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Operated by a homosexual providing religious news and more, with a leftest slant, intended for the above mentioned audience.</description><link>http://www.religiousleft.net/</link><managingEditor>Tom@2015Place.com (Tom)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3070</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReligiousLeftUs" type="application/rss+xml" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>ReligiousLeftUs</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2902132159301159258.post-8886081833654703135</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-09T00:47:18.480-08:00</atom:updated><title>Recent Religious Headlines [T11R-4]</title><description>&lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11oraeclc/*http%3A//leelanaunews.com/drupal/index.php?q=blog/3357"&gt;The Leelanau Conservative A Blog by Ed Hahnenberg (Leelanau Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;If you think presidential charm can fool the voters, think again. Last eveningâs election results in the governorsâ races in New Jersey and Virginia prove one thing: This Prez has lost his coattails.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11m7ca0se/*http%3A//www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=31643"&gt;FIRST-PERSON: They can't blame the Christians anymore Kelly Boggs (BPNews.net)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--It has been put to a vote in some shape, form or fashion in 31 states. Each and every time it has failed. Its most recent defeat came in Maine. The "it" in question is "homosexual marriage."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11np85uu5/*http%3A//www.metnews.com/articles/2009/cath110609.htm"&gt;âInsultâ to San Franciscans (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;âThat the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.â&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=130hpfu9o/*http%3A//www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/11/09/lgbt-co-op-hosts-panel-housing/"&gt;LGBT Co-op hosts panel on gender neutral housing (Yale Daily News)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;As part of Trans Awareness week, a group of panelists said Sunday that they support gender-neutral housing at Yale, but acknowledged the potential obstacles to its implementation.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=125fptnlc/*http%3A//www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/11/09/news/nh1660569.txt"&gt;'Spouse' entering Census for same-sex couples (The News-Herald)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;For the first time, the 2010 U.S. Census form will use the term "same-sex spouse," but not the legal word "married," when gay residents participate in the national headcount including Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga counties.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12tskm04v/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/the-campaign-the-audacity_b_349479.html"&gt;Georgianne Nienaber: The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=1491l6vl5/*http%3A//www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1226117/Sex-tape-shame-dethroned-Miss-California-pin-American-conservatism.html?ITO=1490"&gt;Sex tape shame of dethroned Miss California, the anti-gay marrriage pin-up girl (Daily Mail)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Her opposition to gay marriage and strong ties to religion made her an overnight celebrity and a top pin-up for American conservatism.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12m49vugo/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/will-rev-bernice-kings-bu_b_347030.html"&gt;Irene Monroe: Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-8886081833654703135?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Fnational%2F1110ap_us_gay_marriage_what_now.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFi1PHh4boeACIzOHU5GNPNmURw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/DRzs6DtlbZq3iM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edgeboston.com%2Findex.php%3Fch%3Dnews%26sc%3D%26sc2%3Dnews%26sc3%3D%26id%3D98734&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYHuyEbrv99aMYF2FLExUgW6T93Q"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who&amp;#39;s to Blame for Maine?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;EDGE Boston&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Mathew Staver, who created the Florida conservative &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; legal group Liberty Counsel, told the AP, "Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-24111-Liberal-Issues-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Maine-voters-support-samesex-discrimination-because-Bible-told-them-so&amp;usg=AFQjCNHksVRPWnG2mm7D6hTgjcrtIF5Iqg"&gt;Maine voters support same-sex discrimination because Bible told them so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alligator.org%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Farticle_5b3a908e-c9c4-11de-b93a-001cc4c002e0.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiuYCfdiqmQxcBYdA8FEwWcgBAVg"&gt;Locals react to vote against gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Independent Florida Alligator&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don&amp;#39;t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsdgln.com%2Fcauses%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Ffaith-leaders-support-marriage-equality-maine&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyNpeZ9FRXI902SnWnfi4O8S-H4w"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;San Diego Gay &amp; 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Contrary to some media reports, the US Catholics &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dWVASsVhyrYm-mM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.times-news.com%2Fopinion%2Flocal_story_312180620.html%3Fkeyword%3Dsecondarystory&amp;usg=AFQjCNFBCpuYsmq7KcLay_QkR9OBPSal9A"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conscience is the most sacred of all property&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Cumberland Times-News&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Marsh quickly replied that the late senator had observed a &lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt;. 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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S3yjwgUG4xTPLcfQCSl2RQQv_rk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S3yjwgUG4xTPLcfQCSl2RQQv_rk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~4/bdDxsCUKEmg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~3/bdDxsCUKEmg/headlines-separation-of-church-and_08.html</link><author>Tom@2015Place.com (Tom)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.religiousleft.net/2009/11/headlines-separation-of-church-and_08.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2902132159301159258.post-5371382194585830155</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-08T14:11:46.207-08:00</atom:updated><title>Gay/LGBT Religious News (T22R-1)</title><description>&lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfoxmemphis.com%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Fnational%2FMassachusetts_Man_Says_He_Was_Fired_for_Telling_Colleague_Her_Gay_Marriage_Is_Wrong_27520930&amp;usg=AFQjCNF0ELj98QzSAcsu4qv2GCSemGUA0Q"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news/tbn/CjMLf4M5GKGaVM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;MyFox Memphis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fstory%2F0%2C2933%2C572862%2C00.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrshCAf1647Kjn29ctI70D0NJTFg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Massachusetts Man Says He Was Fired for Telling Colleague Her &lt;b&gt;Gay&lt;/b&gt; Marriage Is &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;FOXNews&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; safe and productive work environment free from discrimination or harassment based on race, &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt;, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tips-q.com%2F1570665-peter-vadala-martyr-faith&amp;usg=AFQjCNFLyTfbDeElxYm4PBj7i9Zwyb6s4g"&gt;Peter Vadala - Martyr for the Faith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Tips-Q GLBT News (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dk8w5tFH075kUlMugcfJJwW3tDnZM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 21 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Fnational%2F1110ap_us_gay_marriage_what_now.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFi1PHh4boeACIzOHU5GNPNmURw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/DRzs6DtlbZq3iM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.dailymail.com%2Fdonsurber%2Farchives%2F3329&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxteJZZVHPI0ASL6IRZRNnBzrxNw"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Californians are tired of &lt;b&gt;gay&lt;/b&gt; marriage&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Daily Mail - Charleston&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;I will facilitate future campaigns to ban your disgusting &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; from the country, you fascist god fearing zealots. For being &lt;b&gt;gay&lt;/b&gt; they sure don&amp;#39;t seem &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fgay-marriage-split-why-maine-is-mainstream%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNG8oV4jFHjPD0STFOrvSZlunk-4iQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gay&lt;/b&gt; Marriage Split: Why Maine Is Mainstream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Politics Daily (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-24813-Albuquerque-Feminism-and-Relationships-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Maines-antigay-marriage-ruling-and-feminism&amp;usg=AFQjCNF3rqS_fHMYxSId9YYLloQFKF6O5A"&gt;Maine&amp;#39;s anti-&lt;b&gt;gay&lt;/b&gt; marriage ruling and feminism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flearning.