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The Wisconsin Senate is expected to vote this week on legislation that would prohibit webcam abortions. In Webcam abortions, doctors hundreds of miles away talk to women via the internet who are considering an abortion. They then push a button that releases an abortion-inducing drug. Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life says [...]

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Legislators in West Virginia are considering an amendment to the state’s constitution that would define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. But FPN says the proposal only protects the eight letters in the word marriage, and does nothing to actually protect the institution itself by also prohibiting civil unions, domestic partnerships, [...]

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A Colorado high school student has quit the school choir after the students were told they had to sing an Islamic song containing the lyric “there is no truth except Allah” and “Allah is the only eternal and immortal.” James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, Colorado, put his objection [...]

More than one in 10 U.S. children live with an alcoholic parent and are at increased risk of developing a host of health problems of their own, according to a new government study released on yesterday. Researchers at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration analyzed national survey data from 2005 through 2010 and [...]

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A Kansas Congressman has proposed legislation to protect the conscience rights of chaplains serving in the United States Armed Forces. Representative Tim Huelskamp has introduced the Military Religious Freedom Protection Act. The proposal would ensure that no chaplain could be required to officiate at so called same-sex commitment ceremony. The language provides that a chaplain [...]

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A research organization has just released a new study indicating that teen pregnancy and abortion rates are at a record low. The research was conducted by The Guttmacher Institute – a group that is funded by Planned Parenthood, America’s largest performer of abortions. FPN questions the findings saying “Just because reported pregnancy rates and surgical [...]

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Dozens of churches that are no longer welcome in New York City’s public schools are asking state officials and a federal court to intervene as they seek new venues for Sunday worship. Congregants are returning to Albany this week to ask the state Assembly to approve a Senate-passed bill that would give houses of worship [...]

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Pro-life leaders are slamming President Obama’s reported “concession to freedom of religion and conscience” on contraceptive mandates in the federal health care plan. Obama said that instead of forcing religious employers to pay for birth control, it will force insurance companies to offer the drugs free of charge to all women. Joe Glover, President of [...]

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Dozens of members of Congress are upset that the Air Force has removed the Latin word for “God” from the logo of an Air Force acquisitions office. 36 lawmakers this week sent a letter to the Air Force Secretary and Air Force Chief of Staff objecting to the removal of “God” from the logo of [...]

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A high-ranking official resigned this week from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, quit in disagreement over the charity’s decision to once again support Planned Parenthood. Handel said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest [...]

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US Senator Roy Blunt has filed legislation that would revoke the Obama Administration’s recent abortion drug mandate. Known as the “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act,” the bill would prevent implementation of new regulations that would require all health insurance plans to include contraceptive coverage. The contraceptive edict, issued by Health and Human Services Secretary [...]

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The Susan G. Komen Foundation did an about face last week, first saying it was severing its ties with Planned Parenthood because of investigations of the abortion giant and also because Planned Parenthood clinics do not perform mammograms, instead employing manual breast exams, which are not as reliable. And then under intense pressure from the [...]

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The U.S. Forest Service has reversed its decision to remove a World War Two memorial from Montana’s Big Mountain because it included a statue of Jesus. The Forest Service said it would re-authorize a permit for the 57-year-old statue after facing a firestorm of outrage from religious groups and local residents. The agency received more [...]

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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Christian graduate student who was expelled from a university counseling program because of her religious beliefs. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of Julea Ward, a student at Eastern Michigan University. Ward was dismissed from the school’s graduate counseling program because she [...]

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The Susan G. Komen Foundation, a group that raises money for breast cancer research, says it will no longer partner with Planned Parenthood affiliates. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing nearly 330,000 abortions in fiscal year 2010, while only making 841 adoption referrals during that time. Planned Parenthood has received hundreds of [...]

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An administrative law judge in New Jersey has found a Christian ministry guilty of discrimination for refusing to host a same-sex ceremony on its own property. Judge Solomon Metzger ruled that the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association violated a New Jersey law prohibiting discrimination based on “sexual orientation.” Ocean Grove operates a Christian retreat used [...]

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Barack Obama’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development has announced a new “Equal Access to Housing Rule” that it says will insure homosexuals and transgenders have the right to live where they chose. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan made the announcement Saturday in Baltimore at the 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality. Donovan said the new [...]

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Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the first openly gay member of Congress, is getting to his male partner. The wedding will be the first same-sex marriage for a U.S. congressman. New England Cable News reported that the lawmaker plans to marry Jim Ready, a 42-year-old small business owner from Maine. The 71-year-old Frank has not [...]

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Legislators in Washington State are on the verge of legalizing same sex marriage. The proposed law instituting so-called “gay marriage” in The Evergreen State is now likely to pass both state houses. If passed, Washington would join New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa and Washington, D.C. in allowing homosexuals to marry. It would [...]

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Remember those efforts by atheist groups to silence Christians at the nation’s military academies and bases? Here’s what they’ve planned next. The band Aiden will be playing at the atheist festival “Rock Beyond Belief at Fort Bragg in March. The band, known for its God mocking lyrics, will be the lead-in act to noted atheist [...]

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Last Sunday was the 39th anniversary of the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. As other presidents have done, President Obama issued a statement on the anniversary expressing his opinion on abortion. In his statement, President Obama took an unapologetically pro-abortion approach saying abortion “allows our daughters” to “fulfill their dreams.” The Family Policy Network points [...]

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Many church-affiliated institutions will have to cover free birth control for employees, the Obama administration announced last week in an election-year move that outraged religious groups, fueling a national debate about the reach of government. New York Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said “Never before has the federal government [...]

