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		<title>Picking on the wrong guy</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/18/picking-on-the-wrong-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Cole Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Warren Throckmorton is taking it from all sides now.
Throckmorton, an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College, has long been outspoken on the subject of homosexuality. He has been one of the few voices in academia and in professional associations such as the American Psychological Association  to uphold the biblical view on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did the Tebow ads make a difference?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/17/did-the-tebow-ads-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many questioned the wisdom of Focus on the Family spending tons of money on Super Bowl ads. Similarly, many wondered whether the indirect pro-life message and the playful banter between Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, could possibly make a difference in someone&#8217;s life.
Ted Slater shares a letter Focus received from a woman named Susan, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Whites: The next minority</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/17/whites-the-next-minority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study suggests that today&#8217;s white women seem less interested in having children than previous generations. According to the figures analyzed by the University of New Hampshire in a new demographic study, white women increasingly are delaying having children and having smaller families, while growing numbers of Hispanic women are having large families at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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		<title>Descendants of America&#8217;s eugenic past</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/15/descendants-of-americas-eugenic-past/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/15/descendants-of-americas-eugenic-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Wishing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of this morning, Angie Jackson’s RU-486 induced abortion has been viewed on YouTube more than 140,000 times. She said she filmed herself in the midst of an RU-486 abortion to demystify the procedure. Four weeks pregnant, she signed off saying, “I hope everyone has a great and godless day. Peace.”

Developed in 1980 by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Court upholds &#8216;under God&#8217; in Pledge of Allegiance</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/11/court-upholds-under-god-in-pledge-of-allegiance/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/11/court-upholds-under-god-in-pledge-of-allegiance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Newdow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news this afternoon:
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words &#8220;under God&#8221; in the Pledge of Allegiance and &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected two legal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unprotected speech</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/11/unprotected-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cal Thomas</dc:creator>
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The Supreme Court has decided to take a case that may change the boundaries for types of speech protected by the First Amendment.
The case was brought by a Maryland man whose son&#8217;s 2006 funeral was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Members of the &#8220;church&#8221; consist of &#8220;pastor&#8221; Fred W. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>105</slash:comments>
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		<title>Archbishop defends decision on lesbian&#8217;s children</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/09/archbishop-defends-decision-on-lesbians-children/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/09/archbishop-defends-decision-on-lesbians-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the large number of private and parochial schools in the U.S., this type of story is sure to be played out repeatedly:
The archbishop of Denver on Tuesday defended a decision by a Catholic school not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>Loving Big Brother</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/04/loving-big-brother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrée Seu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would have thought that when Big Brother finally came it would be against our wills.
On the other hand, I do remember in third grade when Soeur St. Edouard de la Croix told us the following story about our counterparts in the Soviet Union schools.
She said the teachers there would put the little Soviet tykes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>D.C. legalizes same-sex marriage</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/dc-legalizes-same-sex-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/dc-legalizes-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Lu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage was legalized today in the nation&#8217;s capital, making it the sixth US jurisdiction where the practice is legal.
The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act, which allowed same-sex couples to marry in Washington, was passed in December 2009, but because Washington is a federal district, the law had to undergo a congressional [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>198</slash:comments>
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		<title>Threatening our liberties</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/threatening-our-liberties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Blackwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Tony Perkins has just been banned from addressing the Andrews Air Force Base prayer luncheon. His invitation has been withdrawn. Tony is president of the Family Research Council. He’s a Christian minister. And he’s an honorably discharged veteran of the Marine Corps. None of this mattered. Tony had spoken out in favor of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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