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Jun 21, 2011	Bible condemns a lot, so why focus on homosexuality? (My Take) QUOTE: Yale New Testament professor Dale B. Martin has noted that today’s "pro-family" activism, despite its pretense to be representing traditional Christian values, would have been considered “heresy” for most of the church’s history.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Mar 02, 2011	Supreme Court rules for anti-gay church over military funeral protests QUOTE: A Kansas church known for its angry, anti-gay protests at funerals of U.S. troops won an appeal Wednesday at the Supreme Court in a case testing the competing constitutional rights of free speech and privacy. In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said that members of Westboro Baptist Church had a right to promote what they call a broad-based message on public matters such as wars.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Aug 18, 2009	Lutherans to Vote on Sexually Active Gay Clergy (On Faith) QUOTE: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the largest Christian denominations in the country, will decide this week whether to allow gay people in relationships to serve as clergy.	Washington Post
Jul 28, 2009	Anglican Sees ‘Two-Track’ Church QUOTE: Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said profound differences among the world’s 77 million Anglicans over gay clergy and same-sex unions could divide their church into a “two-track model” yielding “two styles of being Anglican.”	New York Times
Mar 31, 2009	On divisive issue of gay clergy, two churches weigh softer stance QUOTE: Lutherans and Presbyterians may allow local congregations to choose people in same-sex relationships as pastors.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 16, 2008	Beyond Episcopal theological split, a property fight: The Episcopal Church is battling breakaway parishes over who owns the local assets. QUOTE: On Wednesday, Anglican bishops from around the world gather in Britain to discuss their differences over scriptural interpretation and homosexuality at the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference. But in America, those differences are already ending up in court. The stakes are high. Not only are some of the properties valuable, the legal battle over them is wrenching apart close-knit religious communities. Presbyterians and other denominations are keeping a close eye on the wrangling because they also have conservative congregations that are trying to pull out in response to actions of their denominations.	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 06, 2008	District to Settle Bible Suit QUOTE: The federal suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way Foundation...It argued that the course curriculum...promoted Protestant Christianity and a specific reading of the Bible as a literal historical document.	New York Times
Dec 06, 2007	Are big-spending clergy abusing U.S. tax code? Tax exemptions for wealthy media-based ministries lead a senator to ask hard questions. QUOTE: But church groups and other nonprofits worry that this probe could lead Congress to pass laws that slip into constitutionally protected territory – imposing excessive government oversight on a wide range of churches and other nonprofits.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 07, 2007	Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church QUOTE: Across the country, hundreds of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have drawn concern and criticism through their use of an unusual recruiting tool: the immersive and violent video game Halo.	New York Times
Sep 19, 2007	Tension as Episcopal bishops meet: Starting Thursday in New Orleans, they'll discuss communion demands over gay issues. QUOTE: Many are calling it "a watershed moment," as the bishops decide how to respond to requests from global Anglican leaders for "unequivocal assurances" that they will not approve another gay bishop and won't authorize or permit blessing of same-sex unions.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 10, 2007	Prisons Purge Books on Faith From Libraries QUOTE: The chaplains were directed by the Bureau of Prisons to clear the shelves of any books, tapes, CDs and videos that are not on a list of approved resources. In some prisons, the chaplains have recently dismantled libraries that had thousands of texts collected over decades, bought by the prisons, or donated by churches and religious groups.	New York Times
Aug 17, 2007	Advocates Hail Lutheran Act on Gay Clergy Members QUOTE: The country’s largest Lutheran denomination officially bars openly gay people from the ministry. But... the denomination is urging its bishops to refrain from disciplining gay members of the clergy who are in committed same-sex relationships.	New York Times
Jul 11, 2007	Dismay and anger as Pope declares Protestants cannot have churches QUOTE: Protestant churches yesterday reacted with dismay to a new declaration approved by Pope Benedict XVI insisting they were mere "ecclesial communities" and their ministers effectively phonies with no right to give communion.	Guardian Unlimited
May 13, 2007	Jamestown vs. Plymouth: America's Founding Fictions QUOTE: We prefer [The Pilgrim story] because we like to think that we are descended from a humble and saintly band.... But America's true founding story is much more interesting and much more real.	Washington Post
Dec 04, 2006	Episcopal Churches To Vote on Departure: Fairfax Congregations Dismayed by Direction QUOTE: Two of the country's largest and most historic Episcopal congregations -- both in Fairfax County -- will vote next week on whether to leave the U.S. church on ideological grounds and affiliate instead with a controversial Nigerian archbishop. The decision could lead to a bitter court battle and the loss of $25 million in property.	Washington Post