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By the time they leave elementary school, children should be able to “define sexual orientation,” and by the eighth grade be able to “define emergency contraception and its use.” That’s according to a report containing controversial new recommendations for sex education in U.S. public schools. The National Sexuality Education Standards” report said “Ideally, comprehensive sexuality [...]

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Homosexual activists are celebrating Indiana becoming the first state in the nation to approve a pro-homosexual specialty automotive license plate. The license plate advertises and funds a homosexual, bi-sexual, transgender teen recruitment and support center called the Indy Youth Group. The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles approved the specialty plate after previously expressing concerns about [...]

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National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins has approved four more human embryonic stem cell lines as eligible for federal taxpayer funding. The latest approval raises the total number of human embryonic stem cell lines at the federal trough to 146. The four new lines are all from UCLA. The latest approvals come less than [...]

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The American Family Association says its boycott of Home Depot may be having an impact. AFA spokesman, Randy Sharp says “We’re seeing some movement. It appears that the Home Depot is pulling back from their support of homosexual activism. However, we want to be cautious.” Sharp says it is possible the company is continuing to [...]

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Last week a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that religious employers can keep the government out of their hiring and firing decisions. In the case, former teacher Cheryl Perich argued that a Lutheran school in Michigan discriminated against her under the Americans With Disabilities Act by refusing to reinstate her in her job after she [...]

Last Friday, a federal appeals court ordered the immediate enforcement of a new Texas abortion law that asks abortion providers to play pregnant women the sounds of the fetal heartbeat. The law, enacted in 2011, requires abortion providers to perform an ultrasound on pregnant women, show and describe the image to them, and play sounds [...]

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A distinguished university professor is suing his school, claiming that he is being discriminated against for his views on creation and intelligent design. John Oller, a professor at University of Louisiana-Lafayette, writes and lectures on creation and intelligent design, arguing linguistic and genetic complexities are not a matter of chance. For this reason, the university [...]

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The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard arguments on the government’s power to regulate profanity and nudity on broadcast television in a challenge to a long-standing Federal Communications policy that goes back to comedian George Carlin’s “Seven Filthy Words” monologue. The major television networks contested the FCC’s indecency policy that was upheld in a 1978 [...]

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A Charlottesville, Virginia elementary school has been accused of making students sing a pro-Occupy Wall Street movement song. Written and performed in October as part of the Kid Pan Alley group the song has resulted in a backlash from parents nationwide. In the past few days, the song from the October performance has parents from [...]

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The Culture and Media Institute is taking issue with a recent story on the Huffington Post that declared, “Monogamy is Killing Marriage.” Vicki Larson came to that conclusion in a piece earlier this month titled “Why Men Need to Cheat.” Larson’s article attacks “monogamy’s stranglehold over our beliefs” while timidly admitting, “cheating however, serves men [...]

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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear a challenge to a South Dakota law that requires abortion-minded women be told of increased risks of depression and suicide. A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit had ruled the suicide provision unconstitutional. Now the full panel of Eighth Circuit judges has decided to rehear [...]

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More gambling and drinking are on tap for Atlantic City in 2012 and with it no doubt a new wave of human misery. New Jersey regulators are letting casinos put slot machines and table games into places they’ve never been before. They’re also letting casinos sell or give away alcohol in places like a clothing [...]

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Twelve nurses in a New Jersey hospital who refused to participate in abortions will be able to keep their jobs under an agreement reached in federal court. The nurses were threatened with termination by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Under the agreement, the nurses will no longer be required to undergo [...]

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Just three days before Christmas, Ohio joined 11 other states in passing laws opting out of abortion coverage in the state-based insurance exchanges. Pro-life Ohio Governor John Kasich put his signature on the legislation that prevents taxpayers from having to pay for abortion coverage under the health insurance exchanges required under ObamaCare. 2011 saw more [...]

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2011 saw significant gains for advocates of school. More states passed school voucher and scholarship tax credit legislation than ever before. Andrew Campanella, vice president of National School Choice Week told One news now that “It took 20 years for the school-choice movement to pass 20 school-choice programs into law. And this year, seven new [...]

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Two doctors accused of performing late-term abortions in Maryland, including one in which a woman was critically injured, have been arrested and charged with murder. Dr. Steven Brigham of Voorhees, N.J. and Dr. Nicola Irene Riley of Salt Lake City, Utah are awaiting an extradition hearing. A Cecil County grand jury handed up indictments last [...]

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2012 brings some new laws across America. In New Hampshire, girls seeking abortions must first tell their parents or a judge. Conservatives reinstated the law over a gubernatorial veto. The state enacted a similar law eight years ago, but it was never enforced following a series of lawsuits. In Arkansas, facilities that perform 10 or [...]

A staunch opponent of predatory gambling doesn’t see the benefit of the U.S. Justice Department deciding to open the door for Internet gambling. Though Internet gambling is forbidden if it crosses state or national borders, the Obama administration’s DOJ has ruled that it is legal within a state’s borders, except for sports betting. Les Bernal [...]

Liberty Institute has filed suit, appealing to the US Supreme Court, to review a decision in what has become known as the “candy cane” case. Kelly Shackelford of Liberty Institute is asking the High Court to hold school officials accountable for violating students’ First Amendment rights. The Fifth Circuit earlier ruled students could not be [...]

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A new opinion from President Obama’s Justice Department opens the door for states to allow various forms of online gambling operated by lotteries and other gambling interests. Proponents of legalized online gambling say the business could provide new sources of revenue for state coffers. But others say that the free-flowing nature of the Internet is [...]