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fshould-gay-couples-be-allowed-to-marry%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHapL_iYheAQR5nMGU9g-FmeMyyjA"&gt;Should &lt;b&gt;Gay&lt;/b&gt; 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marriage advocates misjudge foes to own peril&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;OregonLive.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;That begins by viewing opponents as more than ignorant bigots and ends with ensuring that parents&amp;#39; rights and freedom of speech and &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; remain intact. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.exgaywatch.com%2Fwp%2F2009%2F11%2Fxgw-digest-november-7-2009%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPL-0o2Uc0G8SeHs6O6LAmH9YaBA"&gt;XGW Digest: November 7, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Ex-Gay Watch (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dBx44ItjJVcmyvMHAGXqzjTgXYyjM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 62 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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Obama will sign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Gay People Chronicle&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsite.pfaw.org%2Fsite%2FPageServer%3Fpagename%3Dmedia_2009_10_hate_crimes_prevention_passes&amp;usg=AFQjCNESj7IQiF0BlIgdFqhkFjxjhos9Uw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;People For the American Way&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.washingtonpost.com%2Fcapitol-briefing%2F2009%2F10%2Fsenate_approves_hate_crimes_me.html%3Fhpid%3Dtopnews&amp;usg=AFQjCNHapYLXkZ78UmY3GUhZyR0nV97jrg"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Washington Post&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fau.christiantoday.com%2Farticle%2Fhate-crimes-bill-passes-us-congress-due-to-be-finalized-by-obama%2F7162.htm&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiLaa5RGz2kErdPt7l_nXrCP1fzQ"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Christian Today -- Australia&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dhukOaH_RlqpheMOmeUVhQo-ZxDBM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 676 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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Hate Crimes Legislation Signing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Towleroad (blog)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;This is the first piece of federal legislation signed into law that explicitly covers &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; citizens. 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Last eveningâs election results in the governorsâ races in New Jersey and Virginia prove one thing: This Prez has lost his coattails.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11m7ca0se/*http%3A//www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=31643"&gt;FIRST-PERSON: They can't blame the Christians anymore Kelly Boggs (BPNews.net)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--It has been put to a vote in some shape, form or fashion in 31 states. Each and every time it has failed. Its most recent defeat came in Maine. The "it" in question is "homosexual marriage."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11np85uu5/*http%3A//www.metnews.com/articles/2009/cath110609.htm"&gt;âInsultâ to San Franciscans (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;âThat the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.â&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12tskm04v/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/the-campaign-the-audacity_b_349479.html"&gt;Georgianne Nienaber: The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=1491l6vl5/*http%3A//www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1226117/Sex-tape-shame-dethroned-Miss-California-pin-American-conservatism.html?ITO=1490"&gt;Sex tape shame of dethroned Miss California, the anti-gay marrriage pin-up girl (Daily Mail: World News)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Her opposition to gay marriage and strong ties to religion made her an overnight celebrity and a top pin-up for American conservatism.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12m49vugo/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/will-rev-bernice-kings-bu_b_347030.html"&gt;Irene Monroe: Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-1682396913237094788?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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There are more Christians than agnostics and atheists &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridablade.com%2Fthelatest%2Fthelatest.cfm%3Fblog_id%3D27967&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3kuNReK1FYtk8ljZEGm3zNw3Hww"&gt;Senate panel hears ENDA testimony&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;South Florida Blade&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dMsIr1V1wL5prfMpgDfUxYSXsQxBM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 45 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Fnational%2F1110ap_us_gay_marriage_what_now.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFi1PHh4boeACIzOHU5GNPNmURw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/DRzs6DtlbZq3iM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edgeboston.com%2Findex.php%3Fch%3Dnews%26sc%3D%26sc2%3Dnews%26sc3%3D%26id%3D98734&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYHuyEbrv99aMYF2FLExUgW6T93Q"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who&amp;#39;s to Blame for Maine?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;EDGE Boston&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Mathew Staver, who created the Florida conservative &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; legal group Liberty Counsel, told the AP, "Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-24111-Liberal-Issues-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Maine-voters-support-samesex-discrimination-because-Bible-told-them-so&amp;usg=AFQjCNHksVRPWnG2mm7D6hTgjcrtIF5Iqg"&gt;Maine voters support same-sex discrimination because Bible told them so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don&amp;#39;t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alligator.org%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Farticle_5b3a908e-c9c4-11de-b93a-001cc4c002e0.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiuYCfdiqmQxcBYdA8FEwWcgBAVg"&gt;Locals react to vote against gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Independent Florida Alligator&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsdgln.com%2Fcauses%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Ffaith-leaders-support-marriage-equality-maine&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyNpeZ9FRXI902SnWnfi4O8S-H4w"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;San Diego Gay &amp; Lesbian News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfreepress.com%2Fmaine-rejects-same-sex-marriage-legalization-1.2052710&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjgGbLSecwJCW74_C3rduW8nZCXA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Daily Free Press (subscription)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsubversify.com%2F2009%2F11%2F06%2Fohhh-maine%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAq72M1FBMNI63pHSxIxD4Sn2leA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Subversify (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dsQJ_4LvenefoWMUo7Aw5wBH_kRNM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 2,911 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Fnational%2F1110ap_us_gay_marriage_what_now.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFi1PHh4boeACIzOHU5GNPNmURw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/DRzs6DtlbZq3iM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthemoderatevoice.com%2F51647%2Fsame-sex-marriage-rights-defeated-in-maine%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXRUQijikSxeYGIbIhlFVvr4M44Q"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Same Sex Marriage Rights Defeated In Maine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;The Moderate Voice&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;That goes for &lt;b&gt;homosexuals&lt;/b&gt;, heterosexuals, or nonsexuals. How is being against flaunting sexuality considered "going into other&amp;#39;s bedrooms"? &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiggovernment.com%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Fmaine-voters-reject-same-sex-marriage%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH7QcgCBdYeYRsx_TbmlMdJpl_5EQ"&gt;Maine Agrees With Obama: No Same Sex Marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Government (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmainecampus.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fop-ed-%25E2%2580%2598yes-on-1%25E2%2580%2599-voters-mummified-institution-of-marriage-in-maine%2F%3Fref%3Dhp&amp;usg=AFQjCNHwbz1ysw47fyiHLnLrzgGwAo84zg"&gt;Op-Ed: &amp;#39;Yes on 1&amp;#39; voters mummified institution of marriage in Maine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Maine Campus&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2009%2F11%2Fexplaining-non-religious-oppos.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-NBY4MsR7gai7WkWbNZ73YVlbPw"&gt;Pondering non-religious opposition to gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Beliefnet.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opednews.com%2Farticles%2FLegislating-Inequality-La-by-Mary-Shaw-091101-385.