Aug 26, 2006	Clergywomen Find Hard Path to Bigger Pulpit QUOTE: Whether they come from theologically liberal denominations or conservative ones, black churches or white, women in the clergy still bump against...longstanding limits, preferences and prejudices within their denominations that keep them from leading bigger congregations and having the opportunity to shape the faith of more people.	New York Times
Aug 16, 2006	Can Criminals Hide in Churches? On the tradition of religious sanctuary. QUOTE: Religious institutions in America don't have special permission to harbor criminals or protect them from the government. That hasn't stopped pastors from trying...In 2005, Congress passed a law that gives religious groups a limited right to recruit illegal aliens as church volunteers or missionaries.	Slate
Jun 28, 2006	Head of Anglicans Seeks End to Divisions on Gay Clergy QUOTE: the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church USA is forced either to renounce its 2003 decision to consecrate an openly gay bishop or face expulsion from the communion.	Washington Post
Jun 15, 2006	When is a song too religious - even in after-school show? QUOTE: an 8-year-old student in Frenchtown, N.J., was told that the song she'd selected to perform in the show was too religious....School officials defend the action, saying they don't oppose religious songs but that the lyrics of "Awesome God" cross the line into proselytizing...	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 12, 2006	A tighter rein on faith-based initiatives: A court ruling last week against an Iowa prison program insists upon church-state separation. QUOTE: federal district judgee in Iowa...found that the InnerChange program run by Prison Fellowship Ministries in an Iowa prison was "pervasively sectarian" and that the facts "leave no room to doubt that the state of Iowa is excessively entangled with religion" through the program.	Christian Science Monitor
May 19, 2006	5 Professors Quit Religious School: Some Complain of Academic Constraints at Loudoun Institution QUOTE: Nearly a third of the faculty members at Patrick Henry College in Loudoun County are leaving the school because of what they described as limitations on their academic freedom	Washington Post
Feb 10, 2006	Air Force Eases Rules on Religion: New Guidelines Reflect Evangelicals' Criticism, General Says QUOTE: The Air Force, under pressure from evangelical Christian groups and members of Congress, softened its guidelines on religious expression yesterday to emphasize that superior officers may discuss their faith with subordinates and that chaplains will not be required to offer nonsectarian prayers.	Washington Post
Dec 21, 2005	Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design': Dover, Pa., District Can't Teach Evolution Alternative QUOTE: A federal judge barred a Pennsylvania school district yesterday from mentioning "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolutionary theory in a scathing opinion that criticized local school board members for lying under oath and for their "breathtaking inanity" in trying to inject religion into science classes.	Washington Post
Nov 19, 2005	IRS Reviews Church's Status: 2004 Antiwar Sermon Sparked Look at Tax Exemption QUOTE: The Internal Revenue Service is examining the tax-exempt status of a liberal church in Southern California because its former pastor delivered a fiery antiwar sermon that criticized President Bush by name on the Sunday before the 2004 presidential election.	Washington Post
Oct 13, 2005	Role of Religion Emerges as Issue QUOTE: President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.	Washington Post
Oct 11, 2005	Air Force Withdraws Paper for Chaplains: Document Permitted Proselytizing QUOTE: ...a 1977 Air Force Academy graduate ...has accused the academy's current leaders of fostering pressure on cadets to convert to evangelical Christianity.	Washington Post
Aug 30, 2005	Military Wrestles With Disharmony Among Chaplains QUOTE: After accusations this summer that evangelical chaplains, faculty and coaches were pressuring cadets at the Air Force Academy, the Air Force yesterday issued new guidelines on respect for religious minorities. In the Navy, evangelical Protestant chaplains are fighting what they say is a legacy of discrimination....	Washington Post
Aug 06, 2005	Threat to Divest Is Church Tool in Israeli Fight	New York Times
May 13, 2005	Air Force Removes Chaplain From Post: Officer Decried Evangelicals' Influence QUOTE: An Air Force chaplain who complained that evangelical Christians were trying to "subvert the system" by winning converts among cadets at the Air Force Academy was removed from administrative duties last week, just as the Pentagon began an in-depth study...	Washington Post
Mar 02, 2005	Take Two Tablets: The Supreme Court picks through the rubble of its Ten Commandments jurisprudence. QUOTE: ...pair of [Supreme Court--Ed.] cases involving displays of the Ten Commandments on state property. At one level everything appears scholarly and doctrinal. Until you realize that the doctrine is a mess, and the justices are so tangled up in old tests, old glosses on old tests, and new glosses on new tests that they don't even know how to talk about the Establishment Clause cases, much less how to resolve them.	Slate
Jun 19, 2004	Vermont Episcopalians' Liturgy for Civil Unions Upsets Conservatives Similarity to Wedding at Issue QUOTE: The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont unveiled new guidelines Friday for the performance of civil union ceremonies for same-sex couples, sparking a swift denunciation from conservatives in the 70 million-member Anglican Communion, which has been driven by issues related to homosexuality in the past year.	Washington Post
Apr 25, 2004	An Infusion of Religious Funds In Fla. Prisons: Church Outreach Seeks To Rehabilitate Inmates QUOTE: On Christmas Eve, Gov. Jeb Bush (R) rededicated the 30-year-old, minimum-security state penitentiary here as the nation's first entirely "faith-based" prison....some civil libertarians, religious minorities and penal experts question whether it is fair and effective -- let alone constitutional.	Washington Post
