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• Iran Employing Nazi and Communist Tactics to Fight Opposition

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  It is implanting 6,000 Basij militia centers in elementary schools across Iran to promote the ideals of the Islamic Revolution, and it has created a new police unit to sweep the Internet for dissident voices.
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• No link between clergy abuse and being gay

  
  Deep Thoughts — Authority: 508
  After writing a few hundreds posts on clergy sexual abuse, I came to the conclusion that the priests and pastors molesting children under color of religions authority authority are pedophiles. They come in both flavors, gay and straight, with neither orientation gives you a predilection to abuse. People push back all ...
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• Pastor Carlton Hammond Arrested

  
  Deep Thoughts — Authority: 508
  Baptist pastor Carlton Farnsworth Hammond of Willows Baptist church in Willows, CA. He was charged with lewd or lascivious acts with a child . Carlton Farnsworth Hammond, 56, a pastor at Willows Baptist Church, has been arrested on a warrant alleging lewd or lascivious acts with a child 14 or 15 years of ...
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• Youth Pastor Russell Lewis arrested

  
  Deep Thoughts — Authority: 508
  The clergy sexual abuse epidemic continues with the arrest of youth pastor Russell Dion Lewis of Church by the Glades in Coral Springs. Lewis stands accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Lewis is charged with one count of custodial sexual battery and ten counts of lewd and ...
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• RC archbishop to Anglicans: we don’t want cafeteria Catholics

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 631
  (Photo: Archbishop Vincent Nichols, 21 May 2009/Kevin Coombs) Those disaffected Anglicans in England and Wales who think they can take up Pope Benedicts offer and switch to Rome with a "pick and choose" attitude should think again, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols has said. Many Anglicans ...
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• RC archbishop to Anglicans: we don’t want cafeteria Catholics

  
  UK News — Authority: 430
  (Photo: Archbishop Vincent Nichols, 21 May 2009/Kevin Coombs) Those disaffected Anglicans in England and Wales who think they can take up Pope Benedict’s offer and switch to Rome with a “pick and choose” attitude should think again, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols has said. Many ...
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• Moving.

  
  pressed but not crushed — Authority: 100
  Yes, it’s true- we’re moving. To Pennsylvania. We have accepted a call to Co-Pastor Christ Covenant Church in Harleysville, PA (which is about 40 minutes north of Philadelphia). It became official on November 8th, and life has been a whirlwind since then. Well, life was a whirlwind before then, but now things ...
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• Mormon official accused of molestation

  
  Deep Thoughts — Authority: 508
  It’s rare for a Mormon to face charges of child molestation. Yet Mormon official Eugene Bill Knox, the Mormon Church, and the Boy Scouts of America stand accused of abusing two boys three decades ago . The suit claims the three brothers were children when they told the Mormon church that they had been ...
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• U.S. Christian Leaders Unite on Political Issues with new Declaration

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 148
  The New York Times – November 20, 2009 Christian Leaders Unite on Political Issues By Laurie Goodstein Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that ...
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• Coalition of rel leaders call Americans to stand for sanctity of life, marriage, and rel freedom

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Washington D.C., Nov 20, 2009 / 06:21 am (CNA).- An unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty. The declaration issues “a clarion call” to Christians to adhere ...
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• OFP Celebrates Second Anniversary

  
  Charismatic Episcopal Church CEC — Authority: 126
  The Order of Franciscan Penitents, a religious Order in the Charismatic Episcopal Church, celebrated its second anniversary on November 17, 2009. The Order was instituted by the Most Rev. Michael Davidson, Bishop of the Central Province, on November 17 of 2007. Seven persons, three priests and four lay persons, made ...
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• Hoboken Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 148
  11/19/2009:A true act of ThanksgivingMark your calendars for Sunday, November 22nd @ 3pm, as The Hoboken Clergy Coalition’s Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held at the United Synagogue of Hoboken (115 Park Avenue.)Several Hoboken religious organizations will be gathering for worship, celebration and ...
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• New Lutheran denomination coming?

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 148
  The divisive agenda of homosexual fundamentalism strikes again… “The split over gay clergy within the country’s largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,” reports the Associated Press ...
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• Religious leaders in support of gay marriage: The list

  
  Blogging Religiously — Authority: 125
  The Empire State Pride Agenda has released a list of more than 700 clergy and lay leaders who support gay marriage in New York. They divided the list by region: Buffalo, Albany, Central NY, Hudson Valley and the Catskills, Long Island, NYC and Rochester/Finger Lakes. Since they went through the trouble, here are ...
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• Catholic Church Study: No Link Between Sex Abuse and Being Gay; Outing Gay Priests

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 149
  Much of the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and certainly many of the far right "traditional Catholics" were quick to blame the Churchs sex abuse scandal on gays within the priesthood. Why face the real root issues when its so much easier to scapegoat gays? It seems that this preferred storyline/excuse has ...
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• Washington Post Misses the Mark With One-Sided Profile on Anti-Gay Bishop Harry Jackson

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  In the November 18 edition of the Washington Post , staff writer Wil Haygood wrote a lengthy profile of Bishop Harry Jackson’s opposition to gay rights and to the current bill being considered by the Washington D.C. council that would extend marriage protections to same-sex couples. GLAAD encourages media ...
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• Response to Father Michael’s Questions

  
  Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE — Authority: 457
  Father Michael asks some good questions.   These is no psychological classification of “ephebophile.” An ephebophile is just a homosexual who likes teenage boys, just as there are many adult heterosexuals (such as Roman Polanski) who like teenage girls. The term ephebophile is a smokescreen to disguise ...
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• Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado Killing Prosecuted As Hate Crime, Lutheran Conservatives Break Away Over Gay Inclusion, Kerry Degman Seen By Luke Smalley

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 140
  On Wednesday, officials in Puerto Rico announced that the murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado will be investigated as a hate crime, the first time a crime is prosecuted based upon sexual orientation in the American governed territory. A 26 year old suspect was arrested Tuesday, whom prosecutors suggest has a ...
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• Catholic funded study finds no link between homosexuality and abuse by priests… duh.

  
  Inside, Looking Out — Authority: 124
  Preliminary results from a study commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops were released this week and find that gays priests are neither more or less likely than straight priests to molest and abuse children, which is something of course we knew all along. “What we are suggesting is that the idea of ...
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• Catholic funded study finds no link between homosexuality and abuse by priests… duh.

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Preliminary results from a study commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops were released this week and find that gays priests are neither more or less likely than straight priests to molest and abuse children, which is something of course we knew all along. “What we are suggesting is that the idea of ...
  6 days ago

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