Pro-life groups are busy urging their constituents to call the House of Representatives and urge a "no" vote on the Senate health care bill. Following are some common questions, along with answers, about the bill's abortion provisions:
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Blogs are a growing but still relatively underutilized influence on today's religious discourse, according to a study of the religious blogosphere by the Social Science Research Council.
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With Easter Sunday a little less than three weeks away, the Barna Group found that most Americans still affiliated the holiday with Christianity but there was a wide variety of responses of what it means.
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The controversial Georgia ad implies that, like endangered species, black children should be protected up until they're born.
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Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll's white counterpart at one store and possibly others.
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Most African-Americans like to pray just before they do it, white Americans like to do it with their pets, Asians tend to do it best and Hispanics fret about work just beforehand.
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Oftentimes those who preach sexual abstinence have been told to stop trying to impose their beliefs on others. But what if science could prove sexual permissiveness does great damage to future sexual happiness?
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Before I had children, I had a "good mother" list. You might have one as well. Mine read like this:
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Zeb and his wife, Debra had been separated for several months after years of conflict had left them both feeling unable to remain together. They were fighting each other -- instead of fighting for their marriage. Feeling profoundly discouraged, they had separated to "get some peace".
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My husband and I celebrated our first anniversary earlier this year. This occasion marked the end of our shana rishona, the yearlong "honeymoon" period that our rabbis warn us is anything but. It's a time of solidifying the relationship, learning to compromise, and adjusting to a spouse's idiosyncrasies.
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After years of increase, the divorce rate in the United States fell in 2008, a new report shows, and research suggests it may be the result of the recession.
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By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today.
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Too many religious leaders are not engaging issues of "sexual justice" and other sexuality matters from the pulpit, a multifaith organization claims.
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In the lead up to Valentine's Day, students around the world are making a stand against the cultural message that encourages sexual promiscuity and promoting their choice of purity.
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Young people across America, and the entire world, are taking a stand for sexual purity. Friday is the seventh annual Day of Purity - a day where young people encourage their peers to stay sexually pure until marriage.
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Broadway's spring hasn't started yet but already new shows are being announced for next season, including an acclaimed drama from London about Martin Luther King Jr. that received a 2010 Olivier best new play nomination.
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Broadway's spring hasn't started yet but already new shows are being announced for next season, including an acclaimed drama from London about Martin Luther King Jr. that received a 2010 Olivier best new play nomination.
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Focus on the Family, the evangelical radio ministry that grew into a powerhouse of the religious right, enters a new era this month as founder James Dobson steps down, ceding his microphone to a leader with a markedly different style and set of priorities.
Jim Daly, who is taking the reins of Focus on the Family from founder James Dobson, played with his son at home in Colorado Springs last year.
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Pro-family and faith-based organizations across the United States marked the start of National Marriage Week on Sunday to draw special attention on the need to strengthen marriage and the ways to do it.
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J. D. Salinger, best known for his teen-angst novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), died last week at the age of 91 after living as a recluse for 50 years on his 90-acre compound in Cornish, New Hampshire. Read More
J. D. Salinger, best known for his teen-angst novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), died last week at the age of 91 after living as a recluse for 50 years on his 90-acre compound in Cornish, New Hampshire. Read More
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A new bill in the California legislature that purports to protect pastors from being forced to perform "gay marriages" actually contains language that could help open the door to legalizing such relationships down the road, conservatives who are watching the bill's progress say.
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The video features a star quarterback and a strong pro-life message. But it's not the ad by Tim Tebow and his mother. Read More
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Believe it or not, kids want rules. I discovered that strange truth as a twenty-something, teaching seventh and eighth graders in a rural Oregon town.
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We are fast becoming the pornographic society. Over the course of the last decade, explicitly sexual images have crept into advertising, marketing, and virtually every niche of American life. This ambient pornography is now almost everywhere, from the local shopping mall to prime-time television.
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A new study released today shows that abstinence education is highly effective in reducing sexual activity among youth. It also showed contraceptive sex ed programs to be ineffective.
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The football star's appearance in an upcoming 'pro-life' Super Bowl ad seems to remove any ambiguity about whether controversy will dampen his very public faith.
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The football star's appearance in an upcoming 'pro-life' Super Bowl ad seems to remove any ambiguity about whether controversy will dampen his very public faith.
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