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Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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Expecting the not-yet-commander-in-chief to attend to each of my parochial concerns is a little, well, precious.
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Don’t hate me because I prefer stories about my father butchering The Temptations’ version of Silent Night to dressing my kids in kente cloth.
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What happens when you search for contraception on the new Catholic-sanctioned search engine?
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Is the Catholic Church upset at the depiction of the Virgin or just at its association with sex?
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Commentators maintain that the selection of Rick Warren was a shrewd political calculation. But what of the moral center?
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There’s not only strategic value to Obama’s selection of Warren, there’s a desire to reach out to all people and not to become what liberals and progressives hate.
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In the wake of the Bush/Shoe incident, much has been said about the shoe in the Muslim world. The important thing is that a man sought to express anger.
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Why is this Christian license plate different from all other vanity plates?
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A recent RD article has sparked a conversation around the web…
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