A Methodist pastor in Seattle is defying his church hierarchy and pledging to continue to officiate at same sex weddings even after another pastor was punished for doing the same thing earlier this week. On Monday, 13 Methodist pastors found Rev. Frank Schaefer of the Zion United Methodist Church...
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Methodist pastor calls his church ‘evil’ after fellow pastor convicted for gay wedding
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Dozens of suspected terrorists may have entered U.S. as refugees, FBI agents say
Dozens of suspected terrorists may have been mistakenly allowed to enter the U.S. as war refugees, according to FBI agents who are investigating roadside bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 2009 discovery of two al Qaeda-trained terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky, prompted...
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Obama awards Medal of Freedom to Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and others
President Barack Obama on Wednesday celebrated American legends of politics, sports, letters, science and the arts including Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey in awarding his country’s highest civilian honor. The Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony was lent added poignancy as the award was...
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Philippines counts the cost of Typhoon Haiyan
Super Typhoon Haiyan’s devastating assault on the central Philippines exerted a catastrophic human cost, but analysts say its impact on one of Asia’s fastest growing economies will be less traumatic. The national economy has been on an upswing for the past five years and expanded 7.6...
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Cleaning crew in India finds $1 million worth of gold bars in an aircraft toilet
An Indian airplane cleaning crew stumbled across 24 gold bars worth over $1 million stashed in an aircraft toilet compartment, officials said Wednesday. India, which rivals China as the world’s biggest gold consumer, has witnessed a sharp rise in smuggling since import duties were hiked three...
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4.4 billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara sheds light on infant Mars
A meteorite found in the Sahara last year by Bedouin tribesmen is a rock from Mars, revealing that the Red Planet’s crust formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists reported on Wednesday. Sold to the elite club of meteorite collectors, the extraordinary rock has been analysed by US and French...
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Video game allows players to re-enact Sandy Hook massacre
A video game that allows players to re-enact the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT has sparked widespread controversy. The game’s creator addressed some of the issues raised about the game in an audio statement in which he insisted that the game has a gun safety message....
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Pat Robertson shouts ‘Revolution!’ over Obamacare: ‘People are going to die’
Televangelist Pat Robertson yelled for “Revolution!” on Wednesday and warned that “people will die” if voters did not elect Republicans in 2014 who would repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. On the Wednesday edition of The 700 Club, the TV preacher...
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Zimmerman accused of sending image from homemade sex video to girlfriend’s daughter
In the days following his acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges, George Zimmerman was alone, depressed and obsessed with guns, his girlfriend said. Samantha Scheibe told WKMG-TV that she began her relationship with Zimmerman, who fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin during a February...
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Radio host: ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ wouldn’t strip ‘under Allah’ from Gettysburg Address
WMAL’s Chris Plante, a conservative radio host and frequent Fox News guest, speculated on Tuesday that President Barack Obama had purposefully taken “under God” out of the Gettysburg Address but would not have removed the phrase “under Allah.” A number of conservative...
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German image on line with Nazi art hoard: World Jewish Congress
Germany’s credibility is on the line in its handling of a vast Nazi-era hoard of priceless artworks and the country must take bold steps to give back property to its rightful owners, the head of the World Jewish Congress told AFP. Saying that the more than 1,400 paintings, sketches and prints...
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Man charged in unspeakably brutal rape claims to ‘have Jesus on his side’
State police in Hazleton, Pennsylvania arrested Emmanuel Paulino today for what they allege was a particularly brutal rape. Paulino is also accused of assaulting the officer who tried to arrest him. Warning: this article describes non-consensual sex-acts of a particularly violent nature. According...
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Dog thought killed by tornado rescued after 30 hours buried under rubble
A survivor of the devastating tornadoes that struck the Midwest and Ohio Valley earlier this week was reunited with his beloved dog, who had been buried beneath the rubble of his house for nearly 30 hours. In the moments before a tornado struck his Washington, Illinois home, Jonathan Byler Dann and...
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Welcome To The Post-Roe World
While the Supreme Court upholding the Fifth Circuit Court’s decision to allow Texas to keep enforcing its unconstitutional abortions restrictions does not mean they will eventually not strike down the law, it’s also not a good sign. The reason district court judge initially put a block...
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Supreme Court allows Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place
The Supreme Court divided down partisan lines today when it ruled that Texas can continue to enforce strict abortion restrictions that prevent nearly a third of the state’s clinics from operating. The court rejected the arguments by Planned Parenthood and several affiliated clinics that...
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Illinois becomes 16th US state to legalize gay marriage
Illinois became the 16th US state to legalize gay marriage Wednesday, just days after Hawaii passed marriage equality legislation. “What we’re celebrating today is the triumph of democracy, the triumph of liberty,” Governor Pat Quinn said as he prepared to sign the bill into law...
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Australia police, central bank websites hacked
The websites of the Australian Federal Police and the Reserve Bank of Australia have been the victims of an apparent cyber attack, with reports Thursday blaming Indonesian hackers. The AFP called the attack “irresponsible”, and said whoever was to blame could face prosecution....
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Methodist minister ‘convicted’ of performing gay marriage has 30 days to ‘repent’ or be defrocked
On Monday, the United Methodist Church convicted Reverend Frank Schaefer on two counts of breaking his pastoral vows after he officiated over the marriage of his gay son, Tim. On Tuesday, the church rendered its verdict: Rev. Schaefer is suspended for 30 days, during which time he must...
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Home of North Dakota white supremacist defaced by racist graffiti after revelations about his ‘African’ DNA
Authorities revealed today that Neo-Nazi and Canadian hate-crime fugitive Craig Cobb’s arrest over the weekend stemmed from an incident involving a former follower of the racial purist. According to local prosecutors, after other white supremacists in Leith learned that Cobb possessed...
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US Post Office loses 999,870 party invitations. Thanks a lot, Obama!
When we last saw America’s Worst Lawyer and alleged Bad Touch Dad Larry Klayman, he was pallin’ around with Cubanadian Terrorist Ted Cruz and Syntax Terrorist Sarah Palin and some southern secessionist guys who were blaming that black dude in the White House for killing America while...
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