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Chris Plante, WMAL Radio host. Image via Radioboom.com.
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Screenshot of a "sexy nun" costume design blasted as offensive by the Catholic League. [https://www.amazon.com/Forplay-Womens-Sinful-Catsuit-Headpiece/dp/B00IFXG0Q2/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476810037&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=Foreplay+Women’s+Sinful+Sister+Catsuit+and+Headpiece]
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FILE - This March 3, 2016,, file photo, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney weighs in on the Republican presidential race during a speech at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. Some of Utah's most influential Mormons, including Mitt Romney, Gov. Gary Herbert and the president of the Utah Jazz, are lobbying to get the private, Mormon church-owned Brigham Young University an invitation to join the lucrative Big 12 athletic conference. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File )
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Sir Ben Kingsley born Krishna Bhanji, December 31, 1943 (AP Photo)
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Houston quarterback Greg Ward Jr. (1) celebrates a first down in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Tulsa, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
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In this July 1, 2016 photo, the casket of 4-year-old Christopher Lassiter III is taken from the New Hope Baptist Church in East Orange, N.J. after a funeral service. Lassiter died at the hands of his 5-year-old brother on June 25. Authorities said the weapon belonged to their mother, but didn’t specify how the older child got hold of it. (Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, devotees of Indian spiritual guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, stands near a poster of his new film "MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart," in New Delhi, India. The leader of the quasi-religious sect has launched a film franchise in which he stars as a Messenger of God, or MSG for short, with divine powers to save the world. He claims to have 50 million followers and runs a spiritual empire that promotes vegetarianism and campaigns against drug addiction. With a guaranteed audience among his followers, Insan said he's had little trouble getting his films released commercially in cinemas. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, Indian spiritual guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, arrives for a press conference ahead of the release of his new film "MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart," in New Delhi, India. The leader of the quasi-religious sect has launched a film franchise in which he stars as Messenger of God, or MSG for short, with divine powers to save the world. He claims to have 50 million followers and runs a spiritual empire that promotes vegetarianism and campaigns against drug addiction. With a guaranteed audience among his followers, Insan said he's had little trouble getting his films released commercially in cinemas. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
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This 1910 photo shows a Syrian pastry counter in the Little Syria neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York. Little Syria was a neighborhood that existed between the 1880s and 1940s in Lower Manhattan and was composed of Arab-Americans, both Christians and Muslims, who arrived from what is now Syria and surrounding countries. (Bain News Service/Library of Congress via AP)
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UNESCO, the U.N. body that designates cultural treasures, ignored Israeli ties to the Temple Mount in favor of Palestinians, who refer to it as the Al-Aqsa Mwosque. (Associated Press)
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In this Oct. 7, 2016 photo, Buddhist nun and musician Ani Choying Drolma, center, performs during a concert in Mumbai, India. She is one Buddhist nun everyone in Nepal knows by name, not because she’s a religious icon and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, nor for her work running a girl’s school and a hospital for kidney patients but because she is one of the country’s biggest pop stars. With more than 12 albums of melodious Nepali tunes and Tibetan hymns that highlight themes of peace and harmony, the songstress in saffron robes has won hearts across the Himalayan nation and abroad. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Law enforcement officers have clashed with protesters trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. An extreme faction within the protest encampment has been terrorizing the rural community. (Associated Press)
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LED IN: A priest holds ashes during the Ash Wednesday mass, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. Pope Francis has smudged ashes on the bowed heads of prelates, nuns and ordinary Catholics during Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peters Basilica. The ritual marks the start of Lent, a period of penitence, prayer and self-sacrifice as faithful prepare for Easter. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Radio host Glenn Beck told his listeners on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, that Christianity has been poisoned from within. (YouTube, The Blaze)
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FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 criticized French investigators who last week reopened an inquiry into the plane crash that sparked the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people were killed. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at an temporary checkpoint during curfew in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Authorities in Indian portion of Kashmiri imposed restrictions in some parts of Srinagar fearing religious processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram would turn into anti-India protests. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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In a 2008 photo provided by Bard College, Jacob Nuesner, Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theory, Professor of Religion and Theology and Bard Center Fellow stands in his study at home. Neusner, a renowned scholar of Judaism, and author of more than 900 books died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, at his home in New York State, according to Bard College. He was 84. (Emily Darrow/Bard College via AP)
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FILE - This March 24, 2006 file photo shows Cardinals during a consistory led by Pope Benedict XVI to elevate 15 new cardinals in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Pope Francis names 17 new cardinals, 13 of them electors including three Americans; sets ceremony Nov. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, OCT. 10 - In this Sept. 14, 2016 photo, Breast cancer survivor Judy Lawley poses on the Lubbock Christian University campus where she is attending classes in Lubbock, Texas. (Mark Rogers/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)