Day: April 14, 2011

Ssempa “ex-gay” gay recruitment witness reverses story

“When I joined Mr. Ssempa, I told him all my problems,” Oundo said. “I had to come out and join the struggle. Please help us; let the bill pass,” he said in appeal to the Ugandan parliament. But an hour later, in a quiet hotel, Mr. Oundo recanted much of what had been said at the meeting. He added, “David Kato was murdered; it was a plot”

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Nigeria’s Archbishop interviewed about “homosexualism”

We are getting deeper and deeper into the age that was spoken of by Timothy when people will love themselves more than God, when the pleasure and comfort will determine many things and so we are in the end time and in this end time there are boundless opportunities of evil, but the joy of it all is that evil will not win in the end.

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Life expectancy up; religiosity down: cause and effect?

Dr Papyrakis said religious organisations should be prepared to accept and attract a “greying church”, with membership skewed towards the older generation, particularly in countries like the UK where life expectancy is high. Because of this, he suggested more immediate benefits should be promoted by religions.

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FDR toddler pictures disturbing

A Ladies’ Home Journal article in June 1918 said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”

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Larger than life, or not

As often as God’s action was literally cosmic, many times God’s activity was not larger than life. Abraham’s lunch with the three men wasn’t larger than life, nor was Moses’ birth, and look what came of them. Vain and petulant Elisha was all too rarely larger than life (think about those poor boys!), and he was one of the great prophets of God!

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Institutionalized segregation

Sitting at the back of the church, the Right Reverend Edward T. Demby, the only black Episcopal bishop with jurisdiction in the United States, looked up to see the Right Reverend Edwin Saphore, the acting bishop of Arkansas, extend the communion plate in the direction of the black clergy.

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