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The Salvation Army's strict stance on social issues is forcing some to hold on to their spare change.
It’s seen by some that the Salvation Army’s extreme beliefs of Christian fundamentalism is harming women’s rights, homosexuals, the terminally ill, and religious freedom. Homophobia As Jamie McGonnigal of LGBTQNation reports: When New Zealand considered passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, the Salvation Army collected signatures in an attempt to get the legislation killed. The act decriminalized consensual sex between gay men. The measure passed over the charity’s objections. In the United Kingdom, the Salvation Army actively...
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One of our biggest fears come true.
One of the last old-fashioned hard-hitting journalists, Dan Rather, said in a recent speech that the state of news today is “upside down and backwards.” Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movements, Rather called for a return to no-nonsense news reporting and suggested the only way it could happen was by independent journalists. He went on to say that, Of course freedom of the press and of speech both come with pitfalls. People can peddle opinions as if they were...
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DNA extracted from well-preserved mammoths such as these will be used to bring the species back to life.
Japan and Russia are teaming up to bring the mammoth back to life after a 10,000 year hiatus from existence. Well-preserved bone marrow extracted from a frozen mammoth in Siberia will be used in combination with modern elephants to welcome the giant into the 21st century. Dinosaurs to come next? If we can bring mammoths back to life, why not a T-rex? Because the mammoths’ very close relative, the elephant, is still alive today. Elephant DNA is very similar to...
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