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January 23rd, 2012
03:48 PM ET
Jewish newspaper’s editor resigns over Obama assassination columnBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - A Jewish newspaper owner who attracted U.S. Secret Service attention for a column suggesting that Israel consider assassinating an American president has resigned as the paper’s editor, employees there said Monday. The resignation comes after a firestorm over the column and after a tearful apology from the editor-in-chief of Georgia’s Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler.  The 2011 Right to Life march in Washington.
January 23rd, 2012
10:01 AM ET
My Take: Why the abortion issue won’t go away
By R. Albert Mohler Jr., Special to CNN After recently addressing a large secular assembly on issues of moral controversy, I turned and faced a woman who urgently wanted to ask me a question: “Why won’t the abortion issue just go away?” I knew exactly what she was asking. I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. That was clearly the hope of the Supreme Court majority that signed onto the opinion written by Associate Justice Harry Blackmun. In a note he wrote to himself as he drafted the final opinion and looked to its aftermath, Blackmun revealed a rather optimistic assumption: “It will be an unsettled period for a while.” Surely, he didn’t mean for that “while” to extend four decades.
January 23rd, 2012
04:34 AM ET
Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Monday, January 23
By Dan Merica, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Jewish paper's column catches Secret Service's eye  A win in South Carolina is proof is that Gingrich can connect with evangelicals. CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals 
January 23rd, 2012
01:20 AM ET
Jewish paper's column catches Secret Service's eyeAtlanta, Georgia (CNN) - The U.S. Secret Service is looking into a controversial column by an Atlanta Jewish newspaper publisher that mulled the assassination of an American president. Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, wrote a January 13 column about the threat of Iran to Israel. He posed three options for the Jewish state to counter the Iranian regime. One of them called for a "hit on a president in order to preserve Israel's existence." "Give the go-ahead for U.S. based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States' policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies." FULL STORY |
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Editor's Note: R. Albert Mohler Jr. is president of 
