Today's Fresh Blogs...

• The Tease

  Published: July 23, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Marriage

  A man and his wife were spending the day at the zoo. She was wearing a sexy, loose fitting pink dress. As they walked through the primates exhibit, they passed in front of a large silverback gorilla. Noticing the wife, the gorilla went crazy. He jumped on the bars, and holding on with one hand and two feet he grunted and pounded his chest with

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• The Fortune Teller

  Published: July 16, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Marriage

  After escaping from her overly controlling husband for the evening, Jennifer sneaked off to visit a fortune teller of some local repute. In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news.

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• Just a Wee Bit

  Published: July 9, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Marriage

  An extraordinarily handsome man decided he had the responsibility to marry an extraordinarily beautiful woman so they could produce gorgeous children beyond compare. With that as his mission he began to search for the perfect woman. Shortly thereafter he met a Redneck who had three stunning, gorgeous daughters that positively took his breath

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• A Small Exercise in Civility Goes a Long Way

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: Failed Marriage, Divorce Communication, Separated, Talking With Your Ex, Failed Relationship, Being Civil, Separation

  In my first posting to this blog, I said that "You don't have to like an ex, you just have to be civil." I occasionally forget to practice this advice when I bring up the past--another thing to avoid, but today I followed my advice. My ex called from New York and asked if I could search through his business files for an important document.

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• Top 5: Moving Beyond a Lost Relationship

  Published: May 11, 2007, 4:31 am

  Tags: Kids, Divorce, Failed Marriage, Failed Relationship, Separation, Survival

  first and then realized my marriage was an emptry relationship. I grieved for many weeks over the loss of my marriage and feared being a lonely single mom with a special needs child. As painful as it was, I knew that the best decision was to start a new life. Listed below are my top five survival tips to moving beyond a failed relationship,

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• Polygamy, that's more a Mid East Islam thing

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:38 am

  Tags: Marriage, Islam, America

  I met Andrea Useem two years ago at the Religion Newswriters Association conference in Miami. (Disclosure: She is an official God Blog groupie). A Muslim living outside Washington, Useem has a Master's in theology from Harvard Divinity and is an insightful freelance religion writer.She has a good piece today on Slate.com about why American Muslims

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• Daughter Dearest

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Arts Media, Marriage Family, Trends

  At the New Republic Online, Sacha Zimmerman says that Lindsay Lohan is "allergic to the word 'no.'" I have a theory as to why she -- and others like her -- are "allergic," but, first, let me address those who think that any time one of us writes about a celebrity or pop culture trend we turn The Point into a

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• What Would Luther Do?

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  Would Luther have supported same-sex unions? Mark Tooley looks at what we know of Luther's beliefs to see on which side of the debate this Reformation hero would have fallen. Read more at the American Spectator.

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• Re: Representing the constituency

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:13 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  of opposition to same-sex marriage than almost any other group in the nation) speaks for you in a national forum. Brilliant. It would be like a Catholic bishop asking a self-professed Christian candidate to support abortion in the name of

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• Anti-Choice College Applications

  Published: July 25, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Sexual Ethics, Trends

  I just downloaded a college application for a master's degree in fine arts in writing and literature from a New England college -- and became annoyed on the very first page. Under "Name," applicants are told to circle "Mr.," "Ms," or "Dr." There was plenty of room to include "Miss" and

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• Shooting the messenger

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Life Issues, Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  ASSIST News Service reports on that German theologian who received a one-year jail sentence for drawing a comparison between abortion and the Holocaust. As you may remember, Johannes Lerle asserts that infanticide in the womb--which takes place 200,000 times a year in Germany--is comparable to the murder of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Lerle

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• The Authentic Man

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  What does it mean to be a man? How does a guy know when he's crossed from boyhood to manhood? Is it when he leaves home or when he's old enough to drink, vote or die for his country? Homer and Paul teach us some important lessons about "The True Measure of Manhood" one that's a kingdom apart from "Men in the Muddle" mired in

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• Representing the constituency

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:24 pm

  Tags: Marriage Family, Sexual Ethics

  Protestants oppose same-sex marriage. So naturally, we wind up with an African-American pastor asking John Edwards how he, Edwards, can possibly "use religion to deny gay Americans their full and equal rights," in tonight's Democratic debate. (Note: Profanity in the comment section.) That's representing the constituency, all

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• Weddings You Wish You Could Go To

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Marriage

  One of my favorite bits on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is weddings, part of his "headlines" bit. He only gets a batch of weddings together every few months, and they're hysterical. I don't remember any of these from Leno, so maybe he's not the source; but these are apparently all real wedding announcements clipped from newspapers (and right in

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• L.A. Times Covers Plight Of Same-Sex Binational Couples

  Published: July 17, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Immigration, Public Policy, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Media, News Analysis, Marriage

  Monday's Los Angeles Times carried an article by Teresa Watanabe in the California section entitled "Line in sand for same-sex couples" which documents the plight of same-sex binational couples who are negatively impacted by the lack of a provision in U.S. immigration law for a citizen or permanent resident to sponsor a same-sex partner to remain

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