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\u201cThese children have faces, they have names<\/a>, they have moms and dads, and they were all under five years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWait for it. \u2026 Wait for it. \u2026 Tee-hee!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about your right as a gay person to dignity. It\u2019s about our right to declare that you aren\u2019t worthy of it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s someone whose career was derailed for being blasphemous. Well, as it turns out, she was right<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c An elderly lifelong bachelor<\/a> who lives with hundreds of other old, single men in a stylish European capital city has given strict orders to the world\u2019s women and married heterosexual couples on the allowable methods for human impregnation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c It\u2019s long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy<\/a>, instead of using basic aspects of women\u2019s health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c Many Christian laypeople remain confused<\/a> because the voices arguing that biblical orthodoxy and evolution are mutually exclusive are louder and more prominent than any others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo truly support religious liberty, one must never forget that what one person calls heresy, another simply calls choice<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s when I decided I\u2019m going to be totally independent, energy-wise<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh Lord I want to be in that number, When the Saints go marching in<\/a>.\u201d (via<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody could understand, though, what happened next<\/a>, why the Washington coach, Rob Nugent, bothered to call time out. The fans didn\u2019t know what he told his players there in the huddle: that as quickly as they could, foul No. 3.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"