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With fall referendums looming, the Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church has passed a resolution opposing attack ads and urging congregations to hold forums in neutral, public places where state voters can have respectful dialogue on constitutional amendments that would install the death penalty and deny legal status to gay marriages and civil unions. Read more.

GREEN LAKE – Delegates from United Church of Christ congregations around Wisconsin have gone on record against the proposed state constitutional amendment defining marriage that will be on the ballot in November. Read more.

News ReleaseVote in US Senate on Federal Marriage Protection Amendment shows disregard for best interests of children and will of the people

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)–A federal judge has ruled that Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative violates the First Amendment’s clause barring government from the establishment of religion and has ordered the program at an Iowa correctional facility be closed within 60 days and $1.5 million in state funds be repaid.