Tag: Jim Daly
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Focus on the Family responds after SPLC adds it to hate group list
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Initial reaction after finding out that Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate and anti-government extremist” groups for the first time was a tongue-in-cheek, “What took them so long?” “Since Focus’ inception 48 years ago in 1977,…
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Wide rift on Christian views of LGBTQ community continues
As Congress decided last week to codify federal protection of same-sex marriage, a high wall continues to divide the debate on religion and LGBTQ issues. Some Christians consider same-sex relationships and gender fluidity to be sinful and contrary to biblical teachings. Other Christians affirm LGBTQ distinctions and support same-sex unions and ordination of gay and…
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Community response to Club Q shooting could help Colorado Springs shed 30-year-old anti-gay image
Last weekend’s tragedy at Club Q, when an attacker killed two bartenders and three customers and shot 17 others inside the nightclub before two patrons intervened, in several ways united what some view as a divided community. Differences on religion, politics and sexual orientation and identity seemingly were set aside as grief took over, and…
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Abortion foes gear up for potential overturning of Roe v. Wade
This is the 49th year for people who oppose abortion to gather for rallies and marches recognizing the January anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion in all states. It’s a pivotal time, anti-abortion advocates say, with the possibility of the nation’s highest court overturning Roe v. Wade this year and…