Clergy call on Village Voice to shut down sex trafficking site – The Religion World – Orlando Sentinel.  Thirty-six prominent clergy took out a full-page New York Times advertisement Tuesday demanding that Village Voice Media discontinue a Web site used for the sex trafficking of girls and boys. The ad featured a letter calling on the Village Voice company to immediately shut down the Adult section of its Web site where this activity is taking place. The clergy also launched a nationwide petitionin partnership with Change.org’s more than one million members. “Village Voice Media...


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PAWTUCKET, R.I.—Two Rhode Island men have been charged with prostituting a 17-year-old runaway in Pawtucket. Police Maj. Arthur Martins says 29-year-old Brandon Frails and 23-year-old Jermal Williams each face three counts of human trafficking. Martins says the men were prostituting the girl, who ran away from a group home and was staying with acquaintances. Martins says the girl was told she could make extra money by selling herself for sex. He added a group home counselor alerted police to the abuse. Martins says a warrant was issued for Frails on Oct. 14. He added Frails was arrested...


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(C) 2011 MarketWatch.com.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/michigan-diversity-council-midc-announces-new-appointments-to-its-non-profit-advisory-board-2011-10-05 FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Oct 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, the Michigan Diversity Council announced the appointment of representatives from sponsor organizations Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, KPMG, Michigan First Credit Union, MRM Worldwide and Wayne State University, to its Advisory Board. "The addition of these six passionate leaders will serve to diversify our board and allow us to improve...


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Official Statement To Whom This May Concern: The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM) is demanding a public apology from the Westboro Baptist Church for their libelous remarks via Twitter. @MargieJPhelps posted: "Violent fags won't bring Betty Ford back from hell. #truth MT @FSCArmy @humanrightsTEAM to Engage Westboro w Violent Mob wp.me/pKwuX-ve" As previously stated, TEAM planned a counter-protest against the Westboro Baptist Church's planned picketing of the Betty Ford funeral.  This counter-protest was a "peaceful human chain" and the WBC never showed back in July 2011. The...


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A Breakdown of Gay Marriage Support by Religion - National - The Atlantic Wire.   Differences of opinion on the issue of gay marriage in the U.S. are often explained away along religious lines: nonreligious folk support its legalization while the pious are against it. But that explanation glosses over some real differences in the way religious groups perceive the issue. As it turns out, certain religious groups show starkly contrasting levels of support for same-sex marriage, according to a report released today. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, America is evenly divided...


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(C) 2011 The Republic.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/5fdfb5cd503b4947b8fa450ec9fe9946/HI--Human-Trafficking-Hawaii/ HONOLULU — The federal government's lead prosecutor in a Hawaii forced labor trial was taken off the case Tuesday amid concerns about her health and her mischaracterization of the law before a grand jury. The departure of lead trial attorney Susan French caused the government to fly two new lawyers from Washington, D.C., to handle the case, which U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway adjourned in the middle of testimony by the government's...


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(C) 2011 Christian Post.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.christianpost.com/news/poll-majority-of-brazilians-oppose-same-sex-marriage-53106/ Despite Brazil’s Supreme Court ruling unanimously to recognize same-sex civil unions as a "family entity" most Brazilians are against the formalization of a union between same-sex couples, a new survey has found. IBOPE Inteligencia of Brazil released a survey last week that revealed 55 percent of Brazilians were against same-sex unions, which was ruled on in Brazil in May and gave homosexual couples the same rights as married couples. The ruling...


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        (C) 2011 Jurist Legal News and Research.  Entire article retrieved from: http://jurist.org/forum/2011/08/abigail-salisbury-ethiopia-terror.php JURIST Guest Columnist and former JURIST Executive Director Abigail Salisbury says that the Ethiopian government has used the War on Terror to maintain its power, labeling opposition groups, journalists and others as terrorists and detaining them under legislation that is purportedly aimed at furthering the War on Terror...It is not entirely out of the ordinary to hear of the arrest of political dissidents in Ethiopia, but a recent...


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(C) 2011 Click On Detroit.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/28742575/detail.html KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Dollywood officials have offered a refund to a lesbian couple after an employee asked one of the women to turn her T-shirt inside out to hide the slogan "marriage is so gay." Park officials called off a meeting with the couple when Jennifer Tipton and Olivier Odom wanted to bring a representative from Campaign for Southern Equality, a gay rights organization. Dollywood park spokesman Pete Owens told The Knoxville News Sentinelthat the park didn't want...


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