Did Chick-fil-A drop its opposition to same-sex marriage?
The restaurant chain’s president, Dan Cathy, sparked a national debate over gay marriage this summer by announcing his support for the “biblical definition” of marriage as being between a man and a woman. But the chain wrote Wednesday to Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno saying it would no longer fund anti-gay groups. Moreno has been blocking Chick-fil-A’s attempt to open restaurants in Chicago since Cathy announced his opposition to gay marriage.
What happened to the Beltway snipers?
It’s been nearly 10 years since John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a killing spree that terrorized the Washington area. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in Virginia in 2009. Malvo is serving six consecutive life sentences in a Virginia prison without the possibility of parole. Firing from a car, the pair killed 10 and injured three in October 2002, before being captured at a rest stop in Frederick, Md.
Was Jesus married?
A Harvard scholar this week unveiled a 4th-century fragment of papyrus that includes a reference to Jesus’ wife. A variety of experts have raised questions about the document’s authenticity, but the text apparently contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to “my wife” Mary. That would fly in the face of traditional Christian teachings that maintain Jesus never married.