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Tim Tebow’s “Through My Eyes” is the top-selling new release of 2011. The life story of the Denver Bronco’s quarterback from HarperOne, a leading religion book publisher, has sold 220,000 copies since its June launch and has outsold Rob Bell’s best-seller “Love Wins,” which sparked intense debate with its unorthodox views about hell. As soon [...]

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Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court this week that asks the court to weigh in on the now-defunct Nampa Classical Academy’s lawsuit against Idaho state officials for prohibiting the use of the Bible in the school’s curriculum. The lawsuit involves the Idaho Public Charter School Commission’s ban on the [...]

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Travis Air Force Base says it will not remove or relocate a Nativity scene and a Menorah in spite of a threat from The Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The group considered the display a violation of the US constitution. The Office of the Air Force Judge Advocate General disagreed, saying, upon review, the inclusion of [...]

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The phrase “Don’t Mess with Texas” took on fresh significance over the weekend as thousands rallied in a small Texas town to defend the community’s nativity display. Over 5000 residents gathered in Athens, Texas on Saturday to show their support for the display, which is erected each year on the county courthouse lawn by a [...]

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Members of the House of Representatives are being told that no holiday greetings, including “Merry Christmas,” can be sent out in official mail. According to the Washington Examiner, members who submit official mailings for review by the congressional franking commission that analyzes all congressional mail to determine if it can be paid for with tax [...]

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A new scientific field known as “fetal origins” is making news. Scientists involved in the study are coming to the groundbreaking realization that learning starts in the womb, much earlier than many imagined. Scientist and author Annie Murphy Paul says “The fetus, we now know, is not an inert blob, but an active and dynamic [...]

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More teens are turning to pot and see it as less of a risk. At the same time alcohol use among the same age group has dipped to historic lows. Those are some of the findings in an annual national survey of drug use. The study, from the University of Michigan, found one of every [...]

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A new study finds that the media is treating President Obama’s potential opponents a lot differently than they treated him in 2007 and 2008. The Culture and Media Institute found that while the networks had virtually no interest in the connection between Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, they have suddenly discovered religion when it comes [...]

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Later this month students all over the US will be taking time off from their studies. In Florida, lawmakers are debating what that time away should be called. Is it Winter break? Holiday break? Or Christmas break? New legislation sponsored by state Senator Steve Wise would require districts to officially refer to the period during [...]

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National Right to Life and other pro-life groups are dismissing a new study claiming “abortion is not associated with an increase in mental health problems.” The British Academy of Medical Royal Colleges commissioned the study. Anthony Ozimic, communications manager for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, a British pro-life organization, said the study’s [...]

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The Texas Supreme Court says it will decide whether marriage can continue to be defined as a union between one man and one woman. Two cases are before the state’s high court. They involve same-gender couples that “married” in Massachusetts, moved to Texas, and then filed for divorce. Hiram Sasser of Liberty Institute says the [...]

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Under heavy pressure from Congressional and religious leaders, the Navy has rescinded a policy that forbade visitors from giving Bibles or religious articles to wounded troops at the nation’s leading military hospital. In a memo regarding visits to patients at Walter Reed hospital, chief of staff C.W. Callahan wrote: “No religious items are allowed to [...]

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House Republicans sharply criticized the Department of Health and Human Services last week for “politicizing” federal grants that benefit victims of human trafficking. Why was the most experienced and top-rated grant applicant — the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — not selected, while lower-ranked groups got the money instead? The answer is discrimination. Representative Chris [...]

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A young woman was fired from a Macy’s department store for refusing to permit a man dressed as a woman from entering the women’s dressing room. Natalie Johnson saw a young man walk out of the women’s fitting room and told him that he could not go back in because it was for women only. [...]

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Last week, the Senate voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision that not only repeals the military law on sodomy but also the military ban on bestiality. The Senate Armed Services Committee had earlier unanimously approved a similar measure. Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, said the effort [...]

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In Massachusetts Will Higgins has won the South Division’s fall swimming and diving championships for girls. Will is a boy. So what is a boy doing competing in a championship race for girls? Will Higgins is among “roughly two dozen boys competing on girls teams in Massachusetts – because their schools do not have boys [...]

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Despite statements from Herman Cain’s lawyer that a person’s sexual life should not be questioned, Christian leaders contend that discerning voters do have an interest in and a right to know whether or not public officials are keeping their marriage vows. Family Policy Network Policy Analyst Alex Mason said character is what one does when [...]

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Another study is out showing a relationship between abortion and breast cancer. This one out of Armenia finds a nearly three-fold increased breast cancer risk for women who have undergone one induced abortion. The study, “Influence of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Prolonged Estrogen Exposure on Risk of Breast Cancer Among Women in Armenia,” was [...]

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A new poll reveals that the misinformation campaign waged by pro-abortion forces contributed to the defeat of Mississippi’s Personhood Amendment. The poll shows that many of the “No” votes came from voters who were heavily influenced by Mississippians for Health Families, a front group for abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Most of those who voted against [...]

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Last week, a pastor in Oklahoma received multiple death threats after he spoke for two minutes at a city council meeting in Oklahoma City, arguing against adding “sexual orientation” to the city’s anti-discrimination policy. Paul Blair, Pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond told the council that the law was unnecessary and would create an [...]

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British Columbia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman last week upheld Canada’s polygamy law, which makes multiple marriages illegal. The judge said that while the law “minimally impairs” the constitutional right of religious freedom, it is justified by the harms polygamy causes to women, children and society. The decision was handed down after a 42-day [...]

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Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, says the FBI’s hate crimes statistics for 2010 seem to differ significantly from what is commonly reported by the mainstream media. After analyzing the numbers in the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics report for 2010 he concludes that there is a clear bias against religion. Barber says “There [...]

