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				By &lt;DIV id="reporter"&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070605/mailto:audrey@christianpost.com"&gt;Audrey Barrick&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;In a culture where sexuality and porn is now a part of everyday life, porn addiction in the church is escalating, according to a new survey.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;In a poll of 1,000 respondents, 50 percent of Christian men and 20 percent of Christian women were found to be addicted to pornography. Conducted by ChristaNet.com, a popular Christian marketplace website, the poll asked visitors about their personal sexual conduct.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;"There have been dynamic paradigm shifts in the behavior of Christians over the last four years," said Clay Jones, founder and president of Second Glance Ministries, which partnered with ChristiaNet.com to evaluate poll responses.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Many point to the Internet for the pervasive problem of sexual addiction.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;"Technology (the Internet) has allowed pornography to flood the market place beyond a controllable level," said Jones.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;For the first time in history, the American culture has point-and-click pornography; porn stars have MySpace pages&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/religion/" rel="tag"&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag"&gt;politics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/news/" rel="tag"&gt;news&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/internet/" rel="tag"&gt;internet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/entertainment/" rel="tag"&gt;entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070605/27799_Porn_Addiction_Flooding_Culture%2C_Church.htm</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:25:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan Threatens U.S. Soft Drinks</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9D7101D2-E126-4D6D-B24F-E5A55831BE59/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/wiccantexan/"&gt;wiccantexan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3232434&amp;page=1" title="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3232434&amp;page=1"&gt;abcnews.go.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
The Sudanese government's  response to proposed U.S. sanctions intended to force an end to the bloodshed in Darfur was short, sweet … and fizzy.
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Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Washington, Sudan's ambassador the United States denied government-funded militias were killing civilians in Darfur, and threatened to cut off exports of gum arabica, a key component in soft drinks, if the Bush administration imposed economic sanctions.
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      &lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" face="Verdana" color="#000080"&gt;&lt;SPAN class="articletitle"&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.davickservices.com/officials_furious_over_gun_giveaway.htm"&gt;Officials Furious Over "Gun Giveaway"&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;FONT size="1" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;I&gt;Submitted by &lt;A href="http://www.opednews.com/author/author2226.html"&gt;David Bloys&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;
	&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;A gun-rights organization is planning to hold a "gun-giveaway" on Thursday at the Mason District Government Center in Annandale, Virginia to protest New York City Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to crack down on allegedly illegal gun sales in Virginia.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/guns/" rel="tag"&gt;guns&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/protests/" rel="tag"&gt;protests&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/safety/" rel="tag"&gt;safety&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag"&gt;politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=35514</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 01:02:34 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>