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Gen 19:24  Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

1 Ki 14:24  And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Luke 17:29  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

 

Supreme Court Decision Opens Virtual Door for Purveyors of Child Porn
By Rusty Pugh / AgapePress

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a congressional ban on "virtual" child pornography. The court has ruled 6-3 that the First Amendment protects pornography or other sexual images that only appear to depict real children engaged in sex. Tuesday's ruling is rooted in the technical definition of what is considered "child porn." At issue is technology that allows pornographers to alter or enhance pictures that may depict children engaged in sex, while arguing that the children are not real but merely computer-generated images.

 

Cardinal Urges Abuse Victims To Contact The Church
By Brian Witte / The Associated Press

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Cardinal William Keeler said Tuesday that he will send a tape-recorded message to the archdiocese's 162 parishes, urging anyone who has been abused by a priest to contact the church. The recording will be played during Mass on Sunday. The archdiocese covers about 484,000 Catholics in Baltimore and nine counties. The specifics of Keeler's tape recorded message to parishioners were not released.

 

Defrocked Priest Still Defiant
By Heidi Evans / Daily News

While he was a priest, Edward Pipala sexually molested as many as 50 boys at several parishes in the Archdiocese of New York. But after eight years in prison, the defrocked cleric doesn't believe he's a pedophile. (Lev.20:13)

 

Verdicts Mixed On Santa Rosa Priest

 

By Kim Curtis / The Associated Press

SANTA ROSA -- A Roman Catholic priest was found not guilty Tuesday of raping a 14-year-old girl near the altar of a church in 1977, but guilty of two counts of lewd conduct involving the molestation of a 13-year-old girl in 1981.

 

The Bottom Line On Cardinal Law
By Bill Murchison / TownHall.com

Imagine telling a Roman Catholic cardinal he should be in prison. Nevertheless, that's how one protester at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross put it last Sunday: "Prison for the man who wears a red hat," meaning, as we all know, Bernard Cardinal Law.

 

Homosexual Marriage Should Be Legal
By Nathan Foell / Oklahoma Daily

There is only one group of people left in the United States that is consistently denied equal protection under the law: homosexuals.

 

Ohio Town Offers Same-Sex Benefits
Ledger-Enquirer

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- This Cleveland suburb has become the first city in Ohio to extend health benefits to the same-sex partners of city employees. City Council voted in favor of an ordinance enacting the change Monday night after listening to a divided crowd of more than 200 speak for about 3 hours.

 

Man Gets 17 Years For Child Porn
The Daily Herald

A man who admitted producing child pornography in his Lynnwood trailer has been sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison for five crimes against children. Anthony J. Weir, 48, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly. Two of the counts charged that Weir produced child pornography in Lynnwood, involving girls who were 9 and 12 years old.