Televangelist divorces husband after altercation
By Associated Press

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – Televangelist Juanita Bynum and husband Thomas W. Weeks ended their marriage in divorce court Friday, several months after an altercation in a hotel parking lot landed Weeks in jail on charges he choked and beat his wife.
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The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom urges government to vigorously condemn the sentence.
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Check out the latest anonymous e-mail attack on Barack Obama, the 46-year-old presidential candidate and longtime member of the United Church of Christ:
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In June 2003, when the Supreme Court legalized homosexual conduct in all 50 states, the court insisted its ruling had nothing to do with gay marriage. ‘Baloney,’ Justice Scalia replied.
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I’ve discovered a new product on the market called a “Soaking Kit.” It’s not a garden hose, a detachable nozzle and a gallon of H20. It won’t help you grow healthy fruits and vegetables.

No, a “soaking kit” is supposed to be Miracle Gro for the heart and soul and it sells for $60.

The Soaking Kit is sold by the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, a church that got famous in the late 1990s as the home of the “Toronto Blessing” revival. After attending the church, people claimed that their enamel dental fillings had turned to gold. I’m not making this up — you can read about it, thanks to BBC by clicking here.
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Gays and lesbians will have the legal right to marry in California, beginning at 5 p.m. Eastern time today. But it’s probably not a good idea for them to try it in Paraguay. A same-sex couple got arrested after exchanging vows in the landlocked South American country.
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Many Christian bookstores look like Republican party outposts a lot of election years. There have been books like “The Faith of George W. Bush” and a whole shelf of books on the faith of Ronald Reagan. Former Reagan staffers Gary Bauer, William Bennett and Oliver North have had books, as have former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Nixonite Charles Colson. GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and former VP Dan Quayle are also on the list.

But Democrats? They’ve been all but invisible at the Lifeways and Family Christian Bookstores of America. But that may be about to change.
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Florida evangelist made headlines in 2007 when he questioned whether Mitt Romney was really a Christian. Now he’s trying to make headlines again — this time by questioning whether Barack Obama is really a Christian.
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Southern Baptists have long been vigilant about baptisms, declining to recognize infant baptisms, non-immersion baptisms, Mormon baptisms, and baptisms performed by churches which teach that baptism is necessary in order to make it to heaven. But now, the Southern Baptist Convention is raising concerns about the validity of some Baptist baptisms, too.
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The Fairfax (Va.) County Board of Supervisors recently voted to continue leasing property to a Saudi-funded private Islamic school, despite the school using textbooks that condone killing adulterers and other enemies of Islam. Those who leave Islam are also fair game, the books say.
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It’s believed to be the oldest seed ever to grow and it comes from ancient Israel.
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On May 18, the New York Times ran an article on a key American Bible Society web consultant. It noted the consultant’s criminal past and his ties to pornographers. Soon before the article was published, the ABS stopped doing business with the consultant, who had collected $5 million in fees from ABS between 2005 and 2007. Now, ABS is looking for a new president.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Jefferson County Jail inmate has quite a tale to tell about how he got there. The nude man claimed to be Jesus Christ and George Bush when sheriff’s deputies shot him with a stun gun after he ignored their commands.
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A group devoted to protecting children from clergy sex abuse and to healing survivors of clergy sex abuse fears the Southern Baptist Convention won’t take concrete steps to protect children from predators.
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