WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP)--In a landmark legal brief that reads more like one from the ACLU or a gay legal group, the U.S. Justice Department argues that homosexuals exhibit immutable characteristics, have suffered a history of discrimination and that the federal government's marriage law is driven by prejudice.
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July 22nd, 2011
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July 22nd, 2011Father Zakaria Botros, also known as Islam’s “Public Enemy #1,” is back. From around 2005-2010, this 76 year-old Coptic priest was Islam’s bane. Appearing weekly on Arabic satellite, where he was viewed by an estimated 60 million people worldwide, mostly Muslims, he meticulously exposed any number of theological problems with Islam—all from Islam’s own books—while simultaneously evangelizing from his own book, the Bible.
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July 22nd, 2011More than 30 human embryos are created for every successful birth by IVF,official figures have revealed.
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July 22nd, 2011Christians in the West may be far physically from their persecuted brothers and sisters in Pakistan, but there is still something they can do to strengthen their faith
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July 22nd, 2011Better regulation is needed to govern rapidly expanding research in animals containing human tissue or genes, the Academy of Medical Sciences says.
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July 22nd, 2011The abortion debate has left one issue largely off the table: The proper rights of men to prevent the abortion of their children.
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July 22nd, 2011The Church in Wales says it is investigating after a Gwynedd rector burnt some pages from the Bible.
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July 22nd, 2011British scientists have said today that a new expert body should be formed to regulate experiments mixing animal and human DNA to make sure no medical or ethical boundaries are crossed.
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July 22nd, 2011Scientists are in danger of turning animals into monsters unless an ethical watchdog is appointed to prevent Frankenstein-like experiments, the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned.
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July 21st, 2011A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies claims to have comprehensively debunked one of the mainstays of Conservative social policy: that children are more likely to do well in life if they are brought up by two married parents. Researchers conceded that this basic fact is true; but they questioned the cause and effect. The study said that married parents tended to be more affluent and better educated, and their children, therefore, were more successful at school and got better jobs.