On Friday, President Obama said he supports the right for an Islamic center to be built near Ground Zero. “Let me be clear: as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” he said. “That includes the right to build…

On Wednesday, the Iranian woman who faced stoning to death for adultery denounced her lawyer and confessed to adultery and being an accomplice to her husband’s killing. But her lawyer and human rights groups assert the mother of two was coerced to make these statements that aired on state television. In 2006, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani…

Federal Judge Vaughn Walker who last week overturned California’s gay marriage ban agreed Thursday to a continued hold until at least Wednesday (Aug. 18) to give opponents time to appeal. If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t act by 5 p.m. local time that day, then gay couples can wed, the Associated Press…

Do one thing every day that scares you – Eleanor Roosevelt Have you ever done anything scary – and exciting? One community member shares what it was like skydiving for the first time. In their journal, another member explains how they overcame a fear of zombies, which represented spiritually their “fear that I truly did…

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