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November 07, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Assisted suicide measure narrowly defeated
A divisive ballot initiative that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with medication prescribed by physicians was narrowly defeated.
November 07, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: For Mormons, a cautious step toward mainstream acceptance
As a Mormon boy, Daniel C. Peterson grew up hearing stories about the persecution of his ancestors, beginning with his great-great-great-great-grandfather, who was chased out of Missouri, then Illinois, before he died trekking across the Great Plains to reach this rugged land.
November 07, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Brazil's Truth Commission to investigate the role of the church during dictatorship
The Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses committed by Brazil’s former dictatorship will also look into the role Catholic and evangelical churches played during the 1964-1985 military government.
November 07, 2012 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Parents view yoga in elementary school as religious indoctrination
Parents in this seaside town are in a twist over yoga, saying that adding the ancient practice of meditative exercise to the school curriculum is tantamount to religious indoctrination into Hinduism.
November 06, 2012 - Honolulu Civil Beat
Civil Beat: Hawaii Congressional Districts: Gabbard and Hanabusa Triumph
Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii’s “it girl,” is heading to Washington D.C.
November 05, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Texas home to God, government court disputes
Texas might not be a battleground state in Tuesday's presidential election, but it is home to a number of fights — some ongoing and some already decided — that could have a bearing nationally on the place of God in government.
November 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Michigan judge temporarily blocks health law mandate on birth control
A federal judge has issued an order shielding a Michigan business from a requirement of the new health care law to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives at no charge to female employees.
November 05, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Romney’s chance at presidency heartens Mormon faithful in Utah
“The story began in 1820,” the voice in the headphones exclaimed.
November 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: IRS not enforcing rules on churches and politics
For the past three years, the Internal Revenue Service hasn't been investigating complaints of partisan political activity by churches, leaving religious groups who make direct or thinly veiled endorsements of political candidates unchallenged.
November 01, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate
A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled.
November 01, 2012 - Religion News Service
RNS: Hawaii Democrat poised to be first Hindu in Congress
Hindu Americans have run America’s major companies and universities, won Nobel prizes and Olympic gold medals, directed blockbuster movies, and even flown into space. But one profession has so far been out of reach: Member of Congress.
October 31, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: ‘Ex-gay’ men fight back against view that homosexuality can’t be changed
For most of his life, Blake Smith said, “every inch of my body craved male sexual contact.”
October 30, 2012 - National Post
National Post: Jewish support in prize battlegrounds could hand election to the Republicans
On June 6, Paul Ryan had a visitor in his House of Representatives’ office in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ryan was not yet the vice-presidential nominee, but was already a rising star in the Republican Party and well known in America’s capital as author of the fiscally conservative “Ryan Budget.”
October 30, 2012 - New York Times
NYT: Supporters of same-sex marriage see room for victories
For opponents of same-sex marriage, it has been a potent and often repeated talking point: though the courts or the legislatures of some states have given gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, wherever it has appeared on the ballot, voters have rejected it.
October 28, 2012 - Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press: Politics, religion tangled up in lawsuit
As a conservative Christian who opposes gay marriage and abortion rights, Pastor Levon Yuille of Ypsilanti said he thinks he has a duty to tell parishioners that they should support politicians who share those views.
October 28, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Mormon church is conspicuously absent in Md. same-sex marriage referendum
Maryland activists working to overturn same-sex marriage have had to get used to one surprising absence from their religious coalition: Mormons.
October 28, 2012 - The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News: Social issues could make difference in presidential race for Iowans
Evangelical leaders have preached all year that Republicans cannot win the White House without Christian conservatives — and a nominee they can support.
October 26, 2012 - The Atlantic Journal-Constitution
Atlantic Journal-Constitution: Archdiocese wades into legal fight over birth control mandate
The Archdiocese of Atlanta has placed itself squarely in the midst of a national fight over what it believes is an attack against religious freedom during a hotly contested election.
October 25, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Evangelical support grows for Romney
Celebration Church sits tucked away in the corner of a repurposed shopping mall, one of the more modest venues for worship in this city of booming megachurches and superstar preachers.
October 23, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mass. US Senate candidates vie for Catholic votes
Not so long ago, Catholic voters in Massachusetts were seen as reliably Democratic, helping propel fellow Bay State Catholics like John F. Kennedy and Tip O'Neill into the uppermost echelons of national government.
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