Some people “defend marriage” by preventing gays and lesbians from tying the knot. But John Marcotte has decided to “defend marriage” by promoting legislation that would prevent heterosexuals from divorcing.
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A Florida megachurch has banished Pepsi machines from its campus, accusing the soft drink retailer of promoting homosexuality. For more, click here.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld school officials’ rights to censor the music at a high school graduation. Since school officials already have the right to censor speech at high school graduations, I’m not surprised by this 2-1 ruling.

Apparently, school administrators feared that they would be promoting religion by allowing students to play an instrumental version of a melody that is often accompanied by Latin lyrics that are Christian.
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Use of the school bus wasn’t improper, school officials argue, because the school district didn’t pay for the bus’s gas.

Ky. mother upset by football player son’s baptism
HARDINSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman says her 16-year-old son was baptized without her consent when he and fellow football players were taken to a Baptist revival by their coach.
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Some people argue that U.S. values and evangelical Christian values are synonymous. But they’re not. Just spend an afternoon channel surfing on television or spend a few minutes flipping through the magazines at your local grocery checkout lane. Or watch the evening news. The evidence is all around us.

This latest story from Kabul (below) is deeply disturbing.

Our culture is increasingly debased. The question is: will religious organizations fight to change the culture or seek to fit in?

By JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press Writer
KABUL (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has banned alcohol and assigned American personnel to watch the embassy’s security guards following allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters.
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1. Newspapers and a prominent magazine printed false stories about Chelsea Clinton this summer. And guess who The New York Times is blaming for the shoddy journalism?
a.) Inaccurate reporters.
b.) Incompetent editors.
c.) Inept fact-checkers.
d.) The Internets
e.) The Clintons
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EVIN DEMIREL
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Inspired by first-century Christians in the Middle East and 21st-century Christians in Memphis, a North Little Rock church on Sunday dished out a “reverse offering,” giving away $5,000 to needy congregants.

The Summit Church worshippers received cash to pay medical and electric bills, buy children’s school clothes, make a security deposit for an apartment, and replace a broken washing machine, said pastor Bill Elliff, who helped found the church 11 years ago.
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Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who declared martial law in Poland on Dec. 13, 1981, is now admitting he messed up when he cracked down on pro-democracy activists. But the 85-year-old former Communist Party leader is using spiritual language to describe his shortcomings.

“I see how many mistakes we made, how many sins we committed — that I committed too,” he told the Associated Press.

This is a great story from AP because it examines not only Jaruzelski’s record, but also his religious roots.

“He has been stung for years by accusations that he was a Moscow-backed traitor to his nation and insists he is a Polish patriot.
Raised in a Roman Catholic family of landed gentry, Jaruzelski and his family were deported to Siberia by the Red Army during World War II. There, Jaruzelski was struck by snow blindness and his father died.
He joined the Polish military attached to the Soviet army and fought the Nazis, later embracing communism. He says he was attracted by an ideology that seemed to address the terrible injustice and inequality he’d seen in prewar Poland.”

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First we had global warming to worry about. Then bank collapses and sky-high unemployment. Now, get ready for locusts and boils and the moon turning to blood.

“Man is coming nearer and nearer to destruction,” warns Sergei Torop, also known as “Jesus of Siberia.”
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Pakistani religion minister wounded in ambush
Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Pakistan’s religious affairs minister Wednesday, wounding him and killing his driver.
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is talking about God, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. So is current South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, according to the Washington Times.
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