Fighting to Allow Gay Clubs at Schools
With the budgetary problems facing governments at all levels, you would think that agencies would avoid wasting funds foolishly - but not in Boyd County, Kentucky or in Lubbock, Texas. Read More...
Science Textbook Battles in Texas
Once again, a fight is brewing over what will appear in the science texts of Texas public schools. Will those texts, and thus also the classroom instruction, emphasize the place Read More...
Rick Santorum: No Regrets
Rick Santorum, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, is unapologetic about his remarks about gay couples and sodomy, even though the Supreme Court ruled that laws criminalizing sodomy, and especially those Read More...
Complimentary and Alternative Medicines
Questioning Healthcare: There's an awful lot in the news and in society about "alternative medicines" these days. By some estimates, it's an industry doing between $15 and $20 billion annually Read More...
Traditionalist Catholicism Growing
The Second Vatican Council instituted a number of important and modern reforms into the Roman Catholic Church - but not all Catholics were happy with those changes. Even today, there Read More...
Copyrighting Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa is one of the most famous Catholic figures in the world; now, nuns of the order she founded are looking to copyright her name in order to ensure Read More...
Crop Circles vs. Property Rights
Crop Circles are very popular among believers in the paranormal. Are they created by aliens? By beings from another dimension? No, they are fakes created by humans - but too Read More...
This Date in History
July 13, 1857: President James Buchanon selected Alfred Cumming to replace Brigham Young as governor for the territory of Utah.
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Secularism in Nepal
Usually the idea of secularism and the creation of a secular state is opposed by Christians, Jews or Muslims. They, however, are not the only religions that may oppose secularism Read More...
Growth in Spiritualism
The belief system identified as spiritualism first developed in America during the 19th century. Today, it is making a real comeback - thanks largely to alleged mediums like Jonathan Edwards Read More...
Christianity's Fixation on Sex
Is Christianity too fixated on sex, sex acts, and human sexuality? Sometimes it certainly seems that way - and Martin Hogg, a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church and a Read More...
Should the Supreme Court Cite Foreign Laws?
There has been some complaint from conservatives that the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy was flawed because it cited law from outside America. Supposedly, Read More...
Row Over Gay Bishop Turns Ugly
The Church of England is going through some very difficult times over the failed appointment of Canon Jeffrey John to be Bishop of Reading. A General Synod of the Church Read More...
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