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4 hrs ago | seattlepi.nwsource.com | lois sprague

Radical gay activist group plans more disruptions

Religious organizations are on the watch for possible protests by radical gay activists who targeted churches in Michigan and Washington this month.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Grand Ledge, MI

4 hrs ago | www.speroforum.com | lois sprague

Parents abandon their children

Many families and parents today have renounced their educational duty to children and youth who are left to their own devices and instincts, while school education has been reduced to mere information, with ...

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4 hrs ago | rawstory.com | lois sprague

Group: Did House chaplain once hide clergy sex crimes?

Roll Call revealed Wednesday that the Catholic priest who currently serves as chaplain for the House of Representatives formerly oversaw a retreat outside Chicago where troubled priests were sent, including ...

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church

7 hrs ago | www.reuters.com | lois sprague

Episcopal Church dissidents aim for new church

Conservatives who have abandoned the U.S. Episcopal Church by the thousands in recent years are trying to form a separate-but-equal church, a move that could leave two branches of Anglicanism on American soil.

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Related Topix: Episcopal Church, Gay/Lesbian, California, PA, Anglican, US News

Wed Nov 19, 2008

www.freerepublic.com | lois sprague

What The Times Forgot to Mention about California’s Marriage Amendment

An article in The New York Times reports that Attorney General Jerry Brown has asked the state's Supreme Court to rule on the legality of a voter-approved constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union ...

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Related Topix: Wedding, Gay/Lesbian

www.propeller.com | lois sprague

Explaining the Long - and Largely Untold - History of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

Explaining the Long - and Largely Untold - History of Jewish Opposition to Zionism >> Posted By hyperbola 1 hour, 58 minutes ago in Religion Read: 7 Propped: 4 A THREAT FROM WITHIN: A CENTURY OF JEWISH ...

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Judaism,

www.gateline.com | lois sprague

On faith: Defense of marriage a moral issue in California

The First Amendment guaranteeing free expression in political speech to all does not exclude the clergy and people of faith from speaking out on moral issues.

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Related Topix: Wedding, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gay/Lesbian

Tue Nov 18, 2008

www.suntimes.com | lois sprague

Anti-gay bias puts blacks in bad company

It is not on me to make God's case against gay Americans. That's better left to the preachers who are called to wrestle with moral issues.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, African-American, Wedding, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Sports

www.oprah.com | lois sprague

Be honest-

Won't it be horrible to find out after death the Christians were right? That all you had to do in this life was to make a decision to accept Jesus Christ and the sacrifice he made for you so you could be in ...

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Related Topix: Pagan/Wiccan

www.freerepublic.com | lois sprague

First Lady Bush condemns Taliban acid attack on schoolgirls

First Lady Laura Bush condemned on Thursday a recent assault on Afghani schoolgirls, describing the act as "cowardly and shameful." On Wednesday adult male attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at ...

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muslimahmediawatch.org | lois sprague

How to Use a Murder Victim: The Exploitation of the Aqsa Parvez Tragedy

Posted by Sobia in Books/Magazines , Culture/Society , Politics . Tags: Aqsa Parvez , Canadian Muslims , domestic violence , honor killing , Islamophobia , xenophobia trackback A recent Toronto Life magazine ...

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Mon Nov 17, 2008

mediamatters.org | lois sprague

Gingrich: "[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that...

Summary: Discussing actions by individual protesters of Proposition 8, Newt Gingrich stated: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is ...

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Newt Gingrich, Transgendered

www.catholicculture.org | lois sprague

South Carolina diocese repudiates priest's remarks; parishioners show support

Msgr. Martin T. Laughlin, administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, has repudiated remarks made by Father Jay Scott Newman in which the latter said that supporters of President-elect Barack Obama must repent ...

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Related Topix: Charleston, SC, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Abortion, Roman Catholic Church, Greenville, SC

www.telegraph.co.uk | lois sprague

Amish sue US government for 'mark of the Beast' on livestock

Amish farmers are to sue the US government on the grounds that plans to put electronic identity tags on livestock constitute imposing the "mark of the Beast". Amish farmers say the livestock ID scheme is a ...

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Related Topix: Amish, Agriculture, Science

southernstudies.org | lois sprague

Controversy over Catholic support for pro-choice Obama heats up in South Carolina

The administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston has repudiated a South Carolina priest who told his parishioners they should not take Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Greenville, SC

www.digitalspy.co.uk | lois sprague

Prince spreads his religion in LA

Prince has revealed that he knocks on doors to tell others about the ministry of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Related Topix: Classical, Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Dance, The Matrix

Sun Nov 16, 2008

www.insidebayarea.com | lois sprague

Priest apologizes for ordering car with Obama stickers removed

A Fairfield priest who had asked for a car with several Obama for President stickers to be removed from the church parking lot a week ago apologized today to churchgoers for his outburst.

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www.upi.com | lois sprague

Catholics split on abortion, voting

Catholic voters supported the pro-choice candidate in the U.S. presidential election despite their church's opposition to abortion, election returns indicate.

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Related Topix: Abortion, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Roman Catholic Church, Barack Obama, John McCain, Northglenn, CO

www.wibw.com | lois sprague

Same-Sex Marriage Supporters March Across America

More than a week after voters in California, Arizona and Florida passed ballot initiatives outlawing same-sex marriage, thousands of people across the country protested the bans in simultaneous rallies ...

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Related Topix: California, Gay/Lesbian

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