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		<title>Update: A guide to same-sex marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 8, voters in North Carolina will decide whether to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage and civil unions. The referendum is the latest is a series of state-level initiatives on a fiercely debated moral issue – same-sex marriage – that is gaining support among the public. The opinion shift hasn’t eased the controversy.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Linsanity&#8217; to &#8216;Timsanity&#8217;: Sports and faith go prime time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City is often cast as a modern-day Babylon, but Tim Tebow’s trade to the Jets makes him another marquee Christian in the Big Apple’s sports circus, along with Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. The media buzz has revealed a deep evangelical presence in the city but raises questions about sports and faith.]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical archaeology: Searching for the historical Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter is an annual rite of spring, and so it seems are new claims and books and television programs about the Jesus of history. This year is no exception, as a number of developments related to the Bible and archaeology are coinciding with the Christian remembrance of the death and resurrection of Jesus.]]></description>
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		<title>Contraception controversy: Church and state and birth control</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abortion & birth control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal regulation mandating that all health insurance companies provide contraception coverage with no out-of-pocket cost to clients has prompted a sharp backlash from many religious groups – especially Catholics. It also reignited a debate over the morality of birth control that had lain dormant.]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution debates in legislatures and on campaign trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 12 marks the birthday of Charles Darwin and the celebration of Darwin Day, an observance that highlights the theory of evolution set forth in Darwin's 1859 work, The Origin of Species. But in state legislatures and on the campaign trail, the debate over evolution is about more than science.]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion controversies: New developments prompt new debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion rights and health care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons in America: A new poll takes the pulse of the LDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.religionlink.com/?p=9335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life explores the views of American Mormons as opposed to the usual focus on how Americans view Mormons. This approach makes the findings especially valuable, and they are an important addition to ReligionLink’s resources on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign 2012: A guide to religion and politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faith has been central to American politics for years, but rarely more than it has in 2012 as a Republican primary field, featuring evangelical and Catholic and Mormon candidates, vies for voters who put a premium on religious values. That dynamic is not likely to change in the general election, whoever faces President Obama.]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens, atheist writer, dies: A roundup of reaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.religionlink.com/?p=9144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens, the famous writer and polemicist whose later years were known for his fierce arguments against religious belief, has died of cancer. His death is being mourned in the growing community of atheists, agnostics, humanists and freethinkers. ReligionLink has a comprehensive guide to groups and leaders in that community.]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and games: A guide to sports and religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After organized worship, athletic competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as never before, experts say. But that correlation has negative as well as positive aspects. This edition of ReligionLink provides a guide to these issues.]]></description>
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