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Would Jesus Discriminate? - Jesus affirmed a gay couple. The Greek word that the Roman centurion uses in this passage to describe the sick man – pais – is the same word used in ancient Greek to refer to a same-gender partner.

Would Jesus Discriminate? - Jesus affirmed a gay couple

Listen to a sermon on this topic: Download Discussion: Matthew 19:10-12. North Carolina Pastor Sean Harris: Parents Should 'Punch' Their Gay-Acting Children (AUDIO) Rainn Wilson: "The Internet is the future of spirituality" Actor Rainn Wilson spoke before thousands of fans Saturday at SXSW in Austin, Texas. He wasn't usually this silly. Actor Rainn Wilson ("The Office") spoke Saturday at South By SouthwestWilson has a website, Soul Pancake, that attempts to connect users around spiritual questionsWilson: "It's a spiritual act to share a beautiful photo on Instagram" Austin, Texas (CNN) -- When you consider (1) that he's a comic actor known for playing dysfunctional characters, and (2) the photo above, you might expect Rainn Wilson's presentation at SXSW Interactive to have been full of laughs.

And you would be right. For the first 20 minutes. Wilson, best known for his role as the aggressively clueless Dwight Schrute on TV's "The Office," began his talk with random slides ("Here's a baby monkey riding a boar"), gags about the early days of the Internet and jokes about his postings on Twitter, where he has almost 3 million followers. Also? Arizona Bible Course Bill To Teach Elective In Public Schools Passes Senate, Goes To Gov. Jan Brewer. An Arizona bill that creates a high school course for public and charter school students that teaches the Bible and its role in Western culture is headed to the Republican Gov.

Arizona Bible Course Bill To Teach Elective In Public Schools Passes Senate, Goes To Gov. Jan Brewer

Jan Brewer's desk for approval. Doocy: Dan Savage ‘bullying’ Christians by calling Bible ‘bullsh*t’ By David EdwardsMonday, April 30, 2012 10:17 EDT Fox News host Steve Doocy on Monday suggested that sex columnist Dan Savage was “bullying” Christian journalism students with a speech where he said that Bible passages about homosexuality were “bullshit.”

Doocy: Dan Savage ‘bullying’ Christians by calling Bible ‘bullsh*t’

Savage, who created the anti-bullying “It Gets Better” project, became a target for conservative websites like Fox News and World Net Daily after he spoke to the National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle earlier this month. Mormon Baptism Targets Anne Frank. Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose diary and death in a Nazi concentration camp made her a symbol of the Holocaust, was allegedly baptized posthumously Saturday by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to whistleblower Helen Radkey, a former member of the church.

Mormon Baptism Targets Anne Frank

The ritual was conducted in a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic, according to Radkey, a Salt Lake City researcher who investigates such incidents, which violate a 2010 pact between the Mormon Church and Jewish leaders. Radkey said she discovered that Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank, who died at Bergen Belsen death camp in 1945 at age 15, was baptized by proxy on Saturday. Mormons have submitted versions of her name at least a dozen times for proxy rites and carried out the ritual at least nine times from 1989 to 1999, according to Radkey. The Romney campaign has previously refused to comment and referred The Huffington Post to the LDS church. The Bible Belt's Love Affair With (Gay and Straight) Porn. March 13, 2012 | Like this article?

The Bible Belt's Love Affair With (Gay and Straight) Porn

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The adult entertainment industry has long been one of the favorite whipping boys of social conservatives, who have argued that porn and other forms of adult entertainment (including strip clubs, swing clubs, phone sex and BDSM) are incompatible with the moral values of the Heartland and the Bible Belt. Porn, social conservatives claim, is for “godless liberals” in San Francisco, Greenwich Village and West Hollywood, not right-of-center voters in Republican-dominated “red states.” GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have not only been playing the abortion and gay marriage cards—they have also assured the Christian Right organization Morality in Media (MIM) that they would be tough on porn if elected president. Meanwhile, in Laurens County, South Carolina, the local Republican Party is asking possible candidates to swear off all porn consumption. Bible Belt Loves Porn. Jon Meacham on Why We Question God.

At Easter 1966, millions of Americans picked up what would become one of the most notable magazine covers in the history of the genre: TIME’s stark question asking “Is God Dead?”

Jon Meacham on Why We Question God

In retrospect, the cover—and the much-less-remembered actual piece that ran with it—represented a mainstreaming of the spirit of dissent and debate that characterized the era. The cover was back in the news last week with word that the main theologian profiled in the piece, William Hamilton, had died. Hamilton was 87; at the time of the 1966 article, he was a professor at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. (MORE: From the Archives: Is God Dead?) Hamilton was no militant atheist. The questions with which he grappled were eternal, essential, and are with us still: how does a culture that tends to be religious continue to hold to a belief in an all-powerful, all-loving divinity beyond time and space given the evidence of science and of experience?