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Correction: The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, not 1991. (Spirituality Without Religion, Nov. 23)

Presbyterians Support Same-Sex Unions (Dec. 10)
Ever since you started your daily news reporting, I have gone to your site on a daily basis, looking for news to report on my independent news site, www.presbyweb.com, and have indeed found good material that I could use. However, I was far from impressed when I read your report "Presbyterians Support Same-Sex Unions". For one, it was old news, and an appeal in this case has already been filed (as Presbyweb was the first to report this week). Besides, your assertion that the PCUSA site has nothing obvious about the decision on its site is dead wrong. Of course, the Presbyterian News Service, a thoroughly professional and well-staffed outfit, had a report on it; it is dated November 23, and can be found on the PCUSA site, on, filed away already under "Index of 1999 News Articles."
Also, you mention a second case, about Graham van Keuren. You almost make it sound as if the Presbyterian Church has decided that he can become a minister. That is not the case. To accept him as a candidate for ministry was certainly a strange decision, seen in the light of his public assertion that he felt called both to the ministry and to living in a sexually active, loving, monogamous gay relationship, but he was explicitly told that he could not be ordained unless he or the policy of the church changed. You do not mention the two other cases, in which the decisions were along traditional lines, one of which has also been appealed.

Hans Cornelder
Editor, Presbyweb.com

I can guarantee the Lord Jesus is weeping and I pray that His wrath won't come more swiftly than the repentance of those who support this. This is totally not under the Lord God's anointing. So much of this is going on and it's time we take a stand in the Name of Jesus and take back what the devil has stolen. Satan has stolen our morality and ethics and keeps de-sensitizing us slowly but surely. We are in the final days, yes and this is just more proof that the Word of God is the Truth and that much more is to be expected. But by the love of Jesus and in His name I pray for all nations and cultures to know Him, really get to know Him. I weep for my brothers and sisters.

Jason Flugum
Mankato, Minnesota

Amassed Media: Evolution Wars (Dec. 8)
Most of the cultural warfare between evolutionists and doctrinal Christians arose from the absence of church discipline of rogue ministers and ministries (with no active church membership themselves) who chastised scientists. Had unified denominational discipline of the rogues resulted in cutting off of media ministry network air time and allied financial feedstock, scientists might prove tolerant of the dissent shown by rational Christian apologists. The way to reverse the blaming game of humanist scientists about antievolutionism is to prune off the airwaves our most offensive examples of vitriol and venom that have no Christlikeness in either their media message or their core values.

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