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Italian Protesters to Toss Panties at Berlusconi
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsSome Italian women are taking off their panties for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but not quite for the purpose he'd like. Italian women fed up with their prime minister's womanizing and alleged involvement in a prostitution ring plan to demonstrate Sunday at Berlusconi's mansion outside Milan. But instead of hurling tomatoes, eggs or just insults over the mansion's fence, they've opted for another rather ironic projectile: their underwear. Sunday's protest is one of several planned for this weekend, as Italians are calling for their prime minister's resignation amid allegations that he ...
Child-Sex Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Now a Grandmother [VIDEO]
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMary Kay Letourneau is now a grandmother, more than a decade after the teacher's affair with 13-year-old student Vili Fualaau shocked the country and landed her in prison. Letourneau, now 48, married Fualaau, 27, the father of two of her children. And now, the unusual couple have become grandparents. In December, baby Ava was born to Steve, one of Letourneau's four children from her first marriage. At 26 years old, Steve is only a year younger than Fualaau, but Letourneau, now a legal assistant, says her family is close, despite their very public ordeal and the seven years she spent away in ...
Berlusconi Sex Scandal: Vatican Breaks Silence, Demands 'More Robust Morality'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA top Vatican official has subtly but clearly rebuked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over allegations that Berlusconi paid a 17-year-old prostitute and other women for sex at parties in his villa near Milan. The remarks apparently signal an end to the church's quiet support for the controversial billionaire and media mogul. "The Holy See is watching these Italian matters with attention and, in particular, worry," Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state and ranking church official after Pope Benedict XVI, told reporters on Thursday when asked about the charges ...
Star Rugby Player Quits Team After Sex With Dog
By Matthew Hall - AOL News
(Nov. 11) -- A star Australian rugby league player has quit after a photograph of him performing a sex act with a dog was distributed on the Internet. Joel Monaghan played with the Canberra Raiders in Australia's National Rugby League, the highest level of professional rugby in the world -- a league as popular in parts of Australia as the NFL is in the United States. Monaghan was attending an end-of-season house party with up to 30 Canberra players and friends when someone snapped a photo of the star player with a teammate's Labrador dog. Mark Nolan, Getty Images Rugby star Joel Monaghan ...
Brett Favre and the Sex Factor: Who's at Fault?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – By now the bombshell allegations involving Brett Favre and the graphic pictures and suggestive voice-mail messages he sent to a female New York Jets employee are the focus of an N.F.L. investigation, but a side issue is simmering once again: Do women ask for it? Last week, on Oct. 7, the Web site Deadspin.com reported that in 2008 when he was the Jets quarterback, Favre sent salacious photos and messages to Jenn Sterger, who at the time was a Jets game-day hostess. The accusations rippled through the sports world, where rumors about the Favre-Sterger episode had circulated ...
Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess of 13 male partners and fellow Duke students, referring to them in her report as "subjects" (many of them Duke lacrosse players). Of course, this being the Internet era, Owen's thesis did not stay within her circle of friends: Having been forwarded to the Duke student body, ...
Sex Abuse Accuser Calls Georgia Pastor a 'Monster'
By not in system - AOL News
ATLANTA (Sept. 29) -- One of the young men accusing megachurch Bishop Eddie Long of coercing him into a sexual relationship told a TV interviewer that he loved the pastor and considered him a father figure, but still called him a "predator" and a "monster." "I loved him and I'm always going to have love for the things he taught us, but how he left us hurt worse than anything I ever felt in my life," Jamal Parris told Atlanta's Fox TV affiliate WAGA in an interview broadcast Tuesday. "This man turned his back on us when he had no more need for us. That's not a father, that's a ...
Fourth Man Sues Pastor in Growing Sex Scandal
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News
(Sept. 24) -- Bishop Eddie Long's list of alleged sins is not getting any shorter. A fourth man has filed a lawsuit claiming the embattled anti-gay megachurch leader seduced him into a sexual relationship when he was 17, according to The Associated Press. The lawsuit was filed today by Spencer LeGrande, a 22-year-old member of New Birth Charlotte, a North Carolina satellite of Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia. LeGrande claims that in 2005 Long told him he would be his "dad" and took him on a trip to Kenya where Long allegedly gave him a sleeping pill and where the two ...
Opinion: Bishop Long and What's Long Overdue for Christians
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- In the eyes of Bishop Eddie Long, "homosexuality is a manifestation of the fallen man." Given Long's history of vitriolic criticism of gays, it's easy to revel in the idea of him turning out to be another self-hating hypocrite who had to turn to teenage boys to deal with the man he truly is. Unfortunately, I worry that even if the "sexual coercion" charges leveled against Long by three young men are proven true, churchgoers may still use this lawsuit to further deepen their mistrust of homosexuals. If so, it will be another missed opportunity for many Christians to wake up and ...
Disgraced Pastor Ted Haggard Says New Church Will Welcome Everyone
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyTed Haggard, disgraced founder of the Evangelical New Life Church, is embarking on a new life of his own. Haggard announced today that he and his family will start a new church in Colorado Springs, Colo., with what he says will be an egalitarian bent: The Saint James Church which will be open to everyone, Republicans and Democrats, heterosexuals and homosexuals alike. Haggard, once an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, resigned as the head of his 14,000-member megachurch and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2006 when male prostitute Mike Jones said that the ...
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