Thursday, February 28, 2019

Could Peace Cross Case Go Much Bigger and Decide the Fate of Many Religious Displays?

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On Wednesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in a religious liberty case that was over just one cross dominating a World War I memorial on government land in Bladensburg, Maryland since 1925. But lawyers defending the Peace Cross urged the justices use this opportunity to come up with a simpler, clearer way to decide these cases involving government and religious displays, symbols or actions.

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'Advancing His Kingdom': Teen Entrepreneur Tithes $7k After Earning $35,000 in Just Four Days

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A teenager from Idaho has given away a staggering $7,000 after managing to make five times that amount in just four days. David Holston, 18, a young entrepreneur who runs his landscaping business out of Coeur d’Alene, managed to make the enormous amount of money while he was in Seattle just after the city got doused with a historic snowfall of up to 10 inches.

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PayPal Censoring Groups With Help from Leftist, Anti-Christian SPLC

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The CEO of PayPal has revealed the multi-billion dollar service partners with the leftist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to decide who should be blacklisted from their company. Using "company corporate values" as their defense, PayPal has taken intentional steps to deny access to conservatives.

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Reactions to United Methodist Church's Vote Against Recognizing Gay Marriage Are Pouring In

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The United States’ second-largest Protestant denomination, the United Methodist Church, voted Tuesday to strengthen its embrace of marriage between one man and one woman, laid out in the church’s so-called “Traditional Plan.” In an unexpected turn, the UMC’s delegates decided to reject the “One Church Plan,” which would have permitted individual church leaders and regional annual conference officials to decide whether to ordain and marry LGBTQ members.

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Fire at Birmingham tyre centre

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Residents have been told to keep their windows and doors shut due to a tyre plant fire in Birmingham.

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What is BritBox?

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The new streaming service is set to arrive in the UK, but what is it?

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Blue Jays

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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United Methodist Delegates Reject Recognizing Gay Marriage

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The United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference voted Tuesday to strengthen the faith’s divisive bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.

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Fed’s Powell Predicts Solid but Slower Growth in 2019

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress on Tuesday the U.S. economy should keep expanding at a solid, though somewhat slower pace this year. But he warned of growing risks, including a global slowdown, volatile financial markets and uncertainty about U.S. trade policy.

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PayPal Censoring Groups With Help from Leftist, Anti-Christian SPLC

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The CEO of PayPal has revealed the multi-billion dollar service partners with the leftist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to decide who should be blacklisted from their company. Using "company corporate values" as their defense, PayPal has taken intentional steps to deny access to conservatives.

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Trump Was Born on a 'Blood Moon' - Australian Pastor Points to Prophecy Being Fulfilled

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Australian Pastor Steve Cioccolanti says President Donald Trump was born in 1946 during a blood moon. And the latest blood moon on Jan. 20-21, 2019, was the midpoint of Trump's first term in office. Coincidence? Cioccolanti says there's a higher power at work.

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