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Job-Seeker Who Changed Her Gender Goes to Court

Posted on August 20, 2008
Diane Schroer, a 52-year-old former Army Special Forces commander, testified yesterday in federal court that she was "disappointed and dismayed" when an official at the Library of Congress rescinded a job offer even though she was the star candidate.

Christians threatened with arrest at N.Y. ?gay pride? event file suit

Posted on August 20, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Elmira after police prohibited a group of Christians from expressing their beliefs at a recent event celebrating homosexual behavior.

Washington Post: Candidates? Abortion Views Not So Simple

Posted on August 20, 2008
The narrative of the presidential campaign appeared to be set on the issue of abortion: Sen. Barack Obama was the abortion-rights candidate who was reaching out to foes, seeking common ground and making inroads. Sen. John McCain was the abortion opponent whose reticence about faith and whose battles on campaign finance laws drew suspect glances from would-be supporters.

Abortion is a crime and no one has ?right? to have one, says Guatemalan cardinal

Posted on August 20, 2008
The Archbishop of Guatemala City, Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, said this week that abortion is a crime and the murder of an innocent human being. Nobody has a ?right? to get one, he stated while nothing thatall Guatemalans must defend life from conception to natural death.

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California teachers unions choose charities

Posted on August 19, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: Members of California teachers unions don’t have to allow their union dues to be used to support homosexual “marriage.” A considerable amount of funds raised thus far toward defeating California’s Proposition 8 — which would define marriage as between one man and one woman — have come from two unions...

UK: Cameron backs abortion on grounds of disability

Posted on August 19, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: Parents should not be prevented from aborting a baby they know will be severely disabled, says David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party. Addressing voters in Cumbria, Mr Cameron made it clear that he does not support any move to tighten up the law on abortion in the case of foetal [...

California: ?Migden passes bill to protect LGBT seniors?

Posted on August 19, 2008
GayPolitics.com reports: “Senate Bill 1729 will help create unbiased environments by requiring licensed health care professionals who have constant interaction with seniors to participate in a training program that focuses on preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity...

CNN: Half of cohabiting couples break up within 5 years

Posted on August 19, 2008
In fact, about half of all couples that move in together end up separating within five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Ken Starr: IRS wants to tax nonprofits

Posted on August 19, 2008
The Wall Street Journal carries this 4 minute video featuring a video with Ken Starr. Starr discusses a case involving a medical nonprofit from which the IRS seeks taxes. Visit Site » Share This

?1,049 U.S. Newspapers Accept Same-Sex Marriage Announcements, Says Media Advocacy Group?

Posted on August 19, 2008
The San Francisco Sentinel reports: ? An estimated 83 percent of all U.S. newspaper consumers read a paper that accepts wedding announcements from same-sex couples. ? All 50 states and the District of Columbia have newspapers that print announcements for gay and lesbian couples...

Maggie Gallagher: Jerry Brown Tries to Sink California Marriage Amendment

Posted on August 19, 2008
As the battle for Proposition 8 (the California marriage amendment) intensifies, one thing has become crystal clear: If Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown can torpedo Prop. 8, he will.

RNC: McCain Won?t Choose Abortion-Supporting Running Mate

Posted on August 19, 2008
Fox News: Several sources at the RNC told FOX News that in the last 36 hours, senior McCain advisers and aides have told RNC officials that McCain ?got the message? last week that choosing a running mate who supports abortion rights would not be helpful...

Poll: N.J. voters back marriage equality

Posted on August 19, 2008
PolitickerNJ.com reports: Most New Jerseyans support same sex marriage and an even greater percentage have no problem if the state joins Massachusetts and California in passing a same sex marriage law, according to a Zogby International poll conducted by Garden State Equality, a civil rights organization that advocates marriage equality and other gay rights issues...

?Argentina grants gay couples partner pensions?

Posted on August 19, 2008
CNN reports: In a nationwide measure, Argentina has granted gay couples the right to collect the pensions of their dead partners. The National Social Security Administration’s director is to sign the resolution on Tuesday, and it will become law upon publication the following Wednesday...

A Plea Is Entered in an Obscenity Prosecution Against a Sexual Abuse Victim Who Posted Her Writings About Abuse on the Internet: Should the Federal Government Be Prosecuting Words As Obscenity?

Posted on August 19, 2008
Julie Hilden has this commentary on Findlaw. She writes: Earlier this month, in Pittsburgh, U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti sentenced a woman who says she is a sexual abuse survivor, Karen Fletcher, to home confinement for violating the federal obscenity laws...

