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The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
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Have you even looked at your Bible?
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A tax-cut filibuster of Biblical proportions
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Today, we often are told that the hysterical ravings of the New Christian Right (NCR) are a pathological homophobia, or perhaps a displaced and sublimated yearning for homoeroticism. Doubtless both play a role, but I want to suggest that homosexuality does threaten civilization, when viewed from a certain perspective, and that it has been seen this way since biblical times.
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Smart’s testimony sets a powerful example that LDS women who survive sexual violence have no reason to be ashamed of themselves.
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While Americans celebrate Labor Day with picnics, BBQs, and weekend getaways, Germany-based FIAA GmbH is releasing the beta version of The Bible Online: Heroes, the first installment of a projected series of MMORTS (massively multiplayer…
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Even jackals have more ruth than the leaders of Social Security reform seem to possess.
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If by “abomination,” we mean a cultural prohibition—something which a particular culture abhors but another culture enjoys—then the term makes sense. But in common parlance, the term has come to connote something contrary to the order of nature itself, or God’s plan.
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If it’s truly about tradition, why not polygamy?
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Maybe the White House needs a refresher course on biblical values?
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