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnJbVoSCPFi908AEV5wz4RsPSq3Q"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;OpEdNews&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tips-q.com%2F1554400-washington-stickney-confirms-obvious&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_Msh4DK4KMoMnMfj_niHGRKATSA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Tips-Q GLBT News (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=d1Sx3Epr7yNTwkM8e5by31NBB7T9M"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 2,911 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-3425922902707654722?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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(BP)--It has been put to a vote in some shape, form or fashion in 31 states. Each and every time it has failed. Its most recent defeat came in Maine. The "it" in question is "homosexual marriage."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11np85uu5/*http%3A//www.metnews.com/articles/2009/cath110609.htm"&gt;âInsultâ to San Franciscans (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;âThat the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.â&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11qi2rd69/*http%3A//www.ekklesia.co.uk/research/thought_for_the_day"&gt;Charity Gifts and Sponsorship (Ekklesia)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;This research paper looks into the background and history of BBC Radio 4's short 'Thought for the Day' slot, which has become a topic of public and media debate of late concerning the proposal that non-religious as well as religious voices should be heard on it.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12tskm04v/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/the-campaign-the-audacity_b_349479.html"&gt;Georgianne Nienaber: The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12m49vugo/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/will-rev-bernice-kings-bu_b_347030.html"&gt;Irene Monroe: Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121m7b7rh/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33498755/ns/entertainment-gossip/"&gt;Scoop: Scientologists not anti-gay, official says (MSNBC)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by âCrashâ director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the churchâs practices.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-5339009599014951917?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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legal group Liberty Counsel, told the AP, "Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-24111-Liberal-Issues-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Maine-voters-support-samesex-discrimination-because-Bible-told-them-so&amp;usg=AFQjCNHksVRPWnG2mm7D6hTgjcrtIF5Iqg"&gt;Maine voters support same-sex discrimination because Bible told them so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don&amp;#39;t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alligator.org%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Farticle_5b3a908e-c9c4-11de-b93a-001cc4c002e0.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiuYCfdiqmQxcBYdA8FEwWcgBAVg"&gt;Locals react to vote against gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Independent Florida Alligator&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfreepress.com%2Fmaine-rejects-same-sex-marriage-legalization-1.2052710&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjgGbLSecwJCW74_C3rduW8nZCXA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Daily Free Press (subscription)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsdgln.com%2Fcauses%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Ffaith-leaders-support-marriage-equality-maine&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyNpeZ9FRXI902SnWnfi4O8S-H4w"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;San Diego Gay &amp; 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people&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;China Worker&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;"We don&amp;#39;t have gay-bashing in Hong Kong, but homophobia is still horrific," she says, pointing to the powerful influence exercised by the &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; Right in &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dgtYVCZ8YW_FTtM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmiamiherald.typepad.com%2Fgaysouthflorida%2F2009%2F11%2Fjesses-journal-kevin-jennings-and-the-antigay-witch-hunt.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGP_uWlLINWGfqD53MmLCauqwJa5w"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Steve Rothaus&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;MiamiHerald.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; âa former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting &lt;b&gt;homosexuality&lt;/b&gt; in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dIxxqcYOozO0GqM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Fnational%2F1110ap_us_gay_marriage_what_now.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFi1PHh4boeACIzOHU5GNPNmURw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/DRzs6DtlbZq3iM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthemoderatevoice.com%2F51647%2Fsame-sex-marriage-rights-defeated-in-maine%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXRUQijikSxeYGIbIhlFVvr4M44Q"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Same Sex Marriage Rights Defeated In Maine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;The Moderate Voice&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;"Gay culture" may be the thing that kills the &lt;b&gt;homosexual&amp;#39;s&lt;/b&gt; agenda as it is. The fact that it has become a cultural phenomenon in certain heavily gay areas &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiggovernment.com%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Fmaine-voters-reject-same-sex-marriage%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH7QcgCBdYeYRsx_TbmlMdJpl_5EQ"&gt;Maine Agrees With Obama: No Same Sex Marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Government (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmainecampus.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fop-ed-%25E2%2580%2598yes-on-1%25E2%2580%2599-voters-mummified-institution-of-marriage-in-maine%2F%3Fref%3Dhp&amp;usg=AFQjCNHwbz1ysw47fyiHLnLrzgGwAo84zg"&gt;Op-Ed: &amp;#39;Yes on 1&amp;#39; voters mummified institution of marriage in Maine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Maine Campus&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2009%2F11%2Fexplaining-non-religious-oppos.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-NBY4MsR7gai7WkWbNZ73YVlbPw"&gt;Pondering non-religious opposition to gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Beliefnet.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opednews.com%2Farticles%2FLegislating-Inequality-La-by-Mary-Shaw-091101-385.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnJbVoSCPFi908AEV5wz4RsPSq3Q"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;OpEdNews&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tips-q.com%2F1554400-washington-stickney-confirms-obvious&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_Msh4DK4KMoMnMfj_niHGRKATSA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Tips-Q GLBT News (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=d1Sx3Epr7yNTwkM8e5by31NBB7T9M"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 2,900 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nj.com%2Fnjv_tom_moran%2F2009%2F11%2Fnew_jersey_has_brief_chance_to.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZoaPueY_rC9KaUN9BSjDd9-_WVg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt0.ggpht.com/news/tbn/oOstc9zyoxzy9M/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;NJ.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oregonlive.com%2Fhovde%2Findex.ssf%2F2009%2F11%2Fgay_marriage_advocates_misjudg.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6RupCS58oaVo0MgzOCWQ1lCFfGA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gay marriage advocates misjudge foes to own peril&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;OregonLive.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Most gay rights opponents can&amp;#39;t seriously doubt that marriage would make &lt;b&gt;homosexual&lt;/b&gt; couples&amp;#39; lives easier. And most don&amp;#39;t wish to make life more difficult &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2009%2F11%2Fsully-no-more-mr-nice-gay.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNFhQrqtDljzHB0fBDUAlKiYl36TVA"&gt;Sully: "No more Mr. Nice Gay"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Beliefnet.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dBx44ItjJVcmyvMlxt1FHzW-p9kxM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 72 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-1589445273866891709?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wickedlocal.com%2Fbrewster%2Ftown_info%2Fgovernment%2Fx1156080991%2FBrewster-church-sign-on-town-property-stirs-debate&amp;usg=AFQjCNErp4XQn9XHI2Nc_NbacCcwr9lwXQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brewster &lt;b&gt;church&lt;/b&gt; sign on town property stirs debate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Cape Codder&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;While it&amp;#39;s not illegal, it creates a whole issue of &lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt;.