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		<title>Ignorance can kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on abstinence only and its harmful effects on our young people: on June 1, the Washington Post reported on the Parents for Truth campaign which is being launched by the National Abstinence Association. The association sent out an e-mail to organize 1 million parents nationwide to lobby their local schools for abstinence-only sex education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born today, July 1!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darwin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theory of evolution. On this day 150 years ago, Darwin&#8217;s paper on the theory of evolution was read at the Linnean Society in London. It was hurried on to the program in order to forestall the claims of Alfred Russel Wallace to being the first with the theory. Darwin wasn&#8217;t there and neither was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFI urges $15 billion for Health and Welfare Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Inquiry has joined 425 organizations in calling on the House Appropriations Committee (chair Rep.David Obey) to increase the allocation for the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Labor by at least $15 billion for FY 2009.
These funds would support programs and services in education, training, disability, public health, medical research, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Staff Assigned to the Office of Public Policy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Inquiry is very happy to announce Ruth Mitchell will be joining the Office of Public Policy on July 01, half time.  Ruth has been working with the OPP and the DC Center as a volunteer and member of the Washington DC Coordinating Committee for about a year now. She facilitates our original book club. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say No to Funding for Abstinence-Only Education!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientific research shows that abstinence-only sex education programs are ineffective, inefficient, and in some instances even harmful. Since their inception, these programs have failed to accomplish or even advance their intended goals and millions of teens and adolescents across the United States are losing out. Not only do abstinence-only programs fail to prevent premarital sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Filibustered in Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, April 25, 2008 the Senate refused to pass the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (H.R. 2831). Although the bill received endorsements from women&#8217;s rights and civil liberties groups and was supported by a majority of Senators, the legislation was filibustered by a group of members in the Senate (see how your Senator voted here). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFI Helps Pass Climate Change, Global Warming, and Renewable Energy Legislation</title>
		<link>http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/cfi-helps-pass-climate-change-global-warming-and-renewable-energy-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little doubt remains that climate change and global warming are realities that need to be dealt with&#8211;now. CFI is helping to pass legislation that addresses global warming and calls for renewable energy sources in the United States. We&#8217;ve been successful once again!
With CFI support, the Senate recently passed the New Direction for Energy Independence, National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage or Civil Unions? Center for Inquiry Urges Equality First, Last, and Always</title>
		<link>http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/marriage-or-civil-unions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever the official relationship is called—marriage, civil union, registered partnership—the Center for Inquiry believes it should be the same for same-sex and heterosexual couples. All couples should have equal rights under federal and state law, the Center urges in its recent position paper, “Same-sex Marriage—and Marriage,” available at www.centerforinquiry.net/advocacy.
At present, same-sex couples are essentially second-class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFI Urges Congress to End Federally Funded Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/cfi-urges-congress-to-end-federally-funded-disrimination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Inquiry (CFI), urges voters to contact Senate members to halt re-authorization of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Act (SAMHSA) unless critical changes are made to the so-called “charitable choice” provisions in current law. These provisions have undermined civil rights and religious liberty protections since their enactment in 2000.
Although the reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration In Defense of Science and Secularism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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DECLARATION IN DEFENSE OF SCIENCE AND SECULARISM
We are deeply concerned about the ability of the United States to confront the many challenges it faces, both at home and abroad. Our concern has been compounded by the failure exhibited by far too many Americans, including influential decision-makers, to understand the nature of scientific inquiry and the [...]]]></description>
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