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Philly Court Orders Four Christians to Trial December 15, 2004 Philly Court Orders Four Christians to Trial; Emergency Appeal Likely Attorney Contends Reading Scripture in Public Landed Them in Jail By Allie Martin December 15, 2004 (AgapePress) - An attorney with a pro-family ministry says a judge's decision on Tuesday, ordering four Christians in Philadelphia to stand trial for witnessing at a homosexual pride event, is comparable to the atmosphere of the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. In October, 11 Christians were arrested as they were praying and reading scripture during the annual "gay pride" event known...

Julie Bonczek was a young woman who happened upon something disturbing. According to a friend who knew her from 1985 through 1989, Julie had walked in on two men engaging in sex acts in the sanctuary of a parish in the Diocese of Toledo. She subsequently did some digging and found that there was a network of priests and laymen involved in ritualistic sexual abuse, homosexual activity and the occult. On January 5, 1993, Julie was found dead of gun shot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide. But her friend thinks she might have met with...

Thursday, December 9, 2004 BOSTON - David Brudnoy, the most recognized voice of Boston talk radio for more than a quarter of a century, died Thursday night at Massachusetts General Hospital, his radio station, WBZ-AM, reported. He was 64. Brudnoy, whose soothing voice could be heard every week night in 38 states and in Canada on WBZ since 1986, announced on air in September, 2003 that he was suffering from merkel cell carcinoma, a form of rare but treatable skin cancer. He had already lived with AIDS for more than a decade, beating a viral infection that nearly took his...

Seminary officials are refusing to attend a town hall meeting arranged by an Oakland city councilwoman to address neighbors' concerns about the sex offenders living there. The I-Team has an update to an investigation.

If you attend one of the daily services at St. Albert's seminary in the Rockridge neighborhood, you probably wouldn't expect to be sitting next to several sex offenders. But, that's often the case. The Dominican Order of Catholic Priests has decided to send its members who've abused children across the western United States to live at St. Albert's. Former seminarian: "I think it's embarrassing for the church, it's a very sad statement on what can happen when people abuse power, when they abuse authority." This former seminarian attended a meeting two years ago when St. Albert's officials announced sex offenders...

Heetderks is president of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, which officially formed in May from the former Dutch Reform Church, the Calvinist Reformist Church and the nation's small Lutheran Church. Dutch Protestant church leaders have tilted to more liberal views in recent decades in an attempt to keep pace with society. The new Protestant Church will grant 'blessings' to gay couples and permit women pastors, but will not force local congregations to accept them. ...Dutch Protestant church leaders have tilted to more liberal views in recent decades in an attempt to keep pace with society, according...

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/112204senWeds.htm (Boston, Massachusetts) Massachusetts state Sen. Jarrett Barrios has married his longtime partner, Doug Hattaway, a former spokesperson for Vice President Al Gore. The two were wed in a weekend ceremony at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts last May. (story) Barrios and Hattaway have been together for 10 years and have two children.

Another day, another Elton John outburst, this time directed at President Bush. In recent weeks, the Rocket Man has exploded at a variety of targets, including Taiwanese photgraphers and Madonna.Now's he's taken aim at the newly re-elected president, calling him 'the worst thing that has ever happened to America.''I've never lived in a time so vexing, John told the British magazine Time Out. 'I just wanna scream. Bush and this administration are the worst thing that's ever happened to America.John also blasts British Prime Minister Tony Blair, 'Im just as angry at Tony Blair. You lied to us Tony..It was...

Gay-Friendly U.S. Bishops Outed by Homosexual Activist 'Catholic' Group WASHINGTON, November 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Four of the most controversial left-leaning US Catholic Bishops have been praised by a homosexual activist group. Archbishop Harry Flynn (Minneapolis/St Paul, MN), Cardinal Roger Mahony (Los Angeles, CA), Bishop Mathew Clark (Rochester, NY) and Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton (Detroit) were named in a press release by the Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM). RSM is a group of homosexual activists which stages publicity stunts daring Catholic clergy to deny members communion. RSM members present themselves for communion while wearing a rainbow-colored sash indicating that they are...

HOW THE VOTE MOVED: Kerry won the center and the left. Over to Noam: Not only did Kerry win by an 86-13 margin among self-described liberals, he also won by a 55-45 margin among self-described moderates. So how'd Bush pull it off? He won 84-15 among self-described conservatives, and, more importantly, he made sure conservatives comprised a much bigger chunk of the electorate than they did in 2000. (Conservatives comprised about 34 percent of the electorate yesterday, versus 29 percent in 2000 -- a huge shift, raw numbers-wise.) Anyone anticipating a conciliatory second Bush term should stop and consider how...