Apr 04, 2003	Army chaplain offers baptisms, baths QUOTE: Army chaplain Josh Llano of Houston...sees the water shortage, which has kept thousands of filthy soldiers from bathing for weeks, as an opportunity.	Miami Herald
Feb 07, 2003	Textbooks said to 'hide' problems with Islam QUOTE: "When any dark side [of Islam] surfaces, textbooks run and hide,"	Washington Times
Feb 03, 2003	Professor's Snub of Creationists Prompts U.S. Inquiry QUOTE: ...posted a demand on his Web site that students wanting a letter of recommendation for postgraduate studies "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the question of how the human species originated.	New York Times
Feb 02, 2003	Congregations Reach Out to Welcome Gays to the Fold QUOTE: ...an increasing number of churches are taking steps to show that they welcome gays and will treat them as equals in all aspects of congregational life.	Washington Post
Jan 31, 2003	The Guilt of the Church: Daniel Goldhagen, the author of A Moral Reckoning, calls upon the Catholic Church to face its legacy of anti-Semitism and its role in the Holocaust QUOTE: "What must a religion of love and goodness do to confront its history of hatred and harm, and to perform restitution?"	Atlantic Online, The (Atlantic Monthly)
Oct 24, 2002	A Monumental Issue Puts Two Icons on Trial: 10 Commandments Display at Issue QUOTE: U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson, who said he would rule by Nov. 18 on whether the monument could remain in the Alabama court building, framed the case in the biggest and boldest terms today, telling attorneys, "The issue here is: Can the state acknowledge God?"	Washington Post
Jul 16, 2002	Two Who Queried Pastor's Past Are Forced Off Parish Board QUOTE: Two members of the governing board of an old-line Episcopal parish in Manhattan have been forced to resign because they raised questions about their pastor's decade-old conviction on charges of possessing child pornography.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2001	The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism QUOTE: in recent weeks I have been reminded, in ways too plentiful to ignore, about the role Jews play in the fantasy life of the world. Jews were not the cause of World War II, but they were at the metaphysical center of that conflict nonetheless, since the Holocaust was part of Hitler's agenda and a key motivation of his campaign. Jews are not the cause of World War III, if that's what we are facing, but they have been placed at the center of it in mysterious and disturbing ways.	New York Times
Nov 02, 2001	Massachusetts Clears Five Witches in Salem Trials QUOTE: More than three centuries after they were accused, tried and hanged as unrepentant witches on Gallows Hill in Salem, Mass., five women have been officially exonerated by the state.	New York Times
Oct 13, 2001	Scholar's Book On Addressing Evil Finds New Life QUOTE: ...philosophy should seek an explanation of how God might "make good" on evil — that is, not only balancing each individual's suffering with some greater good for that person, as in heavenly reward, for example, but also integrating the experience of evil into each person's relation to God in some way that makes sense.	New York Times
Oct 05, 2001	Pacifists, Serious and Otherwise QUOTE: The true pacifist -- as against, say, someone who uses pacifist words to justify anti-Americanism or the violence of our foes -- subscribes to a stern moral creed.	Washington Post
Sep 22, 2001	Thinkers Face the Limits of a Just War QUOTE: Few moral philosophers except committed pacifists dispute that the United States has just cause to use force in this case. But many emphatically reject the use of the word "war" in anything but a metaphorical sense....The Roman Catholic Church, which starting with St. Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages has elaborated its own doctrine of just war, long ago ruled out revenge as a legitimate motive for use of force.	New York Times
Sep 14, 2001	God Gave U.S. 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says QUOTE: ...Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson... said liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility for Tuesday's terrorist attacks because their actions have turned God's anger against America.	Washington Post
Aug 14, 2001	Episcopal Dispute in Maryland Spills Into Federal Court QUOTE: ...this 303-year-old parish...is in the midst of another struggle for control, one that has pitted a prominent female bishop against a conservative priest who rejects the ordination of women. The dispute has spilled into ecclesiastical and secular courts and divided the small parish.......	New York Times
Aug 10, 2001	I.R.A. Offers to Put Arms 'Beyond Use,' to No Avail QUOTE: ...the Irish Republican Army offered publicly today to put its arsenal of explosives, rifles and mortars "completely and verifiably beyond use."	New York Times
Aug 06, 2001	Alabama's Ten Commandments: Why there should be a wall between church and state QUOTE: Any Hindu, Buddhist or atheist entering the Alabama Judicial Building could rightly be squeamish upon seeing the words "I am the Lord, your God" or "Honor the Sabbath and keep it holy." [Ten Commandments]	MSNBC
Jul 27, 2001	Many States Ceding Regulations to Church Groups QUOTE: ...religious organizations have been seeking and winning exemptions from other areas of the law, from land-use regulations to health requirements, like immunization.	New York Times
Jul 10, 2001	Charity Cites Bush Help in Fight Against Hiring Gays: Salvation Army Wants Exemption From Laws QUOTE: The Bush administration is working with...the Salvation Army, to make it easier for government-funded religious groups to practice hiring discrimination against gay people...	Washington Post

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