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<p>The Alliance Defense Fund celebrates stripping couples of their rights: </p>
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<p>Joe <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/12/alliance-defense-fund-celebrates-their.html">writes</a>:</p>
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<p>Note how the clip hits on all this year&#8217;s big &quot;persecuted Christians&quot; stories. Styrofoam Cross Lady: check. New Mexico wedding photographer: check. Castro bible thumpers clip: check.</p>
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<p>The importance of portraying 2 percent of the population as far more powerful than the 98 percent and the need to keep that 2 percent from destroying civilization &#8211; and allegedly making Christianity illegal &#8211; has some interesting historical forebears.</p>
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