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Divorce: Facing Realities With Hope, Not Fear

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Alimony, No Fault Divorce, Divorce, Equitable Division of Marital Proper, Environmental Protection Order, Marital Rape, Impact of Divorce on Children, Joint Custody, Blended Families, Divorce News
SaraKay Smullens

Yes, our mistakes and the process of righting them caused our children horrible pain, but our children are so much better off than they would have been had my ex-husband and I stayed married.

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Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change

Sherman A. Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Sharia in America, Newt Gingrich Sharia, Newt Gingrich Islam, Marital Rape, Muslims in America, Religious Laws America, Sharia Law, Newt Gingrich Muslims, Sharia Law America, Sharia Law US, American Sharia Law, Religion News
Sherman A. Jackson

There is a problem underlying Newt Gingrich's warnings about the dangers of sharia: the assumption that, as a religious law grounded in an unchanging divine revelation, the law itself must be fixed and unchanging.

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A Letter to Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen: Mercy for Gaile Owens

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Governor Phil Bredesen, Gaile Owens, Tennessee Justice, Marital Rape, Sadism, Ron Owens, Justice, Physical, Stephen Owens, Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Activism, Healthy Living News
SaraKay Smullens

If Gaile Owens is killed, she will be the first women to be executed by your state since Eve Martin was hanged in 1820.

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Throwing Stones at Afghanistan's Marital Rape Law

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Rape, Seth Rogen, Afghanistan, Marital Rape, Observe and Report, Hillary Clinton, Gay Marriage, World News
Philip N. Cohen

It is surprising that the marital rape aspect of Afghanistan's law is what generates the most outrage here, because that aspect of the law is most similar to our conditions.

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Raping Afghanistan

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Marital Rape, Hamid Karzai, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Senator Clinton, Afghan Women, Afghan Taliban, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Leighton Woodhouse

One thing is clear from Afghanistan: military means do not well serve social or humanitarian ends, and nor does lofty and empty rhetoric.

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