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Non-religious voters wield clout, tilt heavily Democratic

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By Peter SMith, Peter Smith
| The Post-Star Verified
When members of the small Pennsylvania chapter of Secular Democrats of America log on for their monthly meetings, they're not there for a virtual happy hour. "We don't sit around at our meetings patting ourselves on the back for not believing in God together," said David Brown, a founder from the Philadelphia suburb of Ardmore.
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By Peter Smith Verified, Peter Smith, Peter SMith, Peter Smith
| The Post-Star Verified
The Southern Baptist Conventions' top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday - an LGBTQ-friendly church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it cited for "alleged discriminatory behavior." The votes of the Executive Committee came at the end of a two-day meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, even as the committee copes with a Department of Justice investigation.
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Religiously diverse Edmonton hosts Pope Francis' visit

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By Peter SMith, Peter Smith
| The Bismarck Tribune Verified
EDMONTON, Alberta — As Pope Francis pays a historic visit to Canada, he is encountering a country that is less Catholic, more secular and more religiously diverse than the last time it hosted a pontiff two decades ago. And the city where he landed on Sunday — Edmonton — reflects that diversity more than outsiders might expect from a provincial capital in Canada's prairie heartland. Edmonton and its province of Alberta do have a large, long-settled population of Christians of European descent.
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By Peter SMith, Peter Smith, Holly Meyer
| Detroit News Verified
A withering report on sexual abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. A viral video in which a woman confronts her pastor at an independent Christian for sexually preying on her when she was a teen. A TV documentary exposing sex abuse of children in Amish and Mennonite communities.
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