May 20, 2013
Afternoon Summary
Before the gay marriage debate starts, here's an afternoon summary.• William Hague, the foreign secretary, has told MPs that no options are off the table if Syria's ruling regime refuses to seriously engage in an international conference to broker peace in the country.• The Conservative party board has rejected a call for a investigation into the claim that Lord Feldman, the party...- Interfaith Event Teaches That U.S. Is 'Aiding' Oppression
Episcopal priest says Islamic leaders 'changed my life and thinking'
By Ryan Mauro
http://www.theird.org/
May 20, 2013
The Muslim Public... The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case out of New York in which the Second Circuit held, in an opinion by Judge Guido Calabresi, that the town’s practice of allowing private citizens to open town board meetings with a prayer violates the Establishment Clause. The last legislative prayer case at the high court was thirty years...
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by Christopher Booker, TelegraphThe Oxford sex-grooming case reveals the glaring failures of our child-protection system
Most of the coverage given to the case of the seven men found guilty of the appalling physical and sexual abuse of underage girls in Oxford has focused on the fact that most of these monsters...
R. R. Reno on salvation by technique:
The modern era dreams of an end of politics. In its classic form this involves an apocalyptic act of revolutionary will. The French Revolution was colored by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s vision of perfect democracy, the fusion of the free individual with the general will.
Also today, from our June/July issue, Brian Doyle on...
- Sin and the Distorted Image
By Jim Tonkowich
Institute on Religion and Democracy
www.theird.org
May 20, 2013
This week Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist, was sentenced to life in prison for the... The Archbishop of Myanmar, Stephen Than Myint Oo has revealed that, during his time in prison, he planned to kill himself and that it was God's intervention that stopped him. In the latest Anglican World magazine, Archbishop Stephen tells journalist ...
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An Everson man who impregnated a preteen girl and forced her to have an abortion must serve a six-year prison sentence, then leave the country.Luis Gonzalez-Jose, 31, raped the girl at a home in rural Whatcom County while her mother was in the shower, according to charging...
- So guess who designed the website and branding for The Ordinary Restaurant? Local whizzes Fuzzco. Check it all out here and their blog is there.
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The issue of gay ministers will top the agenda at the Church of Scotland's General Assembly, four years after the first openly homosexual minister was appointed by the Kirk. The move caused divisions in the church and resulted in two congregations and six ministers breaking away.At the heart of debate will be a report by...