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The passage of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry by the state Senate on Friday, in fact, should leave Christians grieving – grieving that “our God has been offended,” said a New York pastor in his Sunday sermon. Pastor Art Kohl of Faith Bible Baptist Church in  Eden, N.Y. made it clear to his…

Cardinal Jos da Cruz Policarpo of Lisbon, Portugal, a veteran European prelate at one point considered a contender to become pope, reportedly has said he sees no fundamental theological obstacle to the ordination of women as priests in the Catholic church. According to the text of an interview with a legal publication in Portugal ……

Some 200 United Methodist clergy of the church’s Northern Illinois Conference have pledged to bless same-sex unions in violation of the church’s policy on the matter, doing so despite the risk of suspension or defrocking. The Northern Illinois clergy’s declaration comes fast on the heels of a Wisconsin pastor, the Rev. Amy DeLong of Osceola,…

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, who will officially announce her run for president Monday, said today she would support a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and woman, thereby overturning New York’s new law legalizing gay marriage. Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Bachmann said that if she were elected president she would…

From ABC-TV News — By MARY PFLUM — June 22, 2011 Patty Skudlarek strives to be a responsible parent. That’s why she says she told her 18-year-old son that if he wants to have sex, not only is she okay with it, but she’d prefer that he do it in the family home. Skudlarek isn’t…

by Dr. Jack Kerwick Among the shows I used to watch as a child was Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.  In every episode, Fred Rogers would whisk his viewers away to “the land of make believe.”  It has been quite some time since any reader of this column has been a child.  However, insofar as we involve…

New York state’s Marriage Equality Act passed the state’s senate Friday night in a vote of 33-29, making the Empire State the sixth U.S. state or district to legalize same-sex marriage — joining Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. The bill stalled for much of the week as state lawmakers debated the extent…

David Harris is Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee.  The New York Times has called the AJC, which was founded in 1906,  “the dean of American Jewish organizations.”  So it’s not that radical of an outfit.  But the position taken by David Harris on what is being called ”the Gaza flotilla” — boats attempting to run Israel’s…

“God, bring an angel to my side,” prayed the desperate, screaming wife as she struggled to lift a car off of her husband’s chest. “Help me!” In the parking lot of the Bull’s Den Cafe near the University of South Florida, tow truck driver Pedro Arzola, 34, was pinned under the right front tire of…

“We are facing the nightmare of genocide of our people in a final attempt to erase our culture and society from the face of the earth.”  That’s the warning of African Episcopal Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail in northern Sudan’s Nuba Mountains as his war-torn African nation prepares to split in two under a United Nations-supervised peace plan. CLICK HERE…
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