Category: Politics
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Justification for Favoring the Death Penalty and Being Pro Life
Read a couple of interesting articles last week in the Washington Post. Both discuss the death penalty. The first article, “Like Rick Perry, most ‘pro-life’ Americans OK with death penalty” looks at how politically conservative Americans are overwhelmingly pro-life, and also, overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment. The second article, titled “American Christians and the…
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Psychologist compares Tea Partiers to addicts
Yesterday on MSNBC, Martin Bashir interviewed psychologist Stanton Peele. The conversation included discussion around whether or not people in the Tea Party Moveement have a similar outlook as drug addicts.
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Atheists sue governor over prayer meeting
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) is suing Texas governor Rick Perry, and asking courts to keep Perry from attending a prayer event in Houston next month. Perry has publicly advocated for this event and encouraged people to participate in the event dedicated to prayer and fasting. FFRF argues that the head of a state…
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Could Mitt Romney be fulfilling a Mormon prophecy to take over the country?
Review of “Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters” Part II: Mormon prophecies Tricia Erickson argues throughout the first section of her book “Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters” why the American people should not want a Mormon president. In the seventh chapter, she kicked it up a notch and her rhetoric took on a much…
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Should we elect a Mormon president? One writer says NO (Part I)
Review of “Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters” Part I: Influence of the church on daily life Conservative strategist Tricia Erickson does not believe that the American people should elect a Mormon president, and by extension, Mitt Romney. She makes this emphatically clear in her new book: “Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters?” She puts…
Josh Benner 