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• Lawsuit Raises Questions About ‘That’s So Gay’ Putdown
  When a few classmates razzed Rebeka Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, “Do you have 10 moms?” she shot back: “That’s so gay.” Those three words landed the high school freshman in the principal’s office and resulted in a lawsuit that raises this question: When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?

Certainly it raises that question. But doesn’t it also raise the anti-religion question? After all, these girls were asking a question based on a religious stereotype (regardless of Mormonism’s history, polygamy is not allowed today).

• ACLJ: Athiests have had “free pass” for too long
  “The Supreme Court should leave the faith-based initiative alone and focus on removing the special privileges afforded to atheists and others who are antagonistic to religion,” Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center For Law and Justice, said in a press release.
• Anti-Catholic play portrays Pope as heroin addict
  “We’re trying to confront head-on the issues you see in today’s newspapers, but this play asks us to look at them in a different and outrageous way in order to understand why they’re continually criminalized,” Director Robert Rosen said. “I think many people misinterpret the play as telling it the only way it’s supposed to be.”
• Trans Fat removed from Girl Scout Cookies
  The Girl Scouts have marked their 90th year in the cookie business by getting most of the artificial fat out of all varieties of their iconic treats, which had been under attack by a few health-focused consumer groups.
• Catholic Hospital in Canada could lose funding
  Times have changed and hospitals should no longer be administered by church organizations, said a retired family doctor.
• Archaeologists, not Christians, split on Jesus’ tomb (but most reject it)
  The archaeological community is split on whether the names carved on the boxes actually refer to Jesus of Nazareth and his family. But the film’s archaeological merits and Cameron’s efforts at profitability aside, reactions to the project offer an interesting view into the theological complexities that exist across the spectrum of Christianity.

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