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  • July 2008

    • Methodist Ministers Defy Ban on Marrying Gays

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 17, 08 11:02 AM CDT

      Methodist Ministers Defy Ban on Marrying Gays

      Methodist ministers in California are revolting against religious edicts that forbid them from performing same-sex marriages, the Los Angeles Times reports, in a struggle that many consider "the civil rights cause of their generation." Dozens of Methodist pastors have officiated at gay and lesbian weddings since they were legalized in California, and 82 retired ministers signed a statement offering to stand in for ministers who don't want to put their careers at risk. More »

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      California  • gay marriage  • wedding  • pastor  • minister

  • May 2008
  • March 2008

    • Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT

      Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor

      Barack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood how Wright could get “caught up in the emotion” of an extemporaneous sermon and warned against taking his comments out of context. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Mike Huckabee  • race  • Jeremiah Wright  • Jerry Falwell  • segregation  • pastor  • Joe Scarborough  • sermon

    • Obama Preacher's Words Keep Resurfacing

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 14, 08 11:59 AM CDT

      Obama Preacher's Words Keep Resurfacing

      In the latest campaign preacher flap, TV networks are airing clips from sermons in which the former pastor of Barack Obama's church condemns "racist" US society and compares the candidate's experiences to Jesus' struggles, the Guardian reports. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human," said the fiery pastor who presided over Obama's marriage, baptized his kids, and provided the title of his biography. He also once described the 9/11 attacks as "America's chickens coming home to roost." More »

    • Televangelist's Husband Admits Attacking Her

      newser  |  Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Mar 12, 08 2:40 AM CDT

      Televangelist's Husband Admits Attacking Her

      The husband of Pentecostal televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting her and was sentenced to three years probation. Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, admitted grabbing Bynum, throwing her down and kicking her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel in August, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.  Weeks apologized to his wife in court. More »

  • January 2008

    • Shunning Makes a Comeback in US Churches

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 20, 08 10:08 AM CST

      Shunning Makes a Comeback in US Churches

      In an effort to reclaim their churches' role as moral authority, many Protestant ministers have reinstated the all-but-lost practice of shunning unrepentant sinners from their congregations. And while nobody's yet had to pin a scarlet "A" to their Sunday best, the consequences of the puritanical revival have weighed heavy on some so-called sinners, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      megachurches  • confession  • pastor  • Protestants  • Baptists  • churchgoers  • moral authority

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