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The ordinance does not extend protections to gays, lesbians and transgender people, but two council members said after the vote that an ordinance to include those protections would be proposed later.

...Contending for the faith can be a grueling job, considering all the variations offered to us. 1. What is a proper definition of faith? 2. How can it be applied to our lives? A sound understanding of faith may take some patience and thoughtful understanding today as we tackle just a few of the many differences between a healthy faith and the kind that leads to a very troubled praxeology**. [....] This “optimism” in one’s faith rather than a God Centered faith is really an old heresy that started with the early influence of Gnosticism on the Desert Fathers. [....]...

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

By ALANNA MITCHELL Saturday, January 31, 2004 - Page F1 The two boys are wearing identical outfits -- baggy, chemically faded jeans, oversized winter coats and immaculate white runners, laces untied and tongues jutting up over the cuffs of their pants. The two girls have a more revealing uniform: ultra-skinny jeans and puffy coats that skim the waist, one in brilliant white with a belt at the bottom and the other in tan. They've claimed a sweet vantage point in the mall, right at the entrance to the Famous Players theatre. It's a game of "see and be seen," of...

* The University of Minnesota is publishing a book by a Judith Levine that puts forth that not all sexual contact between an adult and a child is necessarily bad. * Professor Harris Mirkin of the University of Missouri wrote an article for the Journal of Homosexuality that suggests the United Sates might consider adopting the liberal attitudes of Denmark in thinking about child sex. * The general counsel of the American Council on Education, Sheldon Steinbach, said this about Mirkin: "The appropriate place to debate the legitimacy of a professor's thought is the marketplace of ideas. Today's heresy often...