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December 21 2013 By virtueonline Liberty for All or License for Some: How the Left Views Religious Freedom

Yet "religious liberty for everyone...includes the freedom from having the theological doctrines of your boss or those of business owners in your community being forced upon you." Otherwise a "monopoly on religious liberty" would "play favorites with certain theological beliefs." Thus the paper criticized "pharmacists refusing to stock or fill prescriptions for contraception or hospitals refusing to perform life-saving abortions," thereby weakening a "constitutionally protected right." In an

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December 20 2013 By virtueonline You Have Been Warned-The "Duck Dynasty" Controversy

"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men," he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: "Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers-they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right."

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December 19 2013 By virtueonline Waking Up To Islam - Bill Muehlenberg

There have been plenty of gullible and ignorant Westerners who actually applauded the spread of communism, as there are many people today foolishly endorsing and promoting the spread of the political ideology known as Islam. Lenin called such folks "useful idiots" and we still have plenty of them around today it seems.

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December 18 2013 By virtueonline Former Gay Activist Marries Woman;Addresses Those Who Condemn His New Lifestyle

"I want to make a little 'shout out' to all of the angry homosexuals in our country who are currently spreading all sorts of hate and aggression on pro-homosexual blogs," wrote Glatze, in an op-ed on WND.com. "Look, I am not interested in defending myself. I don't really need to do that. I understand your plight, your point-of-view. I understand the desire to want me to be crazy, or lost in my head and mind, or confused.

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December 16 2013 By virtueonline So Why the Fuss about the Decriminalization of Polygamy?

It started with the 'liberation' of straight sex and sexual relationships: pornography, promiscuity, cohabitation, no-fault divorce. Then it moved on to 'liberate' those of the LGBT communities. Now it looks to include those in plural partnerships.

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December 16 2013 By virtueonline Europe's Real Religious Fundamentalism Issue

As a WZB Discussion Paper explained, the WZB-funded Six Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey (SCIICS) involved a 2008 "large-scale telephone survey." Respondents were "Turkish origin" and "Moroccan origin" people "who came during the guest-worker era" pre-1975 or their descendants. SCIICS surveyed both groups in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, while insignificant Moroccan populations limited the survey to Turkish-descent individuals in Austria and Sweden.

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December 13 2013 By virtueonline LOS ANGELES: U.S. judge orders landmark California cross taken down

"This is a victory for religious liberty," said Daniel Mach, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's program on freedom of religion and belief who argued the matter for the plaintiffs in a hearing before Burns on Thursday.

"We firmly support the government's efforts to honor the service of those who fought and died for this country, but there are many ways to do that without playing favorites with religion," Mach said.

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December 13 2013 By virtueonline A Moral Revolution at Warp Speed-Now, It's Wedding Cakes

Last Friday, Judge Spencer ruled that Phillips must "cease and desist from discriminating" against same-sex couples in his cake business. The case emerged after Phillips refused to make a cake to celebrate the civil union of David Mullins and Charlie Craig. Colorado has a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages, but it recognizes legal civil unions for same-sex couples. The two men had married in Massachusetts, but planned a reception in Colorado.

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December 12 2013 By virtueonline Mandela's Legacy: Truth & Reconciliation Commission

There was more strife and killing from 1990 when Mandela was released from prison - and 1994 when he was elected president - than in three decades of apartheid. The great fear was that racial tensions could explode into a civil war resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Thus, TRC's mission was of supreme importance.

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December 12 2013 By virtueonline La Joie de Vivre 1:6 -- the Unbearable Sleaziness of Being (a Gay Man)

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I have to thank Michelangelo Signorile and other gay writers who have come forward in the Huffington Post, and elsewhere, in response to the discussion of Dustin Lance Black's relationship with a nineteen-year-old boy. After decades of false pretenses, they have at last come clean with the American public, and admitted that the gay movement cannot succeed unless taboos against man-boy sex are at last knocked down.

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