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With Tsuei and Lowrey on the roof and the gang in the car, the pilgrimage to Candia began. Sunshine flickered across the sky as the car pulled into the parking lot of Candia’s Second Baptist Church...
...high court yesterday. But over the course of the morning and afternoon, groups of protesters never surpassed more than 40 people at one time. Prior to the 10 a.m. oral arguments, a group of six people protesting on behalf of GodHatesFags.com, an anti-gay website sponsored by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., picketed on the bottom stairs of the court while yelling epithets against homosexuals. “Shut your filthy mouths about your perversion or you’re going to hell,” one protester yelled, displaying a sign that read “Fags...
Prior to the 10 a.m. oral arguments, a group of six people protesting on behalf of GodHatesFags.com, an anti-gay website sponsored by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., picketed on the bottom stairs of the court while yelling epithets against homosexuals...
DIED. ADRIAN ROGERS, 74, three-term president of the 16 million--member Southern Baptist Convention, who engineered conservatives' takeover of the group, which became a model for the Christian right; of double pneumonia and colon cancer; in Memphis. After Rogers promoted the doctrine of inerrancy--or literal truth of the Bible--the convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., boycotted the Walt Disney Co. because of its nondiscrimination policies toward gays and lesbians and declared that wives should "graciously submit" to their husbands...
...thanks to Ryder McNair’s unhinged keyboarding. McNair is also responsible for the gospel-inspired improvisations on “Summer”: his wailing organ on “I See a Darkness” wouldn’t be out of place in a Baptist church on Sunday morning. Sadly, Oldham and company’s amazing performances are a little less compelling than they might be because of “Summer”’s threadbare production values. Unintended instrument distortion, a persistent hiss, and echoing vocals all evidence that these recordings...