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Forty-one percent of Americans are unable to name the most influential Christian leader in the United States while another eight percent think it might be President Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, Billy Graham garners the highest name recognition among Christian leaders with four out of every 10 Americans — giving top recognition to the evangelist according [...]

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An unsuccessful attempt to pass a personhood amendment in Mississippi was not the last we’ll hear of the strategy. A Denver-based group that sponsored an unsuccessful personhood amendment in Mississippi — declaring fertilization the starting point of life — is mobilizing again to push a fortified measure in Colorado, Oregon and Montana. Personhood amendments have [...]

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The US House of Representatives has approved a resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as our country’s national motto. The resolution also encourages the public display of the motto in all public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions. Congressman Randy Forbes of Virginia says the action was needed to “confront a cloud of confusion” [...]

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A new article in the New York Post, entitled “The End of Down Syndrome,” details a new type of scientific test that can detect Down Syndrome in unborn children. However, based on the article’s shocking implications, it would be more aptly titled “The End of Down Syndrome Children.” Though the article’s original title seems to [...]

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To the surprise of many, an attempt by Senate Democrats to fast-track a funding bill laden with pro-abortion provisions ran into an immovable procedural wall — erected by a group of pro-life senators. Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid attempted to move to the Senate floor a so-called “mini-bus” — a measure combining three different appropriations [...]

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A federal judge will hear oral arguments Friday in a case involving a group of hospital nurses in New Jersey who were ordered to assist in abortions or be fired. U.S. District Judge Jose Linares will hear the lawsuit filed by twelve nurses employed by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Judge [...]

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US Roman Catholic Bishops opened meetings in Baltimore this week. Among the bishops’ top concerns are religious exemptions in states that legalize same-sex marriage. In Illinois, government officials stopped working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster-care placements after 40 years because the agency refused to recognize a new civil union law. Illinois bishops are [...]

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For more than a decade, an independent, statutory monitor has been advising the U.S. executive and legislative branches on international religious freedom, drawing attention to the persecution of people of faith under Muslim, communist and autocratic regimes from Riyadh to Rangoon. But by this time next week, it may have to close its doors. The [...]

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Senate Democrats who back gay marriage want to repeal a federal law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. While the Democrats may satisfy their gay marriage supporters, the bill won’t get very far. The full Senate is unlikely to go along with the unpopular plan. The bill’s chief sponsor, Sen. [...]

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The Mississippi Personhood amendment failed on Election Day 58 to 42 percent. The amendment would have outlawed abortion in the state by defining human life as beginning at conception, which is a scientific fact. It was hailed by many pro-lifers as the most significant and most well-supported effort to end abortion in America since the [...]

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Two-thirds of Americans believe it is important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs, even if those beliefs are different than their own, according to a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute. When asked about specific religious faiths and the presidency, 29 percent of Americans would be uncomfortable with an evangelical Christian [...]

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The Obama administration is opposing legislation that would add President Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. At a House hearing last week, Robert Abbey, director of the Bureau of Land Management, said a plaque or inscription of the prayer that Roosevelt read on a radio broadcast to the [...]

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Tomorrow in Mississippi, voters will have a chance to weigh in on a ballot initiative that would change the state’s constitution to declare that life begins at conception. The leader of the effort is attorney Brad Prewitt who says “Fighting for preservation of the unborn in the state of Mississippi — that’s a cause worth [...]

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The US House this week passed a non-binding resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto. The measure sponsored by Representative Randy Forbes of Virginia, supports and encourages the motto’s display in all public schools and government buildings. Forbes said the resolution was needed because President Obama had once called “E pluribus unum” [...]

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Two employees of a late-term abortion clinic in Philadelphia have plead guilty to crimes involving the murder of preborn children. The two women were employees at the Family Medical Society facility operated by Kermit Gosnell. That clinic has been described by authorities as “house of horrors” and a “human slaughterhouse.” Adrienne Moton was charged by [...]

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If a church broadcasts the word of God on TV without closed captions, it risks incurring the wrath of the FCC. Some 300 small- to medium-sized churches can expect letters from the commission within the next few days explaining why their closed captioning exemptions were lifted for TV shows like “Power in the Word” and [...]

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A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is very favorable disposed toward ObamaCare, finds that support for the health care plan has fallen off the table. The public is “souring” on what is bound to be a much debate issue during next year’s presidential contest. 51% of the adult respondents had an unfavorable [...]

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A federal judge heard arguments last week on whether a central Missouri school district should be barred from using Internet filtering software that has prevented automatic access to some websites with information on gay, lesbian and transgender issues. No immediate decision was made on whether to impose a preliminary injunction against the Camdenton School District [...]

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A major seven-year study published in a mainstream journal is challenging the secular notion that gays and lesbians cannot change their sexual orientation. The longitudinal study followed 61 subjects for several years and found that 23 percent of them reported successful conversion to heterosexual orientation and function and another 30 percent reported stable behavioral chastity [...]

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Children of God for Life have filed a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission and PepsiCo on the use of aborted fetal cells for the research and development of flavor enhancers for pepsi products. About a year ago PepsiCo entered into a 4 year agreement with Senomyx for the development of artificial high-potency [...]

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Many are relieved that the censoring of Christians has ended at the US Veterans Administration. We told you yesterday that a legal agreement guaranteeing religious freedom during burial services at national veterans’ cemeteries had been reached. Inge Conley, Commander of VFW District 4, said he was “glad to see the VA overturn these policies, which [...]

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Veterans at the Houston National Cemetery are celebrating a national victory for religious freedom and expression. Federal Judge Lynn Hughes signed a consent decree ordering the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to stop banning prayer and the word “God” at national cemeteries, to revoke national policies hostile to religion, and to reopen the chapel at [...]

