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WCC head condemns Uganda’s proposed anti-gay law
GENEVA (RNS/ENI) The World Council of Churches has added its voice to growing concerns around the world about a proposed Ugandan law that would allow the jailing and possible execution of gays and lesbians.
Current Ugandan law allows for people to be jailed for 14 years for engaging i...
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Tuesday’s roundup
The health care bill passed second procedural hurdle in the Senate early Tuesday morning, but the compromise on insurance coverage of abortion continues to be criticized by both sides of the debate. The USCCB's point man calls the legislative compromise "crazy"; it certainly is compli...
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Obama’s Muslim outreach named top religion story of 2009
(RNS) President Obama's speech to the Muslim world has been ranked by the nation's religion journalists as the top religion story of the year.
The June speech in Cairo, in which the president quoted from the Quran and said America will "never" be at war with Islam, was ranked as the N...
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Archbishop of Canterbury condemns Uganda’s anti-gay law
(RNS) After weeks of intense pressure from Episcopal gay rights groups, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has condemned the "shocking severity" of proposed anti-gay laws in Uganda.
The spiritual leader of the 77 million-member Anglican Communion also said that "I can't see how i...
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Monday’s roundup
White House Chief of Staff Emanuel lit the National Menorah and President Obama extended Hanukkah greetings to Jews: extra points for offering a Hebrew version.
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church urged "prayer and discernment" after the election of a lesbian as bishop in Lo...
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Update: Counselor who refused gay couples loses appeal
LONDON (RNS) A former church elder who was fired after he refused to offer sex therapy to gay couples has lost his appeal on grounds of unfair dismissal.
Gary MacFarlane was axed from his job with the marriage counseling service Relate nine months ago after telling his bosses in Brist...
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Christian leaders oppose Uganda’s anti-gay bill
(RNS) Christian leaders who are themselves divided over homosexuality have joined forces to oppose a proposed Ugandan law that calls for the death penalty for some homosexual behavior.
"Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a be...
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Christian group that excludes gays headed to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday (Dec. 7) to hear the case of an evangelical Christian group that was prevented from being recognized as a campus organization at a California law school because it excluded gays and lesbians.
The Christian Legal Society sued to be...
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Under wraps
Attention Shoppers! For all you neo-feminists out there who don't think Barbie's 39-18-33 dimensions are good role models for your little girls, perhaps this will help ease your anxieties in the midst of the Christmas shopping madness: the Barbie Burqa.
Seems one of the museums in Flo...
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Vatican distances itself from cardinal’s comments on gays
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has disassociated itself from a Mexican cardinal's assertion gay and transgender people have no chance of going to heaven.
"Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the kingdom of heaven and it is not me who says this, but Saint Paul," Mexican Cardi...
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