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September 2, 2011
Christian conservatives: Bloomberg insults religious Americans by
barring prayer at 9/11 event
Author: Rachel Zoll, AP
Source: Startribune nation
Link: http://www.startribune.com/nation/129118203.html
NEW YORK - Christian conservatives are condemning Mayor Michael Bloomberg's
decision to bar clergy-led prayer at the 10th anniversary commemoration of the terrorist
attacks, calling the program an insult. Others wonder whether the mayor is trying to dodge
the potentially thorny issue of including a Muslim representative.
barring prayer at 9/11 event
Author: Rachel Zoll, AP
Source: Startribune nation
Link: http://www.startribune.com/nation/129118203.html
NEW YORK - Christian conservatives are condemning Mayor Michael Bloomberg's
decision to bar clergy-led prayer at the 10th anniversary commemoration of the terrorist
attacks, calling the program an insult. Others wonder whether the mayor is trying to dodge
the potentially thorny issue of including a Muslim representative.
August 25, 2011
Presbyterians Meet To Consider Leaving Church Over Gay Clergy,
Other Issues
Author: Jaweed Kaleem
Source: Huffington Post
Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/presbyterian-pastors-gay-clergy_n_937152.html?r
ef=christianity
Less than four months after the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) made a historic and
controversial move to ordain noncelibate, openly gay and lesbian clergy, a group of more than
2,000 disaffected ministers and lay people kicked off a conference Thursday that they say
could lead to a breakaway church.
Other Issues
Author: Jaweed Kaleem
Source: Huffington Post
Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/presbyterian-pastors-gay-clergy_n_937152.html?r
ef=christianity
Less than four months after the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) made a historic and
controversial move to ordain noncelibate, openly gay and lesbian clergy, a group of more than
2,000 disaffected ministers and lay people kicked off a conference Thursday that they say
could lead to a breakaway church.
Christian group expels gay man, gets investigated
Posted on Sep 2, 2011 | by Brittany Smith
Source: Baptist Press
Link: http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=36050
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (BP) -- Psalm 100, a Christian a cappella group at the University of
North Carolina, struck a few dissonant chords around the Chapel Hill campus as school
started when its members voted to expel a fellow singer because of his views on
homosexuality.
Posted on Sep 2, 2011 | by Brittany Smith
Source: Baptist Press
Link: http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=36050
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (BP) -- Psalm 100, a Christian a cappella group at the University of
North Carolina, struck a few dissonant chords around the Chapel Hill campus as school
started when its members voted to expel a fellow singer because of his views on
homosexuality.