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Army faces questions over `spiritual fitness’ test
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Army is facing questions over a "spiritual fitness" portion of a mandatory questionnaire, with some atheists calling it "invidious and not inclusive" of soldiers who are nonbelievers.
The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation learned in December that so...
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After Teen Suicides, Christian Gay Opponents Look Inward
Huffington Post (RNS): When Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi killed himself after his roommate allegedly broadcast his sexual encounter with another man, the Rev. R. Albert Mohler wondered if anything could have prevented the 18-year-old's suicide. Read more.
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Pope meets with victims, laments `shame and humiliation’
LONDON (RNS) Following two days of meetings with religious and government leaders, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday (Sept. 18) turned his attention to his own flock as met with victims of sexual abuse and warned of the dangers of legalized assisted suicide.
As on previous occasions, cont...
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Billboard’s right-to-die message raises eyebrows, concerns in New Jersey
HILLSIDE, N.J. (RNS) The huge black billboard is hard to miss, looming over a stretch of Route 22 like a harbinger of death, or at least the right to die:
"My Life, My Death, My Choice, FinalExitNetwork.org"
The 15-by-49-foot billboard went up June 28, paid for by Final Exit Network,...
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Ore. psychiatrist to open assisted suicide clinic
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) A psychiatrist who the state has reprimanded for wrongly prescribing drugs says he plans to open a facility in Portland and charge fees to help patients end their lives under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
Stuart G. Weisberg has mailed invitations to local docto...
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Does sexual frustration fuel Islamic violence?
(RNS) Did alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan lose control, at least in part, because he was sexually frustrated?
That's one of the questions being asked in the investigation into the Nov. 5 rampage that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured. According to reports, Hasan v...
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COMMENTARY: There is no life in state-sanctioned killing
(RNS) Every so often, the glint of morality -- or common sense -- flashes across the television screen.
Witness a recent episode of the television drama "House." One doctor tells another: "It is impossible to take another person's life and remain unchanged." That's all I'll say; I don...
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Pope thanks N.M. governor for death penalty repeal
VATICAN CITY (RNS) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Wednesday (Apr. 15), hours before a Catholic group lit up Rome's Coliseum to honor New Mexico's recent abolition of the death penalty.
Richardson, a former candidate for the Democratic president...
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60 Oregonians died under assisted suicide in 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Sixty Oregonians ended their lives last year by taking a lethal drug dose prescribed under the Death With Dignity Act, state officials reported Tuesday.
That's the highest annual total in the 11-year history of the law, 11 more than in 2007. Deaths from a drug pre...
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Man commits suicide at Crystal Cathedral
A man walked into the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove today, knelt down at the foot of a cross and fatally shot himself in the head.
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