Supreme Court & same-sex marriage, and other links

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* Boy Says He Didn't Go To Heaven; Publisher Says It Will Pull Book -- "The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven', Alex Malarkey, said this week that the story was all made up...I did not die. I did not go to Heaven."
* Building a True Church -- “A 'True Church' is one that takes seriously the mandates for the Church given by Scripture.”
* Emails Suggest Lifeway President Knew of Heaven Scam, Chose Not to Act -- "Why did Lifeway not listen to the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2014, who repudiated these books and passed a resolution accordingly?"
* Gay marriage: Supreme Court sets stage for historic ruling -- "Setting the stage for a potentially historic ruling, the Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry everywhere in America under the Constitution."
* ISIS developing means to ‘blow up’ a US city -- "The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunni militants are working on the capability to wipe out a city inside the United States."
* Mormon who runs website for faith questions faces discipline -- "John Dehlin of Logan said a regional church leader informed him Wednesday night that a disciplinary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 25"
* Newlywed Dies of Sepsis After Getting Flu -- "Katie McQuestion...got a flu shot to comply with hospital policy and had no underlying medical conditions, but she caught the flu and developed a serious complication from it: sepsis. She died on Jan. 2."
* Professor: Supreme Court Shouldn't Protect Speech I Don't Like -- "Simply put, would-be-censors are scared that they will not be able to exclude speech that they do not like from the marketplace of ideas."
* The Supreme Court and Same-Sex Marriage: Why This Matters for the Church -- "The Supreme Court may or may not do their job. We must make sure, no matter what, that we do ours."
* What We Talk About When We Talk About Race in Pop Culture -- "I had to move all the way to New York City before I realized how not-okay it was that most black people in my small North Carolina hometown lived in a sector everyone called Black Bottom."