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New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg lives in a fairy tale world … a place of make believe where dictators direct every aspect of the citizens’ lives … from what they are allowed to eat and drink, to what they can legally own, to what they can even think. Mayor Bloomberg said over the weekend that…
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Abortion has been a campaign issue for decades. Rape is a more recent, and more troubling, point of political discussion. But understanding the connection between the two is essential to evaluating the controversies percolating in Senate races in Missouri and Indiana and what they entail for national politics. In a debate last week against his…
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s multiple references to Planned Parenthood in the second presidential debate showed how keen he is to sway female voters in swing states. He may have emboldened another demographic in the process, without making an overt appeal. I’m talking about secular Americans. Compared with their religious peers, this bloc of Americans is…
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A Moscow district court outlawed an anti-Islamic film that has provoked violent protests across the Muslim world after labeling it “extremist.” Moscow prosecutors asked the court to ban the “Innocence of Muslims” film because it aims to create a perception that Islam and Muslims are inferior, according to an e-mailed statement from General Prosecutor’s Office…
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So now it’s the French who are frantically closing their embassies, worried about violent mobs enraged after the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons, some of them pornographic, mocking the Prophet Muhammad. France’s official response has been more restrained than last week’s raft of apologies from the U.S. government after violence blamed on the incendiary…
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At “Miracle-Seed Sunday” in Singapore’s New Creation Church last month, the pastor’s sermon was preceded by PowerPoint and video presentations, and donations were overseen by auditors. Centuries after Catholics established missions in Asia, Singaporeans are flocking to a new species of churches making appeals more in common with “Material Girl” pop-singer Madonna than the Jesuits.…
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The Washington Post (WPO)’s Jason Horowitz reported this month that officials on Mitt Romney’s campaign don’t care much for journalistic explorations of their candidate’s religious beliefs. One spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, has been throwing brushback pitches at reporters who write about Romney’s faith, asking if they would write similar stories about Jews. According to Horowitz, Saul…
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The U.S. asked a federal judge to dismiss a St. Louis business owner’s lawsuit challenging a requirement that businesses offer employees contraception coverage through health-care insurance. Catholic businessman Frank O’Brien and his St. Louis-based O’Brien Industrial Holdings LLC sued the U.S. in March, arguing the mandate unconstitutionally violates his religious beliefs and the principals he…
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