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		<title>Intermission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Weathers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been informed that Patheos is doing another behind-the-scenes makeover of the website. The upshot? I won&#8217;t be able to post anything today as the elves do their work. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite songs which you may enjoy while you wait patiently for a post. Or, you can go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Twilight Zone Moment When The IRS Agent Asks You For The Content Of Your Group Member’s Prayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s when you break out your pocket copy of the Constitution, read the agents of the Eye of Sauron the First Amendment, inform them that the interview is concluded, and walk the hell out. Next step? Call your attorney, and your Congressional representatives constituent services offices. Uh, you probably think I&#8217;m making this headline up, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does the Benghazi Scandal Have To Do With Religious Liberty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/yimcatholic/?p=15851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Or the IRS and AP scandals? Well, just like the claims that people of conscience make against the HHS Mandate, all of these scandals revolve around the suppression of the First Amendment rights that Americans hold sacrosanct. At least we did hold them sacred, until something called the War on Terror upped and made lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Graham Ministries Audited by the IRS After Supporting Marriage Amendment in North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 02:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Weathers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/yimcatholic/?p=15841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the hours click off the clock, more and more folks are coming out of their caves to complain about how their recent IRS audits are a little too well timed to be just coincidental. Today, Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, and the head of the ministry his father started, has written a letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Just In! IRS Seeking Agency Name Change…UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS, seeking to shed its image as a benign, and somewhat boring, revenue collection agency of the US Government, has asked the President to allow the agency to be more suitably named. Henceforward they prefer that the agency to be called the Eye of Sauron, or EOS for short. We&#8217;ll have more details as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Organization for Marriage Made the IRS “Enemies List?” Do Tell.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Weathers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how during the Presidential campaign word got out the Mitt Romney had made a donation to the National Organization for Marriage? The Internal Revenue Service may have been the conduit of that information. &#8220;There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kermit Gosnell Agrees To Serve Two Life Sentences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Weathers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thus avoiding the death penalty. More on that news here, By Russell Goldman (@GoldmanRussell) May 14, 2013 Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell agreed today to serve two life sentences and waive his right to an appeal in order to avoid the possibility of being condemned to death. Gosnell was convicted of first degree murder on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Just Me, Or Has This Been A Tough Week For The Obama Administration?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mean, it&#8217;s so bad, even CNN&#8217;s Piers Morgan is seeing the light. Benghazi, IRS, AP - doesn't add up to much 'transparency' does it, Mr President? &#8212; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 13, 2013 First up? From the Ghost of Train Wrecks of the Past, Benghazi-gate. “The whole thing defies logic,” Obama said at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Creepy, Post Gosnell Verdict, Quote of the Week, Courtesy of NARAL…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Weathers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Now, let&#8217;s make sure these women are vindicated by delivering what all women deserve: Access to the full range of health services including safe, high-quality and legal abortion care.” &#8211;Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America You&#8217;ll find that quote, and more about the Gosnell verdict here. Here is a better quote to remember, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For A Reader’s Query, A “Real” Catholic Reply (Music for Mondays)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Weathers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, over on the YIMCatholic Facebook page, I shared a music video. It&#8217;s a little ditty about the Whole Foods parking lot and it did go viral. It also made some readers scratch their heads and ask, Did I miss something? Why is this on the YIM page? What was “this?” Nothing [...]]]></description>
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