I have an issue with one of Dr. Poppas "side" specialties, genital reconstruction. His "clitorectomy" procedures on infant girls has come under serious scrutiny of late, and has brought the phrase genitial mutilation to the halls of America's hostpitals, specifically the halls of Weill Cornell Medical College.
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Everything a child sees has an underlying message attached to it. So when my girls watched Saved for the first time, the message they walked away with let me know the mother-daughter relationship was strong enough to deal with whatever came our way....
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We enshrine the actions of Israel under the guise of "her right to defend herself". And while America sees Israel as a sister and a tie to the holy land itself, in reality our close ties with the middle-eastern democracy has earned it the right to abuse the people of Palestine.
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When Steve Harvey’s Act like a lady, think like a man came out last year, he was given deserved respect. He managed to stay grounded in the world of “the rich and the insane”. He has also managed to extol some wisdom to the masses of black women in search of a man with...
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Sarah Palin made a challenge to the people of America earlier this week. She said that we as Americans should "go back to our founding father's early documents and read what they have to say about this being a Judeo-Christian nation." So I did.
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As an Atheist, I find it necessary to remind myself of the bias I have toward religion. From where I sit, faith hampers the efforts by the rational to solve the problems that ail our country--our lack of REAL environmental reform being one of them.
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The volunteers went into Haiti with the idea that no matter what they did, they were right and good, because they were American--and, of course, because "they had God on their side." They were wrong.
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Going blue for the cause
(JERUSALEM) — Palestinian protesters have added a colorful twist to demonstrations against Israel’s separation barrier, painting themselves blue and posing as characters from the hit film “Avatar.” The demonstrators also donned long hair and loincloths Friday for the weekly protest against the barrier near the village of Bilin. (Read more)...
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American kids need honesty, and Planned Parenthood has known this all along. "Stand and Deliver" gives cases of young people all over the world effected by lack of resources and information regarding sex and reproductive health
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Don't get me wrong, I sincerely believe that those who attended The Verge Missional Community Convention with the hopes of creating ministers aren't looking for the worst eggs in the basket. But people are cunning; and the power of Christ is alluring.
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I confess that, as a critic of religion, I have paid too little attention to the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Frankly, it always felt unsportsmanlike to shoot so large and languorous a fish in so tiny a barrel. This scandal was one of the most spectacular "own goals" in the history of religion, and there seemed to be no need to deride faith at its most vulnerable and self-abased. Even in retrospect, it is easy to understand the impulse to avert one's eyes: Just imagine a pious mother and father sending their beloved child to the Church of a Thousand Hands for spiritual instruction, only to have him raped and terrified into silence by threats of hell. And then imagine this occurring to tens of thousands of children in our own time -- and to children beyond reckoning for over a thousand years. The spectacle of faith so utterly misplaced, and so fully betrayed, is simply too depressing to think about. continue reading....