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Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday
France: Report denounces 'destructive' polygamy According to a survey of French Muslims , 70% think polygamy should be banned in France. 22% think it should be permitted for those people whose religion allows it. -------- Sonia Imloul, the author of the report, estimates there are 40,000-50,000 polygamous families in France today, totaling at least 400,000 children. These children, she says, live in...
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Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | yesterday
From The Ottawa Citizen “When there is evidence of damage to women and hurt to children, we don’t have to tolerate it any more than we would tolerate suttee (a woman burning to death on her husband’s funeral pyre) or infant sacrifice.” Dr. Susan Stickevers, assistant clinical professor, State University, New York. I can only hope that [...]
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Whether it's cute young gentleman claiming to be from HRC begging for our credit card number outside a grocery store or a gal standing outside Starbucks hoping we'll sign her petition to legalize marijuana, there's a reason we don't sign our names to documents thrust in front of our faces: Because we never know what, [...]
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Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Good As You has posted the complete text of The Manhattan Declaration , the anti-gay screed issued today by a pan-denominational group of Christian clergy that vows disobedience of laws that protect gays from discrimination. Excerpt titles are mine. The Threat- We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right—and, more importantly,...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In a 4-3 decision, New York State's highest court rejected a Christian legal group's argument that same-sex marriage was akin to incest and polygamy, and should therefore be denied government benefits for spouses . But the court's narrow ruling did not address the broader question of whether same-sex marriages performed in other states should be recognized in New York. The minority vote came from...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's top court ruled Thursday that gay couples legally married elsewhere are entitled to some government benefits, boosting stalled legislative efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. The Court of Appeals rejected a Christian legal group's argument that same-sex marriage was akin to incest and polygamy, although the court avoided declaring that gay couples are entitled to...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In rejecting the Alliance Defense Fund's argument that same-sex marriage was the same thing as incest and polygamy, New York State's Court of Appeals all but declared gays are entitled to marriage rights. But they didn't go that far! CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Alliance Defense Fund, incest, Lawsuits, Marriage, New [...]
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The Reference & Education Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Frank Mar Africa is the birthplace of civilization. There have been so many societies that started on this continent, and some would dare to call it the birthplace of humanity. There are many different religions, different people, and so many cultures to take in. Weddings In any society, the wedding is extremely important. In every wedding there are several key elements involved. These are religion...
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ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Barry Farber, in his Nov. 18 WorldNetDaily column , fills his head with right-wing anti-Obama talking points, then hits "puree": Can you imagine any White House before this one bulging with lovers of Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, teenage homosexual activity, trees and animals having lawyers to sue humans, the ridiculing of free speech (from a stalwart of the FCC, no less), even polygamy? And then...
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Sand gets in my eyes (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
You might not know it by the looks of things, but the women of Saudi Arabia are doing better today than they were four years ago - or at least according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report put out by The World Economic Forum. Sure Saudi still ranks near the bottom of the list when it comes to the actual gab between men and women, and sure it has fallen from a ranking of “just” 114 out...
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lockandload (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
An interesting look into Islamic polygamy. This is the sort of thing we are importing into the West. Along with honor killings, female genital mutilation and forced marriages, we also import the whole of Islamic culture. How quaint, the guy just shows up with his new wife (second) and says, honey I have a surprise for you, meet the new girl. FROM KHALEEJTIMES.COM: Couple Fined for Assaulting Man’s...
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Times & Seasons (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
[See Part 1: Founding and Part 2: Flourishing] Any history of Nauvoo needs to give an account of the secret practice of polygamy between 1841 and 1846. In Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise, Glen Leonard does this in about twenty pages as part of Chapter 13, “Foes Within: The Church of [...]
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A woman convicted of being married to two men at the same time was sentenced to three months in jail today on a polygamy charge.
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. → Nineteen-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, was murdered Saturday in Puerto Rico. He was found "partially burned, decapitated, and dismembered, both arms, both legs, and the torso." According to iReporter Christopher Pagan, "The police agent that is handling this case said on a [...]
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