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| 01/17/12 | Faith leaders choosing up sides Several prominent Christian leaders from across the country have signed on to lead the official "pastors and leaders faith coalition" for one of the GOP presidential hopefuls. The group was introduced during a recent nationwide conference call. |
| 01/16/12 | Clarity sought on student harassment definition National organizations fighting for individual rights are asking the Department of Education to defend free speech on campuses by better defining what constitutes student harassment. |
| 01/16/12 | Religion in schools lawful, encouraged Today is Religious Freedom Day -- something the government encourages to be celebrated in homes, in places of worship, and also in public schools. |
| 01/13/12 | Democrats Ignored Abortionist Storing 17 Babies in Freezer A new newspaper report that further investigates the actions of abortion practitioner Steven Chase Brigham finds a Democratic New York State attorney general refused to follow up on grisly discoveries investigators found. As LifeNews has reported, Steven Chase Brigham and Nicola Irene Riley have been charged with murder related to the deaths of viable babies at an illegal secret abortion clinic that the pair operated in Elkton, Maryland. Brigham is currently in the custody at the Camden County Jail in New Jersey and Riley was arrested and is currently in the process of being extradited to Maryland. |
| 01/13/12 | Pastors Protest NYC Mayor Bloomberg for Stopping Churches--But Not Other Groups--from Meeting at Schools New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera and NYC religious leaders organized a rally at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s State of the City speech on Thursday to protest the city’s decision to stop 60 churches--but not other groups--from meeting in public schools. New York City protest Protest at New York City Law Department protesting the city's decision to evict 60 churches from public schools. |
| 01/12/12 | Fed Court Sides With Atheist; R.I. School Ordered to Remove Prayer Mural A federal judge has ordered the immediate removal of a prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Rhode Island public high school. Teenage atheist student Jessica Ahlquist had sued Cranston city and Cranston High School West officials, demanding they remove the banner because it promotes a religion. She calls it offensive to non-Christians. |
| 01/12/12 | Court:Judges cannot get involved in church dispute In a groundbreaking case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held for the first time that religious employees of a church cannot sue for employment discrimination. But the court's unanimous decision in a case from Michigan did not specify the distinction between a secular employee, who can take advantage of the government's protection from discrimination and retaliation, and a religious employee, who can't. |
| 01/11/12 | 'Indecent proposal' made to high court U.S. Supreme Court justices are weighing a decision on whether broadcasters should get away with obscenity during prime time, and one Christian broadcaster thinks things are going well for the FCC. Craig Parshall of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) tracked oral arguments as they were presented before the high court in a case that will determine the constitutionality of continued broadcast decency rules and the Federal Communication Commission's right to define decency and issue decisions and fines. |
| 01/11/12 | Girl Scouts quash pro-lifer Renise Rodriguez, 21, is a religious studies major at the University of Arizona in Tucson and, until just recently, was an employee for the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona. Bryan Kemper, youth outreach director of Priests for Life, tells OneNewsNow that Rodriguez often wears one of their T-shirts to express her pro-life beliefs -- and that that got her in hot water with her employer last week. |
| 01/11/12 | Toddler to Say F-Word on Upcoming Episode of Modern Family Who needs Glee to stretch the boundaries of acceptable behavior on broadcast television? According to Entertainment Weekly, a toddler will say the F-word on an upcoming episode of ABC's comedy hit Modern Family. |
| 01/10/12 | OPINION: Obamacare: Modeled After Rationing in Great Britain I find it sadly illustrative of the liberal state of mind that liberals would see the death penalty forever banned for fear that one innocent person be executed, yet they enthusiastically support the concept of euthanasia, where there is a proven likelihood that a great number of people will die prematurely, and even unnecessarily. In Great Britain, where the medicine has been administered by the government for nearly three-quarters of a century, a pattern has emerged that should be troubling to even the most deadened senses of decency. A recent audit by the Royal College of Physicians has revealed that in one hospital group alone, more than 50% of the patients who were put on a palliative care protocol known as the “Liverpool Care Pathway” (LCP) have had those decisions made solely by the attending physicians, without consult or notification of the patients family. In another group of hospitals, only 1 in 3 were informed of the life-ending decision. |
| 01/10/12 | Evangelicals could make the difference in 2012 A conservative says a California group may be able to spark enthusiasm among Christian voters in 2012. A Silicon Valley-based group is seeking to register five million new conservative Christian voters for the 2012 election. The Los Angeles Times reports that United in Purpose, a group of local businessmen, is creating a database of evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics around the nation. They hope to recruit 100,000 "champions" who will motivate unregistered Christian voters to get to the ballot box this year. |
| 01/09/12 | Pedophilia Added to Greece’s Recognized Disability List Greek disabled groups are angry at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. |
| 01/09/12 | Gov't teaching kids to gamble? The United Kingdom is getting behind a proposal to teach children how to gamble, but opponents are already putting on their boxing gloves. The Labour Party welcomes the idea of teaching children as young as 12 how to gamble "safely," as they claim it will help children prepare for the adult world. But critics say the proposals from GamCare, a gambling addiction charity, will lead to more problem gambling. Les Bernal of Stop Predatory Gambling says it mirrors what has been happening in America. |
| 01/06/12 | Sex-ed available to teens 24-7 According to a pro-family group, most parents don't know that many health organizations and schools are offering websites and texting services to reach adolescents with information about sex. |
