is, except the flight crew. A flight attendant approached the man and told him that his praying was making other passengers nervous. The woman apologized for the situation and then escorted the man off the plane.

According to a spokeswoman for Jazz airlines, the crew had acted "in the interest of the majority of passengers" when it removed the man from the flight. The airline isn't saying if the man was told that he was not allowed to pray, but they confirmed that the man as back on board the next flight to New York.