Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSYes, it’s disappointing to note the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey this past weekend, but the bottom line remains the same – people may be lured into cheap (and in this case, degrading) imitations of love, but they’re still looking for the real thing.
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In a move that is certain to bring even more heartache to millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., a federal judge halted President Obama’s deportation amnesty program just a day before it was to begin, ruling that the president overstepped his authority in granting them amnesty.
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A Jewish journalist, walking around Paris in traditional garb, captured shocking evidence that there is a definite anti-Semitic dark side to the famous “City of Lights”.
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“If my right hand, symbolically speaking,
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on the death penalty in that state, provoking a new debate on the subject of capital punishment.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi responded with swift and deadly force against IS militants in Libya after the release of a gruesome video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christian prisoners.
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“I used to approach Jesus frequently saying,
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“Love is the key to the mystery. Love
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As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage, 11 lawmakers have re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act which will protect states from any efforts by the federal government to impose a definition of marriage that is not supported by democratically-elected state legislatures.
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The fifth annual “Index of Family Belonging and Rejection”, which tracks the number of 15 to 17 year-olds who grow up with married biological parents, has found record numbers of teens living in broken families.
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