Tag: human rights
member name: Duane B.
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November 30, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
A Seattle fourteen-year-old Seattle boy died of leukemia after a judge ruled he had the right to refuse a life saving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs. Dennis Lindberg . . .
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April 27, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barak Obama's pastor appeared on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS last week. I watched the full hour and found Rev. Wright, a former US Marine who cared for . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
As I sit down to write this article, much of the Middle East is in crisis. Rockets are falling on Israel and bombs are falling in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed on injured on . . .
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December 07, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
Recently the CBS program Sixty Minutes ran a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians still living in Iraq. Since our invasion of Iraq the minority Christian . . .
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July 10, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to also a Wiccan religious symbol, the five-pointed star with a circle, on a memorial to Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart of Fernly, Nevada. Sgt. Stewart . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life shows that almost 40% of Americans have changed their religion since their childhood, with a growing number dropping any religious . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently received an unsolicited email from a person I don't know that is a member of a national organization I belong too. It contained some of the most virulent anti-Semitic . . .
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October 30, 2006 12:58 PM EST --
The recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court stating that homosexual couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples and giving the New Jersey Legislature six months . . .
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January 23, 2007 10:32 AM EST --
Christine Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN, is not easily shocked. She has covered stories in many different areas of the world, some of them physically dangerous, but she admits . . .
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September 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
An official Canadian commission has found that a Canadian computer specialist of Syrian birth, Maher Arar, had no ties to any terrorist groups or individuals. Arar claims . . .
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September 03, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
CNN presented a three part series entitled God’s Warriors researched and reported by their award-winning Chief Foreign Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. This series deals with the . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:10 AM EDT --
This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning the Second Amendment of the Constitution, the amendment that deals with the issue of the right to "bear arms" and exactly . . .
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July 24, 2006 10:13 AM EDT --
Steven Yates. A professor of Philosophy at The University of South Carolina has published an article the details a plan by the governments of the United States, Mexico and Canada to create . . .
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August 14, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
The abortion debate, to a great extent, is centered on this question. If the fetus isn't human, what is there a problem with abortion? People who oppose abortion believe that it is murder, but . . .
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August 22, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
Saudi Arabian school textbooks still continue to each hate and intolerance toward Jews and non-Muslims years after Saudi officials agreed to revise the textbooks. A recent review . . .
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August 26, 2006 04:00 PM EDT --
India, the world largest democracy, has a population 1.1 billion people. Hindus make up 81% of the population (900 million), Muslims (13%) 143 million), and Sikhs and others the remaining . . .
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September 23, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Men and women of short stature have, and continue to, make remarkable contributions in every area of human endeavor. A person's height indicates nothing about their intellect, wisdom, or any other . . .
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October 11, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
The British medical journal Lancet claims that, based on a random survey of 1,800 Iraqi households. 655,000 people have died from the direct and indirect effects of the war in Iraq. This . . .
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October 12, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
A recent outbreak in whooping cough cases in the US has brought the controversy over childhood vaccinations to our attentions once again. In 1976 1,020 cases of whooping cough were reported in the . . .
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August 23, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
At one end of the spectrum are Jim Bob and Michelle Dugger of Springdale Arkansas, debt-free, happily married Christians, who have 17 children, live in a 7,000 square foot house and have never . . .
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