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The 2012 Draft Sarah Committee has produced three videos titled “Summoned” calling for Gov. Palin to run for President in 2012. The videos produced by Randy Highsmith, Chairman 2012 Draft Sarah Committee, and Ron Devito, Publisher, US for Palin, come in 30- and 60-second TV ad spots and 2:51 version

She faces death penalty if found guilty LAHORE, PAKISTAN - A Pakistani court has fixed May 26, 2010 as the date of to hear the case of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy. If found guilty she faces the death sentence. Martha Bibi, 45, married with three sons and three daughters, was first accused of the blasphemy charge on January 22, 2007 after she was arrested on that date under a blasphemy case registered on the application of a local Muslim. Bibi, who used to live in the village of Kot Nanak Singh, was accused if derogatory remarks against the...

An Indonesian court has jailed a 70-year-old man who claimed to have been to heaven twice and declared himself a prophet, a report has said. Bakri Abdullah was arrested in October last year and charged under the country's blasphemy law. He reportedly told his small group of followers that he had ascended from a mountain into heaven in 1975 and again in 1997, according to Detikcom news website. His claims eventually angered his neighbours on the Muslim island of Lombok, who reported him to police. The sentence handed down Thursday of one year in jail was six months lighter than...

Comedy Central might censor every image of the Prophet Muhammad on "South Park," yet the network is developing a whole animated series around Jesus Christ. Jesus-south-park As part of the network's upfront presentation to advertisers (full slate here), the network is set to announce "JC," a half-hour show about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father" and live a regular life in New York City. In the show, God is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ, "the ultimate fish out of water," tries to adjust to life in the big city. "In general,...

The gay Jesus play is back on! After drawing much scrutinty when it was set to play at Tarleton State University, where it was eventually canceled, the play has found a new home at a theater in Fort Worth, the Dallas Morning News reports. Though a specific date for the show has not been finalized, John Jordan Otte's production of Corpus Christi is expected to debut at the 250-seat Rose Marine Theater in May. Adam Adolfo, executive director of the theater, is offering the theater to the students free of charge, and told the Morning News that it was important...

And, the play is off again. We really shouldn't be surprised at this point, but a controversial play that depicts Jesus Christ as a gay man is once again canceled. We reported Thursday that the play, Corpus Christi, was back on and was going to be held on a Fort Worth stage. The play had originally been scheduled to play at Stephenville's Tarleton State University, where student director John Jordan Otte attends school. The school later rescheduled and then canceled the play over safety concerns. On Thursday, Adam Adolfo, executive director of the Rose Marine Theater, offered the theater free...

Note: The following text is a quote: Friday, April 2, 2010 Pakistani Christian woman sent to jail with young son for committing ‘blasphemy’ By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- In what many Pakistan Christians sees as yet another abuse of the country's controversial blasphemy laws, Rubina Amjad, a Pakistan Christian mother of three has been charged under Pakistan’s disputed blasphemy laws and sent to jail with her young son, ANS has learned. Mr. Nasir Saeed, Director of Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), UK told our ANS correspondent that Rubina, a resident of...

President Obama was dubbed not just “the commander-in-chief” as he celebrated Easter Sunday, but “our black president,” and “anointed,” too. Per the pool report, Obama, with First Lady Michelle, children Sasha and Malia and mother-in-law Marian Robinson, attended holiday services at Washington’s Allen Chapel AME Church, where the reception was considerably more boisterous than his appearance at St. John’s Church near the White House where he marked the holiday last year. Various speakers in the historically black church — with roots pre-dating the Civil War — praised Obama and his family, but the Rev. Michael Bell, pastor of the church,...

Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. plans to perform Corpus Christi on April 8-10. The same blasphemous play, which portrays Our Lord and the Apostles as homosexuals, was canceled last week at Tarleton State University in Texas due to large peaceful protests. Sign the Protest. Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. plans to perform Corpus Christi on April 8-10 in its Andrew Foster Auditorium. The same blasphemous play, which portrays Our Lord and the Apostles as homosexuals, was canceled last week at Tarleton State University in Texas due to large peaceful protests. "No. Blasphemy does not qualify as free speech," said TFP...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- It's Passover in Utah, with an LDS twist. On Monday evening, Jews around the world began the holiday with a Seder, the traditional meal during which the biblical story of the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt is retold. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be holding one of their own this week. Avraham Gileadi, a member of the LDS Church who is also a Hebrew scholar, will direct "A Passover for Joseph and Judah" at Provo's Scenic View Academy on Friday. Gileadi, 69, is affiliated with the Seder's sponsor, The Hebraeus...

