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N.J. Says Complaint Over Civil Union Can Proceed

posted by akornfeld

Trenton, N.J. – New Jersey officials said Monday (Dec. 29) that a lesbian couple can move forward with their discrimination complaint against a Methodist group that refused to let them use an oceanfront pavilion for a civil union. Since the [...]

Catholic School Teacher Fired for Marriage

posted by akornfeld

San Antonio – A teacher at a Roman Catholic school in San Antonio fired after she married a divorced man has filed a federal discrimination complaint. The principal of Central Catholic High School urged Marquis LaFortune, 25, a week before [...]

Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson Discusses Rick Warren and Proposition 8

posted by akornfeld

Openly gay New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson has spent the last five years seeking reconciliation with those who saw his election as immoral, unbiblical or, as one Nigerian archbishop put it, a “satanic attack on God’s church.” Yet [...]

Focus on the Family Pulls Interview Over Beck’s Mormon Faith

posted by akornfeld

Colorado-based Focus on the Family has pulled an online interview with conservative television host Glenn Beck after concerns were raised about Beck’s Mormon faith. Gary Schneeberger, vice president of media and public relations for Focus on the Family Action, said [...]

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Understanding Christian Political Engagement
Guest Blogger: Bethany Blankley Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden, North Carolina created a firestorm among Christians and non-Christians when he suggested that homosexuals be rounded up and put inside electrical fences, left to die. Obviously, this is not the Christian message of loving our neighb

posted 10:10:12am May. 24, 2012 | read full post »

Why would "anti-bullying" youth convention speaker mock the Bible, Christian teens?
The report is difficult to believe: A paid “anti-bullying” expert is caught on video ranting at a national convention of high schoolers and is recorded bullying the Christian kids who were offended by his obscenities. They quietly follow his advice to homosexual youth in his “It Gets Better Pr

posted 10:54:19am May. 18, 2012 | read full post »

Are Americans finding God in cyberspace?
Will the church of the future be on line? We seem to be heading that way, says think-tank president Ron Sellers who points to recent findings that among American adults who use the Internet, 44 percent use it for religious purposes.  "This is particularly common among younger Americans," say

posted 1:14:32pm May. 17, 2012 | read full post »

Are "unacceptable religions" fatal for U.S. presidential candidates?
Is there an unwritten religious litmus test for the U.S. presidency? Do voters require candidates to be "not just religious, but acceptably religious"? Yes, say Northwest Nazarene University professors Steve Shaw and Darrin Grinder. [caption id="attachment_11319" align="alignleft" width="480" cap

posted 12:56:17pm May. 14, 2012 | read full post »

U.S. Marine dies after rescuing ORU trustee's daughter from deadly air crash
The daughter of an Oral Roberts University trustee was pulled from the wreckage of a crashed small aircraft by a former U.S. Marine sergeant severely injured in the crash, who then helped her wave down help along a highway. Three were killed in the crash, and former U.S. Marines Sgt. Austi

posted 1:39:20am May. 13, 2012 | read full post »


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