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Jesus Dragged Into Ethics Debate
Members of the North Carolines House cast their final votes for Ethics Reforms Thursday. The previous day's debate had addressed the issue of disclosing gifts, and resulted in raising the threshold for disclosure from $200 to $1000. Representative Drew Saunders, a Democrat from Mecklenburg County argued, "Even the baby Jesus accepted gifts, and I don't think it corrupted him." Christianity Is A Chosen Behavior
The L.A. Times erred when it reported that Gregory Baylor of the Christian Legal Society "viewed homosexuality as a lifestyle choice." In today's corrections the L.A. Times states that Baylor "supports policies that protect people from discrimination based on race, gender, and other inborn traits...," but not protections based on people's behavior such as homosexuality, and presumably, religion. Churchgoer Kills Self, Family
Three murder/suicides have rocked Koreatown in Los Angeles in recent weeks. One family had joined the local First Church of the Nazarene in Hollywood, and had attended faithfully. There were no signs of trouble apparent to those around them. The family was expected at a church function Sunay. When they did not show up as expected, members of the congregation went to check on the family and discovered the bodies.
Charles J. Kim, president of the national... Televangelist Promises Cure for AIDS
 In the small landlocked country of Lesotho, completely contained within South Africa, 15% of the 2,000,000+ population are living with HIV/AIDS. The average lifespan is 34.4 years. The unemployment rate is 45% and about half the population lives beneath the poverty... Then They Came For the Racists...
"...and there was no one left to speak out for me." *
Gregory Baylor, director of the Christian Legal Society, bemoans the equation of Christians with racists, arguing that race is something you're born with, while homosexuality is a lifestyle issue.
In... Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home
Waco TX
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, angered a group of residents at McLennan Community College in Waco Thursday when he contradicted the Bible with science.
Nye referenced Genesis 1:16, "God made two great lights - the greater light to... TBN Volunteer Held for Molesting Boy
Tustin CA
Roger Warren Evans, 53, a prayer counselor at Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), and a Bible study teacher, turned himself into the police this week for molesting a young boy. The assaults took place over a two year period at the First Advent Christian Church in Tustin, beginning when the boy was 9. The abuse started with spanking and ended in about a dozen incidents of fondling. Evans is being held on $500,000 bail. Electricity Against Sex Offender's Religion
Davis City IA
Scott Smith, 36, a convicted sex offender, refused to wear an electronic monitoring device ordered by the court because it was against his religion.
Smith was the leader of the Brotherhood of Christ in 2003 when he was charged with sexually abusing two teenaged girls.
The Brotherhood of Christ is a small religious community that eshews modern conveniences such as electricity, telephones, and indoor plumbing. The group was once noted for its belief that the Soviet... US Surgeon General Declares Fat-wa
Richard H. Carmona, the US Surgeon General, gave a strange speech (a rehash) last week at the University of South Carolina.
Comparing obesity with terrorism and 9-11 Carmona told the crowd:
"Obesity is the terror within. Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt..."
Before... That's Dr. Gary Busey!
Blood libel, the destructive ideology charging that a group (usually Jews) kills the children of another group (usually...
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