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• Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 531
  Equal rights for gay and lesbian people are very important to me. As an unmarried person at age 31, people sometimes assume that I am gay because of my fervent support for these issues. Its at times like these that I remind people that civil rights arent just about us as individuals, but all of us collectively as a ...
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• Catholic News for November 9, 2009 A.D.

  
  CVSTOS FIDEI — Authority: 112
  CVSTOS FIDEI MONDAY EDITION You Keep Using That Word... ...I Dont Think It Means What You Think It Means - Chris Burgwald, The Am Cth Bp. Trautmans Efforts to Derail New Translation of Missal - Fr. Z, WDTPRS? ... notable comments from above post by Father Zuhlsdorf ... Dems Cut Pro-Life ...
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• The Concert For Darwin

  
  SPANISH INQUISITOR — Authority: 112
  I had the privilege of attending a gathering last evening billed as celebrating  the double anniversaries of Darwin’s birthday (200)  and the first publication of On The Origin of Species (150). For those who are not aware of recent events in the evolution vs. intelligent design pseudo-controversy, Harrisburg PA  ...
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• 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 127
  The tragedy that took place last week at Fort Hood, Texas, was the work, it would appear, of a deranged person. It would seem that this person simply snapped, and began shooting people he did not know, and who had done nothing to him. There seemed to be no sense in these shootings and no escape for the shooter. ...
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• Post-Americanism

  
  Musings of a Pertinacious Papist — Authority: 422
  Newsweek editor Evan Thomas delivered this revealing comment when previewing the presidents speech on the anniversary of D-Day Last June: Reagan was all about America .... Obama is we are above that now. Were not just parochial, were not just chauvinistic, were not just provincial. We stand for something -- I mean ...
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• Call Your U.S. Representative to Oppose Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill

  
  Vivificat! — Authority: 476
  Folks, according to CNN , ...anti-abortion Democrats will be allowed to offer an amendment during the House health care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the new so-called "exchange" the legislation would create, three Democratic sources ...
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• Church & State – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 145
  Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education of minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. ~ George ...
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• “IRS Should Investigate Harrisburg Church For Intervening In Mayoral Election, Says Americans United”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Americans United for Separation of Church and State : In its letter to the IRS, Americans United requested an investigation. This event appears to be a clear breach of federal tax law, wrote Lynn. The church offered one candidate an opportunity to deliver a campaign address to the congregation, and the top official ...
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• Group urges IRS to change rules regarding politics and churches

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 680
  Image: Ben McLeod Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is urging the Internal Revenue Service to fix problems with its enforcement of laws against churches endorsing political candidates. In January, a Minnesota District Court judge ruled that the IRS did not have the proper procedures in place ...
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• I Guess I’m Still Un-American

  
  (((Billy))) The Atheist — Authority: 411
  I am an unabashed liberal.  A progressive. I accept that federal, state, county and local governments can, and most often are, a social positive which can make the world a better place.   According to Bachmann, Beck, Limbaugh, et al. , this means that I am not an American.  I don’t like paying taxes, but, ...
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• The Face of Religious Based Hatred

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 147
  If there ever was any doubt that religious discrimination was at work in Maine and other areas where gay rights were on the ballot, the professional homophobes - Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber, two self-loathing closet cases in need of serious mental health intervention in my opinion - have made it crystal clear ...
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• Americans United urges IRS to take necessary steps to limit partisan activity by churches

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Americans United for Separation of Church and State Press Release : "The issue of church politicking has become more controversial in recent years. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Religious Right legal group, has been urging pastors to violate the “no politicking” rule by endorsing or opposing candidates from ...
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• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
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• Pay to Pray

  
  Blasphemes — Authority: 135
  Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments!A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the separation of church and state. I think its about as scientific as the wishing well at the mall.According to the LA Times, ...
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• Before You Give to the United Way

  
  Mississippi Atheists — Authority: 121
  Image via Wikipedia Should a state agency encourage its employees to make charitable donations and disseminate information about doing so through payroll deductions? What if the charitable organization being promoted funds agencies known to engage in religious discrimination and bigotry? Unfortunately, some of ...
  6 days ago

• Balancing Religion and Politics in America -- reposted

  
  Ponderings on a Faith Journey — Authority: 477
  Today, I went to exercise my right to vote. I did so knowing that the outcome might have important ramifications for my community of Troy. I went knowing that some of those in the debate have used religion as a club -- suggesting that America is a Christian nation and that certain ways of voting are Christian, etc. ...
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• Separation of Church and... Health Care

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff Paddys earlier Tuesday Linkage post mentioned this briefly, but when I opened my L.A. Times this morning, I opened my eyes, too... wider and wider. Abortion is one of the favorite health care reform sticking points that the punditiots opine about daily, but we havent heard a peep about equating ...
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• A promise was made; now it needs to be kept

  
  Vivificat! — Authority: 476
  Archbishop Chaput outlines the dangers of the current health-care reform bills and urges Catholics to contact Congress ( www.usccb.org/action ) and demand that current health-care proposals be changed to respect all human life -- including the unborn, the elderly and the immigrant. Eight weeks ago President ...
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• Bulletin insert requests Catholic parishioners speak out on health care reform

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 649
  Some Des Moines-area Catholics received a little extra information along with their bulletin during services this week: an insert encouraging them to take political action on potential health care reform in Congress. Bishop Richard Pates , of the Diocese of Des Moines , wanted parishioners at the 82 locations that ...
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• Absolutely Incredible!

  
  The Sound of Thunder — Authority: 112
  This is absolutely amazing! What does it say about Crisis Pregnancy Centers shift to an ultrasound strategy for combating abortion? God has a way of making his enemies friends. Ill have more to say later.
  1 week ago

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