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January 13 2012 By virtueonline The Archbishop of York: Tiptoeing around Marriage

The unprecedented scale of last summers' riots in English cities, with some young people involved expressing their happiness with the excitement of it all, has been conveniently forgotten, as also it seems has the much more comprehensive 2007 UNICEF survey of child wellbeing in the 21 most economically developed nations which found that the UK was the worst country for a child to grow up in, with reported feelings being only one of six measures used.

January 11 2012 By virtueonline Mean-minded gender politics v. traditional Anglican faith

Women deacons became priests on the dubious pretext that there was no biblical objection and the assertion that there was little difference between deacon and priest other than the utterance of a few words (such regard for the sacred ministry.). Now it is the 'stained glass ceiling' that has to be shattered in the guise of equality.

January 10 2012 By virtueonline VATICAN CITY: Gay marriage a threat to humanity's future: Pope

The Vatican and Catholic officials around the world have protested against moves to legalize gay marriage in Europe and other developed parts of the world.

One leading opponent of gay marriage in the United States is New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, whom the pope will elevate to cardinal next month.

January 05 2012 By virtueonline AA Can Fulfill New Year's Resolutions

I knew that Jim, a friend, is an AA member and asked if I could attend an AA meeting as a journalist. He showed me a list of 1,400 groups in Metro Washington to could choose from. The meeting we attended in a church had 40 people present. If that was typical, 56,000 are members here.

December 31 2011 By virtueonline America's Marriage Rate Plunges - Mike McManus

What's troubling to me is not the later age at which people marry, which is generally wise, but the fact so many have never married. Only 72 percent of today's adults have ever married vs. 85 percent in 1960.

This is a big cultural change. What is behind this shift? Another recent Pew survey reported that four in ten Americans (39 percent) think marriage is "becoming obsolete."

December 27 2011 By virtueonline My Take: Kim Jong Il and the danger of deifying leaders - R. Albert Mohler

To the contrary, the North Korean regime mandated worship, the worship of its own supreme leader.

As Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis explained, North Korea's founding dictator Kim Il Sung "was allowed to build a Stalinist state, with its own cult of personality centered on himself, at just the time when Khrushchev was condemning such perversions of Marxism-Leninism elsewhere."

December 20 2011 By virtueonline The Bible is why Her Majesty must Veto Same-Sex Marriage

Therein lies the spiritual and moral conflict between the two rival ideologies competing for the soul of Britain. The Church's vocation is to stand up for the righteousness and truth of the Lord Jesus against politically-correct ideology claiming to be the mediator of equality and tolerance to humankind.

December 16 2011 By virtueonline Putting the Baby Carriage before Marriage May Not Lead to Happiness

In The 2011 State of Our Unions report released by the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, researchers Dr. W. Brad Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt detail that parents who are married are more likely to report being "very happy" than their cohabiting or single counterparts.

December 14 2011 By virtueonline WASHINGTON D.C. Islamophobia Conference Was a Bad Idea

The three-day conference was closed to the public, but I was invited to its opening session (as well as to the closing session to be held on Wednesday) by virtue of my being a commissioner on the official but independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. "Chatham House Rules," which State directed us to abide by, forbid releasing anything about a specific delegation or quoting for attribution.

December 14 2011 By virtueonline The Terrifying Tim Tebow

Just as green-grabbing, millionaire musicians are never asked why the masses should give up their meager comforts to save the planet, while they themselves are permitted to grow ever-richer from their energy-hogging concert tours, Tebow could play a brightly-lighted night game every week and take a knee five times a yard to nothing but cheers, if only he embraced this year's anti-establishment, smart, and cool narrative.

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