Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press The Sky TV headquarters in West London. The Church of England says it opposes the News Corporation’s plan to take control of the British satellite television provider BSkyB. “A News Corporation in full control of BSkyB would combine one of the three significant suppliers of TV news (BBC, ITN and BSkyB), one [...]
A group of Seventh-Day Adventists will pray for bipartisanship Wednesday on Capitol Hill, the latest call for prayer to become a bigger part of politics. The group is appealing to President Obama and Congress to use prayer in any strategy for battling unemployment rates among homeless and disenfranchised veterans. The group believes that the power [...]
A Presbyterian church in North Carolina that sponsors a Cub Scout pack has drawn unwanted attention for rejecting the parents of two children as volunteer leaders because the parents are Mormons. Officials at Christ Covenant Church, near Charlotte, earlier this month noticed on an application form that Jeremy and Jodi Stokes had put their religious [...]
Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell, the Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware, questioned Tuesday whether the First Amendment to the Constitution requires a separation between organized religion and government. “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” she said in a debate with Chris Coons, her Democratic opponent. When Coons told her [...]
The conservative Mormon church is not usually considered a gay-friendly religion, and it has been hammered especially hard for its opposition to gay rights since it helped lead the 2008 battle to pass California’s Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. But comments by a [...]
The conservative Mormon church is not usually considered a gay-friendly religion, and it has been hammered especially hard for its opposition to gay rights since it helped lead the 2008 battle to pass California’s Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. But comments by a [...]
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