Archive for the '-Politics & Religion' Category
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
(Protest signs in Salt Lake by Getty Images via Daylife)
In the last post, I reported that over 1,000 gay activists were loudly protesting the passage of Prop. 8 out in front of the LDS Church Temple in Westwood. The protesters are angry with the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [...]
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
(Protesters at Mormon Temple by Getty Images via Daylife)
Proposition 8, the marriage amendment for traditional marriage, passed on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, gay rights activists have been protesting ever since all over the state. Over a thousand have gathered to loudly demonstrate outside of the Mormon Temple in Westwood.
The gay activists are particularly angry over the [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Picture by jmtimages via Flickr
Yesterday the American electorate spoke loud and clear in their choice of a new President in an historic election. Now what?
It is time to pray for a new leader:
Our Heavenly Father, we pray first for protection over our new President-Elect Barack Obama.
Second, we pray that you will bless him with [...]
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
According to the news reports, there were 33,000 at Qualcomm. Also, according to some, we were all bigoted anti-homosexuals there to spew out hate and to rant and rave for an entire day against same-sex marriage.
I guess that reporter must have been there between noon and 1 pm when were praying over Prop.8 [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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Although the Roman Catholic Bishops in America do not actively support one particular candidate over another, they are telling their parishioners to make sure that they consider abortion as a major defining issue in the election coming up.
According to Sue Cyr, head of the Ad Hoc Committee in Support of Our Bishops:
“As Election [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
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Is there a new evil religious group in the world that needs to be to be combated and it is called Christian Zionism?
According to an LA Times article, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, plans to distribute a brochure titled “Why We Should Be Concerned About Christian [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
I have literally found at least a dozen references in articles to the Pentecostal ‘Prosperity Gospel’ as actually one of the factors in the economic downturn, particularly the mortgage crisis. The main article that everyone is quoting is from Time Magizine online: “Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess“, by David Van [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit Friday (10/3/08) in U.S. district court, over The National Day of Prayer.
The suit argues that the president’s yearly proclamations calling on and encouraging Americans to pray every year for the country on the first Thursday of May, violates a constitutional ban on endorsing religion.
Response: This is [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
There have been all sorts of ignorant statements and outrageous comments made by the main stream media and 100’s of blogs concerning the Assemblies of God Church that Gov. Sarah Palin was raised in.
Here is a great ‘primer’ and synopsis of the history and beliefs of that denomination–written by Rich Tatum and posted [...]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
The 6 Episcopal Bishops of California came out this week in support of homosexual marriage and in opposition to Proposition 8 which is an amendment that would change the California constitution and preserve the integrity of marriage as being between one man and one woman. The amendment became necessary when the California Supreme Court [...]
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