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Court says student’s faith may have led to expulsion
(RNS) A federal appeals court ruled Friday (Jan. 27) that the expulsion of a counseling student from a university after she declined to advise a gay client could be due to "hostility’’ toward her faith. By Adelle M. Banks.
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Gay bishop documentary ‘Love Free or Die’ takes center stage at Sundance
"If my story can help a young boy or girl in their teens believe they can have a wonderful and productive life and family," says the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, "then it's worth my putting up with a film crew following me around for two years in order to comfort and inspire them."
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Obama holds firm on contraception coverage
(RNS) The Obama administration said Friday that it will not broaden the religious exemption in new rules that require employers to provide contraception coverage to employees, a move that angered religious groups and opened a high stakes election-year fight. Instead, the White House will give faith groups a one-year extension to find a way to comply with the mandate without compromising their beliefs. By David Gibson. 800.
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Big-city mayors come out for same-sex marriage
A bipartisan coalition of 80 U.S. mayors has launched a "Freedom to Marry" campaign to build public support for giving same-sex couples the right to legal marriage under U.S. and state laws.
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Religious leaders: Same-sex marriage threatens religious freedom
(RNS) A coalition of nearly 40 religious leaders has published an open letter that seeks to recast the battle against same-sex marriage as a fight on behalf of religious freedom.
The religious leaders, predominantly from conservative Christian churches and Orthodox Judaism, say their...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Deaths in threes; Pope Benedict XVI’s fatigue; Jesus goe
Is there something religious behind the superstition that famous people die in threes?
While appreciations of Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel continue to pour in, news came on Sunday that North Korean despot Kim Jung-il has died of a heart attack.
While Hitchens and Kim were...
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Thursday’s Religion Roundup: Ad wars, PETA agita, Mis-Conceptions
Political ads are, as the Mitt Romney campaign itself has proudly conceded, "propaganda by definition."
So what to make of Rick Perry's last-ditch advertising blitz in Iowa attacking "Obama's war on religion"?
Perry - who probably ought to target the several Republicans polling better...
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Tuesday’s Religion Roundup: The real St. Nick, defending Newt, awkward Bachmann
Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas! Or that "jolly old elf," as we've come to know him.
Though in fact - as this recent facial reconstruction from his 1,600-year-old-skull shows - he was a tough, olive-skinned battler for Christian orthodoxy back in Asia Minor, or what we know today as Tur...
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As church-based civil unions kick in, Church of England says no
LONDON (RNS) New laws that allow same-sex civil unions to be performed on religious premises took effect in England and Wales on Monday (Dec. 5), but the Church of England says it won't permit them without approval from its top body.
Civil partnerships have been legal since 2005, but...
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D.C. tosses complaint against Catholic University dorms
WASHINGTON (RNS) The District of Columbia has dismissed a complaint against The Catholic University of America that charged the school's return to same-gender student housing discriminates against women.
In an order issued Tuesday (Nov. 29), the city's Office of Human Rights said offe...
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