â âOur legal opinion says it doesn&amp;#39;t violate the &lt;b&gt;separation of church and&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=d-RTkNnCF0oS_oM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcorner.nationalreview.com%2Fpost%2F%3Fq%3DYWMzYTE4NmQ3ZTMwNDUzNjQyNWExMTQ4ZmEyNGNmMzE%3D&amp;usg=AFQjCNGv_0tlEukxiVSpQqzfPN0nUxXzRQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Orrin Hatch and Other People&amp;#39;s Money [Andrew Stuttaford]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;National Review Online (blog)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;But it has nevertheless stirred an intense controversy over the constitutional &lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt;, and the possibility that other churches might &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2Fbeattie11062009.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNE3ls57DV4i9_26aixFon-c58lhSw"&gt;No to Single Payer, Yes to Prayer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;CounterPunch&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.ljworld.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2Fnov%2F07%2Fchristian-scientists-seek-voice-healthcare-debate%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9QoiKyZnVQuEe7CI0fj0CJXJXxA"&gt;Christian Scientists seek voice in healthcare debate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Lawrence Journal World&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dgFSAjcVebfCo9MgJ8V7qdLAo8wNM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 8 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F11%2F07%2FAR2009110702764.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5eGs3nwsw_FpONxSMNjbuJTvQgw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news/tbn/GmywVShUTX3PkM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Washington Post&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-25800-DC-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m11d7-Catholics-and-prolife-Democrats-score-big-victory-on-health-care-reform-bill&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDLX8_nSzVK-oWlF_TOBeJFpkOAQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Catholics and pro-life Democrats score big victory on health care reform bill&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Whatever happened to &lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt;? Apparently, spreading the Gospel just wasn&amp;#39;t grabbing enough media attention &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F1109%2F29262.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHlaEksJylKlGPDak91t0iqrZPf_Q"&gt;Bishops back abortion compromise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Politico&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=d9-rmIVyxeu43FMScPelb9LnNa0SM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 1,014 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlineathens.com%2Fstories%2F110609%2Flet_513045910.shtml&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXlt0LoIHiX1YRR0XNbZUfT5D1Bg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jim McMeans: Jesus wanted &lt;b&gt;church&lt;/b&gt;-&lt;b&gt;state&lt;/b&gt; wall&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Online Athens&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;While it&amp;#39;s true the phrase "&lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt;" doesn&amp;#39;t appear in the Constitution, the principle does. 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activism should seriously get off the idea that they will be able to &amp;#39;cut &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; down to size&amp;#39; ... because &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; has the Constitution on its side, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Fnational%2Fmain5514014.shtml&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxlEiF91GymWuuGuFf8jacTMrbQA"&gt;Judge Who Nixed Interracial Marriage Quits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;CBS News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dxQovyDH0OQTisM4Qe2RBDv0lCVfM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 699 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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(BP)--It has been put to a vote in some shape, form or fashion in 31 states. Each and every time it has failed. Its most recent defeat came in Maine. The "it" in question is "homosexual marriage."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11np85uu5/*http%3A//www.metnews.com/articles/2009/cath110609.htm"&gt;âInsultâ to San Franciscans (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;âThat the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.â&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11qi2rd69/*http%3A//www.ekklesia.co.uk/research/thought_for_the_day"&gt;Charity Gifts and Sponsorship (Ekklesia)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;This research paper looks into the background and history of BBC Radio 4's short 'Thought for the Day' slot, which has become a topic of public and media debate of late concerning the proposal that non-religious as well as religious voices should be heard on it.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12tskm04v/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/the-campaign-the-audacity_b_349479.html"&gt;Georgianne Nienaber: The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12m49vugo/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/will-rev-bernice-kings-bu_b_347030.html"&gt;Irene Monroe: Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121m7b7rh/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33498755/ns/entertainment-gossip/"&gt;Scoop: Scientologists not anti-gay, official says (MSNBC)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by âCrashâ director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the churchâs practices.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-1264534067556696330?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Here is a...&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebar.com%2Fnews%2Farticle.php%3Fsec%3Dnews%26article%3D4325&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyHS_kPxMosfMGUx3YA5exzMR7mw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/IftzozpLF0p_2M/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Bay Area Reporter&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blueoregon.com%2F2009%2F11%2Ffurthering-civil-rights-for-lgbt-americans.html%3Fcid%3D6a00d8341c2c3f53ef0120a6afee49970c&amp;usg=AFQjCNFgkzafwv5SAIZVXN8ONzMJ45GyoA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Furthering Civil Rights for &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; Americans&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;BlueOregon (blog)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Gays will not get marriage via exposing &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; congregations such as Catholics and demonizing them. 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legal group Liberty Counsel, told the AP, "Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-24111-Liberal-Issues-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Maine-voters-support-samesex-discrimination-because-Bible-told-them-so&amp;usg=AFQjCNHksVRPWnG2mm7D6hTgjcrtIF5Iqg"&gt;Maine voters support same-sex discrimination because Bible told them so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don&amp;#39;t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsubversify.com%2F2009%2F11%2F06%2Fohhh-maine%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAq72M1FBMNI63pHSxIxD4Sn2leA"&gt;Ohhh, Maine!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Subversify (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alligator.org%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Farticle_5b3a908e-c9c4-11de-b93a-001cc4c002e0.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiuYCfdiqmQxcBYdA8FEwWcgBAVg"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Independent Florida Alligator&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfreepress.com%2Fmaine-rejects-same-sex-marriage-legalization-1.2052710&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjgGbLSecwJCW74_C3rduW8nZCXA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Daily Free Press (subscription)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsdgln.com%2Fcauses%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Ffaith-leaders-support-marriage-equality-maine&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyNpeZ9FRXI902SnWnfi4O8S-H4w"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;San Diego Gay &amp; 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community: a &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; organization headed up by a member of the King family. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shewired.com%2FArticle.cfm%3FID%3D23849&amp;usg=AFQjCNF7UssT4bQMQJr7FMuRmvsBQvTERw"&gt;Anti Gay Marriage Advocate Bernice King Leads Southern &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; Leadership &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;SheWired&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fslog.thestranger.com%2Fslog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F11%2F02%2Fnew-head-of-hrc-opposes-interracial-marriage-affirmative-action-voting-rights-act&amp;usg=AFQjCNHr9fgLxhY25qY46JUrnKx5akMAtw"&gt;New Head of HRC Opposes Interracial Marriage, Affirmative Action, Voting &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;TheStranger.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dtmrfbSvDwzmBfM6Gi_ee3VnhUkUM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 743 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Fnational%2F1110ap_us_gay_marriage_what_now.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFi1PHh4boeACIzOHU5GNPNmURw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/DRzs6DtlbZq3iM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbcbaptistpress.org%2FBPnews.asp%3FID%3D31643&amp;usg=AFQjCNEAKoN9YNuClqoBgVHLupvfcpMBAQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FIRST-PERSON: They can&amp;#39;t blame the Christians anymore&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;BP News&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;The "it" in question is "&lt;b&gt;homosexual&lt;/b&gt; marriage." On Nov. 3 voters in the Pine Tree State passed Question 1 by a margin of 53-47 percent. