September 1, 2009 – The Washington Post
Governor's race erupts over McDonnell's past views
The Virginia governor's race ignited Monday over Republican Robert F. McDonnell's 20-year-old graduate thesis: Democrats assailed him in e-mail blasts and interviews for what he wrote about working women, homosexuals and "fornicators," and McDonnell tried to explain his views to crucial moderate and female voters.

September 1, 2009 – The Boston Globe
Protestant churches shift slowly toward gay equality
American religious organizations have rarely been leaders in national movements for gay rights.

September 1, 2009 – Foreign Affairs
Opinion: Born Again in the U.S.A.
In international politics, religion has been the elephant in the room for most of the modern age. And in recent years, it has only grown larger and louder.

August 31, 2009 – The New York Times
Burqa furor scrambles French politics
PARIS — It is a measure of Fr ance’s confusion about Islam and its own Muslim citizens that in the political furor here over “banning the burqa,” as the argument goes, the garment at issue is not really the burqa at all, but the niqab.

August 31, 2009 – The Associated Press
Hamas leader denies Nazi genocide of Jews
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a "war crime," rejecting a suggestion that the U.N. might include the Holocaust in Gaza's school curriculum.

August 31, 2009 – The New York Times
Montana court to rule on assisted suicide case
HELENA, Mont. — Robert Baxter was by all accounts a tough man. Even in the end, last year, as lymphocytic leukemia was killing him, Mr. Baxter, a 76-year-old retired truck driver from Billings, Mont., fought on.

August 31, 2009 – Cox News Service
Officials Seek Balance in Religion, Work
For U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, Christianity and politics are interwoven in the fabrics of American history.

August 31, 2009 – Associated Press
Digging up the Saudi past: Some would rather not
Much of the world knows Petra, the ancient ruin in modern-day Jordan that is celebrated in poetry as "the rose-red city, 'half as old as time,'" and which provided the climactic backdrop for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

August 31, 2009 – The Irish Times
Catholics and Protestants 'see human rights differently'
PROTESTANTS AND Catholics have markedly different views on the question of individual rights and the need to protect them, the McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School was told.

August 30, 2009 – The New York Times
Hints of pluralism in Egyptian religious debates
Writing in his weekly newspaper column, Gamal al-Banna said recently that God had created humans as fallible and therefore destined to sin.

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