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November 10 2008 By virtueonline Obama backers bucked religious leaders - Douglas Todd

The election showed the U.S. is increasingly divided by religion.

U.S. Jews and the religiously unaffiliated are growing kilometres (well, miles) apart from white evangelical Christians, three out of four of whom voted Republican.

American Catholics also significantly shifted to the Democrats. So did mainline Protestants, who tend to be more liberal than evangelicals.

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November 10 2008 By virtueonline Pray for our new president - R. Albert Mohler

For many of us, the end of the night brought disappointment. In this case, the disappointment is compounded by the sense that the issues that did not allow us to support Sen. Obama are matters of life and death -- not just political issues of heated debate. Furthermore, the margin of victory and sense of a shift in the political landscape point to greater disappointments ahead. We all knew that so much was at stake.

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November 08 2008 By virtueonline Marriage Won in Three States - Mike McManus

Therefore, I understand African-Americans jubilantly celebrating the election of Barack Obama, the first black man to be President. They had every reason to exclaim, "Its just like a new world," said Leroy Johnson, 80, a year behind Dr. King at Morehouse College. However, there was also reason for celebrating by religious conservatives who opposed Obama's election. In three states, voters said no to homosexual marriage.

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November 08 2008 By virtueonline Prop. 8 Protesters Besiege LA Mormon Temple, Press Forward on Legal Challenges

"Tax the Mormon Church." one protester chanted. "How dare they legislate against love." another shouted to an AP camera.

The Mormon Church issued in response a written statement calling on the protesters "to act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility toward each other. No one on either side of the question should be vilified, intimidated, harassed or subject to erroneous information," it read.

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November 07 2008 By virtueonline Life will not go on - Jill Stanek

And both state anti-life initiatives passed: the Michigan Stem Cell Initiative (allowing human embryo experimentation) and the Washington Death with Dignity Initiative (allowing physician assisted suicide).

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November 07 2008 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Common Ground with Islam?

Whilst at face value the treatise appears laudable, in actual fact it denies the most important aspects of Christianity and its mission. It is based on a verse from the Qur'an, namely sura 3:64, which denies the identity of our God, the divinity, Sonship and Lordship of Christ and defines us as in rebellion against the Muslim god if we reject these doctrines.

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November 05 2008 By virtueonline SACRAMENTO: Statement on Passing Proposition 8

Proposition 8 has always been about restoring the traditional definition of marriage. It doesn't discriminate or take rights away from anyone. Gay and lesbian domestic partnerships will continue to enjoy the same legal rights as married spouses. Our coalition has no plans to seek any changes in that law.

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November 05 2008 By virtueonline Affirmative Action and Gay Marriage

When arbitrary numerical "goals" or "quotas" under affirmative action are not met, the burden of proof is put on the employer to prove that he did not discriminate against minorities or women. No burden of proof whatever is put on the advocates of "goals" or "quotas" to show that people would be equally represented in jobs, colleges, or anywhere else in the absence of discrimination.

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November 05 2008 By virtueonline The Enduring Culture War

Prothero, the chairman of Boston University Religion Department, contends that GOP presidential nominee John McCain's effort to reach out to conservative evangelical voters was blunted when "Obama played the God card, too...," publicly professing his faith and "parsing Biblical passages." With both Republicans and Democrats talking about God, "there will be less to gain from discussing" religion, and political discourse will be "less about Jesus and more about jobs."

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November 03 2008 By virtueonline Church Council Attacks "Obsession"

Two of the four spokespersons for the NCC blast against "Obsession" are openly lesbian and presumably would not fare well under Islamist theocracy. One, Gwynne Guibord, a former official with the predominantly homosexual Metropolitan Churches denomination and now an Episcopal priest, is co-convener of the National-Muslim Christian Initiative, working closely with the Islamic Society of North America.

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