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthemoderatevoice.com%2F51647%2Fsame-sex-marriage-rights-defeated-in-maine%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXRUQijikSxeYGIbIhlFVvr4M44Q"&gt;Same Sex Marriage Rights Defeated In Maine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Moderate Voice&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiggovernment.com%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Fmaine-voters-reject-same-sex-marriage%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH7QcgCBdYeYRsx_TbmlMdJpl_5EQ"&gt;Maine Agrees With Obama: No Same Sex Marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Government (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmainecampus.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fop-ed-%25E2%2580%2598yes-on-1%25E2%2580%2599-voters-mummified-institution-of-marriage-in-maine%2F%3Fref%3Dhp&amp;usg=AFQjCNHwbz1ysw47fyiHLnLrzgGwAo84zg"&gt;Op-Ed: &amp;#39;Yes on 1&amp;#39; voters mummified institution of marriage in Maine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Maine Campus&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2009%2F11%2Fexplaining-non-religious-oppos.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-NBY4MsR7gai7WkWbNZ73YVlbPw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Beliefnet.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opednews.com%2Farticles%2FLegislating-Inequality-La-by-Mary-Shaw-091101-385.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnJbVoSCPFi908AEV5wz4RsPSq3Q"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;OpEdNews&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dcSlLlf0eWc-e7M8e5by31NBB7T9M"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 2,958 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-7231006055781957877?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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(BP)--It has been put to a vote in some shape, form or fashion in 31 states. Each and every time it has failed. Its most recent defeat came in Maine. The "it" in question is "homosexual marriage."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11np85uu5/*http%3A//www.metnews.com/articles/2009/cath110609.htm"&gt;âInsultâ to San Franciscans (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;âThat the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.â&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11qi2rd69/*http%3A//www.ekklesia.co.uk/research/thought_for_the_day"&gt;Charity Gifts and Sponsorship (Ekklesia)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;This research paper looks into the background and history of BBC Radio 4's short 'Thought for the Day' slot, which has become a topic of public and media debate of late concerning the proposal that non-religious as well as religious voices should be heard on it.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=139vo4n1d/*http%3A//www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/04/maine_california/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=/news/feature"&gt;What Maine means for gay marriage in California (Salon.com)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12m49vugo/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/will-rev-bernice-kings-bu_b_347030.html"&gt;Irene Monroe: Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121m7b7rh/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33498755/ns/entertainment-gossip/"&gt;Scoop: Scientologists not anti-gay, official says (MSNBC)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by âCrashâ director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the churchâs practices.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-3014624677460939739?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fmaine-voters-repeal-gay-marriage-law%2Farticle1350447%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNFzhO__IbKTcrDu-Tq4sflFaZ5Xqg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news/tbn/isF_-Gu5lDwKPM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Globe and Mail&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edgeboston.com%2Findex.php%3Fch%3Dnews%26sc%3D%26sc2%3Dnews%26sc3%3D%26id%3D98734&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYHuyEbrv99aMYF2FLExUgW6T93Q"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who&amp;#39;s to Blame for Maine?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;EDGE Boston&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Mathew Staver, who created the Florida conservative &lt;b&gt;Christian&lt;/b&gt; 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advocates are speaking out against a bill before Massachusetts lawmakers aimed at protecting students who talk &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dkgy0nieXUdxQWM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fliz-krueger%2Fmarriage-equality-in-new_b_349148.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHFKmOmwzvF9iT7hUB7N3eeUj6UfQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marriage Equality in New York: The Time Is Now&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Huffington Post (blog)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;The first argument fails to recognize both the &lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt; 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exemption in anti-bias bill&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;The proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would allow churches and other non-profit religious institutions to refuse to hire &lt;b&gt;gay&lt;/b&gt; applicants if &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baywindows.com%2Findex.php%3Fch%3Dnews%26sc%3Dglbt%26sc2%3Dnews%26sc3%3D%26id%3D98681&amp;usg=AFQjCNGmFf6Hk-8uREqegUbD2wGQ85XPaw"&gt;US Senate holds first ever hearing on inclusive ENDA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Bay Windows&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontopmag.com%2Farticle.aspx%3Fid%3D4822%26MediaType%3D1%26Category%3D26&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHuLPSxqX3SZ90CPsHMYhtzjQGMg"&gt;Obama Official Testifies In Favor Of &lt;b&gt;Gay&lt;/b&gt; 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Â» Load of petitions presented at LDS office building.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Salt Lake Tribune&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;(Chris Detrick / The Salt Lake Tribune ) with &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; members, contributing to estrangement, suicide and homeless youths. 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to remain silent or stoic when our &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; brothers and sisters are still being &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flezgetreal.com%2F%3Fp%3D22779&amp;usg=AFQjCNGz41Jtkvoq0kt2SJumPu-ZM6IbxQ"&gt;Assistant AG Perez Testifies Before Congress on ENDA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Lez Get Real&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsdgln.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fus-senate-holds-first-hearing-fully-inclusive-employment-non-discrimination-act&amp;usg=AFQjCNG2i9sycBaocrN2roE9VvHomRJM6A"&gt;US Senate Holds First Hearing on Fully-Inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;San Diego Gay &amp; Lesbian News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dOACgPjSUa4zHpMSGYsB38oRMxfBM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 43 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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so disproportionately impacted by hate crimes as &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; people. Current federal law covers attacks motivated by race, &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt;, national origin or color. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.pinkpaper.com%2FNewsStory.aspx%3Fid%3D1907&amp;usg=AFQjCNEUE0a3q6pbF-WD6Eap3-PX6QyNfQ"&gt;Obama signs hate-crimes bill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Pink Paper&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fminnesotaindependent.com%2F48384%2Freligious-right-hate-crimes-bill-part-of-obamas-radical-anti-christian-agenda&amp;usg=AFQjCNGmmNyL1w2_c5et6bwqri2nRwPJLg"&gt;Religious right: Hate crimes bill part of Obama&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;radical anti-Christian agenda&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Minnesota Independent&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.windycitymediagroup.com%2Fgay%2Flesbian%2Fnews%2FARTICLE.php%3FAID%3D23384&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5TuWm5ZloPO52amExZMNG9FxlNQ"&gt;Obama signs hate-crimes bill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Windy City Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.pinkpaper.com%2FNewsStory.aspx%3Fid%3D1869&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQT1pksxty6-C2Z9Mw3v4d1bl0cQ"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Pink Paper&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dEFPq70_LatPfJM133TPx6ykmeIFM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 72 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-8042436510854439147?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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(BP)--It has been put to a vote in some shape, form or fashion in 31 states. Each and every time it has failed. Its most recent defeat came in Maine. The "it" in question is "homosexual marriage."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11np85uu5/*http%3A//www.metnews.com/articles/2009/cath110609.htm"&gt;âInsultâ to San Franciscans (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;âThat the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.