Today's Cultural Warfare Update

North Carolina pastor calls for a rethinking of Biblical condemnations of homosexuality (courtesy rosepurr);

Associated Press: RU-486 ruled out as cause in woman's death;

FotF wants a grand jury to investigate a doctor who provides abortion services after a patient dies under his care; the state medical board has cleared him of wrongdoing, but they want a criminal probe;

FotF reports more on the Episcopal church issues over the American gay bishop;

FotF on Gospel of Judas; authentic, but "secret conversations that were preserved by small, elitist sects" which were "cultic" in nature;

There's no story associated with it, but Concerned Women for America has a little note up about their meeting at the White House with the fundamentalist Christian Medical Association's Jonathan Imbody on "life issues";

CWA's Robert Knight testimony before the Maryland House Judiciary Committee in support of their anti-marriage amendment attempt; raises the usual claim that marriage rights "destroyed marriage" in Scandinavian countries (it actually had no effect at all), condemns studies showing similar outcomes for children raised in lesbian and gay families as heterosexual; brings up the "gay bowel syndrome" nonsense; and so on;

CWA president Wendy Wright on a board declaring Social Security the "most harmful" government programme in existence; I list it here mostly because the CWA main website linked to it;

LifeNews: "Embryonic Stem Cell Research Scientists Exploit Paralysis for False Hopes";

The Patriot News condemns RU-486, demands it be taken off the market;

Semi-regular CWA wonk Warren Throckmorton defends(!) GLSEN/CEAI guidelines on GBLT issues in schools;

National Right to Life committee member - the American Family Association describes him as a "researcher" - claims RU-486 numbers are bad, calls for it to be taken off the market;

Baptist Press alarm: Supreme Court in Israel to hear marriage-rights case in May; issues is whether Israelis married in Canada can have their marriages recognised by Israel upon their return;

Christian Council of Korea files lawsuit seeking to ban The DaVinci Code;

Baptist Press, other Creationists declare yet another intermediate form fossil not to count; this is the problem with trying to argue with creationists with data, particularly on the so-called "missing link" issue; they either declare your example doesn't count, or they play the fallacy of the beard at you and demand ever finer gradients of intermediate forms;

Baptist Press declares the recently discovered "Gospel of Judas" text to be "heresy and unreliable history";

Canada Family Action Coalition reprints Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe column "Adoption, Kids and the Gay Agenda," condemning GBLT groups for not signing on to a request by Catholic Charities to let Catholic Charities discrimination against lesbian and gay families in adoption proceedings;

Faith and Freedom Network condemns "Gospel of Judas" as heresy, attacks media for reporting it so widely as an attack on "traditional Biblical beliefs of Christianity";

Faith and Freedom Network "Talking Points" set eight against marriage rights.

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