In more than a dozen cases investigated by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer nationwide, priests accused of sexual abuse have also been accused of stealing from the church -- some were convicted and served jail time for stealing amounts upwards of $100,000. In other cases, the church either was not aware of the theft, or did not report it to the police, so the priests were not prosecuted. Many accusers have said the priests who abused them used money donated by parishioners to provide them with gifts and entertainment. They said they watched as their abusers counted the collection every week without...

(WARNING: includes excerpt from sexual abuse deposition transcript in which plaintiff’s attorney makes disturbing, graphic reference.) What is it that these bishops and cardinals actually do for their daily bread? Christ has said, in one of the lines from the Gospels that I believe in my heart, “Woe is to he who does harm to a child. It is better that he ties a millstone around his neck and jumps off a cliff.” And by failing to take an action, these regents are nothing more than stuffy accomplices in molesting children. Some have been personally involved in abuse. Others have...

Former Springfield Bishop Daniel Ryan, who resigned his office in October 1999, three years after Steve Brady, founder of Roman Catholic Faithful (RCF), reported him to be a homosexual predator, was allegedly the subject of a domestic battery investigation by Springfield police in early July. According to a Springfield Police Department report, dated July 5, 2004, the former bishop was accused of kicking a man he had befriended. According to Steve Brady, who spoke with Ryan’s neighbors about the incident, the man who made the complaint went to Ryan’s home early on the morning of July 5, to go to...

Italy's nominee to become the European Union's Justice and Home Affairs commissioner failed on Monday to win the backing of the European Parliament's Justice Committee, days after testifying that he considers homosexuality a sin. The panel narrowly failed to endorse Rocco Buttiglione, who is currently Italy's European Affairs minister, said Jean-Louis Bourlanges, chairman of the Justice Committee. The committee voted 27-26 not to recommend Buttiglione, officials said. The vote caused a political storm in Italy, with politicians on the right coming to Buttiglione's defense and many on the left attacking the government's choice of candidate. During a confirmation hearing last...

O'Reilly just said no WMDs in Iraq is the same situation as CBS coming up with forged memos. And that Michael Moore's reaction to WMDs is the same as the right-wings reaction forged memos. Time to out this creep for what he is. A self-indulgant phoney. I've never been so outraged in my entire life. You expect crap from the mainstream press, but the guy "looking out for you" is only looking out for Bill O'Reilly and how he can get elected to public office. What a disgrace.

With two months left in a term truncated by scandal, Gov. James E. McGreevey is planning his post-government future, hunting for office space in the friendly confines of Middlesex County and for a home along the Hudson River waterfront. === First lady Dina Matos McGreevey, meanwhile, has been house-hunting in Cranford and nearby towns, indicating the couple's four-year marriage is unlikely to survive the governor's bombshell announcement last month that he is gay and had an adulterous affair with a man. McGreevey, who set Nov. 15 as his resignation date, will be helped in his passage from public official to...

This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn. Take the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so damn deeply about the air and the soil and the water and the stupid little disposable animals on this silly spinning ball of expendable rock when the Second Coming is imminent and a blood-soaked fire-breathin' Jesus who looks remarkably like Mel Gibson will return very soon to smite the heathens and the gays and the vegetarians and the Francophiles, and who will rescue all those who worship patriarchy and...

Ex-McGreevey aide's credentials exaggerated - originally published 12/22/02The Israeli national's expertise was in public relations. TRENTON -- Despite his statements to the contrary, Gov. McGreevey, from the beginning, intended to make his now-departed Israeli adviser and friend, whose expertise was public relations, the state's point man on terrorism, documents obtained last week under the federal Freedom of Information Act show. Using the terrorism attacks of Sept. 11 to justify the hiring, the governor's chief lawyer wrote a letter to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on McGreevey's inauguration day, telling the federal agency that New Jersey wanted Cipel to coordinate...

The Diocese of Evansville temporarily has relieved a priest of his duties and sent him to counseling after he allegedly was caught viewing pornographic material. The Rev. William A. Traylor left a letter to be read to parishioners at St. Joseph and St. Theresa last weekend explaining he was seeking treatment. It said he had been viewing "inappropriate" Web sites and that the diocese had urged him to undergo an evaluation -- after which he could return to service. Suppose you're shifting some books on the dresser of your 13-year-old boy when out from between the pages of the Columbia...

St. Poelten. Public prosecutors have reopened investigations into the mysterious death of a trainee priest from the seminary in St. Poelten at the heart of a recent child porn scandal. The body of 53-year-old Ewald S. was recovered from the Old Danube lake in Vienna in October 2003. The dead man was a former student from the seminary in St. Poelten but at the time police excluded possible foul play and closed the file as a suicide case. The head of the seminary at the time Ulrich Kuechl spoke of an “accident.” The case was reopened in February as a...