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May 09, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Obama endorses gay marriage, says same-sex couples should have right to wed
President Obama announced Wednesday that he believes same-sex couples should be granted the right to marry, becoming the first U.S. president in history to fully embrace that level of civil rights for gays.
May 09, 2012 - National Post
National Post: Opinion: Confronting abortion, ‘the defining moral conflict of our epoch’
Canada is the only developed country in the world with no abortion law.
May 08, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: North Carolina voters pass same-sex marriage ban
As expected, North Carolinians voted in large numbers on Tuesday for an amendment that would ban same-sex marriages, partnerships and civil unions, becoming the 30th state in the country and the last in the South to include a prohibition on gay marriage in the state constitution.
May 08, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Group of California lawmakers approve first-in-nation ban on 'conversion' therapy in key vote
A first-of-its-kind ban on a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight is speeding through the California statehouse.
May 08, 2012 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: Georgetown catches flak for Sebelius invite
In what has become an annual tradition, another Catholic university has come under fire for its choice of commencement speaker.
May 08, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Canada’s pro-life movement gets a slick, youthful rebranding
They will fight to protect the unborn, raise their voices against abortion in Canada — and maybe win an iPod.
May 07, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Chavez’s cross: Venezuelan leader increasingly turns to Christianity during cancer struggle
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spent much of his career praising the socialist ideas of famed atheists such as Karl Marx and Fidel Castro.
May 06, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Growing demand for spiritual directors
Natalie Weaver, a 25-year-old musician who lives in Roxbury, does not go to church.
May 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Billy Graham backs NC anti-gay marriage amendment
The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said was in keeping with the minister's moral beliefs.
May 03, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Foes of Vanderbilt's nondiscrimination policy point to Harvard
When Vanderbilt wanted its freshmen students to learn about ethics, the school turned to the late Rev. Peter Gomes to teach them. Gomes’ book, The Good Life, was required reading for the Vanderbilt class of 2015.
May 03, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Texas pastor drives support for Chinese dissident
Only a few hours after blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left his sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the United States' declared it had won concessions over his future from the Chinese government, a soft-spoken 44-year-old West Texas pastor was questioning the official version of events.
May 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mormon church girds for landmark political race, with Romney as prominent face of the faith
As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell.
May 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Methodists vote against ending investments tied to Israel
The United Methodist Church, the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination, voted against two proposals on Wednesday to divest from companies that provide equipment used by Israel to enforce its control in the occupied territories.
May 02, 2012 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: From Bill Gates to Thomas Aquinas: Bible software company spreads the Word
Logos Bible Software might seem an odd company to bring the previously untranslated works of Thomas Aquinas to the masses.
April 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Okla. court halts effort to grant ‘personhood’ rights to embryos, says it’s unconstitutional
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday halted an effort to grant "personhood" rights to human embryos, saying the measure is unconstitutional.
April 30, 2012 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Reform Judaism focuses on youth
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who helped to lead a grass-roots revolution in the Union for Reform Judaism, visited Pittsburgh last week promoting plans to engage young families in synagogue life.
April 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Sikh group launches phone app to report unfair airport screeners, 2 complaints already made
A Sikh advocacy group has launched a free mobile application that allows travellers to complain immediately to the government about unfair treatment by airport security screeners.
April 27, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: With prison ministry, Colson linked religion and reform
“Since the 1960s, prison reform has been seen as a leftist cause,” Robert Perkinson, a historian and the author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire,” said this week.
April 25, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: A local link for overseas students
Tom Zhou arrived from Beijing three years ago to attend Chinese Christian High School here.
April 24, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Californians to vote on abolishing death penalty
California voters will soon get a chance to decide whether to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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