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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: N.C.‘s Amendment 1; B16 on Catholic colleges; Kinkade’s autopsy
North Carolinians are heading to the polls today to vote on a gay marriage ban. Based on religious participation in the Tarheel state, the NYT's stat guru predicts that Amendment 1 will pass.
A Washington state pastor says he'd like to reclaim the word "gay," meaning happy, from the LGBT com...
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Jennifer Knapp, an unlikely gay Christian icon
(RNS) Jennifer Knapp is as shocked as anyone with her newfound role - as a gay Christian artist urging fellow Christians to affirm homosexuals. And she finds herself singing and making her case in a most unlikely venue -- in churches. By Greg Warner.
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Conservative Catholics blast upcoming appearance by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Georgetown University
(RNS) Can a Catholic politician speak at a Catholic university without drawing protesters? Not if it's House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan or, soon, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. By David Gibson.
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Pope Benedict XVI wants Catholic colleges to ensure that faculty are faithful to church doctrine
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI told U.S. bishops that Catholic colleges must ensure the doctrinal fidelity of their faculty, after some high-profile theologians teaching at Catholic universities have come under scrutiny from doctrinal watchdogs in the U.S. By Alessandro Speciale.
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Buddha’s birthday; Biden on gay marriage; RIP MCA
Buddhists around the world are celebrating the Awakened One's birthday. What do you get a guy who says the root of all evil is desire? Anyway, HuffPo has a nice slideshow of Buddha b'day celebrations.
VP Joe Biden said yesterday that he is "absolutely comfortable" with gay marriage, going f...
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Guest commentary: 20 years after Bosnia, finding meaning after terror
(RNS) Esad Boskailo is a Bosnian Muslim and I am a Jew, but when we decided to write a book together about finding meaning after terror, we were determined to avoid easy answers about suffering and religious language. By Julia Lieblich.
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Friday’s Religion News Roundup: Catholics’ Modern Family values, the Jewish `race’, blasphemy in Kuwait
Catholics love a show with two gay dads, one in 10 of you think the world will end in 2012, and don't insult the Prophet Muhammad in Kuwait. Unless you repent.
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Methodists uphold policy that calls homosexuality ‘incompatible with Christian teaching’
(RNS) United Methodists voted to maintain the denomination's stance that same-sex partnerships are "incompatible" with Christian teaching, despite fierce lobbying from pro-gay groups. By Daniel Burke.
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup: Gay sermon non-apology, Billy Graham on gay marriage, NFL suicide
The North Carolina pastor who said parents should ridicule and beat their children if they seem gay says he’s sorry that people didn’t understand him and that he wouldn’t say what the videotape shows him saying.
Pastor Sean Harris (in photo) is also frustrated that his critics won’t cut him s...
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N.C. black pastor treads carefully on gay marriage
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) Most black churches consider homosexuality a sin, and have resisted any attempt to reinterpret biblical passages condemning it. But some pastors are finding ways to skirt the theological issue, and support equal treatment of gays and lesbians as a legislative concern. By Yonat Shimron.
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