â&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11qi2rd69/*http%3A//www.ekklesia.co.uk/research/thought_for_the_day"&gt;Charity Gifts and Sponsorship (Ekklesia)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;This research paper looks into the background and history of BBC Radio 4's short 'Thought for the Day' slot, which has become a topic of public and media debate of late concerning the proposal that non-religious as well as religious voices should be heard on it.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=139vo4n1d/*http%3A//www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/04/maine_california/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=/news/feature"&gt;What Maine means for gay marriage in California (Salon.com)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12m49vugo/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/will-rev-bernice-kings-bu_b_347030.html"&gt;Irene Monroe: Will Rev. Bernice King's Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121m7b7rh/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33498755/ns/entertainment-gossip/"&gt;Scoop: Scientologists not anti-gay, official says (MSNBC)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by âCrashâ director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the churchâs practices.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-6981855191462888671?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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As WND reported, Holder admitted a &lt;b&gt;homosexual&lt;/b&gt; activist who is &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fminnesotaindependent.com%2F48384%2Freligious-right-hate-crimes-bill-part-of-obamas-radical-anti-christian-agenda&amp;usg=AFQjCNGmmNyL1w2_c5et6bwqri2nRwPJLg"&gt;Religious right: Hate crimes bill part of Obama&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;radical anti-Christian agenda&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Minnesota Independent&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedickinsonpress.com%2Fevent%2Farticle%2Fid%2F29011%2Fgroup%2FOpinion%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHOZ97PszkeNO1oYM5ZPQuwIq8n5Q"&gt;New hate crimes law a mistake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Dickinson Press&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridabaptistwitness.com%2F10984.article&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmPzlNfXPS8J01zMiXdscPkBzL-g"&gt;A hate crimes victory only the beginning for &amp;#39;gay rights&amp;#39; agenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Florida Baptist Witness&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.free-times.com%2Findex.php%3Fcat%3D1992912064017974%26ShowArticle_ID%3D11010411093043069&amp;usg=AFQjCNFnqKi4k2ArdGSsLormLuV2Bf4WNA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Free Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcanadafreepress.com%2Findex.php%2Farticle%2F16505&amp;usg=AFQjCNEOtm2oV5_1V-ux5_mZBpobB7p-cA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Canada Free Press&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=deZwJ27OMTTSOfMoh_H9Z6WteFOHM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 66 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-232941921432798953?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0hMN4RSjRRA4qJLB7ChHtRC1qkA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0hMN4RSjRRA4qJLB7ChHtRC1qkA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~4/7hT3aNraQWM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~3/7hT3aNraQWM/from-both-sides-t12r-5_06.html</link><author>Tom@2015Place.com (Tom)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.religiousleft.net/2009/11/from-both-sides-t12r-5_06.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2902132159301159258.post-6946979124879254764</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-06T06:46:55.431-08:00</atom:updated><title>Recent Religious Headlines [T11R-4]</title><description>&lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=11qi2rd69/*http%3A//www.ekklesia.co.uk/research/thought_for_the_day"&gt;Charity Gifts and Sponsorship (Ekklesia)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;This research paper looks into the background and history of BBC Radio 4's short 'Thought for the Day' slot, which has become a topic of public and media debate of late concerning the proposal that non-religious as well as religious voices should be heard on it.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=12ad3k15j/*http%3A//www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?type=lnews&amp;id=119330"&gt;Appeals court to review S.F. resolution condemning Catholic opposition to adoption by same-sex couples (San Mateo Daily Journal)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A federal appeals court announced Thursday it will reconsider whether the San Francisco Board of Supervisors acted constitutionally when it condemned the Catholic Churchâs opposition to adoptions by same-sex couples.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=12c2fd2ja/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20091105/ts_pew/49homosexualityandmorality_1"&gt;49% - Homosexuality and Morality (Pew via Yahoo! News)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Though a majority of Americans now favor allowing gay couples to enter into civil unions (57%), roughly half the country (49%) considers homosexuality to be morally wrong.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=139vo4n1d/*http%3A//www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/04/maine_california/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=/news/feature"&gt;What Maine means for gay marriage in California (Salon.com)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121m7b7rh/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33498755/ns/entertainment-gossip/"&gt;Scoop: Scientologists not anti-gay, official says (MSNBC)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by âCrashâ director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the churchâs practices.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121ihjgf6/*http%3A//www.argus-press.com/articles/2009/11/02/news/news7.txt"&gt;Corunna School Board to rescind anti-gay, lesbian decision (The Argus-Press)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;CORUNNA - Less than two weeks after voting to remove the Corunna High Diversity Club's display board highlighting gay and lesbian awareness, the the Corunna Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting at which it is expected to rescind that decision.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-6946979124879254764?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3_s15pkSu2VC38Yjo5zNEVTXLjU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3_s15pkSu2VC38Yjo5zNEVTXLjU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~4/xzmoswkms60" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~3/xzmoswkms60/recent-religious-headlines-t11r-4_06.html</link><author>Tom@2015Place.com (Tom)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.religiousleft.net/2009/11/recent-religious-headlines-t11r-4_06.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2902132159301159258.post-7990148961265267503</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-05T22:12:27.753-08:00</atom:updated><title>Headlines: Separation of Church and State (T23R-2)</title><description>&lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlineathens.com%2Fstories%2F110609%2Flet_513045910.shtml&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXlt0LoIHiX1YRR0XNbZUfT5D1Bg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jim mcmeans: Jesus wanted &lt;b&gt;church&lt;/b&gt;-&lt;b&gt;state&lt;/b&gt; wall&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Online Athens&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;While it&amp;#39;s true the phrase "&lt;b&gt;separation of church and state&lt;/b&gt;" doesn&amp;#39;t appear in the Constitution, the principle does. The phrase "executive privilege" doesn&amp;#39;t &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dli3pJuOo3DpAGM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m11d5-AU-urges-Senate-not-to-broaden-religion-exemption-in-antibias-bill&amp;usg=AFQjCNENCz_VSwRlvDfsXIc1TtdZd-JTvQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AU urges Senate not to broaden religion exemption in anti-bias bill&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Americans United for &lt;b&gt;Separation of Church and State&lt;/b&gt; has urged the US Senate not to broaden the religion exemption in a pending bill designed to end job bias &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dQbK6pMSVE3YsdM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrueslant.com%2Flaurieessig%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fhey-i-thought-only-born-again-christians-could-run-us-politics%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNGR2BH5ORn95tPryMH84ZKHOFvHwA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hey, I thought only Born Again Christians could run US politics?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;True/Slant&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;So I&amp;#39;m going to spare you all the other fancy shmancy legal talk and just say this: Turns out the whole &lt;b&gt;separation of Church and State&lt;/b&gt; thing was mostly &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dxg5pIUGyoptMhM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2009%2Fnov%2F04%2Fmaine-same-sex-vote-no-election&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVwLcH8tiyus7sJ3TX1ceivRG6uA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news/tbn/kpAd-uqR4aOE2M/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smudailycampus.