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Pope: Saving world from gays as important as saving the rainforest

By Andy Birkey | 12.23.08 | 3:47 pm

In a speech Monday, Pope Benedict XVI asserted that saving mankind from gays and transgenderism was as important as saving the rainforest.
“We need something like human ecology, meant in the right way,” said the pontiff. “The…

McCollum proposes amendment to end death penalty

By Andy Birkey | 04.16.08 | 6:13 pm

Rep. Betty McCollum introduced a Constitutional amendment to ban the death penalty Wednesday in part to coincide with the U.S. visit of Pope Benedict XVI, the world’s most well-known death-penalty opponent. In addition, McCollum’s proposal comes the…