Bates Butler has experience mixing law and religion: he was one of the attorneys appointed to work on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson’s bankruptcy proceedings.
His website gives opinions on everything from free speech to dating to movies – from a Muslim perspective of course – and is a resource for both people who want to learn about Islam and for Muslims themselves.
Gerson said that while evangelical Christians are adopting more social policies on issues like the environment and poverty that closely mirror liberal Christians and Catholics, they have not changed their views on abortion.
The Jewish Community Relations Council in Tucson is publicly opposing the measure, which would amend the constitution and limit marriage in Arizona to heterosexual couples.
Szott died last month during a medical leave he’d taken from the local non-profit Habitat for Humanity, confirmed Michael McDonald, the agency’s executive director.
Porn Sunday is part of an overall focus on sex in three local Baptist churches, all of them run by young pastors who believe church should be a place where people can be comfortable talking about sex.
One Jewish man said that Christian Zionism seems to exist within the context of a Christian story that would ultimately de-legitimize the Jews. He wondered whether Jews were just pawns in evangelical support for Israel.
In an interview on the day after his Saddleback Forum Warren told the national web site Beliefnet that for many evangelical Christians, the issue of abortion is a dealbreaker. And for anyone who doesn’t know, Obama supports legalized abortion.
