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		<title>National Park Service gagged from giving Grand Canyon&#8217;s geological age</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/264/national-park-service-gagged-from-giving-grand-canyons-geological-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m usually the type who&#8217;s &#8220;live and let live&#8221; when it comes to the role of religion in society&#8211;but I do get upset when religious belief tries to take the place of rational science. Apparently there is a brouhaha brewing over the Grand Canyon involving what the National Park Service can say as to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP, religious right claw each other down over imminent electoral rout</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/233/gop-religious-right-claw-each-other-down-over-imminent-electoral-rout/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/233/gop-religious-right-claw-each-other-down-over-imminent-electoral-rout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Parties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2006-election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dick-armey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a battle royale going on between former Majority Leader Dick Armey and James Dobson of Focus on the Family, a radical right group. In last Sunday&#8217;s edition of the Washington Post, Armey argued that Republicans face an electoral rout because they abandoned the principles of limited government and became the party of huge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In wayward preacher, GOP finds its own embarrassing &#8220;Kerry moment&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/232/in-wayward-preacher-gop-finds-its-own-embarrassing-kerry-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Ted Haggard stepped down as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after revelations surfaced that he has repeatedly paid for gay sex and has used illegal metamphetamines. The burgeoning scandal involving the preacher, a vociferous opponent of gay marriage, comes at a terrible time for the GOP. The problem can be summarized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush sees religious &#8220;Third Awakening&#8221; in world of good vs. evil</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/181/bush-sees-religious-third-awakening-in-world-of-good-vs-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/181/bush-sees-religious-third-awakening-in-world-of-good-vs-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words that come out of Bush&#8217;s mouth become more chilling by the day. He recently told a group of conservative journalists that he senses a &#8220;Third Awakening&#8221; of religious devotion and open expressions of faith in the US akin to similar periods in the 18th and 19th centuries. He also noted how these people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top ten reasons why liberals are better than conservatives</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/159/top-ten-reasons-why-liberals-are-better-than-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/159/top-ten-reasons-why-liberals-are-better-than-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I read an excellent article that made the argument that conservatives had successfully made a bad word out of the term &#8220;liberal&#8221; over the course of the past thirty-plus years&#8211;despite the fact that liberalism was responsible for many of our societal advances in the mid-20th century. The article argued that it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FL-Sen: Katherine Harris too religious for Religious Right</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/156/fl-sen-katherine-harris-too-religious-for-religious-right/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/156/fl-sen-katherine-harris-too-religious-for-religious-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[katherine-harris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Republican Senate candidate Katherine Harris&#8211;the Secretary of State that certified the state for Bush in the 2000 debacle&#8211;is embarrassing religious conservatives&#8230;for being too religious: &#8220;If you&#8217;re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin&#8230;we have to have the faithful in government [because that is God's will. Separating religion and politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas expels creationists, chooses Darwin over Aquinas</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/94/kansas-expels-creationists-chooses-darwin-over-aquinas/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/94/kansas-expels-creationists-chooses-darwin-over-aquinas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aquinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[argument-from-design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kansas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of conservative creationists lost control of the Kansas State Board of Education today in favor of members favoring the teaching of evolution in classrooms. The creationists advocating the theory of &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; had sought to weaken or eliminate references to evolution in class, with one candidate calling the theory of evolution &#8220;an age-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Religious Left</title>
		<link>http://centerblue.org/29/the-religious-left/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/29/the-religious-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion is taking a left turn. According to that cbsnews.com article, the National Council of Churches represents about 50 million religious people, most of whom are mainline Protestants. Dr. Bob Edgar, the General Secretary of that organization calls his movement the &#8220;center-left&#8221; (which coincides neatly with the mission of this blog.) He is seeking to [...]]]></description>
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