Atheist loses Bush prayer fight
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A US atheist loses a legal fight to stop prayers being recited at President George W Bush's inauguration.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Just a few miles from George W. Bush's former office at the state Capitol, a panel of religious experts weighed a question with relevance to many people of faith: How would Jesus vote?    It's a complex topic that can't be boiled down to simple political terms, said religious leaders who attended a Texas Faith Network conference in Austin on Tuesday...
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Bloomberg - Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, who has based his campaign on appealing to conservative voters, said he isn&#39;t a regular churchgoer and doesn&#39;t plan to speak about his religion on the stump.
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorses a fire-and-brimstone video site called GodTube, to counter the myth that "Christians ought to keep to themselves in the church, and never get outside." Er, what?
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Voters in last year's presidential  election showed a new polarization within some religious  faiths, a fact that may make it all the harder for Democrats to  recapture the White House, according to a report released on  Thursday.
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President Bush has gone &quot;under the radar&quot; and around Congress to spread his faith-based initiative throughout the federal government, according to a new study.
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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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A religious battle is taking place on the Internet, with two very different groups arguing over the existence of God.
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A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the use of churches as polling places.  Jerry Rabinowitz, a Delray Beach photographer, says a church strewn with religious messages was an unconstitutional site in which to vote.
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DOVER, New Hampshire  - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain brought his pitch to a New Hampshire church basement on Saturday, but religion was hardly on his agenda.
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A Guantanamo prisoner who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June lost his bid to challenge his detention on Wednesday when a federal judge dismissed the case because of a new anti-terrorism law signed by President George W. Bush.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 20  - A leading evangelical Christian supporter of George W. Bush said Wednesday the president told him before the invasion of Iraq last year that he expected no casualties in the war.
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The American Humanist Association applauded Rep. Pete Stark for publicly acknowledging he does not believe in a supreme being. The declaration, it said, makes him the highest-ranking elected official &#151; and first congressman &#151; to proclaim to be an atheist. The organization took out an ad in Tuesday's Washington Post, congratulating the California Democrat for his stance.
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American gays, branded sinners by the Christian right, are waging an all-out battle to eject President George W. Bush from power in the November 2 poll.
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An atheist who tried to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance lost a bid Friday to bar the saying of a Christian prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  - Democratic challenger  John Kerry mixed the political and the spiritual on Sunday by  accusing President Bush of trying to scare America and offering  voters a glimpse into his own faith.
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LANDOVER, Md. -- For superstitious John Kerry supporters, Sunday&#39;s Washington Redskins defeat is reason to celebrate. Equally superstitious supporters of President George W. Bush have cause to worry.