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		<title>DMV license photo won&#8217;t be required for religious group</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22012/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/real-id.jpg" alt="Real ID" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> A handful of people who believe digitized photos on state driver's licenses could be the beginning of the biblical "mark of the beast" will receive special licenses from the Division of Motor Vehicles in Charleston, West Virginia, today.
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Under the plan, followers of pastor Butch Paugh will be allowed to have their license photos taken at the Capitol DMV office and then removed from the computer system.]]></description>
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		<title>When Church Autonomy Is Tyranny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the enemy of liberty. That truth has never been so forcefully made as it has been with the rescue of the hundreds of children from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound in Eldorado, Texas. As the clergy abuse crisis within the Roman Catholic Church has proved, Americans are all too willing to ignore evidence of child abuse when it occurs in the context of religious organizations.]]></description>
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		<title>IRS investigates endorsement of Huckabee by pastor Wiley Drake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The inquiry into the Buena Park pastor's actions comes six months after Americans United for Separation of Church and State urged the IRS to investigate the nonprofit status of Drake's church because of the endorsement.]]></description>
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		<title>White House told to detail Christian leader visits</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20171/church-and-state-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. judge ordered the Secret Service on Monday to disclose records of visits by nine prominent conservative Christian leaders to the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's residence.]]></description>
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		<title>US High Court Won&#8217;t Hear Two Religion Cases</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19543/church-and-state</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The justices decided not to consider a challenge by religious groups to a New York law requiring health plans to cover birth control pills, and a California case in which an evangelical group was denied use of a public library for religious services.]]></description>
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		<title>Pasadena church wants apology from IRS</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19442/all-saints-episcopal-church-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service has told a prominent Pasadena church that it has ended its lengthy investigation into a 2004 antiwar sermon, church leaders said Sunday. But the agency wrote in its letter to All Saints Episcopal Church that officials still considered the sermon to have been illegal, prompting the church to seek clarification, a corrected record and an apology from the IRS, the church's rector told standing-room-only crowds of parishioners at Sunday's services.]]></description>
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		<title>IRS ends church probe</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19441/all-saints-episcopal-church</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has dropped an investigation into an anti-war sermon preached at All Saints Episcopal Church two days before the 2004 presidential election, the Rev. Ed Bacon told his cheering congregation Sunday.]]></description>
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		<title>IRS combats fake-church tax scams</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19417/irs-church-tax-scams</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You won't find these Arizona religious groups in any neighborhood directory of churches. They don't have temples. They don't hold services. Instead, state and federal authorities say they are individually owned corporations, called corporations sole, that were set up to dodge income taxes. Promoters of the schemes rake in large fees and, in one case, used them as part of a pyramid scheme, authorities say.]]></description>
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		<title>ACLJ: Laying down the religious law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian legal group's counsel battles on behalf of religious right in court -- and advises President Bush (though apparently not on how Christians ought to behave).]]></description>
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		<title>Court: Texas law intrudes on religious freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19215/court-texas-law-intrudes-on-religious-freedom</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Supreme Court reversed lower court decisions today and ruled that state restrictions on what unaccredited religious institutions can call themselves and their education training violate the First Amendment.]]></description>
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