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POPSPope Benedict opens new front in battle for the soul of two churches The pope's offer to Church of England members to switch to the Vatican was ill thought-out and could signal a struggle for the soul of both churches Over the centuries, the great church councils of Christian history have normally been held in magnificent echoing basilicas and stately palaces – but the church moves with the times. In 2003 a luxury hotel in Dallas, self-proclaimed as the largest in Texas (now that's big), hosted a gathering of very angry conservative American Anglicans, determined to do something about the consecration of a gay man, Gene Robinson, as a bishop of the US Episcopal church, sister church to the Church of England.
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POPSTomorrow the responsibility for evolution may rest on our own shoulders Our Post-Darwinian Future; Pluripotent stem cells, gene targeting, and artificial chromosomes could leapfrog over evolution and let us take control of our genome, maybe even turn ourselves into a whole new species. “There is no scientific basis for thinking that we couldn’t,” Silver says. “There’s nothing really special about the human genome. There’s nothing that says this is the end.” more from the article: "Who should have the final say on when and how the human genome should be changed? On the other hand, if technology can enable us to eliminate disease and disabilities from our children or insert genes that might make them smarter or better looking, why wouldn’t we use it?"
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POPSThe Inaugural Prayer has become less inclusive '...He chose Rick Warren, who opposes gay marriage, and then added Gene Robinson, the gay Episcopal bishop from New Hampshire, to pray at a morning service. He's also reportedly going to have a full range of faiths -- including Muslims and Jews -- at the prayer service the next day. But at the high-profile, official event -- the swearing in -- there will be just Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery, both Protestants.>
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POPSGay bishop to kick off Inauguration events It doesn't totally erase the fact that Rick Warren will be doing the invocation and the actual inauguration, but this is at least an important acknowledgment of the new president's support of the LGBT community.
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POPSObama Invites Gene Robinson to do the Prayer Atheists remain uninvited.Inuaguration plans ,he wants the prayer to be for all people.Indiginous Australians and the first Aboriginal priestess is joining hundreds of Australians to stand in solidarity with America ,tickets are hard to come by here.
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POPSObama-ville: Grammy-Style Inauguration I guess the hip-hop rappers will have to wait for the White House Easter-Egg party. Corrupt from top to bottom, beginning to end. Barack Hussein Obama's junta gets off to a great start.
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POPSGay Bishop to be involved in inauguration festivites This looks to be an ok compromise. We knew Obama was not going to remove Warren as the invocationist at the inauguration proper, but I am glad they have found a way to acknowledge the hurt his selection has caused the gay community.
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POPSThe Startle Reflex: Key to Your Politics "Researchers shied away from using labels such as conservative and liberal in their study, but they concede that volunteers who registered a heightened sense of threat also tended to subscribe to conservative attitudes. "It's not that conservatives are 'fraidy-cats," says Kevin Smith, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and one of the study's co-authors. "It's that people who support socially protective policies — which, yes, can be interpreted as people taking a conservative position on those policies — are more sensitive to environmental threat."
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POPSHomosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors “Overall, genetics accounted for around 35 per cent of the differences between men in homosexual behavior and other individual-specific environmental factors (that is, not societal attitudes, family or parenting which are shared by twins) accounted for around 64 per cent. In other words, men become gay or straight because of different developmental pathways, not just one pathway.” For women, genetics explained roughly 18 per cent of the variation in same-sex behavior, non-shared environment roughly 64 per cent and shared factors, or the family environment, explained 16 per cent. The study shows that genetic influences are important but modest, and that non-shared environmental factors, which may include factors operating during fetal development, dominate.
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POPSHomosexuality Turned On and Off In Testing Smell is the way we find our match. Thus is already a proven theory. This is what drives the fragrance industry. I've heard that you are here because your mother liked the way your father smelled. So why not the same with homosexuals. Attraction is attraction ... no matter what the sexual preference. Pheromones, and how our brains perceive them, are the key to this attraction.
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POPSChurch Divide Over Gays
Anyone on CM who follows me knows I am quite passionate about this particular subject. Making the biblical case against homosexuality is, in my opinion, and many respected biblical scholars, hard to prove. Indeed, for all the huffing and puffin of born-again Christians, it is significant that in all His public denunciations Jesus Christ never ONCE mentioned homosexuality. In fact, He didn't say ONE word about it. In the end, for a person of faith, zeroing in on one or several passages of the Bible for clues on how to deal with homosexuality is the wrong approach. But let's discuss what Jesus did say. He had plenty to say about divorce, and in no uncertain terms. Except for marital unfaithfulness, he said it was a sin to divorce--and remarry. It seems pretty clear to me that anyone who would zero on passages of the Bible which condemn homosexuality and ignore those that condemn divorce are people who find it very convenient to point out those sins they are not guilty of.
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POPSPriests defect to Anglican church Even theological "authorities" on god cannot come to terms about "the rules" and agree upon interpretation. If you cannot even agree about the demands of god within your own house how can you even pretend to have any authority to describe god and interpret your own scriptures to others? I also notice the worry over finances as interesting. I see this as yet one more bit of proof of the commercialization of religion. Seems to me that with church organizations acting like businesses then they should be taxed like them.
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