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    Crucifixes Sold in U.S. Are Made in Chinese Sweatshops, Rights Group Says

    http://www.michiganmessenger.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=480 This is one of the most appalling stories of worker abuse I have ever heard of. I really hope that this story will bring about change. Sad sad world.
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    Some Planned Parenthood Clinics Closing Due to State Budget Changes

    http://www.michiganmessenger.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=417 Once again denying decent women's health care, what a wonderful country we live in.
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    Our Tortured Silence: Shameful Christian Reponse to Waterboarding

    http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/004068.html I have to say that I have heard more than a few christians speak out against torture, and that its not just a christian problem, we all need to speak against it, atheists, christians, jews, muslims, hindus, buddists, all of us.
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    Abortions just as common in countries that ban it as in ones that don't: study

    http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/12/abortions-study.html This is why making abortion illegal will do nothing to stop abortions, it will only worsen women's health. If you really want to stop abortions, sex ed and easy available contraception is the best way to go. Unfortunately, so...
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    Work Fails to Block Ore. Gay Rights Law

    Work Fails to Block Ore. Gay Rights Law http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfX8e3TIntUZM8Q0hPTYBs3gRvjQD8S5DB3G0 Oregon will join eight other states that have approved spousal rights in some form for gay couples — Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine, California, Washington...
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    Meanwhile in Utah

    http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/meanwhile_in_utah This story makes me so angry. This is why Gay marriage matters, and why I cynically laugh at the groups who call themselves "pro-family" while opposing gay marriage. The only thing their opposition is doing is destroying families. As the...
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    Colorado Students Walk Out During Pledge, Recite Own Version

    http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,298336,00.html Right here in my own state too. Most of the time when news comes out of my state I am ashamed, but every once in awhile I'm proud. The whole pledge of allegiance is absurd anyway, and if I remember correctly the "under god"...
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    Soldier who filed lawsuit allegedly threatened

    http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/09/ap_jeremyhall_070923/ Hall wrote in a series of e-mails to Weinstein that he feared for his safety after being “hallchecked” — being shoved against the wall in a hallway — by fellow soldiers who objected to his lawsuit. Bloggers on the Internet have also...
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    I’ve stood around too long’

    http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/858884.html CAMBRIDGE — Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt. These kids are awesome. Way...
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    Anglican Bishop Attacks Gay People

    http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1779&lead=1 (Nigeria) - The Anglican Bishop of Uyo, Nigeria, Isaac Orama, has publicly assaulted the "activities of homosexuals and Lesbians", and described those engaged in them as "insane people''. In an interview with the News...
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    ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck whose money was seized

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5081398.html Trucker carrying $23,700 in cash is stopped and arrested despite the DEA not finding any evidence of drugs. The DEA takes his money (despite no evidence of a crime) and tells him he has to prove it didn't come from drug sales to get it...
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    Organ Transplant

    This was inspired by the news thread: http://foru.ms/t5997993-ny-baby-undergoes-5-organ-transplant.html How do you feel about organ transplants? Is it wrong to have someone else's organs inside you? Why? As an atheist I see nothing wrong with organ transplant. My organs don't make me who I...
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    Gay Unions Sanctioned in Medieval Europe

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070827/sc_livescience/gayunionssanctionedinmedievaleurope;_ylt=AtamWqpGqTzKdAuvLo.OgZWs0NUE Its pretty sad when medieval europe is more socially advanced than us.
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    Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life_5 WASHINGTON - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet...
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    ACLU Challenges Louisiana Law Funneling Taxpayer Funds to Favored Churches

    http://www.aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/31297prs20070813.html The state's general appropriations bill, HB1, signed into law last month, unconstitutionally directs taxpayer dollars in the amounts of $100,000 to Stonewall Baptist Church in Bossier City and $20,000 to Shreveport Christian...
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    Victory for LGBT parents!

    http://www.lambdalegal.org/victory-for-lgbt-parents-finstuen.html In a significant victory for same-sex couples and their families, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling striking down an Oklahoma law so extreme it threatened to make children adopted by same-sex...
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    United Parcel Service Agrees to Benefits in Civil Unions

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/nyregion/31civil.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Good for UPS.
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    Religious doctors no more likely to care for underserved patients

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/uocm-rdn072307.php In the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers from the University of Chicago and Yale New Haven Hospital report that 31 percent of physicians who were more religious—as measured by "intrinsic religiosity"...
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    AP: New Details on Tillman's Death

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3419299 "The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators. The doctors whose names were blacked out said...
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    Study: Texas leads nation in teen birth rate

    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/072607dntexteenbirthrate.ac717295.html Texas is number one in the nation for teenage births, and also relies heavily on abstinence only education. Of course correlation does not prove causation, but there does appear to be a...
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