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Secular Voters Feel Abandoned, Ignored by Candidates
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akornfeld
Lori Lipman Brown has had her fill of God-talk. “It’s a very frustrating time,” said Brown, director of the Washington-based Secular Coalition for America, the first lobbying organization devoted to secular issues. “All of us have been very hopeful that at the end of the Bush administration, we would stop seeing theology impose itself on…
Survey: White Literalists Less Likely to Vote for Minority Candidate
By
akornfeld
More than eight in 10 white Americans would vote for a racial minority for president, but fewer whites who take the Bible literally or who worship in an all-white congregation would do the same, according to a recent survey. Research from Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion found that 84 percent of non-Hispanic white…
All Eyes on California’s High-Stakes Gay Marriage Fight
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akornfeld
Pastor Jim Garlow is fasting and praying at his megachurch in La Mesa, Calif., to encourage fellow California evangelicals to vote for Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Jan Garbosky, meanwhile, married her lesbian partner of 20 years on Oct. 4 at their Unitarian Universalist church in San Diego…
Ex-Mormon Calendar-Maker Has BYU Diploma Yanked
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nsymmonds
SALT LAKE CITY – Brigham Young University has yanked the diploma of a man who created a calendar featuring shirtless Mormon missionaries and was later excommunicated from the church. Chad Hardy of Las Vegas attended graduation ceremonies Aug. 15 after finishing up his last four units of study online in June. But on July 13,…
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