AUL: ?California Supreme Court Ruling Threatens Medical Care and Religious Freedom?

Posted on August 19, 2008
Americans United for Life issued this press release in connection with yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling: The California Supreme Court today ruled that patient demand for nonessential, elective care trumps the freedom of conscience of physicians and their ability to practice medicine in accordance with their religious or moral beliefs ...

Sioux Falls, SD adopts tougher sex shop restrictions

Posted on August 19, 2008
The AP reports that the Sioux Falls, SD city council has tightened zoning regulations governing sexually oriented businesses. “It will ensure that new adult businesses cannot locate within a quarter mile of schools, churches, child welfare agencies, parks and playgrounds...

Virginia: Visitation denial in lesbian partner custody case dismissed again

Posted on August 19, 2008
The Richmond Times reports: Judge John R. Prosser of Frederick County Circuit Court yesterday dismissed Lisa Miller’s request to halt efforts to enforce a Vermont court’s orders granting Janet Jenkins visitation with the daughter born to she and Miller in April 2002...

Arizona: Newspaper?s nude child photos draw police review

Posted on August 19, 2008
The East Valley Tribune reports: The Phoenix Police Department is looking into whether it should open a criminal child pornography investigation into photographs shot by a Tempe artist and published last week by a Valley newspaper . . . The artist’s work includes numerous photographs of ...

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Dems will never abort pro-choice mission

Posted on August 19, 2008
Kathryn Jean Lopez has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: Sixty-five percent. That’s Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey Jr.’s rating with NARAL Pro-Choice America, the standard measure for a politician’s abortion-rights-advocacy purity...

?Twilight? Sinks Its Teeth Into Feminism

Posted on August 19, 2008
The Washington Post carries this report by Leonard Sax: Yet on some level, it seems that children may know human nature better than grown-ups do. Consider: The fascination that romance holds for many girls is not a mere social construct; it derives from something deeper...

NYC lawsuit: Women?s studies program discriminates

Posted on August 19, 2008
The AP reports: “The lawsuit claims the college program is discriminatory because there’s no comparable men’s program. It says the university uses government aid to promote a religious belief system known as feminism.” Visit Site » Share This

UK: Under half of weddings religious

Posted on August 19, 2008
The BBC reports: “About 48% of couples opted for religious weddings and about 52% had civil ceremonies, compared with 55% and 45% respectively in 1997.” Visit Site » Share This

Transgender Bias Suit Against Library of Congress Could Change Federal Policy

Posted on August 19, 2008
A transgender job bias suit against the Library of Congress moves to trial Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., with potentially major implications for federal anti-discrimination policy . . .

Saudi Arabia: Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive after cutting out her tongue

Posted on August 19, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter’s tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian. The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported ...

Obama on Clarence Thomas: By all means, let?s compare credentials

Posted on August 19, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has this editorial that begins: “Barack Obama likes to portray himself as a centrist politician who wants to unite the country, but occasionally his postpartisan mask slips. That was the case at Saturday night’s Saddleback Church forum, when Mr...

Homeschooling Showdown in Brazil: Children to be Tested by Court in Battle Over Educational Rights of Parents

Posted on August 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Two homeschooled children face a battery of tests this week in a showdown between the Brazilian government and a Christian family over the educational rights of parents in the South American nation. The children of Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes have already passed the entrance exams for law school at the ages of 13 and [...

Peggy Campolo: ?Gay Christians can?t wait any longer?

Posted on August 19, 2008
The Associated Baptist Press carries this article by Peggy Campolo, wife of Tony Campolo. She writes: The church should be grateful to those gay Christians who are raising the right questions. The current problems of straight people, as well as those facing God’s gay children, cannot be solved until the church of Jesus Christ clearly [...

Massachusetts: ?Gay marriage opponents seek to reverse new law?

Posted on August 19, 2008
The AP reports: Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn’t be legal in their home state. Brian Camenker of the group Mass Resistance said Friday lawmakers and Gov...

U.S. Foundations Give Millions to Law Firm to Promote Abortions Worldwide

Posted on August 19, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a prominent U.S.-based public interest group litigating and lobbying for pro-abortion policies world-wide, has released its annual report for 2007 . . . The report shows that close to fifty percent of CRR?s $14 million budget is financed by more than forty American foundations...

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