  Gospel Library  Ensign » 1985 » July   The Restoration of Priesthood Keys on Easter 1836,Part 2: Symbolism of Passover and of Elijah’s Return John P. Pratt, “The Restoration of Priesthood Keys on Easter 1836, Part 2: Symbolism of Passover and of Elijah’s Return,” Ensign, Jul 1985, 55On Easter Sunday, 3 April 1836, the Savior, Moses, Elias, and Elijah appeared in succession in the Kirtland Temple and restored priesthood keys required for the dispensation of the fulness of times. (See D&C 110.) Elijah’s coming had been prophesied more than twenty-two centuries earlier by Malachi. (See Mal. 4:5; D&C 110:14.)This article reviews the...

Some months ago an American philosopher explained to a highly sophisticated audience in Britain what, in his opinion, was wrong, indeed fatally wrong, with the standard neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution. He made it crystal clear that his criticism was not inspired by creationism, intelligent design or any remotely religious motivation. A senior gentleman in the audience erupted, in indignation: ‘You should not say such things, you should not write such things! The creationists will treasure them and use them against science.’ The lecturer politely asked: ‘Even if they are true?’ To which the instant and vibrant retort was: ‘Especially...

Mr. Saeed cited the case of Qamar David, who was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of sending insulting text messages from his mobile phone. He said that the Christian husband and wife, Ruqiya and Munir Masih, were this month sentenced to 25 years in prison for supposedly touching the Koran, Muslim holy book, with unwashed hands, leaving their six children with an uncertain future in a country that provides next to no social welfare. "It is the first time a husband and wife have been sentenced to prison for blasphemy at the same time", said Mr....

JESUS was GAY - according to the gospel of SIR ELTON JOHN. The singer makes his controversial claim about the Lord in a new US interview that will enrage America's bible belt. Elton, 62, declares as he pours out his heart to a magazine: "I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems." He adds: "Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East - you're as good as dead." He goes on in the same interview to describe how...

Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World' by Dotson Rader In this week's issue of PARADE, Elton John talks to Dotson Rader about the transition from his raucous rock-star years to becoming a committed philanthropist. In the web exclusive below, the music legend opens up about the life-threatening downside of fame, his partner David Furnish and his take on Jesus. Making early mistakes in love. "I'd always choose someone younger. I wanted to smother them with love. I'd take them around the world, try to educate them. One after another they got a Cartier watch, a Versace...

So I was thinking recently about the RINOs infesting the GOP and it hit me that -despite being one of the greatest presidents in the 20th century- there are certain elements during Reagan's terms that might make him a RINO. Make no mistake though, these are just that: ELEMENTS, the majority of his accomplishments were grand. Illegal Mexican ImmigrantsOne of Reagan's downfalls was not clamping down on illegal immigration. It's exemplified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act which gave Amnesty for illegals instead of trying to deport them. The act also followed on the leftist premise of a "pathway...

An Irish atheist group has published a series of quotations on religion in an attempt to challenge a blasphemy law that went into effect on New Year's Day. The 25 "blasphemous" quotations include the words of Jesus, Mohammed, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie and Bjork. Atheist Ireland published the list on its Web site Friday. It says it aims to challenge the law, which makes blasphemy a crime punishable by a €25,000-($35,800) fine. "Despite these quotes being abusive and insulting in relation to matters held sacred by various religions, we unreservedly support the right of these people to have published or...

An editorial in a Danish newspaper, citing both foreign and domestic policies pursued by President Barack Obama, is deifying the American political leader. "Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game," opined the unsigned editorial yesterday in Politiken, which boasts of being Denmark's largest newspaper, in publication since 1884. The English translation is provided online by Julian Isherwood. It continued, "But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today's domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good...

Whoa boy! Somebody in Denmark is gonna have some 'splainin to do to St. Peter one day. Jim Geraghty reports on an editorial in a Danish newspaper says that Obama is greater than Jesus. This is not a paraphrase folks, this is what they said. From the start, Obama’s critics have claimed that his supporters have idolised him as a saviour, thus attempting to dismantle the concrete hope that Obama has represented for most Americans. The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama – which is something that the critics developed themselves – would be comical, blasphemous,...

There is a charge among some left-leaning professed Christians that conservative social policies neglect Christ's commission to minister to the poor. Does the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25 imply Christians should petition their government to enforce "redistributive justice?" Jack Clark thinks so. We excerpt Clark's podcast, Blast the Right, and consider his "equivalent alternative solutions challenge;" it is fine to oppose government programs which provide for the poor, Clark says, but only if you can present an equivalent alternative solution which will help just as many people, in the just the same way, just as...