Religion

The religious faith of the presidential candidates has played a smaller role to date in the 2012 campaign than in others in recent times, perhaps because of both camps' focus on the country's parlous economic recovery. But in answering identical
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By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor. (CNN) – Both Todd Akin's claim that women's bodies can prevent contraception in cases of “legitimate rape” and the GOP's newly-adopted platform language calling for a constitutional ban on abortion have provoked
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I need to say something to the employees in my small business about everyone's not-favorite topic: religion in the workplace. We've had a few incidents and I've been asked to address what's OK and not OK to talk about here at work. I don't want people
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Liberty holds convocation three times a week, giving students the chance to hear from religious figures, politicians and others while worshipping together at the Christian school founded by the late Jerry Falwell. The school says the weekly meetings
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Two of the nation's predominant conservative Christian advocacy groups have released a report documenting the growing hostility toward religious liberty in the United States. In The Survey of Religious Hostility in America, the Family Research Council
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I wish we could get over this religion thing in out society – but since we can't, let me tell you my experience of growing up in Salt Lake City. Mormonism is about exclusivity. From the moment your genitals are anointed, and you slip on garments in the
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An interview with President Obama and GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney about their faith offers a remarkably transparent view of the role religion plays in each man's life. In answering these questions and others, both candidates reaffirmed their
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Todd Akin, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Missouri taking questions on Aug. 10, 2012 after speaking at the Missouri Farm Bureau candidate interview and endorsement meeting in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP) A roar has erupted over the now-famous
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The document's section on religion echoes a memo Schwartz sent out to all Air Force leadership on religion last September, but adds the threat of penalty for violations. "COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY," the memo says in bold,
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What is the role of religion in this mess? Central. As the noted Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami observes, Syria's carnage is "a religious war in all but name." Anatol Lieven, chair of International Relations at King's College London, puts it more
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