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The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States? ?illegal and unjust war? yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.
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A general category for things related to our society and how we interact with one another.
Another Letter to U.M. Bishops on Torture
I believe we as a nation are acting egregiously in this “War On Terror,” and I believe that good people in this country are standing by and letting it happen. It has happened previously in the history of the world, and the consequences have been dire. So, I will make a deal with you. I will stop pestering you about the issue of U.S. Government Sponsored torture, if you will write a letter to the President, and ask that the U.S. cease torturing captured prisoners, charge or release detainees (especially women and children), and observe all tenants of the Geneva Conventions regardless of the ?status? he elects to assign these people. I do not believe that is asking too much.
Read moreZach and Ex-Gay "Ministries"
Making the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
Read moreZach and Ex-Gay “Ministries”
Making the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
Read moreJesse Hopes Jesus Reads
Former Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic, but believes integration was forced before its time by “outside agitators who had their own agendas,” according to advance proofs of his memoir.
Read moreGet Your Honorary Doctoral Degree Here
According to the Bishop of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, it means more than an academic degree one earns.
Read moreAnother Small Miracle
Early this morning, I had to run a quick errand. As I was backing out of the driveway, the sun glimmered off some fine water droplets on a strand of spider web.
Read moreCreating A Culture Of Peace
“Peace is more than the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
Read moreConservatives Afraid of Thoughtful Books
Human Events, the National Conservative Weekly newsletter asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Read moreQuran Desecration Approved By Rumsfeld-Media Blamed
On May 17, Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita told the public “we’ve not seen specific, credible allegations” of Quran mistreatment by U.S. guards or interrogators. Seventeen days later, the Pentagon acknowledged “that soldiers and interrogators kicked the Muslim holy book, got copies wet, stood on a Koran during an interrogation and inadvertently sprayed urine on another copy.”
Read morePot Calls Kettle Black
One pro-family leader is worried that American Christians could be facing a new form of inquisition.
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