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A survey released yesterday by the Public Religion Research Institute in Partnership with Religion News Service shows that 33% of Americans believe that messages from places of worship are contributing “a lot” to higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youths. 42% gave places of worship a grade of “D” or “F” on their [...]

It’s still like I’m having a heavy period. I HATE having to wear pads all the time. I never wear pads normally, because they feel icky and squishy and gross. I’m very tempted to forget about the “nothing in the vagina for 2 weeks” rule and just use my keeper. (If you don’t already know [...]

Remember when you are looking at things on the web that pretty much anyone can make a website. There is as much if not more bad information as there is good, helpful information on the internet. Here’s an example: www.prochoice.com You would think this would be…. prochoice? You’d be wrong. I didn’t read all of [...]

According to the Washington Post last week, an Ohio-based clergy group, ClergyVOICE, filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service on Oct. 12 (full text) challenging the tax-exempt status of the Fellowship Foundation, the organization that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast. The Foundation received two ,000 checks in 2004 from the Missouri-based Islamic-American Relief Agency [...]

Report documents how extremists harness the power of the internet Leo Adler of the Simon Wiesenthal Center tells one small city in Canada’s north that even they are not isolated from the epidemic of hate being generated by internet extremists…. Sudbury not immune from terrorism; One person can create a web of lies, Simon Wiesenthal [...]

In a wrongful arrest claim brought on behalf of a 58 year old Albuquerque woman, the Kennedy Law Firm prevailed on an appeal of a jury verdict in favor of the defendant police officer.  The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the jury verdict with instruction to the district court to enter judgment in favor [...]

Why Religious Freedom is a Fundamental Freedom and Universal Human Right: Religious freedom is pivotal to a free society. Thomas Jefferson and America’s founders called it the “first freedom.” It is enshrined in the first clause of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And it is first in another sense: freedom of thought, conscience [...]

In a case tried  at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico over two days in January of this year, Bertha Keylon — who persevered for four years to get justice from the City of Albuquerque — secured a ,000 verdict stemming from a 2003 wrongful arrest charge. Ms. Keylon was wrongfully arrested [...]

Last week we sent an email to directors of the California stem cell agency and posed the following question. “Do you think that the October review of CIRM’s progress should be open to the public?”We also told them that we would carry the text of any comments verbatim. Four directors responded. Here are their comments. [...]

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