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    Ministers Prove Hate Crimes Law Does Not Criminalize Speech

    washingtonpost.com Conservative Christian ministers from across the land, determined to test the bounds of a new law punishing anti-gay hate crimes, assembled outside the Justice Department on Monday to denounce the sin of homosexuality and see whether they would be charged with lawbreaking...
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    D.C. Archdiocese Threatens to Axe Social Service Programs over Same-Sex "Marriage"..

    Levada was able to find a solution in San Francisco: allow employees to add a person to their health plan regardless of legal relationship. Refusing to help the poor because one has to pay for someone's health care is petty.
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    Health Care Bill With Pro-Life Amendment Passes House of Representatives

    How people have reacted to this amendment reveals who actually cared about abortion and who was using abortion as a pretense to cover opposition to the bill for other reasons.
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    Health Care Bill With Pro-Life Amendment Passes House of Representatives

    You are making the perfect the enemy of the good. The House amends a bill with a provision that has the potential to greatly reduce abortion coverage, and you oppose it because it doesn't go far enough. The problem is that politics is the art of the possible. Compromise means everyone is a...
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    House will vote on Stupak Ammendment to Cut Aboriton from the Healthcare bill

    My understanding is that it would prohibit any federal subsidy from paying for a plan that covers abortion, with exceptions. People who are not subsidized would still be able to buy a plan that covers abortion, and people who are subsidized would be able to buy supplementary insurance to cover...
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    ‘Hate crimes’ bill passed by House could threaten religious freedoms, critics warn

    Bill Donahue and Tony Perkins are cynical liars. There is no charitable explanation for why they could get what the bill would do so wrong.
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    Obama and gay marriage...

    He claims Christ as his Savior. Is there anything else necessary?
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    Obama and gay marriage...

    Children don't have that right. When one parent dies, we don't send the surviving parent a notice that they must remarry within 60 days lest they violate their children's right to a mother and a father. It is especially important to remember that we are talking about children in foster care...
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    Obama and gay marriage...

    The Church has survived divorce without changing its prohibition against remarriage. What makes you think that it wouldn't survive gay marriage?
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    Obama and gay marriage...

    Churches are completely free to choose how their rites are performed, who may perform them, and who may receive them. Any lawsuit would be quickly thrown out of court.
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    Obama and gay marriage...

    Because marriage is the word the government uses, not civil union.
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    Study: Abortion bans do not reduce abortion rate

    It doesn't mean that we should be in favor of abortion. Rather, it means that we should look for other means of opposing abortion. If our goal is to get rid of abortions and a particular strategy does nothing to reduce abortions, we should stop wasting time and resources on a failed strategy.
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    Obama and gay marriage...

    You are having trouble understanding where I am coming from because you seem to be unable to consider that people have different understandings of the world than you do. Consider your question: BUT are you mocking scriptures to proove that God may be wrong in this? In your question, there is...
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    Study: Abortion bans do not reduce abortion rate

    BBC NEWS | Health | Bans 'do not cut abortion rate' The Guttmacher Institute's survey found abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in regions where it is legal and regions where it is highly restricted. If banning abortion does not prevent abortions, shouldn't we direct our political energies...