Lutheran pastor apologizes for praying in Newtown vigil
Lutheran pastor apologizes for praying in Newtown vigil
Month: February 2013
Polio is a gift from God?
Gunmen on motorbikes shot the health workers, who were administering polio vaccinations, in two separate attacks in the northern city of Kano on Friday, the police said.
NYTimes and BBC:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21381773
http://nyti.ms/XVvrZf
News: Not Financing birth control “is the civil rights movement of this decade”
But Laycock’s is a lonely voice among advocates of religious exemptions. More typical is Rick Warren, the evangelical megachurch pastor, who says the battle to preserve religious liberty “in all areas of life” may be “the civil rights movement of this decade.” Warren goes on to say — I am not making this up — that “Hobby Lobby’s courageous stand, in the face of enormous pressure and fines,” is the equivalent of the Birmingham bus boycott.
When I read that kind of rhetoric from our country’s loftier pulpits, I understand why the fastest-growing religious affiliation in America is “none.”
The Conscience of a Corporation
R.O. BLECHMAN
By BILL KELLER
Last Updated: 8:58 PM ET
And the clergy do love the children (Chasidic Jewish version)
Chemical Thrown at Rabbi Who Aided Victims of Abuse
By SHARON OTTERMAN
An outspoken advocate for child sexual abuse victims in the Satmar Hasidic community was injured by a chemical he believed to be bleach that was thrown in his face as he walked down the street in his Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood on Tuesday.
And the clergy do love the children (Roman Catholic version)
Priest Puts Blame on Some Victims of Sexual Abuse
By SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: August 30, 2012
A prominent Roman Catholic spiritual leader who has spent decades counseling wayward priests for the archdiocese provoked shock and outrage on Thursday as word spread of a recent interview he did with a Catholic newspaper during which he said that “youngsters” were often to blame when priests sexually abused them and that priests should not be jailed for such abuse on their first offense.
Sayings of the Preachers 