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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care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]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>Super Bowl XLVI: Football and faith go prime time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl Sunday is a holy day of sorts for the tens of millions of Americans who will watch the big game – at least as many as will attend actual religious services that day. ReligionLink has resources for reporters covering the links between worship on Sunday morning and the spectacle on Sunday evening.]]></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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		<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>
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				<category><![CDATA['None': Spiritual but not religious]]></category>
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		<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>Sports and scandal: Religious comparisons and complaints</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports, at the professional and amateur levels, are enormously popular, and yet athletics are also linked to scandal and controversy in today’s headlines. In the case of allegations of child abuse, the crisis in sports recalls the problem in organized religions, and also highlights the nexus between religion and sports.]]></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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		<title>Mormonism and the 2012 election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mormons are at the center of the national conversation about religion in large part because of the Republican presidential primary campaign. Mitt Romney, a lifelong Mormon, is a top contender for the GOP nomination, but evangelical Christian concerns about Mormonism may impede his prospects and could recast this “Mormon moment” in American culture.]]></description>
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		<title>Death penalty update: Political debates, public opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The legitimacy of the death penalty has emerged as a hot topic in the national conversation. Oregon’s governor declared a moratorium on executions, the execution of convicted murderer Troy Davis in September sparked controversy, and in October the Supreme Court heard a case whose outcome could affect the use of the death penalty. ]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion and politics: New battlegrounds in a decades-old conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, voters in Mississippi defeated a “personhood amendment” that would have defined a person as existing from the moment of the fertilization of an egg. If passed, Proposition 26 might have upended the debate over abortion. But the vote showed how the battle over abortion rights is increasingly taking place in the states.]]></description>
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