Faith leaders condemn Republican budget proposals
March 12, 2013
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Faith leaders condemn Republican 2013 budget proposals.
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Did funder influence outcome of study being used to fight marriage equality?
March 11, 2013
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The Witherspoon Institute recruited a professor from a major university to carry out a study that was designed to manipulate public policy. In communicating with donors about the research project, Witherspoon’s president clearly expected results unfavorable to the gay-marriage movement.
Queen to sign new Commonwealth Charter on equal rights
March 10, 2013
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a new agreement to ban discrimination in the Commonwealth:
Catholic bishops oppose VAWA
March 9, 2013
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Five key Catholic bishops are opposing the newly authorized Violence Against Women Act for fear it will subvert traditional views of marriage and gender. Meanwhile, a new Quinnipiac poll show that most American Catholics think their church is “out of touch.”
How many people do you know who’ve been shot?
March 8, 2013
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The Washington Post Sunday magazine asked people how many people they knew who had been shot. The Rev. Mary Jo Ledgerwood of the Diocese of Virginia spoke of the shootings at St. Peter’s in Ellicott City, Maryland.
Real movement on gun control
March 4, 2013
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“This legislation will for the first time make gun trafficking a federal crime in order to provide tools to law enforcement to get illegal guns off the streets and away from criminal networks and street gangs. Currently, there is no federal law that defines gun trafficking as a crime.”
Sequestration: effects in your community?
March 3, 2013
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Most of today’s news programs are all about the “sequester” – the automatic cuts in the US budget. NPR discussed it this morning:
PHOD on preventing gun violence
March 1, 2013
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The President and Vice-President of House of Deputies wrote today about ending gun violence in a letter to the Deputies of General Convention
Bishop Marc Andrus: why we signed the dump DOMA briefs
February 28, 2013
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The Christ whom we recognize is the one who speaks in John’s Gospel, saying, “There are many things I would teach you but you cannot bear them now … the Sprit will lead you into all truth.” For Episcopalians, tradition is a moving force that is not only dynamic but that changes quality over time, and we might liken the change to be one of more light being cast into the world.
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