Religion Dispatches
…ndidates have pledged to be pro-life.” It clicks through to the Personhood USA website. Personhood USA did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Jason Jones, a spokesperson for the Pro-Life Super PAC, claimed the Super PAC was not connected to Personhood USA or any other organization. He said, “we like the [Personhood] pledge. We think it’s a good standard.” The Personhood pledge, which Romney did not sign, commits candidates to su…
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…Arab Spring. On returning to the States, he became Script Coordinator for USA’s In Plain Sight, and since has written for CBS’ Three Rivers, ABC’s logic quiz show Million Dollar Mind Game, and a freelance episode that ended up unintentionally being the series finale of Fox’s Lie to Me with Tim Roth. He also co-wrote the film Bros B4 Hos with Jeff Marx (Avenue Q/ Book of Mormon) and Jeff Witzke, created a new attraction/show for Universal Studios,…
Read More…sbyterian Church of Mexico voted to cease its 139-year relationship with PCUSA by a count of 116 to 22 in August 2011, which came shortly after PCUSA passed Amendment 10-A — preceding Amendment 14-F by nearly four years. “The Mexican delegates also voted not to re-establish any relationship with the PC(USA) until 10-A is rescinded,”Presbyterian Outlook’s Leslie Scanton reported. “The PC(USA) representatives were hopeful that the Mexican Presbyteri…
Read More…s health issues which some people deal with. 3) Learned about some other GSUSA connections they took moral exception to, like individual GSUSA Councils’ partnerships with local Planned Parenthood affiliates; some GSUSA materials which contained a generally-positive reference to a play (“Simply Maria,” by Josefina Lopez) that voices criticisms of patriarchal religious tradition; and some other sexual health materials that were more graphic than the…
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…conflict. In their advocacy for the Palestinian cause, however, the Kairos USA authors have rolled back the clock. In its critique of Israeli policies, the statement troublingly undermines these positive Christian views and takes a zero-sum attitude toward the conflict. Out of a reasonable desire to support the Palestinians, they jeopardize these remarkable interreligious gains by issuing one-sided indictments and by failing to honor Jewish religi…
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…h that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the press widely reported, “blues” and “grays” came together to rid the hemisphere of the last vestiges of the decayed evil empire of the Spanish. National exultation over the rapid victory (akin to the same national feeling after the invasion of Afghanista…
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…e homosexuality should be accepted by society. American Baptist Churches USA (Mainline Protestant) Members (as of 2009): 1,310,505 In 1992, the American Baptist Churches USA General Board affirmed a one-sentence resolution on homosexuality: “American Baptist Resolution on Homosexuality”: “We affirm that the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” In 2005, the board added the same language to its official identity stat…
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…TV. Then, using his fame and profits from the network, he started Heritage USA. Built on more than 2,300 acres on the border of North and South Carolina, the park was nearly twenty times larger than Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando. It featured campgrounds, an RV park, a water park, a television studio, an amphitheater, a 500-room hotel, shopping centers, and restaurants. In 1986, the park welcomed six million visitors, making it the most a…
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…g smear The smear began with a report and a related video by Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a Trumpist group founded by Chicago native, Charlie Kirk, who is currently on a national “Saving America Tour” of churches. (Baptist ministers Brian Kaylor and Disciples of Christ minister Beau Underwood, who attended an event, found that “Kirk’s jeremiads are filled with half-truths, indefensible denials, and downright lies.”) Nevertheless, Turning Point’s pos…
Read More…hools. Other monthly “celebrations” Andrew has declared include Affirm the USA’s Covenant with God (July) and God in US History Month (May). Andrew must have missed that part of American history, or civics, or constitutional law, or Schoolhouse Rock where they taught about the Establishment Clause. Because he believes that Jesus is the king of America. That’s right, and you can get a bumper sticker from Andrew if you think so too. Separation of ch…
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