| 01/06/12 | HHS Plans ‘Cultural Competency’ Training for Health Professionals Dealing with Homosexuals, Transgenders Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says her agency's plans for the coming year include improving the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities; training health professionals in "cultural competency"; and developing definitions of sexual orientation and gender identity. On the HHS Web site, Sebelius also summarized actions taken thus far on behalf of the LGBT community, such as forming an internal LGBT Coordinating Committee, the inclusion of LGBT people in im |
| 01/06/12 | California Public School Kids Now Required to Study Contributions of LGBT Americans On Jan. 1, the California Department of Education started implementing a new law that requires all children in the state’s public schools to study the “role and contributions” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans” to the “development of California and the United States of America.” This law, according to the pro-family group SaveCalifornia.com, will require the schools to promote “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans as role models” and mandate that “children as young as kindergarten must be taught to admire persons who engage in homosexuality.” |
| 01/05/12 | Bad news is good news ... for pro-lifers Planned Parenthood has released its latest annual report, which reflects some negative news about the abortion giant for the 2009-2010 period. The report, released on December 27, indicates the taxpayer-supported nonprofit has a budget that exceeds a billion dollars and garnered a net profit of $18.5 million for 2009-2010. But according to Jim Sedlak of STOPP International, Planned Parenthood is an organization "in trouble." |
| 01/05/12 | Santorum: ‘The State of Our Culture Under this Administration Continues to Decline' Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), fresh from his dead-heat second-place finish in Iowa Tuesday, took his campaign to New Hampshire Wednesday, but not before taking an oblique swipe Tuesday night at President Barack Obama’s bully pulpit support for the homosexual activist agenda. In an election night speech to Iowa supporters, Santorum told the crowd that he believes “the state of our culture under this administration continues to decline with the values that are unlike the values that built this country.” |
| 01/04/12 | Pro-life group fights forced abortion A pregnant Texas girl is awaiting a court hearing to determine whether she will be forced to abort her unborn baby. The Texas Center for Defense of Life has obtained a temporary restraining order against the parents of a 14-year-old Corpus Christi girl who were trying to force her to have the abortion. Stephen Casey, an attorney for the Center, says about the case, “We were able to contact the pregnancy resource center worker, yet the girl was so intimidated and scared that she could only communicate this through texting.” |
| 01/04/12 | District, Christian club see eye to eye A Texas school district has refunded hundreds of dollars to Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) because the higher fees charged the club violated its First Amendment rights. The Midlothian Independent School District was charging the after-school Good News Clubs higher-than-normal fees to use school facilities because they reclassified the club as a "church." Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, stepped in. |
| 01/03/12 | New Web Site Features Women Who Regret Their Abortions The Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a national organization to provide support for women who regret their abortions and want to encourage other women to not make the same mistakes they did, has unveiled its new web site. The group told LifeNews today the new web site is designed to make its three-fold mission immediately understandable and accessible. |
| 01/03/12 | Charter school rejected because of applicant's faith A California attorney says one city's move to stop a pastor from starting a charter school is another method to prevent people of faith from getting involved. School officials in Compton have denied two charter school applications filed by Pastor Charles Patrick of Sunago Christian Fellowship Church, who wanted to start a school in Los Angeles. However, even though he was not applying on behalf of a religious institution, the Compton Unified School District declined his applications because he is a church leader. |
| 12/30/11 | A 'Christ-centered' alternative The founder of an alternative to the Girl Scouts credits God for her organization's continued growth. Many parents are concerned about the Girl Scouts' association with the Planned Parenthood-type philosophy on abortion and sex education. Patti Garibay says that is why the group she founded, American Heritage Girls, was launched. |
| 12/29/11 | OPINION: Planned Parenthood Helps Girls Keep Abortions From Parents A teen writes to Planned Parenthood’s “experts” about how she can obtain a second-trimester abortion and hide it from her parents: “Is abortion possible after the first trimester? How much does an abortion cost if you are a minor and want to keep the abortion from your parents?? Help!!!” |
| 12/29/11 | Assisted suicide still a no-go in Aloha State In spite of proponents' unique approach to legalize it, Hawaii's ban on doctor-assisted suicide remains in place. Supporters of assisted suicide tried to use a 1909 law that permits the use remedies not typically authorized for terminally ill patients, but Hawaii Attorney General David Louie has responded in a legal opinion that the state law "does not authorize physicians to assist terminally ill patients with dying." Attorney Rita Marker, who heads the Patients Rights Council, tells OneNewsNow what the dated law was meant to address. |
| 12/28/11 | COMMENTARY: Tebow exposes the left's religious bigotry A couple months ago, I had an on-air conversation with veteran liberal commentator Cokie Roberts who spent a great deal of time discussing her belief that then Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney would struggle in early Republican primary states because they are heavy laden with evangelical Christian voters. Those voters, she supposed, would struggle against their inner bigot when it came to voting for a Mormon. |
| 12/28/11 | Navy tradition spotlights lesbians A pro-family leader says a public embrace between two lesbian sailors proves that homosexual activists are taking every effort to celebrate the federal government's repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." |
| 12/22/11 | Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from all of us at the Pennsylvania Pastors' Network |
| 12/21/11 | NC parent upset over Bibles handed out at school A North Carolina mother is unhappy that her son came home from his fifth-grade class with a Bible. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Ginger Strivelli complained after her son returned from North Windy Ridge school in Weaverville with a Bible he got from a box left by the Gideons International. Strivelli, a pagan, doesn't think the school should offer any religious material to students. |