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...Robinson, also gay and in a committed relationship, as bishop of New Hampshire. The months that followed set a pattern. The Americans consecrated Robinson. Williams, facing conservative demands that they leave the Communion, endorsed milder requests such as a promise, for now, to make no more gay bishops and bless no more gay marriages. The Episcopalians made ambiguous gestures of compliance, but in 2006 elected as their presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who had supported Robinson's elevation. Today Williams calls Robinson's election - absent any prior general decision allowing the ordination of people in same-sex relationships - "bizarre...
...recently found out my family came from Holland without permission in the 1600s. Should we be sent back? -James Smith, PHOENIXNo. When they came, it was perfectly legal. So God bless them. You know, whenever I can, I go to the swearing-in ceremonies for new American citizens. I know when I walk in, people go, "What is Tancredo doing here?" But I speak to them and I tell them two things: "Welcome to America" and "Thanks for doing it the right...
...Spray-painted on the stairwell of the run-down apartment block where the Mahmoud family lives are slogans reading "God bless Osama bin Laden", "God bless Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." "He was born naturally religious," said Riad Mahmoud, Bilal's father. "He didn't take part in any fighting. He has been with us since it began last week...
...also defends comedians of all political stripes, from fired shock jock Don Imus - "He's has been doing that crap since the beginning of time. Don't draw a line in the sand while a guy is walking over it" - to libertarian Bill Maher - "Don't agree with him, bless his heart. But he's hilarious." Comedians, Whitney says, are like beverages. "Everybody has different taste." (Whitney says he's Coors Light...
...BEEN 25 YEARS younger, he would have been the quintessential 1960s hippie. Instead, the sweet-souled, world-weary, darkly funny Kurt Vonnegut became the avuncular, rumpled hero of the counterculture generation. In books like Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city...