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Is It Neglect To Deny Surgery For Religious Reasons?
Amish parents Gideon and Barbara Hershberger's son, Eli, now one and a half, was born with a heart defect that is fixable through surgery, but the couple's refusal to allow the invasive procedure may see them losing their son to the state. Claiming that the procedure violates their religious principles, the Amish family is fighting to retai...
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Vatican Issues Advice: Have Babies! Unless You’re Infertile!
So, a group of celibate male senior citizens has come out with a list of rules that women who want to have sex and/or children should follow. Not shockingly, those rules are at odds with almost all the women's actual normal practices, as well as how they live their most intimate life choices. I'm speaking, of course, of the Vatican, which j...
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A Quiverfull Of Kids
I learned a new word today - Quiverfull.According to a blog entry on Sodahead.com (doesn't sound very impressive but hey, let's take our new words where we can get them), "Quiverfull...is a growing movement of Protestants" who believe that "since children are blessings from God, we should receive as many as God will give.&quo...
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Evangelical Preacher Urges Congregants to Have More Sex
Addressing his congregation of 20,000, Rev. Ed Young urged his married followers to spice up their love life with some increased intimacy. "And when I say intimacy, I don't mean holding hands in the park or a back rub," the Texan evangelical preacher clarified. After all, Young reminded his flock, sex was God's idea in the first p...
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Richard Dawkins To Write Children’s Book
Richard Dawkins hates fairies. That's not a homosexual slur. He also hates "wizards and magic wands and things turning into other things." And he's not sure if children should be exposed to such ideas.From the New York Times:Having sufficiently inflamed the passions of his adult readers with "The God Delusion," his treatise on rat...
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Evangelical Teens’ Very Active Sex Lives
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, there' s a cartoon that made me laugh so hard I literally spit out my tea. Although it's not technically Bristol Palin's unborn child speaking, it easily could be. Two kids are sitting on a stoop and one says to the other, "I was an abstinence-only baby."An article by Margarot Talbot...
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How to Become a 3-Year-Old Goddess
I like to think of my darling little daughter as a goddess in training, I'm just one person who sees this deity like aura around my offspring. But Marani Shakya has an entire religious community seeing her as a "living goddess". This adorable toddler was officially appointed as a goddess, or "kumari", last week by Hindu and Buddhist priests, who wi...
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Let There Be Science in Science Class
According to the Wilmington Star-News the school board of Brunswick North Carolina is considering putting creationism in the science curriculum. Says board member, Jimmy Hobbs, "It's really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism. The law says we can't have Bib...
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Arkansas Evangelist’s compound raided, six children removed
Arkansas police raided Tony Alamo Christian Ministries on Saturday. The church, located near Texarkana, was raided because of suspicions that children are being abused there. The six children are currently, "in the custody of the state Department of Human Services," according to CNN.Tony Alamo (that name!) is denying any shenanigans. &quo...
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