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May 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Vote imminent as Boy Scouts considers change to policy banning gays
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
May 17, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Pentecostals praise God in ‘language of angels’
Pastor Ronald Rice is pacing and sweating, roaring and crying as he warns his west Salt Lake City Pentecostal congregation about what he calls the "dangers of drifting."
May 17, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Abortion law in Arkansas is blocked by U.S. judge
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of one of the country’s most stringent abortion laws, an Arkansas ban on the procedure at the 12th week of pregnancy, saying the law was likely to be declared unconstitutional.
May 17, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Seminary graduates not always ministering from the pulpit
Alethea Allen, a Virginia resident, graduated this week from Wesley Theological Seminary in Northwest Washington after years of divinity classes. But she has no intention of becoming a minister.
May 16, 2013 - Deseret News
Deseret News: U.S. government's faith-based initiative moves ahead while dodging controversy
When Acacia Bamberg Salatti runs down the accomplishments of the faith-based center in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one item is conspicuously missing from the list: how much money the center has handed out to churches and other religious groups.
May 15, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Critics slam new cloning research
Scientists' assertion that the advance in therapeutic cloning announced on Wednesday could not and would not pave the way to cloning a baby did little to assuage critics of the research.
May 14, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer: Both sides on abortion applaud verdict
No one on either side of the intractable abortion debate was sorry Monday to learn that Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of first-degree murder.
May 13, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Politics and the pulpit: Black churches at heart of gay marriage debate in Illinois
When a proposal to legalize gay marriage started gaining momentum in the home state of President Barack Obama, it seemed a quick and easy deal: The pastor of his former megachurch endorsed it with powerful testimony at the Capitol and Democrats control Illinois' government.
May 13, 2013 - Religion News Service
RNS: Church-based scouting alternatives attract interest
They have pledges. They have merit badges. And they may go camping.
May 09, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The Pentagon's problem with Proselytizing
In early April, Army Reserve soldiers in Pennsylvania were told in a redeployment briefing that evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics were "extremists," the same category as al Qaeda.
May 08, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Minnesota, Illinois poised to join coastal states that have adopted gay marriage legislation
Just six months after Minnesota voters turned back an effort to ban gay weddings, lawmakers are poised to make the state the first in the Midwest to pass a law allowing them.
May 08, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Religious leaders: Including gay rights proposal could cost their support for immigration bill
Religious leaders said Wednesday that adding a gay rights proposal to immigration legislation could risk their support for the bill, setting up a potential Senate showdown.
May 08, 2013 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: A leap for some faiths, but many Canadians are losing their religion
Mariam Butt was raised by Muslim parents in Brampton, Ont., but only started truly practising the faith a little over a year ago, when she was 17. There was no self-consciousness about wearing the hijab or ducking away to pray five times a day where she lives.
May 08, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Is there a God? The Vatican invites Mexicans to discuss.
A Vatican envoy has arrived in Mexico with a message: God is not dead.
May 07, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Same-sex couples welcome Delaware gay marriage law
Mikki Snyder-Hall married her partner, Claire, in California in 2008, and moved two years ago to Rehoboth, a gay-friendly Delaware beach town.
May 06, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Obama administration backs out of appeal over new contraceptive mandate
A federal appeals court in Washington has granted a request by the Obama administration to back out of an appeal involving a publisher of Bibles who is refusing for religious reasons to provide contraceptives to his employees under the president’s new health-care mandate.
May 05, 2013 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: For some Baptists, the name of the church is hindrance to saving souls
After 87 years, the University Baptist Church of Coral Gables recently shed its name for something it felt was more forward looking — Christ Journey.
May 03, 2013 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Same-sex marriage approved in Rhode Island
As more than 1,000 ecstatic supporters looked on, Governor Lincoln Chafee on Thursday signed legislation making Rhode Island the 10th state in the nation to permit gays and lesbians to wed, and establishing gay marriage as the law of the land throughout all of New England.
May 03, 2013 - The Oregonian
Oregonian: Maitripa College invites Dalai Lama to Portland -- and he accepts
Michael Ium drove from Toronto to Portland to study Tibetan Buddhism at a college he'd never seen in a city he'd never visited.
May 02, 2013 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Soldiers inclined to proselytize may face court martial
A Pentagon ban on proselytizing has left some conservative activists fearful that Christian soldiers — and even military chaplains — could face court martial for sharing their faith.
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