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A man excommunicated from the FLDS cult won a partial court victory in a lawsuit he filed against Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Lawyers say the ruling could open the door to more lawsuits from those ousted by Jeffs.

The Church of Scientology in Australia has asked the Federal Government for an exemption to the Fair Work Act so they do not have to pay workers the minimum wage.

Last September the cult was found to be subject to Australian labour laws after an investigation into allegations it paid employees who were members of its clergy as little as $10 a week.

More Scientology Miracles! And L. Ron Hubbard Tells You How to Make a Slave
Village Voice (blog)
22 2012 at 8:00 AM ​Fellow Scientology watchers, we're working on several big stories for you. In fact, we went out of town this weekend on a fact-finding mission, and we are planning to tell you about that soon. But for now, those stories aren't quite ...

Church of Scientology demands right to underpay workers
The Daily Telegraph
SCIENTOLOGISTS have asked the Federal Government for an exemption to the Fair Work Act so they do not have to pay workers the minimum wage. In a submission to the Fair Work review, public affairs director Reverend Mary Anderson said the Church of ...
The Church of Scientology building in Ascot Vale. Picture: Ian Currie Source ...Herald Sun

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West County Calendar: Week of Feb. 22
STLtoday.com
ADVENTURES IN LEARNING: The Shepherd's Center of Webster-Kirkwood, 1333 W. Lockwood Ave. in Glendale, presents Adventures in Learning classes for older adults at 9:10, 10:10 and 11:10 am until noon Feb. 24. Topics include Rome, Laumeier Sculpture Park ...

Why evangelicals should get over Romney hang-ups
Statesman Journal
Our youth minister was warning us about cults, which was definitely more interesting than learning about, say, the evils of dancing. Cults were dangerous. They brainwashed people and controlled their lives. Examples included Charles Manson's murderous ...

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Why evangelicals should get over Romney hang-ups
Statesman Journal
Our youth minister was warning us about cults, which was definitely more interesting than learning about, say, the evils of dancing. Cults were dangerous. They brainwashed people and controlled their lives. Examples included Charles Manson's murderous ...

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The DVD Wrapup: J. Edgar, Puss in Boots, Tower Heist, Martha Marcy etc., On ...
Movie City News
The woodlands and watersheds of upstate New York don't look like the kinds of places where dangerous cults thrive. Unlike almost any organism that requires water with which to grow, religious cults flourish in the parched earth of the American ...

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Santorum: 2008 "Satan" comments not relevant now
CBS News
"If they want to dig up old speeches of me talking to religious groups, they can go ahead and do so, but I'm going to stay on message and I'm going to talk about things that Americans want to talk about," Santorum said, "which is creating jobs, ...

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Santorum: 2008 "Satan" comments not relevant now
CBS News
This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country: the United States of America." When reporters asked about the ...

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Virginia's Controversial Adoption Bill Welcome News to Satanists and ...
Evening Transcript (satire)
Grant Ferrentine, who runs a Scientology adoption facility in San Francisco, Calif., agreed with Satanists that the law has unfairly forced him to place children in destructive Christian environments. "The Christian movement is based on the victim, ...

Virginia's Controversial Adoption Bill Welcome News to Satanists and ...
Evening Transcript (satire)
Despite backlash from affirmative action and civil rights groups, the bill comes as welcome news to a number of Satanic cults that have previously been forced to place children of "liberated, carnal beasts" into Christian homes, which they describe as ...

Virginia's Controversial Adoption Bill Welcome News to Satanists and ...
Evening Transcript (satire)
Despite backlash from affirmative action and civil rights groups, the bill comes as welcome news to a number of Satanic cults that have previously been forced to place children of "liberated, carnal beasts" into Christian homes, which they describe as ...

Evangelist Franklin Graham questions Christianity of Obama and Romney
CBS News
John Heilemann, a journalist and guest on the show, accused Graham of applying an "incredible double standard" to Mr. Obama and Santorum on the question of religion, given that previously he'd said that one can't know the depth of another's religious ...

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Evangelist Franklin Graham questions Christianity of Obama and Romney
CBS News
Asked in an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" if he believed Mr. Obama was a Christian, Graham said he would "have to assume" he is because "he has said he's a Christian," but then added that he cannot answer the question himself.

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Santorum in '08: "Satan is attacking" America
CBS News
"This is a spiritual war," Santorum said in 2008. "And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: A good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America.

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Santorum in '08: "Satan is attacking" America
CBS News
Our culture is dominated by those sick cults. They keep humanity is a perpetual state of ignorance and war, while accruing wealth, power and sexual gratification from their willing victims. Santorum is not anti-science. He is ignorant of what science ...

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Two people are in custody after police found more than a half dozen dismembered dogs in a home in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

The police also found items related to witchcraft and the occult.

A three-year-old boy can be given a blood transfusion during surgery despite religious objections from his Jehovah's Witness parents, the High Court in Ireland has ruled.

Jehovah's Witnesses, theologically a cult of Christianity, promote un-biblical teachings regarding blood and blood transfusions.

Ben Marcus on His New Novel 'The Flame Alphabet'
BlackBook Magazine
The Flame Alphabet deals with cults, plagues, odd remedies. What kind of research went into writing this book? I actually did most of my research in mysticism; Jewish and Christian mysticism, Kabalah, essentially religious figures who had given up on ...