Wednesday?s Situation Room program on CNN devoted nearly three times as much time to clips from advocates of overturning the military?s ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy than the one sound bite from a proponent of keeping the policy. The two advocates- Democratic Representative Patrick Murphy and a female Iraq war veteran had 33 seconds of air time, compared to the 12 seconds from a conservative spokesman.
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July 8th, 2009
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July 8th, 2009
A fanatic who once paraded his baby in an 'I love Al Qaeda' hat was yesterday jailed for firebombing the home of the publisher of a novel about Mohammed.
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July 8th, 2009
Nearly six in ten of Newham Muslims oppose a large mosque proposed for West Ham, according to the first survey of local opinion about the controversial project.
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July 7th, 2009
Hundreds of Anglicans met in London yesterday to signal dissent from liberalising trends within the Church. The vehicle for their protest was a new organisation called the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. The venture claims support from five bishops of the Church of England, among whom the most prominent is Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester.
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July 7th, 2009
A council worker who was sacked for telling a woman with an incurable disease to turn to God is set to take the local authority to an employment tribunal.
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July 7th, 2009
A homelessness prevention officer has been sacked by Wandsworth Council in London after he encouraged a terminally ill woman to look to God for help.
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July 7th, 2009
The House of Lords is to debate an amendment to the law on assisted suicide - which would allow relatives who accompany terminally ill family members to clinics abroad.
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July 7th, 2009
The House of Lords has rejected a proposal to make it legal for someone to help a terminally ill person to die.
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July 7th, 2009
A multi-million pound project to reduce pregnancies among youngsters deemed at risk has been abandoned after research showed it was not cutting conceptions.
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July 7th, 2009
The Lords last night rejected a bid to allow relatives to help terminally ill people travel abroad to die, following an impassioned plea by a severely disabled peer.