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There's something about "marry"

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I’ve always had a soft spot in my cold black heart for The Washington Times’ refusal to run the term gay “marriage” without the scare quotes. That’s not the editorial call I would make were I in charge (and God help us all if that happens), but there’s something about the stubbornness to concede a point by accepting the usual terms of debate that I admire.


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The not-so-biblical biblical baccalaureate

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Carolyn Bower of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch masters understatement in her report on Lindbergh High School’s students holding separate baccalaureates this year. It seems one group didn’t want to hear anything from the Qur’an, while another group didn’t want to be preached at. But let’s turn the narrative over to Bower’s story, which is all the richer for its just-the-facts tone and lack of scare quotes:


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Interfaith in Iraq

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At a humble, green-domed mosque in the heart of Baghdad, a grizzled preacher named Sheik Ahmed Yassin stood his ground. Gunmen had killed five of his followers and kidnapped two of his sons. Threats had thinned his congregation, and the worshipers who still came rushed to their cars after prayers to avoid becoming the latest victims.


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Meet Phillip E. Johnson -- honest!

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I think it says something about Phillip E. Johnson that the best art I could find of the man using Google images was a cartoon on the cover of one of his own books. He is not a guy who warms up to camera lens (especially after two strokes) and he keeps trying to get the media to aim their coverage at the younger voices in the Intelligent Design movement.


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