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Passing On, Enlightenment and Atonement

Being a gay man I’ve never been very religious. Quite frankly, most people in such faiths couldn’t handle my beliefs on spirituality. They need their religion in a box like a happy meal you can get at a drive through. I don’t believe in a ‘supreme being’ and I don’t like using the word ‘god’. So many people have pre-conceptions about certain words it’s difficult to get past them. I try avoiding them. Because it usually forces me to elaborate quite a bit when I do use them. Some ask me why my opinion matters. I think you’ll find many people who have died and been brought back from death, come back with ‘something extra’. I’m not saying this ‘something extra’ is the same for all people. In fact, I doubt it is. In my case I had knowledge that I was supposed to do more. My time wasn’t over for a reason. But it wasn’t like I had a crystal clear message. I didn’t hear a voice or see any ‘people’. There was a bright light at the end of the ascension and I did see my body in the bed belo...

Iranian Lesbian Wins Asylum In UK

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(London) An Iranian lesbian facing deportation from Britain has been freed from detention and will be allowed to remain in the UK, ending an international campaign to prevent her from being sent back to a regime that could have imposed the death penalty on her . Pegah Emambakhsh, 40, fled to Britain from Iran in 2005 after her partner was arrested and tortured. Homosexuality is considered a crime in Iran and can carry the death penalty. In 2005, the Islamic regime hanged two teenagers on charges of involvement in homosexual acts .

D. James Kennedy, Noted Gay-Basher, Dead

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MIAMI (AP) - The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76