"TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND SCIENCES" is sponsored by the West Coast Religion Teachers Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to be hosted by the Loma Linda University School of Religion in 2008.

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Recently, several contributing writers to Spectrum have taken the position that laws against gay and lesbian marriage somehow violate separation of church and state. To arrive at this conclusion, I maintain that one must take the position that historical separation means that religious/ethical principles or publicly held mores written into civil law constitute a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

You should never do anything wicked and then lay in on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on another boy. -- Mark Twain.

On the campus of Caltech in Pasadena during the afternoon of December 9, 2007, conservative Christian author Dinesh D’ Souza debated libertarian skeptic writer and social scientist Michael Shermer. Is religion a force for good or evil was the title, but the subtopic was, can a person be good without God?

A message from Taylor Ruhl, President of SDA Kinship, International:

I am excited to announce our landmark new book, Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives! The book is edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy and David Larson.

In 2001 the Kinship Board established the Kinship Advisory Board, a group of straight Adventist leaders, to advise us and help us. This book is an outstanding result of the work of the Advisory Board.