Bible banishment by court overturned

Key Quote: "The Quran is OK, and other kinds of religious texts; just not the Bible. The Bible alone is impermissible in the public school."

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Hate crimes legislation worries ex-gay speaker

Key Quote: "Every time now that I tell my testimony, talk about that change is possible, quote the science from the American Psychiatric Association, from the Human Genome Association, from professional organizations like N.A.R.T.H., I'm going to be persecuted. The way this legislation reads, I could be arrested; I could be sued; I could be charged with a hate crime."

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CANADA: Polygamy, other unions considered for expanded definition of 'family'

Key Quote: "Leckey also wonders whether polygamous unions should be considered civil marriages."

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CANADA: Ontario Human Rights Commission reviews Catholic policy on homosexuals

Key Quote: "The case is the latest involving the human rights tribunal to address whether Church doctrine should be subject to review by a secular body."

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Current US policies allow for compulsory abortion

Key Quote: "It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

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EU Diplomat wants international community to unilaterally establish 'Palestine'

Key Quote: "If the parties are not able to stick to [the timetable], then a solution backed by the international community should be put on the table."

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UK: Bible knowledge in decline

Key Quote: "Younger interviewees told researchers that the Bible was "old-fashioned", "irrelevant" and "for Dot Cottons" - in reference to the churchgoing character in the BBC One soap."

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Gore says climate change will bring global governance

Key Quote: "But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements."

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Harper responds to communion flap

Key Quote: "First of all, as a Christian, I've never refused communion when offered to me. That is actually pretty important to me "

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Afghan men "starving" for affection

Key Quote: "An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex."

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CANADA: BC Director pleads for late-term abortions

Key Quote: "According to some reports there are not many doctors willing to perform abortions late into pregnancy and late-term abortions appear to make up a small percentage of the number of abortions conducted in Canada."

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World's oldest Bible goes online

Key Quote: "Codex Sinaiticus, which loosely translated means "the book from Sinai," was discovered at the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai in Egypt by German Bible scholar Constantine Tischendorf in the mid-19th century."

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