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		<title>Opening my heart and asking for help</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, as I check myself into a residential treatment program to address my addiction to pornography, a condition that has almost completely torn my life apart and has caused irreparable harm to many people around me, I look toward a brighter future. I know that I have a lot of work to do. But I have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=967&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t believe in free speech? You are not alone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original Post (08.07.09): The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority on Tuesday removed signs from its buses that featured a religious message. The ads, sponsored by Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers for the entire month of August, stated simply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe in God? You are not alone.&#8221; According to IAF President Randy Henderson, the ads were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=889&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former sex crime convict leads rehab coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Storm Lake sex crime convict leads offender rehab coalition Still wrestling with his own demons, should Buena Vista University grad ever regain public trust? By Dana Larsen Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune Editor July 6, 2009 From an inmate to an advocate, former Buena Vista University resident advisor Kyle Payne has been named executive director of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=885&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual violence demands a comprehensive approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picked up by the Fort Dodge Messenger, Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune, Des Moines Register, and Cedar Rapids Gazette. Over the next few days, thousands of former sex offenders in Iowa, many of whom have served their sentence and worked diligently to make amends, will be scrambling to comply with a wide range of new restrictions on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=878&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Offender Advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was published in the April 2009 email digest of the national Reform Sex Offender Laws (RSOL) organization. In this essay, I share the events that led me to get involved with RSOL, and later, to assume leadership of the Iowa chapter, known as the Iowa Coalition for Sex Offender Rehabilitation (mission statement at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=842&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in student government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time in student government during my junior year at Buena Vista University, serving on several committees, managing the Student Senate website, and most notably, being a thorn in most everyone&#8217;s side as a progressive voice that asked a lot of questions. I opposed giving $8,000 (of the university&#8217;s total bill of about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=811&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Iowans should not get to vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update (04.14.09): I left out a couple option opponents to same-sex marriage have to overturn Varnum v. Brien, though not because I overlooked them &#8211; I simply believed that no one would go to such extremes. Perhaps I was being naive. Citizens of my my hometown, and perhaps elsewhere in Iowa, have set up a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=779&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Same-Sex Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update (04.13.09): &#8212;&#8211;&#62;  .pdf copy of an anti-SSM petition from today&#8217;s meeting  &#60;&#8212;&#8211; During another town hall meeting today, I followed up with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) regarding his verbal attacks on the Iowa Supreme Court. Specifically, I asked if he felt it was responsible on his part to call for the resignation of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=732&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tradition for it&#8217;s own sake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Iowa Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage raised an important legal question about the notion of protecting tradition for it&#8217;s own sake. How much significance ought the maintenance of cultural traditions be granted when weighing questions of constitutional law? Under what circumstances should a particular cultural tradition be prioritized over legal norms such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=663&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Same-sex marriage in Iowa: The debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update (04.07.09): BIG NEWS: Vermont follows Iowa&#8217;s lead, legalizes same-sex marriage Gov. Chet Culver issued a statement of support for the Supreme Court decision A condensed version of my arguments from this post in today&#8217;s Sioux City Journal * Original Post (04.04.09): Now that I&#8217;ve had plenty of time to read the full 69-page Iowa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kylepayne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2128583&amp;post=608&amp;subd=kylepayne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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