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2FOpinion%2FShame.On.You.Maine-3823058.shtml&amp;usg=AFQjCNH82lnETiNSVzTY-DkWKkvfQRh19g"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Shame on you, Maine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;smudailycampus.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;And there is that &lt;b&gt;separation&lt;/b&gt; between &lt;b&gt;church and state&lt;/b&gt;, you remember, so if the &lt;b&gt;church&lt;/b&gt; wants to define marriage as something that can only be done between a &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.christianitytoday.com%2Fctpolitics%2F2009%2F11%2Fmaines_samesex.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGv9eYFt7Xz35wXARDDqgNDvwxPug"&gt;Maine&amp;#39;s Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Claim Victory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;ChristianityToday.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fgay-marriage-split-why-maine-is-mainstream%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNG8oV4jFHjPD0STFOrvSZlunk-4iQ"&gt;Gay Marriage Split: Why Maine Is Mainstream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Politics Daily (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fcwinecoff%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fnote-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5JI9fEOQNmsL1-8tKNh0PR1iUCQ"&gt;Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don&amp;#39;t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Big Hollywood (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthemoderatevoice.com%2F51647%2Fsame-sex-marriage-rights-defeated-in-maine%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXRUQijikSxeYGIbIhlFVvr4M44Q"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Moderate Voice&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abpnews.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D4540%26Itemid%3D53&amp;usg=AFQjCNFG4PWUX6dZ0xr3ALqfKWC3Lr-KlA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Associated Baptist Press&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fgeoffrey-r-stone%2Fsame-sex-marriage-and-the_b_347593.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGtlFQgkqI5f-KeK2ZC1d6ln8HDSw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Huffington Post (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=df_5L8mneqcf0lMI742L9vXgg1MyM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 2,647 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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by changing the Christmas parade to a "holiday" &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunitypress.cincinnati.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Farticle%3FAID%3D%2FAB%2F20091102%2FNEWS01%2F311020028&amp;usg=AFQjCNHUNhQCo_oKBC7Zr5kmz5pf9-9INA"&gt;Dispute ends Christmas parade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Cincinnati.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wcpo.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fstory%2FChristmas-vs-Holiday-Parade%2FLV1Pwbw1uECIZeYgoT3XiQ.cspx&amp;usg=AFQjCNEzvcommZMogNNiBS1me58YNYQXpg"&gt;Christmas vs. Holiday Parade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;WCPO&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dbqKjVYspXWsbNMNEuiBaH78vLFxM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 69 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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which includes Christianity and, in the specific case, a symbol which is not considered to jeopardise the &lt;b&gt;separation&lt;/b&gt; between &lt;b&gt;church and state&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fworld%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1934859%2C00.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNFWeQvu-gaSb2yq8N2pPNDnQZPilg"&gt;Will Crucifixes Be Banned in Italian Schools?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;TIME&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.xinhuanet.com%2Fenglish%2F2009-11%2F04%2Fcontent_12382238.htm&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrN1Yd9U2_bkN5SRTWQ9bygF1tmQ"&gt;Italy appeals European Court&amp;#39;s ruling against crucifix in schools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Xinhua&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.timesonline.co.uk%2Ftol%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Farticle6901228.ece&amp;usg=AFQjCNGvEmjxeqAkiCsgP0UzBBN45Q1Y4Q"&gt;Italy challenges ruling that crucifix in class violates religious freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Times Online&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Farticle-1224954%2FVaticans-fury-court-bans-crucifixes-Italian-classroom-breach-religious-rights-children.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzz_yLaN0BPmKoYa6XyAD1WZz0Gg"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zenit.org%2Farticle-27434%3Fl%3Denglish&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9yePRnUVkpXvCRZB3w-Zbu3RlGQ"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Zenit News Agency&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publicbroadcasting.net%2Fmichigan%2Fnews.newsmain%2Farticle%2F8%2F0%2F1573611%2FArts..and..Culture%2FSeparation.of.Church..and..State.-European.Style.&amp;usg=AFQjCNE8vhBu_xpRqIJMmqbPHvh6S_JJzA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Michigan Radio&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=d0LkBu-bUdulBvMQ5EdlUZABHocvM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 498 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m11d5-CA-teacher-wants-California-ballot-to-allow-Christmas-carols-in-school&amp;usg=AFQjCNHB70Dpe9gy0muRqlbMykoPRFU3LA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/7ceG6RQV9aWKHM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m11d5-CA-teacher-wants-California-ballot-to-allow-Christmas-carols-in-school&amp;usg=AFQjCNHB70Dpe9gy0muRqlbMykoPRFU3LA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Teacher wants CA ballot to allow Christmas carols in school&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;In an article on the Americans United for &lt;b&gt;Separation of Church and State&lt;/b&gt; (AU), Joseph L. 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Â» Load of petitions presented at LDS office building.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Salt Lake Tribune&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Like Mormon pioneers in the 1850s, &lt;b&gt;gay&lt;/b&gt;-rights supporters pulled a handcart through Salt Lake City on Wednesday in what they dubbed a "rescue" mission. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmormontimes.com%2Fmormon_voices%2Ftoday_bloggernacle%2F%3Fid%3D11546&amp;usg=AFQjCNFptK4CqmlMHQTvv6nT3liivgSyEg"&gt;Today in the Bloggernacle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Mormon Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-18077-Salt-Lake-City-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m11d3-LDS-Church-story&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOGN4klx_O9rZ4m8HiDJQA40OKag"&gt;Petition seeks to unite gays and Mormon church&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dAGwVrtvvLxvhtMoAHYTDytqp3u_M"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 40 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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activism should seriously get off the idea that they will be able to &amp;#39;cut &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; down to size&amp;#39; ... because &lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; has the Constitution on its side, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2009%2F11%2F03%2Fnational%2Fmain5514014.shtml&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxlEiF91GymWuuGuFf8jacTMrbQA"&gt;Judge Who Nixed Interracial Marriage Quits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;CBS News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dxQovyDH0OQTisM4Qe2RBDv0lCVfM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 590 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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That&amp;#39;s the problem referendums on &lt;b&gt;gay&lt;/b&gt; marriage runs into. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fherb-hamsher%2Fgay-apartheid-outs-the-ot_b_347068.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNExUh5eHfZx1V1eecLerjQEXo05mQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gay&lt;/b&gt; Apartheid Outs the Other Side of an Otherwise Great Nation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Huffington Post (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&amp;ncl=dPZheoQddIr1GWM2g5R4FDP8CgriM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 2 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-18077-Salt-Lake-City-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m11d3-LDS-Church-story&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOGN4klx_O9rZ4m8HiDJQA40OKag"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt3.ggpht.com/news/tbn/Y09syQynDIMPIM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Futah%2Fci_13714837&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyWT_lkgSE7lAk_kVMQncjwX9QSg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Religion&lt;/b&gt; Â» Load of petitions presented at LDS office building.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Salt Lake Tribune&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;(Chris Detrick / The Salt Lake Tribune ) with &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; members, contributing to estrangement, suicide and homeless youths. 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Michael Lucas 37 (born as Andrei Bregman in Moscow), a Jewish-American porn actor for the last 11 years, while on visit to entertain the Israel Occupation Force (IOF), was quoted: ?I will expose the reality that the people of Israel face right now, especially the gay Israelis, who are...