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Cardinal Dolan: Catholic Church could do better on gay outreach
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the top U.S. Catholic prelate, says the Roman Catholic Church has to make sure that its defense of traditional marriage is not reduced to an attack on gays and lesbians.
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Opponents of gay marriage say they’re no bigots
They are moms and dads, authors and activists, a former police officer and a former single mom. They’re black and white and Hispanic. One’s a Roman Catholic archbishop, another an evangelical minister. Many have large families ...
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Formation Toolbox: Gravity is real
Democracy has no place in the real world.Don't get me wrong. I'm all for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But take gravity, for example. Gravity isn't democratic. We all just... fall.
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Bill Clinton urges Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage law he signed
It's not every day you see an ex-president ask the Supreme Court to strike down a law he signed
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Obama asks supreme court to overturn gay marriage ban
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has filed a legal brief with the Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.
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40 years after Roe, abortion remains legal — but restricted
Forty years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion, the constitutional right many Americans take for granted is coming under increased scrutiny.
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Pakistan Supreme Court confirms decision to drop blasphemy case
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an appeal to reopen a blasphemy case against a 14-year-old Christian girl, who had been accused of burning verses from the Koran
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U.S. Supreme Court to review DOMA, Prop 8 decisions
The United States Supreme Court will review a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that overturned Proposition 8 in California and hear challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Mass. Supreme Court to hear case against ‘under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance
Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a non-religious family that's challenging the mandatory daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in their children’s classrooms.
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American Civil Rights Union asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear California marriage case
The American Civil Rights Union has filed a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry striking down California's constitutional marriage amendment.