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The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian nonprofit organization, has come to the defense of Viki Knox, the New Jersey teacher whose controversial anti-homosexual Facebook comments resulted in a paid administrative leave. ADF claims that Knox engaged in protected speech, and therefore should not be penalized for her views, ADF Senior Counsel Byron Babione said “Viki [...]

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The American Civil Liberties Union was in federal court this week arguing that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must never again contract with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — unless the religious organization changes its policies that are in keeping with its teachings. The bishops have contracted with HHS since [...]

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The Pacific Justice Institute is going to court on behalf of a California couple that was fined by local officials for hosting a Bible Study in their home. Chuck and Stephanie Fromm were slapped with a $300 fine by the city of San Juan Capistrano for holding a Bible Study meeting in their residence. City [...]

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The saga of the Mt. Soledad memorial cross continues, as plans now are to appeal the latest ruling against the cross to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Ninth Circuit ruled that the Mt. Soledad memorial cross near San Diego — which has been used to honor veterans for more than 56 years — must be [...]

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By a bipartisan vote of 251-172, the U.S. House of Representatives last week approved the Protect Life Act, a bill to nullify the multiple abortion-expanding provisions of the 2010 federal health care law also known as “ObamaCare.” Earlier this month the White House issued a formal veto threat against the Protect Life Act. Douglas Johnson [...]

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A Texas honors student has been suspended from school for expressing his opposition to homosexuality. Dakota Ary was given a three-day suspension from Western Hills High School in Fort Worth, Texas, because of his remark. The topic of homosexuality arose during a German class, and Ary said, “I’m a Christian and, to me, being homosexual [...]

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A federal appeals court has ruled that a California School District can ban patriotic banners from the classroom. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says teachers are public employees, and school districts can control their messages. For more than 25 years Bradley Johnson placed red, white, and blue banners around his classroom with common patriotic [...]

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Left leaning actors may want to think twice about making political statements just before their movie’s premier. That’s the conclusion of a poll conducted for The Hollywood Reporter to gauge moviegoing tendencies. The findings make clear that political allegiances have shifted entertainment viewing habits. For example, Morgan Freeman went on CNN to proclaim that Tea [...]

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According to the US State Department, there is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan.The report casts a shadow on the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime. In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion [...]

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Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, says the recently announced congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood is long overdue. The House Committee on Oversight and Investigations is looking into Planned Parenthood’s expenditure of Medicaid, family planning, and other federal dollars. Yoest says she welcomes “the news that Congress is investigating the abortion mega-provider Planned [...]

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The journal Nature last week reported that scientists for the first time have succeeded in using human eggs to turn specialized cells into stem cells — a step those doing the work claim will help pave the way for patient-specific cell-replacement therapies. The reality is this kind of research is clinically useless. Researchers paid women [...]

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A federal Congressional committee has initiated an investigation into the business practices of the Planned Parenthood of America. Congressman Cliff Stearns of Florida, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations, is spearheading the study. Stearns is calling for an examination of Planned Parenthood’s expenditure of Medicaid, family planning, and other federal dollars. [...]

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Is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie a reliable advocate for the unborn? Alex Mason of FPN says Christie’s statements and actions over the past two years cast his pro-life credentials into serious doubt. Many pro-lifers believed Christie’s veto of Planned Parenthood funding actually hurt the abortion giant. But in reality, the clinic that closed was [...]

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The Supreme Court has let stand a lower court ruling that found World Vision can fire employees who don’t accept its Christian doctrinal statement. Three fired employees sued World Vision in 2007, arguing that the charity’s main focus was on relief rather than religious work, so it should not be allowed to hire only fellow [...]

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In its opening weekend, the Christian film Courageous packed theaters and was a huge success at the box office. The story is a group of sheriff’s deputies whose lives are riddled with family failures — divorce, unwed fatherhood, a father’s abandonment and more. The police drama stressing the importance of fatherhood was fifth overall in [...]

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The Census Bureau admitted last week that it had “artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples” in the United States, initially reporting a number that was about 40 percent higher than what it now believes is accurate. The original data published by the 2010 Census set the number of same-sex households in 2010 at more [...]

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Congressional Democrats are objecting to a proposed investigation of Planned Parenthood over its alleged criminal activity. Representative Cliff Stearns, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations, recently wrote to Planned Parenthood asking the abortion giant to release information related to its operating procedures when dealing with underage girls who are victims of statutory [...]

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Here’s a sentence you would not expect to read on the National Geographic website; “Before its first breath, a human baby has been through an incredible transformation from a single cell to a complex self-sustaining organism.” That’s the opening sentence to a remarkable new short video on National Geographic’s website featuring some amazing 4-D ultrasound [...]

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The Virginia Department of Social Services is considering a change in regulations that would pave the way for homosexuals to adopt children. In April, the VDSS adopted regulations that prohibit private adoption agencies in the commonwealth from denying or delaying adoption or foster care on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Homosexual activists, [...]

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In record numbers, Young adults are struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock, if they’re becoming parents at all. The unemployment rate for them is the highest since World War II, and they risk living in poverty more than others – [...]

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Dr. Richard Land of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission says if a Republican is elected president next year, military leaders will start telling the truth about the negative consequences of allowing homosexuals to openly serve in the military. He called it a “sad day” for the men and women of the military when the [...]

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According to a new survey, nine out of ten Protestant pastors don’t want the government regulating their sermons. The Alliance Defense Fund and LifeWay Research conducted the study and found that the vast majority of pastors do not believe the government should interfere with sermons under the threat of revoking their tax-exempt status. That’s been [...]

