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Dobson's Successor Gives Mega-Ministry New Focus

By Andrea StoneApr 24th 2010 – 5:20PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS (April 24) -- Jim Daly is certain there is "a right way and a wrong way" to live one's life, and it's all about Jesus Christ and a literal reading of the Bible. But the new leader of the evangelical ministry Focus on the Family isn't going to get in your face if you disagree. At a time when the...

Gay-Marriage Backers Lose Bid for Spot on Calif. Ballot

By Scott MartelleApr 12th 2010 – 6:47PM
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LOS ANGELES (April 12) -- Gay-rights advocates' push to qualify a November ballot initiative legalizing same-sex marriage in California has fallen short, as it failed to gather the 700,000 petition signatures required by today's deadline. The group Restore Equality 2010 had sought to repeal California's controversial...

$2.6 Trillion Worth of Disasters

By Zubin JelvehDec 31st 2009 – 5:33PM
AP

AP

(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely like to forget. This was a decade the started with a recession, terrorist attacks and two wars, then ended with a more severe...

Opinion: A Practical Guide to the Next Decade

By David FaginDec 31st 2009 – 5:14AM
Stephen Chernin, AP

Stephen Chernin, AP

(Dec. 31) – So, we've said our goodbyes to the first decade of the 21st century. One that fell far short of almost everyone's predictions. Instead of peace, prosperity and flying cars, we have two wars, a global economy in tatters and cars that not only can't fly, but can't run on wind power, either. Perhaps the...

Opinion: New Approach Needed to Advance Gay Rights

Dec 3rd 2009 – 5:14PM

(Dec. 3) - In the immediate aftermath of the passage of California's Proposition 8 last fall -- where voters amended the state's constitution to recognize only marriages between one man and one woman -- there was a lot of finger-pointing in the gay community, but no bloodletting. Leaders of all the major gay organizations...

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