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The Republican litmus test
Date: 11/24/2009
Alex Knapp has a good point by point analysis of the litmus test the Republican Party is considering imposing on its candidates if they want to receive campaign cash from the RNC. Excerpt: On the face of it, this doesn't really seem to be too unreasonable. After all, a political party should have a set of core issues, and too much deviation does beg the question as to whether the party should ...
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Gay marriage compromise in D.C.?
Date: 11/20/2009
The intense debate over the same-sex marriage bill in Washington, DC has now led to talk that maybe the two sides can come to a compromise. From the Washington Post : Some D.C. Council members and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton are reaching out to the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to see whether they can find a compromise so the Church will not end its social services contracts with the ci ...
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Quote of the day
Date: 11/23/2009
"For the archdiocese and Catholic Charities, two core tenets of our faith are at the heart of our concerns: our understanding of the nature of marriage and our commitment to expressing Christ's love through service to others. Under the legislative language before the D.C. Council, the archdiocese would be forced to choose between these two principles. The archdiocese has long made clear that all p ...
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Gay marriage vs. religious liberty tradeoffs
Date: 11/17/2009
I think we've probably exhausted this topic for now, but I didn't want to let E.D. Kain's series of posts about the conflict between gay marriage and religious liberty, re: the situation the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC, pass without note. E.D., please note, is a supporter of same-sex marriage, and believes the Catholic Church is very wrong to oppose it. But he's starting to see that gay ...
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An unprecedented "call of conscience"
Date: 11/20/2009
Time will tell if it will actually have any impact, but the significance of this piece of news can't be overstated: More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious freedoms. The 4,700-word document, called ...
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DC gays to blackmail closeted priests
Date: 11/20/2009
Things are getting hardcore in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC: gay activists have organized to force gay priests out of the closet to protest the Catholic Church's stand against gay marriage. Excerpt from the Church Outing website: Lastly, we encourage every Catholic priest to trust in God and in the power of the Christ to help you through this difficult, but important act of truth, faith a ...
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Evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox together
Date: 11/20/2009
This is great news, and I'm thrilled that Jonah, the OCA metropolitan, is a signatory: 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 they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in an ...
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The astrology of Oprah Winfrey
Date: 11/20/2009
by Lynn Hayes Oprah will announce today that she will be stepping down in 2011 when her current contract expires. Oprah has dominated the talk show world for 25 years, and it's not surprising that as she hits midlife she is choosing to take another path. The triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune that has been affecting everyone since February of this year has been p ...
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