If you’re worried about animals, what’s the best way to get your message out? The group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thinks the best way is to create a pornographic website to promote its animal rights and vegan diet message. PETA spokeswoman Lindsay Rajt said in a telephone interview with CNS News.com that [...]

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Legal claims filed by the lesbian partners of two women killed in a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair last month could lead Indiana to examine how it defines survivors in wrongful death cases despite the state’s stance against same-sex unions. Indiana’s wrongful death statute allows next of kin to collect damages. One of [...]

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North Carolina voters are going to get a say on marriage. Last week, the North Carolina Senate voted to send a proposed constitutional amendment to the state’s voters. It means that next May, voters in the Tar Heel state will vote on a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union between one man [...]

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More Americans are tailoring religion to fit their needs. That’s according to George Barna who, in his new book titled “Futurecast”, predicts that America is headed for “310 million people with 310 million religions. Barna tracks changes from 1991 to 2011, in annual national surveys of U.S. adults. All the major trend lines of religious [...]

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Attorney Mat Staver says a federal judge was right on the mark this week in deeming unconstitutional the “individual mandate” that is considered central to President Barack Obama’s controversial healthcare reform law. The latest ruling involving ObamaCare deemed it unconstitutional to force people to buy health insurance — an element of the law otherwise known [...]

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Two special elections this week stunned pro-abortion Democrats. Two weeks ago pro-abortion New York Assemblyman David Weprin was the odds on favorite to win in the state’s 9th Congressional District. The optimism seemed well placed; the district has been a Democratic stronghold for decades. But pro-life Republican businessman Bob Turner overcame Weprin and the last [...]

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A recent study in the journal Contraception reveals that cohabiting women who accidentally get pregnant are eight times more likely to abort their children than married women in the same circumstances. According to the study, almost 60 cohabiting women in every 1,000 will abort their children. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project told [...]

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With another new television season upon us, a TV watchdog group is warning parents to prepare for another season of filth. Matt Philbin, managing editor of the Media Research Center says the upcoming season proves “Hollywood is out of ideas — and if they can’t center a show around sex, they really don’t have a [...]

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One of the nation’s leading atheist organizations is demanding that a Mississippi School District prohibit the distribution of Bibles on school premises. The Freedom from Religion Foundation is calling on the DeSoto County School District to stop the Gideons from offering Bibles to fifth-grade students at two elementary schools. Annie Gaylor, President of FFRF, says [...]

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Women who have undergone an abortion have an 81 percent higher risk for mental health problems and are more likely to attempt suicide, abuse alcohol and suffer depression. That’s according to a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry. The paper’s author, Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, said there actually are “hundreds of [...]

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With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, a public policy research organization says the tragic events of that day get little to no mention in classrooms throughout America. According to a recent study, less than half the states clearly identify the 9/11 attacks in their standards for social studies. But when the subject is inevitably [...]

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With the official end of the U.S. military’s ban two weeks away, gay-rights activists are pressing the Pentagon for more than just the right to serve openly. An underground group of gay personnel says it has won permission from at least two military branches to let it distribute its magazine, Outserve, on bases. In addition, [...]

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A study released in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggests 97 percent of doctors have encountered someone who sought an abortion, but that only 14 percent were willing to do so. Dr. Sandy Christiansen of the Christian Medical & Dental Association doesn’t think the research tells the whole story because it didn’t look at [...]

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A federal judge last week blocked key provisions of a new Texas law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling the measure violates the free speech rights of both doctors and patients. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks upheld the requirement that sonograms be performed, but struck down the provisions requiring doctors [...]

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not reconsider his decision to exclude clergy from the ceremony marking 10 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The statement comes despite increased pressure from religious and conservative leaders. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said Americans “turned to God [...]

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Earlier this week police in Orange County, California arrested a woman after she allegedly threw her disabled 7-week-old son from atop a parking garage at Children’s Hospital. The baby boy had been receiving treatment at the hospital for various birth defects. Prosecutors allege that Sonia Hermosillo removed the helmet her son wore due to one [...]

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Recent news reports about Vice President Joe Biden not “second-guessing” China’s one-child policy were a surprise to Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, who had numerous discussions with then-Senator Biden on the topic when both men were working on establishing Free Radio Asia in the early 1990s. Mosher told CNSNews.com that he briefed [...]

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A new national poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports finds more than half of Americans still believe abortions are morally wrong, although the polling finds different results from most surveys when asking whether respondents are pro-life or pro-choice. Rasmussen found 55% believe abortion is morally wrong most of the time, a finding that shows little change [...]

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Google has pulled the welcome mat from under churches and other faith-based groups that previously were able to use its office software and popular Gmail for free when it, in effect, banned God from a program. The Internet search and software giant’s new rules fly in the face of the program title of “Google for [...]

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The school board in Lake County, Florida, has reinstated teacher Jerry Buell who was removed from the classroom last week over comments he posted on his personal Facebook page expressing his disapproval of the legalization of homosexual “marriage” in New York. Buell had been temporarily transferred to an administrative assignment after posting his view against [...]

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A fair in Antelope Valley, California is under fire for removing rainbow-colored flags from the fairgrounds. After hearing complaints from fairgoers about the pro-homosexual symbolism of rainbow flags, fair organizers took them down, saying they were unaware of the symbolism and citing their desire to avoid taking a position on the issue. But predictably, homosexuals [...]

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A French company has come out with a line of lacy, frilly, silky, possibly even seductive undergarments for girls as young as four. Advertising for the line features little girls, clad only in bras and underwear, posing carelessly cool, wearing sunglasses and heavy makeup. Many are calling it appalling. Micah Clark, Executive Director at the [...]

