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October 21, 2012 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Brazil's evangelical churches rewrite the rules of politics
As euphoric rock music played, dozens of men in suits swarmed the aisles with hand-held credit card machines to take donations  from the faithful.
October 20, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Over my dead body
VOTERS in Massachusetts will decide next month whether a terminally ill patient with less than six months to live should be able to use a doctor’s help in committing suicide.
October 20, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Church appeal on Israel angers Jewish groups
A letter signed by 15 leaders of Christian churches that calls for Congress to reconsider giving aid to Israel because of accusations of human rights violations has outraged Jewish leaders and threatened to derail longstanding efforts to build interfaith relations.
October 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Gallaudet University roiled by Angela McCaskill gay marriage petition controversy
Gallaudet University is under fire from both proponents and opponents of gay marriage after placing an administrator on leave for signing a petition to put Maryland's gay-marriage law on the ballot.
October 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Scholars say Jewish shift to GOP a long way off
Like Chicago Cubs fans in spring, Jewish Republicans start every presidential election season hoping this will be their year: American Jews, who have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for decades, will start a significant shift to the political right.
October 17, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Evangelicals mobilize for Romney campaign
The Romney-Ryan ticket is the first Republican presidential campaign in history without a Protestant candidate, but this hasn't deterred evangelicals from launching massive get-out-the-vote and registration efforts to help Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan win the White House.
October 15, 2012 - Star Tribune
Star Tribune: Catholic Knights of Columbus battle for marriage measure
In Minnesota, the Knights of Columbus are best known for hosting charitable free-throw contests, collecting pennies to support seminarians and conducting Tootsie Roll drives to aid people with disabilities.
October 15, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Immigrant, gay rights groups form alliance — and meet resistance among some Latinos
A few weeks ago, CASA of Maryland and other immigration advocacy organizations formed an alliance with gay rights groups to urge passage of two hot-button initiatives on the Maryland ballot in November, one legalizing same-sex marriage and the other making some undocumented immigrants eligible for in-state tuition.
October 14, 2012 - Boston Globe
Boston Globe: In twist, evangelicals now backing Mitt Romney
D.J. Moberley, a 30-year-old evangelical Christian, seems an unlikely cog in the effort to elect Mitt Romney as president.
October 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Same-sex marriage advocates hoping for ballot victory in Maryland
Irene Huskens has the wedding venue picked out: a charming bed-and-breakfast in southern Maryland.
October 13, 2012 - Newsday
Newsday: Farmingville church draws immigrants
Ruben Cruzate was the longtime head of Latino outreach at a major evangelical church in Smithtown when a parishioner suggested he become a "missionary" -- not in another country, but in the immigrant stronghold of Farmingville.
October 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Islam making inroads in Haiti since devastating 2010 earthquake
School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country.
October 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mitt Romney meets with Rev. Billy Graham
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with Rev. Billy Graham, and the aging evangelist pledged to do "all I can" to help the GOP nominee win the presidency.
October 09, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Evangelical leaders urge support for Romney
Evangelical leaders worried that Mitt Romney's Mormonism could suppress conservative turnout on Election Day are intensifying appeals for Christians to vote.
October 09, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LAT: Biden-Ryan debate highlights nation's Catholic political divide
Dr. Jack Dolehide remembers the trinity on display in his boyhood home in Chicago in the 1960s: There, in the center, was an iconic image of Jesus. On one side, Mayor Richard J. Daley, the city's legendary Democratic boss. On the other, President Kennedy.
October 08, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In Missouri, clergy in the fray of Akin race, seeing it as start of a ‘battle for the soul’ of GOP
Nearly 400 Missouri pastors gathered at the podium of a hotel ballroom recently to pray over the kneeling figure of Rep. Todd Akin, a Senate candidate whose campaign had been pronounced dead by national Republican leaders weeks before.
October 07, 2012 - Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel: Clash over same-sex marriage motivates voters
President Barack Obama sparked a burst of enthusiasm from Florida's gay and lesbian voters and a backlash from conservative Christians in May when he proclaimed unequivocal support for same-sex marriage.
October 07, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Hundreds of pastors back political candidates, defy tax rules
Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.
October 06, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Voters in Florida are set to weigh in on two contentious ballot questions
n a year in which most states have steered clear of contentious ballot initiatives, Florida voters are facing two proposed constitutional amendments — one on abortion, the other on the separation of church and state — that could have far-reaching repercussions.
October 03, 2012 - The Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel: Amendment 8 pits religious groups against backers of church-state separation
Dead almost 120 years, James Blaine — the GOP presidential candidate in 1884 — is making an appearance in Florida's 2012 election.
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