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Why We’ve Opened Our Doors for Polygamy USA

…ir services available to those who need them, and second, the debacle that Colorado City and the FLDS have become in the public eye. We do not wish to be portrayed with the broad-brush picture taken from coverage of the FLDS. [See RD’s coverage of the FLDS here –Eds.] We realize that, to overcome stereotypes associated with the activities in Colorado City and general attitudes toward practicing plural marriage, something must be done to portray th…

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Forget Debates and Dialogue about LGBT Justice, the Religious Right isn’t Listening

…You outline a secret summit in 1994 at the Glen Eyrie conference center in Colorado Springs, Colorado where 55 fundamentalist Christians gathered to discuss the consequences of the “militant homosexual agenda.” What happened there? I compare it to the Nazis creating a solution for the Jews. These guys literally crafted a solution to the homosexual problem. The record of that conference, which was very secretive, wasn’t even released to the press….

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OB/GYN Corrects Bishop’s False Claim About How Contraceptives Work

…s to Change Abortion-Drug Mandate.” In announcing its lawsuit on behalf of Colorado Christian University, Becket stated, “The Health and Human Services regulation mandates that all group health insurance plans must provide FDA-approved contraceptives at no charge to consumers, including the abortifacients Plan B (morning-after pill) and ella (week-after pill), and sterilization services. Many evangelical Christians do not share Catholics’ objectio…

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Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

…to fund “a ballot initiative to add a ‘religious liberty amendment’ to the Colorado state constitution, similar to other amendments they’re promoting in Florida and North Dakota, among others.” Also, according to karoli’s math, it would appear that CitizenLink funding for the year has dropped by about 50%. Ouch. A perfect storm, of sorts, may be to blame for the drop as the economy wanes and acceptance of gays and lesbians in both church and socie…

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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

…w others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates that every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires member…

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How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

…devotees call him, is the doyen of Summit Ministries, the Manitou Springs, Colorado-based institution founded in 1962 to teach evangelical teens about anti-God, anti-Christian threats to the “Christian worldview” and the American way of life. In his seminal textbook, Understanding the Times, Noebel lays out six “worldviews”—Christianity, Islam, secular humanism, Marxism-Leninism, cosmic humanism, and post-modernism—vying for domination in the worl…

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7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

…ervice.” Logan Ireland, an Air Force Staff Sergeant currently stationed in Colorado, offered a similar invitation. Ireland is a transgender man who recently returned from an overseas deployment, and who previously made history as the first uniformed, active-duty transgender service member to meet a sitting U.S. president, when he and his wife, Army veteran Laila Ireland (neé Villanueva), were invited to the White House in 2015. The Irelands were a…

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Text of Terror: A Bill Granting LGBT Citizens Equal Rights Evokes Biblical Citation

…health benefits with their same-sex partners headed toward passage in the Colorado state senate a couple of days ago, one dissenting Republican legislator used a line from the Bible to provide the context for his dismay. “Homosexuality is seen as a violation of this natural creative order, and it is an offense to God,” said Sen. Scott Renfroe, who noted that one biblical passage declares that homosexual relations are punishable by death. Leviticu…

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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

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A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

…izations help serve the needy. Later that year, DuBois told a gathering in Colorado, “If your focus is first and foremost serving people in need, then there’s not a tremendous amount of time left to debate the finer points of the church-state relationship.” That focus on government partnering with faith-based groups and dismissal of church-state separation concerns has earned DuBois praise from his admirers. As I wrote just last week, John DiIulio…

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