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  • She has advocated (in her column published, naturally, at WorldNetDaily) that parents remove Harry Potter books from their children's collections because author J.K. Rowling revealed that Dumbledore is gay, asserted that "Open or suspected homosexuals should never be elected" because they are involved in "[w] eird sex, public displays of" affection "and nudity, and sex with youth," and complained that activists who opposed a bill to allow same-sex marriage in Maine weren't anti-gay enough.

    Terry Krepel: Accuracy in Media's Smear of Kevin Jennings Backfires 2009

  • [745] Jerusalem had prerogative above all places of the eird, [746] where alswa were the Priests lineally descended fra Aaron, and greater number followed the Scribes, Pharisies, and Priestes, then unfainedly beleeved and approved Christ Jesus and his doctrine: [747] And zit, as we suppose, no man of sound judgment will grant, that ony of the forenamed were the Kirk of God.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • We do not meane that we ar so set at liberty, that we awe na obedience to the Law (for that before wee have plainly confessed), bot this we affirme, that na man in eird (Christ Jesus onlie except) hes given, gives, or sall give in worke, that obedience to the Law, quhilk the Law requiris.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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