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The ACLU has targeted a Virginia county over the prayers used to open meetings at the county’s board of supervisors meetings. According to the ACLU, the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors begins its meetings with prayers that “are consistently Christian in nature; that is, they explicitly refer to Jesus Christ.” The ACLU claims the prayers [...]

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While many churches have done away with Sunday School, Southern Baptists are thrilled that this summer’s Sunday School Leadership Conference likely was “the largest Sunday School weekend ever in its history. That’s according to Bruce Raley, director of leadership and evangelism at LifeWay Christian Resources. Pastors, ministers of education, state executives, deacons and Sunday School [...]

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Some sobering news for parents of teenagers: A survey of ob/gyns conducted earlier this year found that 94 percent would provide contraceptives to a minor without notifying her parents. The doctors were presented with a hypothetical case of a 17-year-old college freshman who asks them for contraceptive pills but does not want her parents to [...]

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A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control indicates that almost 20% of homosexual men have the AIDS virus. An even more shocking aspect of the new study shows that nearly half of those men are unaware of their infected status. While the new findings correspond to older research on the topic, this [...]

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Missouri is the latest state to be faced with an effort to legalize the sale and use of marijuana. A newly formed group calling itself “Show-Me Cannabis” is seeking passage of either a constitutional amendment or a new state law that would decriminalize possession and use of marijuana for any purpose by residents 21 and [...]

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With a new school year upon us, it won’t be long before Christian students are challenged for praying in school or during school events. To help differentiate law from intimidation FCA, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, with help from Christian free speech advocates the Alliance Defense Fund, are writing a 23-page handbook on members’ rights [...]

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A new nationwide survey shows that Americans oppose plans by the Obama Administration to require all health insurance plans to cover abortion-inducing drugs. A new Rassmussen opinion poll says that 46% oppose the mandate that every health insurance policy pay for all contraceptives approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. 39% of those surveyed [...]

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Members of a North Carolina county commission say they will appeal to the US Supreme Court a federal court ruling that prohibits Christian invocations before their commission meetings. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a split decision, upheld a lower court ruling that banned “sectarian” prayers at meetings of the Forsyth County Commission. [...]

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An Ohio appeals court has ruled that religious beliefs may not be the basis for diagnosing incompetency. A lower court had ruled that John Daley was incompetent to stand trial on charges of leaving threatening voicemails and writing an aggressive letter to a county employee because of his strongly held religious beliefs. Daley was then [...]

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A concert event organized by atheists and agnostics has been cleared by the Army to take place next spring at Fort Bragg. Organizers planned to hold the Rock Beyond Belief event this year, but they canceled after saying Bragg leadership was not providing the same support it gave to an evangelical Christian concert last fall. [...]

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The latest attack on Crisis Pregnancy Centers from liberal politicians is over advertising. Officials in San Francisco want to introduce an initiative that would stop “limited-services pregnancy centers” from producing what they call “misleading advertising.” The city attorney’s office has informed First Resort, a crisis pregnancy center, that its advertising must affirm that the office [...]

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The Obama administration says it is strengthening the United States’ efforts to stop genocide around the world. Last week the president announced the creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board that will develop strategies to ensure that the U.S. doesn’t respond to mass atrocities and genocide too late. But the Family Policy Network says at the [...]

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ABC Family became the second network to receive an excellent rating from a gay advocacy organization for its positive portrayal of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. The rating comes from GLAAD – the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a report that grades broadcast and cable networks for the quantity and quality of homosexual [...]

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Even though a North Carolina county was forced to cease its public meeting prayers, The Alliance Defense Fund is urging several California cities to ignore threats from atheists that they’ll sue if prayers continue in those locales. ADF sent letters to Colton, Escondido, Highland, and Yorba Linda, as well as San Bernardino County to urge [...]

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A Christian grassroots movement of former teachers is providing a conservative backlash against the National Education Association. The Grand Lake Patriots recently hosted a presentation by former educators who are calling attention to how the NEA actively promotes abortion and the homosexual agenda. Judy Bruns of the group reports that hundreds of thousands of teachers’ [...]

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A nondescript office park 30 miles north of central Washington, D. C. is becoming a battleground in the nationwide conflict. At the center of the battle is the infamous late term abortionist LeRoy Carhart. He recently started performing abortions in the office park. On Saturday night, pro life activists launched Summer of Mercy 2.0. Organizers [...]

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Pro-lifers in North Carolina are celebrating a legislative victory. Both the House and Senate have voted to override Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue’s veto of the Women’s Right to Know Act, and Mary Spaulding Balch of the National Right to Life Committee deems it “a great victory for mothers and their children.” She says the ruling [...]

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Y-PEER, a youth initiative of the United Nations Population Fund, wants to make access to abortion and contraception an international human right for children as young as 10 years old. The group also issued what U.N. analysts say is a call for the decriminalization of prostitution and drug use, and for “confidentiality” in health-care services [...]

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A homosexual advocacy group is getting taxpayer money to increase the percentage of schools that set up “safe spaces” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network will receive $285,000 annually for five years to partner with 20 targeted school districts across the country to help keep LBGT students [...]

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A conference on youth being held now at the United Nations appears to be bent on making youngsters “completely autonomous beings” unencumbered by parental authority or influence. All the efforts to create new rights for youth are being finalized in the conference, according to Terrence McKeegan of C-FAM — including sexual rights and reproductive rights, [...]

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Pro family groups are denouncing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” calling it “an attack on religious freedom. Daniel Blomberg of the Alliance Defense Fund said in a statement, “Our troops’ religious liberties are in unprecedented jeopardy because the government has caved in to pressure from small groups of activists to impose homosexual and [...]

