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Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

…omophobia. The father said that Omar saw two men kissing when they were in Miami, and the son went into a rage. Omar’s former wife confirmed that he had a short temper and was prone to violence. She told the Washington Post that he used to beat her, and was “mentally unstable.” On the other hand, the Amaq Agency, the news outlet of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, stated that the shooting “was carried out by an Islamic State fighter.” Omar him…

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When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part II

…elicals for Trump during the 2020 presidential campaign at El Rey Jesús, a Miami megachurch from which he leads an apostolic network that he claims extends into 70 countries. Just nutty, or nationally significant? There are, of course, many reasons to seek to get NAR-related stories and the details right. But as writers we need to ask ourselves, how can readers be expected to understand the relative significance of a person or a movement, if the l…

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Ignoring the Pope on Climate Change is Not Like Using Contraception

…raying a laughable ignorance of both Marxism and Catholicism. Fortunately, Miami archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, a conservative appointed by Benedict XVI, has said he hopes that both Bush and Marco Rubio will listen to their pope rather than their party. Many observers have been quick to note the hypocrisy of positions like Bush’s. Andrew Rosenthal notes that Bush has no problem with political faith when it touches on Republican talking points: “Mr….

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Religious Leaders Press Obama for Exemption from Executive Order Barring Discrimination

…y Lobby requires such a provision. On my bloggingheads show, University of Miami Law School First Amendment expert Carolina Mala Corbin discussed the impact of Monday’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case on LGBT rights. “Assuming the federal government passes laws that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” she said, ” you could very much expect to have corporations to object to these laws based on their religious beliefs.” The ques…

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What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

…o two years of probation for skimming charity funds. Catholic bishops from Miami and Dallas are making a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. Is corrupt football coach Jim Tressel an evangelical embarrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scand…

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The Panic Over Churches’ Tax-Exempt Status in a Gay-Married World

…tax-exempt status. Caroline Mala Corbin, a professor at the University of Miami Law School, reiterated what she told me last year: that if the IRS and the courts had not applied the Bob Jones principle to revoke the tax exempt status of organizations that discriminated based on gender, it seemed unlikely that they would extend this principle to sexual orientation discrimination. What’s more, she said, federal law bans race discrimination, demonst…

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Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

…attendance, as was Archbishop Thomas Wenski and several other priests from Miami. In the wake of the Church’s continued involvement in the release of over fifty political prisoners on the island, last week’s inauguration is a material symbol of the easing tensions between the Cuban government and the Catholic Church. While Castro’s government never officially severed ties with the Vatican, the expulsion of various priests after the triumph of the…

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Could The “Grand Old Party” Now Be The “Gay Old Party”?

…can group GOProud, at the Take Back America conference over the weekend in Miami. (You’ll remember, this is the conference Ann Coulter was disinvited from because she agreed to speak at GoProud’s “Homocon” event.) Barron argued that gay people can be true conservatives, listing his organization’s support for conservative causes like “tax cuts, repealing health-care reform, social-security reform, and a neo-conservative defense for the Global War o…

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Coulter Calls WND “Fake Christians”

…n such a spin he canned Ann from the upcoming Taking Back America event in Miami. Now, Coulter is firing back, calling Farah and his cohorts “fake Christians who are trying to get publicity,” during an appearance on the Fox News show The Red Eye. Thanks to her, they’re certainly getting a lot of publicity. Farah responded in a column in WND: Coulter called me a ‘publicity whore’ for my decision. But look who is on television talking about this—thr…

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