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Many Americans believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation, and the idea is energizing some conservative and Republican activists. What does it mean to say America is a Christian nation? Was it only conservatives citing the idea of a Christian nation? Forty-five percent said the U.S. should be a Christian nation, but only a third thought it was one currently. ___Sources: Pew Research Center; Public Religion Research Institute/Brookings; “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” by John Fea.

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☆ 101 years before Rosa Parks, this woman integrated New York City's public transit
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jennings sued the streetcar company and was represented in court by Chester Arthur, the future US president. 10 years later, all of New York City's public transit systems were desegregated. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Then, African Americans were only allowed on trolleys with signs reading, "Colored People Allowed in This Train." Then, after a decade of continued activism and legal battles, all of New York City's public transit services were fully desegregated in 1865.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Abortion access is expected to play a central role in the 2024 elections. The preview comes next week, when Ohio voters decide whether to enshrine reproductive rights in their state Constitution. They question whether state lawmakers could pass any abortion restrictions at all that would pass constitutional muster if voters approve the amendment. AP VoteCast polling last year found that 59% of Ohio voters say abortion should generally be legal. “Ohio voters really know what's at stake here, because they've seen the incredible lengths that the Ohio government will go to to interfere in people's lives,” McGuire said.

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☆ Biden's economic policies have quietly made peoples' lives better — and no one seems to care
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Biden's economic agenda has meant real changes for many Americans, like clean water and internet access. That $1 million came from President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan , which was passed in 2021 to revitalize the economy and replenish Americans' wallets. But for the target groups seeing their everyday lives changed by Bidenomics funding, it can make a world of difference. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe hidden wins from BidenomicsWith 2024 looming, and Americans dreary on the economy, Bidenomics is still an elusive beast. Americans who are not part of targeted populations receiving these grants are left to contend with sky-high prices on their own.

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☆ How to Live a Happy Life, From a Leading Atheist
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

“I want people to see what a meaningful, happy life I’ve had with these beliefs,” says Dennett, who is 81. They’ve got trillions of motor proteins, and motor proteins are not alive. Motor proteins aren’t alive. Life couldn’t exist without these little molecular machines — by the trillions — that are working in your body right now. Human life and human consciousness are made possible by these incredibly brilliant consortia of little robots.

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☆ Opinion | The Enemies of Slavery Gave New Meaning to the Declaration of Independence
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Examples of this use of the Declaration abound. “And now my virtuous fellow citizens, let me entreat you, that, after you have rid yourselves of the British yoke, that you will also emancipate those who have been all their life time subject to bondage.”White abolitionists and other opponents of slavery also made use of the Declaration in their legal and rhetorical assaults on human bondage. “It was repeatedly declared in Congress, as language and sentiment of all these States, and by other public bodies of men, ‘that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’” wrote the pseudonymous author Crito (after the ancient Athenian companion of Socrates) in 1787. “The Africans, and the blacks in servitude among us, were really as much included in these assertions as ourselves,” he continued. “And if we have not allowed them to enjoy these unalienable rights, we are guilty of a ridiculous, wicked contradiction and inconsistence.”

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☆ Fact Check-Massachusetts church did not catch fire during a same-sex wedding
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video showing a church on fire was taken in Spencer, Massachusetts, while the building was empty. Posts online, however, are falsely saying it was filmed in Boston during a gay wedding ceremony. God still in control over Satan's counterfeits and attacks to God's instructions.”The building seen in the video is the First Congregational Church in the town of Spencer, in central Massachusetts (www.spencerchurch.org/), (here!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shnI3WZcJhgfayXfzvgktTg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu). The church has posted in favor of LGBTQ rights on their Facebook page (here), (here), (here). The church, located in the town of Spencer, was not celebrating a gay wedding when it caught fire.

Persons: Read Organizations: Social, Congregational Church, Spencer Fire Department, Reuters Locations: Spencer , Massachusetts, Boston, USA, Spencer, Massachusetts

☆ Southern Baptists Vote to Keep Out Churches With Female Pastors
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Ruth Graham | Elizabeth Dias | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The ousted churches will continue to function as churches, but lose their association with the denomination and the ability to participate in its programs, including its robust missionary and disaster relief programs. Like many larger Southern Baptist churches, Saddleback does not include the word “Baptist” in its name, and for most of its history it has not emphasized the connection. Three other churches that were expelled in February for having female pastors chose not to appeal the decision. Kristan Pounders, 30, from Big Level Baptist Church in Wiggins, Miss. said she thought the pastors appealing the expulsions had well-presented arguments, but they were not in agreement with what Southern Baptists believe.

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☆ Fans pause action for Friday prayers during first World Cup in a Muslim country
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Andrew Mills | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DOHA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - As noon approached, muezzins across Qatar called Muslim soccer players, fans and officials to the first Friday prayers of the first World Cup to take place in a Muslim country. Unusually for soccer, Muslim fans say Qatar's World Cup has accommodated them like never before - with stadium prayer rooms, concessions selling halal food and no beer-swilling supporters to contend with in the stands following a stadium alcohol ban. For now, Muslim fans are just enjoying an event that caters to their needs. Ridwaan Goolam Hoosen, an avid South African soccer fan, is used to having to leave the grounds to find a prayer space, including at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. "It feels as if this World Cup is for me, it works for me, it fits for me...This is the first of its kind like this," Goolam Hoosen said.

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