'We Wanted to Get People Thinking': CHURCH RAN FATHER's DAY ADS TO ADVERTISE ANTI-PORN SPEAKER
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 14--The ads seem to suggest a site for finding porn for fathers. But that's not what Crossroads Christian Church is selling.
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ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Feb. 20  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A no-holds- barred series on sex is one of the ways that Epic Church wants to talk about an often ignored topic in churches, as well as within people's homes.
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The next generation of dad's words prompting action.
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Private videos seem to be escaping to the internet in droves. Do we care? In Sex Drive Daily.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The pastor of a Gastonia, N.C., church dealing with a controversy over a recent blackface performance reassured his congregation Sunday that their difficulties will make them stronger.  The Rev. Thomas Holbrooks Jr.
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ROME (Der Spiegel) - Echoes of an old culture war have been rippling through Europe, as a bishop in Germany calls for Catholics to keep their kids away from a sex-education musical and the Vatican condemns a new gay-rights campaign in Italy. A children's musical about sex and babies, organized by the German government, has been touring the country since 2003 without noticeable friction. But now it's arrived in the city of Fulda, near Frankfurt, and the local bishop has called for a boycott. The Fairytale of Nose, Belly and Butt should be avoided by right-thinking Catholic families, according to Heinz Josef Algermissen, because in the Church's view, "explanations about sexuality belong in the home," and "can't be left to a theater troupe." The show's Web site begs to differ, saying the theory behind the project is that humans are "sexual beings from birth onward," and that children experience "smooching and touching genitals as no less fun or significant than tickling their big toe." Uproar in Italy, too This notion of human sexuality is no doubt as offensive to the Church as the idea that humans might be wired from birth to be straight or gay - which is the assumption behind an Italian ad campaign protested recently by the Vatican. The regional government of Tuscany has planned to use a photo of a newborn child wearing a hospital bracelet with the word "homosexual" as part of a publicity push to combat homophobia. "Sexual orientation," reads the tag line, which will appear on billboards throughout Tuscany, "is not a choice."  Italy's political right, along with some Catholic groups, want the campaign to be withdrawn. The Church's declared position is that homosexuality is a psychological disorder, not exactly a sin - although indulging in gay sex is a sin.
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Hard-hitting ads to encourage smokers to quit, particularly parents, will appear on TV screens from Boxing Day.
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People think the Anglican church is obsessed with sex in a battle over homosexuality that "very few really want to be fighting," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said on Monday.
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The Republican presidential candidate tries to assuage thousands of conservative Christians that he is one among them.
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Brides in Stockholm who want their fathers to walk them down the aisle are likely to be told it can&#39;t be done, as some pastors are refusing to allow the practice they say is sexist, a pastor said on Friday.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - The makers of "What Would Jesus Buy?" have a problem -- how do you sell a film documenting performance artist Rev. Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a guerrilla U.S. tour against consumerism?
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Men have Viagra and other pills to fight sexual impotence. Now women might soon have something roughly equivalent. Procter &amp; Gamble will try today to persuade a federal advisory panel to
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A miraculous image of Jesus Christ in the froth of an almost empty pint of beer is to be used as an advert to encourage more Britons to go to church this Christmas, it has been announced.
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TiVo is looking to religious leaders to get the word out about a new feature that helps parents control the TV shows their children watch.
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For organizers of last weekÃ¢ÂÂs forum in Washington on religion and politics, featuring the three leading Democratic presidential candidates, the aim was to broaden the religious Ã¢ÂÂvalues agenda.Ã¢ÂÂ In particular, it was part of an effort by left-leaning evangelical activist Jim Wallis to focus attention on the moral dimensions of poverty.
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.
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In an effort to acknowledge its longtime gay clientele for its support after conducting research on the group's preferences, Volkswagen is making its first attempt to reach the homosexual community with new print ads from lead agency Arnold.