Today at noon national religious leaders will be releasing a 4,732-word statement signed by Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical leaders, The statement dubbed Manhattan Declaration
issues a clarion call to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities that the signers will not - under any circumstance - abandon their Christian consciences.
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Via Dr. Sanity: Common Cause With Theocratic, Homophobic, Misogynistic Psychokillers
I just happened to notice this today from Andy McCarthy at The Corner:A panel of the Second Circuit U.
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Only in bible-beating America can such hypocrisy and batsh*ttery be married in one insane statement.
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You never quite know where Italy is going next. The down side to these convictions is that it's falling on some but not all of those involved in the disgraceful "extraordinary rendition" policy.
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Because it is the right thing to do: "Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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I was just poking around over at the Approve 71 web page, and wow! Take a look at the list of Approve 71 Letters to the Editor on their Press Room page.
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Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana is concerned about supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because of potential impacts on small businesses.
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Remember when Dallas Judge Tena Callahan struck down the Texas gay marriage ban earlier this month?
Unfortunately, because she gave an oral decision, no written decision was available to see what motivated the judge to rule the way she did.
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A largely Muslim football team has been kicked out of a Paris football league because they made discriminatory remarks about and refused to play a gay team, citing “Our convictions are stronger than a game of football.
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Robert Pinter isn't going down without a fight. The 53-year-old New Yorker
has filed a federal lawsuit against New York City officials after being arrested for engaging
in prostitution.
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We thought Michael Steele promised a more inclusive GOP. Then why is House Minority Leader John Boehner continuing the same tired anti-gay arguments that Republicans are notorious for? Because that's how he was born.
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Paris Foot Gay, an amateur gay soccer team has been told by a team comprised of Muslim players that their scheduled game cannot take place due to "religious principles.
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Just in via press release:
The National Equality March is just two weeks away, and we need your help choosing a speaker and a song for our rally on October 11! After reviewing a lot of incredible submissions for our Equality Idol speaker contest and our Equality Song performer contest, our judges have narrowed it down to four songs and five speakers.
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A Spurs fan may sue Portsmouth police after his conviction for shouting homophobic abuse at player Sol Campbell is overturned.
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A 14-year-old boy and a 42-year-old man who were found guilty of shouting "disgusting" homophobic abuse at footballer Sol Campbell have had their convictions overturned.
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ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web.
• South Africa's athletics organization is demanding chief Leonard Chuene rejoin the International Association of Athletics Federations, which he quit to protest the gender testing of track star Caster Semenya, who is supposedly on suicide watch(?!).
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There have been new arrests and convictions for same-sex relations in Senegal, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission reports.
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Senegal: New arrests and convictions for same-sex relations; pattern of persecution continues
New York, NY — The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Inner Circle are outraged at reports that a 17 year-old Senegalese man will stand trial on August 24 for sexual acts “against nature” and that two other men were convicted [.
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A highly placed Pentagon source is telling LGR, that an Army policy that allowed senior Noncommissioned Officer to continue to serve, even after they received courts-martial convictions or were determined to be drunks or drug abusers is ending but it could have consequences for gays and lesbians serving in all services.
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by Patrick Appel Do believers and atheists with firmer convictions lead happier lives?
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