Residents across the state of West Virginia are voicing their opposition to a congressional proposal that would use taxpayer money to pay for abortions under the guise of so-called health care “reform”. Pro-family West Virginians are signing Family Policy Network’s petition urging both houses of Congress and President Obama to reject health care “reform” that provides universal abortion funding on the backs of American taxpayers.
Many West Virginians who signed the petition opposing taxpayer-funded abortion added their own comments to the statement above. Here is a sampling of those comments:
ShareThisThe West Virginia House of Delegates is currently considering a proposal that would add the phrase “sexual orientation” to the list of protected employment non-discrimination categories. The proposal has already passed on a voice vote in the full Senate. Family Policy Network opposes such proposals – - primarily because non-discrimination policies should be based on immutable or unobtrusive characteristics like gender or religion. Unnatural sexual activities should not qualify for protection.
Two Nitro High School parents said they don’t want to ban books from the school — they just want more of a choice.
A handful of parents and community residents met Thursday night at a church near Cross Lanes to share information and discuss what students are reading in Kanawha County schools.
A West Virginia man is the second person to be indicted under a law that provides protection and justice for pregnant women and their unborn children. The state’s unborn victims law, one of three dozen across the nation, allows prosecutors to hold criminals accountable for killing or injuring both mother and child. James Louis DeGasperin, a 35 year-old teacher from Preston, is charged with killing his 25 year-old girlfriend Lori Casteel and her unborn child.
If promoters of Porn Nation were trying to capture the attention of students at Marshall, they did.
At 9 p.m. on February 28th, about 500 students filled the Don Morris Room to hear nationally renowned speaker Michael Leahy give his 90-minute multimedia and speaking presentation along with his own personal story to capture the controversial impact of pornography on campus.
West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals has granted custody of a minor to his deceased mother’s former lesbian partner, leading one attorney in the case to accuse the court of making state law rather than ruling from it.
The minor child has lived with his grandparents for three years since his mother’s fatal accident. Despite that, the court ruled that his mother’s former lesbian partner, Tina B., had a stronger connection — and entitlement — as a “psychological parent.”
On Friday, June 17, 2005, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals redefined what a parent is by declaring a lesbian partner the “psychological parent†of her deceased lover’s young child. In Tina B. v. Paul S., the court removed custody of the child from his maternal grandparents and gave it to the lesbian partner, Tina B..