Religion_Belief

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The uproar against Gordon College was spurred by President D. Michael Lindsay's joining a July letter from religious leaders to President Obama, asking him to carve out a general religious exemption from an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity. (Associated Press)

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President Obama's remarks on concern when he listens to "less-than-loving expressions by Christians" drew both disapproval and laughter from the audience at an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Jeralean Talley sits at the head table during a celebration of her 115th birthday at the New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Inkster, Michigan May 25, 2014. Talley, who turned 115 on Friday, is believed to be the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world, according to Gerentology Research Group, which validates ages of the world's longest living people. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR3QTKT

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Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, is a fierce critic of President Obama's plans to declare great chunks of the Beehive State as protected and thus off-limits to development and gas and oil exploration. Mr. Bishop is preparing a proposal to deviate from Mr. Obama's land-use plans. (Associated Press)

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Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi. (Associated Press)

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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence steps off the podium after discussing the state's new religious-freedom law in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

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National Edition News cover for April 4, 2015 - Religious freedom fight energizes conservatives, spurs backlash against GOP: Thousands of opponents of Indiana Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, rally against the legislation on the lawn of the Indiana State House. (Associated Press)

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Kenyan Muslims demonstrate against the attack and in solidarity with those Christians targeted in the attack, on a street in Garissa, Kenya, Friday, April 3, 2015. The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 147 people at the college in northeast Kenya as they shouted "God is great" appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said Friday. Sign on left in Swahili reads "We are very sorrowful, because of the killings of the students, at the school at Garissa". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this April 2, 2015 pool photo Pope Francis, center, greets faithful after delivering a Holy Thursday homily in the Rebibbia prison chapel in Rome. Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 inmates and a baby at Rome's main prison Thursday in a pre-Easter ritual meant to show his willingness to serve. He asked them to pray that he, too, might be cleansed of his "filth." (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

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backpedaling: Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long announces changes to the state's new religious objections law at the Statehouse in Indianapolis.

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capitol offense: Demonstrators take to the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock in protest of homosexual discriminatory language in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Changes were signed into law by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. (Associated Press photographs)

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Thousands of opponents of Indiana Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, rally against the legislation on the lawn of the Indiana State House. (Associated Press)

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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson revealed that his son, Seth, signed a MoveOn.org petition against Arkansas' religious freedom bill. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., talks to reporters on Thursday, April 2, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Clyburn said he is worried religious freedom laws being passed in a number of states are as bad as the racial discrimination laws passed a century ago. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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In June 1996, Loan Shillinger, of San Francisco, Ca., shows her ID bracelet with her former name and orphanage location to Catholic nuns who care for children at an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. Ms. Shillinger is one of 12 former orphans, evacuated from Vietnam during the last days of the Vietnam War on the "Operation Babylift," returned to Vietnam for a two-week tour of their former homeland. (AP Photo/Lois Raimondo)

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Medics help an injured person at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, April , 2, 2015 , after an attack by gunmen at Garissa University College. Al-Shabab gunmen targeted Christians, killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others. (AP Photo)

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Crowds cheer as Pope Francis passes by during his meeting with the youth at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. Francis drew a huge crowd earlier Sunday when he addressed young people at Manila's Catholic university, coming close to tears himself when he heard two young children speak of their lives growing up poor and on the streets. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Chad Griffin, national president of the Human Rights Campaign, speaks at a rally at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson earlier Wednesday called for changes to a religious objection measure that provoked a backlash from businesses and gay-rights groups, saying it was not intended to sanction discrimination based on sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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A survey shows that business leaders feel politically alienated under the Angela Merkel-led governing coalition, without a champion in either of Germany's two main parties: the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. (Associated Press)

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In this Wed., March 25, 2015 photo provided by Matthew Christopher, participants attend Freedom Seder Revisited at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The event embraces gentiles for an evening of storytelling, music and a taste of traditional Passover food and rituals as it honors the original interfaith Freedom Seder held in 1969 in Washington, D.C., on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. (AP Photo/Courtesy Matthew Christopher)