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			<title>Firing Up the Faithful With Echoes of Culture War Rhetoric </title>
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			<description>Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former mayor of New York, said Senator Barack Obama thought a small Alaska suburb was not “flashy enough” or “cosmopolitan enough,” linking his campaign to “Hollywood celebrities.”</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Judge rejects challenge to N.Y. gay marriage rules</title>
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			<description>A New York judge has dismissed the first challenge to a new state policy that recognizes same-sex marriages performed out-of-state, saying the current policy is in line with state law.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Florida court tosses challenge to religious funding ban  </title>
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			<description>Florida&#039;s Supreme Court on Wednesday (Sept. 3) tossed out two statewide ballot initiatives aimed at ending a longstanding ban on public funding for religious institutions, drawing praise from church-state watchdogs.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Evangelical faith drives Palin&#039;s pro-Israel view</title>
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			<description>Sarah Palin displays an Israeli flag in her governor&#039;s office in Juneau, even though she has never been to the country, and attends Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative. </description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Xinjiang: Chinastan </title>
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			<description>A crackdown in China’s wild West, its Muslim-majority chunk of Central Asia.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Islamic finance: savings and souls</title>
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			<description>Muslims have a lot of money to invest. But it is a constant struggle to reconcile faith and finance</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Faiths and schools: religious rights and wrongs </title>
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			<description>A campaign to loosen the grip of the godly on state education.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Katrina to Gustav: Faith-based groups play familiar role</title>
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			<description>When First Baptist Church of Ridgeland opened its doors to Hurricane Gustav evacuees, some of the same people who fled Hurricane Katrina showed up.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Gay marriage may test Native American sovereignty</title>
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			<description>Kitzen and Jeni Branting have been in a committed lesbian relationship since high school and plan to get legally married in Oregon next spring.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Pentecostalism obscured in Palin biography</title>
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			<description>Sarah Palin often identifies herself simply as Christian.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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