"The key is that a rising number of evangelicals are adamant that they are not going to overlook social justice issues. They want to find a way to combine their concern about abortion and family issues with other moral and social issues that really matter to them. The question is whether that's possible in American politics, right now."
It's easy to see this dilemma in between the lines of recent surveys.
Read more--Parker T. Williamson, editor emeritus and senior correspondent, The Presbyterian Layman
Read moreFanshawe, who was involved in the early homosexualist political movement, says, "We've fought discrimination and prejudice, only to wreck ourselves with drugs and wild sex."
Read moreIn February 2007 the archdiocese had formally authorised such Masses to continue indefinitely in Our Lady of the Assumption parish as part of the archdiocese's "pastoral outreach to homosexual people." The archdiocese itself, in negotiations with the homosexualist activist group SMPC, offered to move them from the Anglican Church of St Anne's to Assumption. The archdiocese's statement appointed the Vicar General, Mgr. Seamus O'Boyle and Dean, Canon Fr.
Read moreIn June, California became the second U.S. state, after Massachusetts, to allow same-sex marriages. The governor of New York earlier this year instructed authorities in his state to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in states or countries where the unions are legal.
Not discrimination
The Catholic-Jewish statement contests the claim that refusing to recognize same-sex unions as marriage is discrimination against homosexuals.
Read moreThose who subscribe to an apocalyptic vision basically long for the end of the world and all the violence and bloodshed that comes with it so that Jesus will come back. This could prove to be a dangerous tendency in someone with the power to make war.
Read moreHe revealed on his MySpace page that he was "in a relationship" but said, "I don't want kids." He called himself a "redneck" who likes to snowboard, ride dirt bikes, fish, camp out and "hang out with the boys." Not surprisingly, his MySpace page quickly disappeared.
Sound like a good marital prospect? Not to this father. He's very immature. No wonder teen marriages tend to end in divorce.
Read moreAccording to Julia Duin, a religion reporter for the Washington Times, more and more evangelicals are in fact fleeing their churches. Indeed, Ms. Duin regards church-quitting, at least among evangelicals, as nothing less than an epidemic. The problem, in her view, is not in the souls of the church quitters but in the character of the churches they choose to leave.
Read moreFor all the problems associated with belief in God, the death of God leads to far more of them.
So, while it is not possible to prove (or disprove) God's existence, what is provable is what happens when people stop believing in God.
Read moreWe have no one but ourselves to blame.
We've gotten the government-and the society-we deserve. But what did we do to deserve this bloated, power-hungry, self-serving, war-mongering bureaucracy? How did our straight-laced Puritan nation of freedom-loving citizens give way to a self-absorbed, entertainment-obsessed society?
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