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Citing Decorum, Maine Reps Ban Videos, Photographs Of Colleagues During Floor Sessions, Though “Selfies” Are Fine

Bill Gnade

The Portland Press Herald reports that the Maine House of Representatives voted this week to ban house members from "taking photographs or videos of one another during floor sessions."

The House's 91-53 vote was nearly split down party lines, the PPH reports, with Democrats in support of the new rule and Republicans opposed.

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Bishops Must Boot New York Governor Andrew Cuomo From Catholic Church for New All-Nine-Months Abortion Law, D.C. Pastor Says

Matthew McDonald

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should be denied communion and possibly excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for signing into a law a bill that allows abortion up to the point of birth, a Washington D.C. pastor says.

"It is time to end the charade, even the lie, that Andrew Cuomo and others like him are Catholics in good standing. They are not, and this must be made plain to them and to others," writes Monsignor Charles Pope in the National Catholic Register.

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