Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them.
Read moreArguments about the merits of religions are often battled out with reference to history, by comparing the sins of theists and atheists. (I see your Crusades and raise you Stalin.) But a more promising approach is to look at empirical research that directly addresses the effects of religion on how people behave.
Read moreDr. Steele, an African-American, is himself a veteran participant in and commentator on the Civil Rights years of the 1960's and 1970's. In "White Guilt" he tells his own heart-rending story of development into what he calls, somewhat bitterly, a black conservative. He describes the loneliness and the irony of that identity.
Read moreOne woman who was attacked told her story with Pastor Lou Engle at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. She said the group's fellowship had been peaceful for several nights before the riot.
"People would come stand with us and join us," she said. "We got to pray for some people."
But then angry men began yelling profanities and warning the Christians to leave the district.
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Read moreAnd the election of Obama gives a face to abortion.
Read moreOn closer reading, Kalisch offers a far greater challenge to Islam than the secular critics who reject its claims. The headline that a Muslim academic has doubts over the existence of the Prophet Mohammed is less interesting than why he has such doubts. Kalisch does not want to harm Islam, but rather to expose what he believes to be its true nature. Islam, he argues, really is a Gnostic spiritual teaching masquerading as myth.
Read moreBut it is the male ministers on either side of the Rev. David Cobb Jr., Emmanuel's pastor, who take over the service.
Cobb started the choir six months ago as a way to increase the visibility of women in the service, but his congregation at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Cleveland is not ready for women ministers, he says.
Read moreDiocese of Massachusetts Bishop Thomas Shaw Jr. said in a statement that "we find ourselves at a place of intersection, where it feels as if God's time and ours have met, not in the sense of a favored candidate's win or loss but, instead, in that something new has happened and that we've been reminded that history is ever calling us forward."
Read moreFor decades now, well-organized, well-funded and highly influential "gay" political pressure groups have, with impertinence, hijacked the language of the authentic civil rights movement. In what amounts to a sort of soft racism, self-styled "queers" have disingenuously and ignobly hitched their lil' lavender wagons to a movement which, by contrast, is built upon the genuine and noble precepts of racial equality and humanitarian justice.
Read more"10 if you have considered and studied the relevant biblical passages 10 if you have actually read the six passages about homosexuality in the bible 20 if you have read other passages that might affect the way you read those six passages 5 if you have read one or more books that reinforce the position you already hold 25 if you have read one or more books arguing the opposite position 10 if you have spent three hours reading websites showing a variety of views 50 for every friend you have who
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