&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2009%2Fnov%2F04%2Fmaine-same-sex-vote-no-election&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVwLcH8tiyus7sJ3TX1ceivRG6uA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news/tbn/kpAd-uqR4aOE2M/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&amp;sa=T&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-24111-Liberal-Issues-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Maine-voters-support-samesex-discrimination-because-Bible-told-them-so&amp;usg=AFQjCNHksVRPWnG2mm7D6hTgjcrtIF5Iqg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Maine voters support same-sex discrimination because Bible told them so&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;The &lt;b&gt;LGBT&lt;/b&gt; 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News)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Though a majority of Americans now favor allowing gay couples to enter into civil unions (57%), roughly half the country (49%) considers homosexuality to be morally wrong.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=12o9tscps/*http%3A//www.wsusignpost.com/2.3591/leader-of-gay-lesbian-mormon-group-speaks-1.402131"&gt;Signpost - Leader of gay/lesbian Mormon group speaks (The Weber State University Signpost)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Utah support group Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons requested a meeting with Latter-day Saint Church President Thomas S. Monson in a February letter to the LDS church. The letter called for better relations and counseling for "members who are homosexual."&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+homosexual/SIG=12ql6ivvb/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/same-sex-marriage-and-the_b_347593.html"&gt;Geoffrey R. Stone: Same-Sex Marriage and the Meaning of Words (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In reading through the comments on my recent post about the electoral result in Maine (The Lessons of Maine), I could not help but notice...&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=11i1e8ui7/*http%3A//www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=101659"&gt;Gay Mormons Petition Church Leaders (The Advocate)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;Members of a group promoting reconciliation between gays and the Mormon Church delivered petitions to church leaders on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=12cd93qhi/*http%3A//www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/11/05/story14062956t0.shtm"&gt;Remote scheme for hate crimes (The Evening Telegraph)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;A scheme encouraging people from minority groups to report hate crime was launched by police in Tayside today (writes Steven Bell.)&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+LGBT/SIG=139vo4n1d/*http%3A//www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/04/maine_california/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=/news/feature"&gt;What Maine means for gay marriage in California (Salon.com)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="column"&gt;  	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=12k2pk5gg/*http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/why-is-anti-gay-violence_b_344574.html"&gt;Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain? (The Huffington Post)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121m7b7rh/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33498755/ns/entertainment-gossip/"&gt;Scoop: Scientologists not anti-gay, official says (MSNBC)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by âCrashâ director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the churchâs practices.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	 	&lt;div class="container"&gt; 		&lt;div class="header"&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/religion+anti-gay/SIG=121ihjgf6/*http%3A//www.argus-press.com/articles/2009/11/02/news/news7.txt"&gt;Corunna School Board to rescind anti-gay, lesbian decision (The Argus-Press)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;CORUNNA - Less than two weeks after voting to remove the Corunna High Diversity Club's display board highlighting gay and lesbian awareness, the the Corunna Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting at which it is expected to rescind that decision.&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt; 	  	 &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:75%;"&gt;Listen to  &lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2902132159301159258-8419668954143901043?l=www.religiousleft.net'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hCZPIeVSaLbzF6cAlOL3nB4G47g/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hCZPIeVSaLbzF6cAlOL3nB4G47g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~4/T3HRv7eP89Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ReligiousLeftUs/~3/T3HRv7eP89Q/recent-religious-headlines-t11r-4_05.html</link><author>Tom@2015Place.com (Tom)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.religiousleft.net/2009/11/recent-religious-headlines-t11r-4_05.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2902132159301159258.post-6366311824263467390</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-05T02:05:00.170-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">JohnC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><title>VIDEO: Original Christmas Song (by JohnC) for you and yours (2009)</title><description>My brother John wrote this song years ago. I recently put some video to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gpN7V0zz8QM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gpN7V0zz8QM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John freely admits he is a song writer, not a singer! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a audio only of another Christmas song he wrote: &lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-IT_SNOWED_LAST_NIGHT2.mp3" title="It Snowed Last Night" target="_blank"&gt;It Snowed Last Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some of his other songs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-ITS%20HARD2.mp3" title="It's Hard" target="_blank"&gt;It's Hard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Adios%20my%20darling.mp3" title="Adios My Darling" target="_blank"&gt;Adios My Darling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-BEST%20U%20CAN2.mp3" title="Best You Can" target="_blank"&gt;Best You Can&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-All%20I%20Can%20Do.mp3" title="All I Can Do" target="_blank"&gt;All I Can Do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Baby%20please.mp3" title="Baby Please" target="_blank"&gt;Baby Please&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-CHUI2.mp3" title="Chui" target="_blank"&gt;Chui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Can't%20get%20over%20you.mp3" title="Can't Get Over You" target="_blank"&gt;Can't Get Over You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Catch%20the%20wind%20and%20fly%20away.mp3" title="Catch The Wind and Fly Away" target="_blank"&gt;Catch The Wind and Fly Away&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-FIVE%20TO%20ONE%20ODDS2.mp3" title="Five To One Odds" target="_blank"&gt;Five To One Odds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Fell%20off%20the%20wagon.mp3" title="Fell Off The Wagon" target="_blank"&gt;Fell Off The Wagon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Give%20anything%20for%20you.mp3" title="Give Anything For You" target="_blank"&gt;Give Anything For You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Have%20some%20fun.mp3" title="Have Some Fun" target="_blank"&gt;Have Some Fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-How%20bout%20you.mp3" title="How bout you" target="_blank"&gt;How 'bout you&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-I%20DONT%20WISH%20YOU%20WELL2.mp3" title="I Don't Wish You Well" target="_blank"&gt;I Don't Wish You Well&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Oh%20Baby.mp3" title="Oh Baby" target="_blank"&gt;Oh Baby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Oh%20I%20yi%20I.mp3" title="Oh I Yi I" target="_blank"&gt;Oh I Yi I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-People%20make%20me%20mad.mp3" title="People Make Me Mad" target="_blank"&gt;People Make Me Mad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Share.mp3" title="Share" target="_blank"&gt;Share&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Sit%20and%20wonder%202%20or%203.mp3" title="Sit and Wonder 2 or 3" target="_blank"&gt;Sit and Wonder 2 or 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Sleepless%20nights.mp3" title="Sleepless Nights" target="_blank"&gt;Sleepless Nights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-Something%20gone%20wrong(r).mp3" title="Something Gone Wrong" target="_blank"&gt;Something Gone Wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/JC-That's%20the%20difference.mp3" title="That's The Difference" target="_blank"&gt;That's The Difference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/Love%20Is%20All%20There%20Is.mp3" title="Love Is All There Is" target="_blank"&gt;Love Is All There Is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/all%20i%20can%20do.mp3" title="All I Can Do" target="_blank"&gt;All I Can Do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://panel7.serverhostingcenter.com/start/tomec/ondemand/brother%20johns/words%20carry%20alot%20of%20weight.mp3" title="Words Carry A Lot Of Weight" target="_blank"&gt;Words Carry A Lot Of Weight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.GayTalkRadio.org"&gt;www.GayTalkRadio.org&lt;/a&gt; a 24/7 LGBTQIA Independent Internet Radio Station. 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