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This year's hosting duties for the Gospel Music Assocation award show have passed from John Tesh to Kathie Lee Gifford. She and Dolly Parton will perform a duet of "Only My Pillow Knows." Other performers include Sixpence None the Richer, dc Talk, Steven Curtis Chapman, CeCe Winans, Jaci Velasquez, Alison Krauss, and Charlotte Church. The Associated Press article doesn't make any guesses about the actual awards, which apparently play a far distant second purpose to letting the world know there's such a thing as Christian music.

The general manager for the Mobile office of Lamar Advertising Co. says the " Jesus Was a Vegetarian" billboards "would offend all of the churches in our area," not to mention the city's restaurants and seafood industry. The Montgomery office says "It's a moral issue. Biblically, that wasn't correct." Other PETA ads will run instead.

"What's really amazing about Microsoft's decision to hire Reed … is not that a culturally liberal, cosmopolitan company like Microsoft would hire the cherubic former public face of the religious right," writes Joshua Micah Marshall. "What's really shocking is that Reed can still get clients to pay top dollar for his services even though his track record as a political consultant has been quite dismal."

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