Three women dressed in pajamas at a sleep over in November 2010 used a whiteboard to draft an anti-abortion measure that split the anti-abortion movement, backed Republican lawmakers into a corner - and could make Ohio’s abortion laws the strictest in the nation.
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April 23rd, 2012
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April 23rd, 2012The public debate about the succession to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury brought to my mind an incident some years ago in the days of the NuLab government, when I derived some constructive amusement from my work on the Opposition back benches.
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April 23rd, 2012An open letter from Anglican clergy in support of gay marriage has been criticised by an orthodox group within the Church of England.
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April 23rd, 2012There are two contradictory stories coming out of Downing Street at the moment. They are very nicely encapsulated by the Conservative mayoral candidates latest offering of wisdom at the churches’ hustings—of all places—where Twitter reports Boris Johnson as having said that you can serve both God and mammon. I love Boris.
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April 23rd, 2012Today is St George’s Day: the feast day of St George; a day the English do not celebrate; a day which most of England would rather forget; a day the British Government refuses to acknowledge.
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April 23rd, 2012Writing in the comment pages of the Irish Daily Mail last Tuesday, a colleague invoked the Gospel story of the child Jesus conversing with the elders in the Temple
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April 23rd, 2012Intellectual dishonesty and shallowness in the arguments for bringing gay civil unions within the legal definition of marriage were laid bare last week in Dublin’s Irish Times by an opinion writer who professes same-sex orientation himself.
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April 23rd, 2012Fabrice Muamba's cardiac arrest on the pitch in March sparked a nationwide prayer effort by footballers and churches (-AP). “I asked God to protect me – and he didn’t let me down.”
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April 23rd, 2012Depending on the source, between 10,000 and 30,000 atheists and agnostics gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last Saturday in the rain to “unify, energize, and embolden secular people nationwide, while dispelling the negative opinions held by so much of American society,” according to the organizer’s website.
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April 23rd, 2012WASHINGTON (BP) -- The New York City ban on religious worship in public schools violates both the free exercise of religion and the prohibition on government establishment of religion, a Southern Baptist entity and other groups contend in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court.