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Liberty Institute says the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ reaction to accusations of religious censorship at the Houston National Cemetery stoops to a “new low.” Liberty institute filed suit on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion, and The National Memorial Ladies over allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the [...]

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The Obama administration will support a congressional effort to repeal a federal law that defines marriage as a legal union between a man and woman. The news comes five months after Obama instructed the U.S. Attorney General to stop defending DOMA. Opponents of same-sex marriage have decried the Justice Department’s refusal to defend the law [...]

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A second town clerk in upstate New York says she’s resigning over her religious objection to homosexual marriage, which becomes legal in the state on Sunday. Ruth Sheldon, town clerk for 15 years in Granby, 25 miles north of Syracuse, said she has submitted her resignation effective Saturday. Last week, Barker Town Clerk Laura Fotusky [...]

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We told you yesterday about the new California law that requires students in that state to be taught about the “historical contributions” of homosexuals, bisexuals, and so-called “transgenders.” But while the move is a blatant rejection of God’s standards and parental rights in California, it was designed to have an effect on the entire nation’s [...]

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A bill signed into law earlier this month by California Governor Jerry Brown requires public schoolchildren to be taught about the “historical contributions” of homosexuals, bisexuals, and so-called “transgenders.” The bill forbids any school to use textbooks that do not wholly approve of and speak kindly of those practices. FPN calls the law a “slap [...]

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A four-week national awareness campaign called “Be Aware: Porn Harms” is underway. Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media says the drive’s messages will be pornography’s role in addiction, harm to children, sex trafficking, and violence against women.” Several online events are planned as well as a few conference calls that you can join [...]

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The Department of Health and Human Services recently authorized new grants for its Healthy Marriage Initiative and for “education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills and budgeting.” But one of the “unallowable activities” is teaching abstinence. Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association says she’s “never seen anything [...]

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In a New York Times opinion piece, ominously titled “How Moral Norms Evolve,” Stanford University Law Professor Ralph Richard Banks claims the cases against polygamy and incest are not nearly as strong as most people imagine. He writes, “Over time, our moral assessments of these practices will shift, just as they have with interracial marriage [...]

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that pits the Fox television network against the Federal Communications Commission. Initially, Fox and other networks were charged with violating obscenity rules during times that young people might be watching. That case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which sent it back to the lower [...]

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A coalition of pro-family groups are working to convince NBC that it should scrap one of its new fall programs, The Playboy Club. NBC is touting the show as “a provocative new series [that] captures a time and place that challenged the social mores, where a visionary created an empire, and an icon changed American [...]

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As culture battles over the definition of marriage, what is the biblical view of the institution? Marriage was created and defined by God from the beginning. While it is open to all humankind, it is nonetheless described in Scripture as a covenant commitment between one man, one woman, and God. Even when the man and [...]

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The interest in marriage has been greatly increased of late because of the cultural battle to legitimize so-called “gay marriage.” As a result, many Christians can easily describe what a marriage is but can they describe what marriage is from a Biblical perspective? The unbiblical idea pushed by homosexual activists that a family consists merely [...]

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In New Jersey, city officials have told a resident he cannot display a Christian cross on his yard. Patrick Racaniello of Livingston, New Jersey wanted to celebrate Lent by placing a small wooden cross on a tree in his front yard. When this angered one of his neighbors, who began screaming at him and his [...]

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Organizers of a national effort to get people back to church are hoping to draw entire communities to the pews. National Back to Church Sunday is September 18. Spokesman Philip Nation tells OneNewsNow 3,800 churches were involved in last year’s effort, and he expects that number to increase to more than 10,000 churches this year. [...]

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Reasons adoption should be supported by the church

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Several states pass laws giving parents more choice in their child’s education

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Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid Missouri facing 107 criminal charges that could prevent it from conducting abortions

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Ruling sides with makers of violent video games

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Action by Governor, legislature does not mean its marriage

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UN affirmation is a first and the US was a proponent

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Attorney believes suit against Macy’s will be upheld by courts

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FPN calls for consistency in treatment of Weiner and Vitter

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62% of Americans favor marriage defined as “one man, one woman.”

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FPN Says GOP Leadership is Inconsistent with Weiner/Vitter Reactions

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Neutrality Does Not Mean the Retailer is Changing its Views

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Virginia School District Could Spend Thousands Trying to Re-hang Ten Commandments in Schools

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Women Claims to be in the Midst of RU486 Abortion Tells Viewers “Its Not So Bad.”

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Minnesota Marriage Amendment Does Not Prohibit Counterfeit Marriage

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CDC backs GSA Clubs After its Own Study Shows Homosexual Teens have Destructive Lifestyle

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President Barack Obama has, for the third year in a row, defied God by issuing a presidential proclamation declaring June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.”

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The US State Department issues official statement pledging support for homosexuals and “transgender” people.

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Bible Speaks to Sin in All

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Why are abortion advocates concerned about making abortion “rare?”

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Law Allows Civil Unions that Give Same Benefits as Marriage

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Soft Drink Maker Using Fetal Cells from Aborted Babies in its Research

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Study Shows Marriage Makes Stable Families and Saves Government Billions

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Teachers Do Not Have to Follow State Sponsored Texts Only

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Parents Hide Child’s Gender to Make a Political Statement

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Judge Says Government Cannot Gag Citizens

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Elementary School Students Told Gender is Not Solely Related to Anatomy

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Legal Group Claims Church is Being Singled Out for Discrimination

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Tennessee’s governor and state legislators say current discrimination laws are enough.

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ORU Stands Strong Against Homosexual Activists

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Why are abortion advocates concerned about making abortion “rare?”

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The US State Department issues official statement pledging support for homosexuals and “transgender” people.