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| 04/08/10 | Christian Students Claim Calif. Law School Discriminated Against Group When It Denied Student Funding The U.S. Supreme Court later this month will hear what both sides agree will be one of the most important religious freedom cases to come before the court in years. The case centers on a Christian Legal Society affiliate that was denied certification by a public university law school because the law students’ group requires its members to share core religious beliefs. |
| 04/02/10 | Easter: the real “hope and change” message After two years of political talk about “hope” and “change,” this Easter weekend is a good time to reflect on the real hope and the real change offered by Jesus Christ. |
| 03/30/10 | Duke University Keeps Pro-Life Group From Women's Center for Motherhood Event Duke University made it to the Final Four in college basketball this weekend and officials there apparently think it's all right to root for the team, but not to use the campus women's center if you're pro-life. Duke officials prevented the pro-life group on campus from using the facility for an event on motherhood. |
| 03/30/10 | Iowa Town Renames Good Friday to 'Spring Holiday' Citing the Separation of Church and State, Davenport Nixes Holy Day One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar, setting off a storm of complaints from Christians and union members whose contracts give them that day off. |
| 03/26/10 | Rep. Patrick Kennedy: Federal Funding of Abortion Is ‘Not a Question of Morality’ Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), a professed Roman Catholic, told CNSNews.com Wednesday that federal funding of health plans that cover elective abortions is “not a question of morality” but “a matter of health -- public health.” |
| 03/25/10 | Military to Release New Guidelines on Discharging Homosexuals Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Discharging a gay person for violating the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy will draw unprecedented scrutiny under new orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is already pushing to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military. |
| 03/23/10 | So. Calif. City to Home Bible Study: Shut Down by Good Friday A city in Southern California is demanding that a small home Bible study group stop meeting because it does not have an expensive permit. The permit is not required for similar-sized gatherings in homes, such as book clubs, birthday parties or gatherings centered around sporting events. City officials have also indicated that they might not even grant a permit if it is requested. The city's stance has similarities to, but is perhaps even harsher than, a pending situation in Gilbert, Arizona, and a flare-up last year over a home Bible study in San Diego County. |
| 03/23/10 | President Obama Signs Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill, Ignores Executive Order President Barack Obama signed the pro-abortion government-run health care bill into law today but did not sign an executive order that would supposedly nullify the abortion funding. Leading pro-life and pro-abortion groups are in rare agreement as they say the order is virtually meaningless. |
| 03/19/10 | Eight Senators Decide to Dismiss Marriage Amendment It's a sad day in Harrisburg as marriage in Pennsylvania continues to remain vulnerable to redefinition. All 5 democrats and 3 republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee halted the advancement SB 707, the Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Amendment. |
| 03/12/10 | Marriage Vote Next Week - Urgent Action Needed Whether marriage in Pennsylvania will stay the union of one man and one woman could very well depend on a vote coming next week. Your senator needs to hear from you before Tuesday’s vote! Please call their office today, and follow up with an email. |
| 03/10/10 | Stupak 'Remains Optimistic' He Can Work Out Abortion-Funding Language to Save Health Care Bill Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat from Michigan, “remains optimistic” that he can work out language with House Democratic leaders on federal funding of abortion, the main sticking point in getting a health care bill to President Obama’s desk. |
| 03/10/10 | Republicans Press Defense Secretary Gates to Explain Why Air Force Excluded Conservative Leader from Prayer Event The current and former House Republican Whips are calling on Defense Secretary Robert Gates to explain the “written or unwritten policies” that led the Air Force to rescind its invitation to conservative leader Tony Perkins from speaking at a national prayer luncheon at Andrews Air Force Base because he disagrees with President Obama’s policy on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. |
| 02/25/10 | Beverly Hills Disowns Beauty Queen for Speaking Against Same-Sex Marriage Less than a year after dethroned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean stirred up controversy with her remarks against gay marriage, a similar war of words is brewing in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills Mayor Nancy Krasne said Wednesday she is outraged over a Miss California USA contestant who is claiming to represent the city in the upcoming pageant and who spoke out against same-sex marriage in recent media interviews. |
| 02/25/10 | Nebraska Lawmakers to Discuss Fetal Pain Abortion Bill Emboldened by the Supreme Court's 2007 decision upholding a ban on what abortion rights opponents call partial-birth abortions, in which a fetus is partially removed from the woman's womb and then destroyed, the Nebraska legislators are seeking to ban all late-term abortions except when the mother's life is threatened. |
| 02/23/10 | Frozen Fetuses Found During Doctor's Office Raid Philadelphia and federal authorities who raided a doctor's office after allegations a woman died following an abortion made a shocking discovery: more than two dozen frozen fetuses. |
| 02/22/10 | More Senior Citizens Using Marijuana In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana. Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older. |
| 02/22/10 | Rep. Pence: Stop Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Planned Parenthood In a speech on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) earned a standing ovation when he said the United States has a moral obligation to the unborn, and that the time has come to stop funding Planned Parenthood with money from pro-life American taxpayers. |
| 02/18/10 | Lawmakers Move to Prohibit Imitation Marijuana in Missouri, Kansas An obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the effects of marijuana has caught the attention of Midwest law enforcement. Drug users are buying a product known as "K2" - a mix of herbs and spices that is sprayed with a synthetic compound similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. |
| 02/18/10 | Who's Who of Conservative Movement Unveils 'Mount Vernon Statement' The most influential conservative grassroots leaders nationwide signed the Mount Vernon statement recommitting their movement to constitutional conservatism. "This is something that all conservatives -- those that are concerned about national security, those that are concerned about economic opportunity, those that are concerned about religious liberty and personal responsibility -- there' something here for everyone because this is simply a restatement to this generation of those enduring founding principles," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. |
| 02/16/10 | Doctors back 'right to die' Consultation; But MDs oppose assisted suicide Euthanasia is already a reality in Quebec hospitals, the president of the federation of Quebec medical specialists, told a National Assembly committee yesterday. Doctors know when death is "imminent and inevitable," Gaétan Barrette explained. |
| 02/15/10 | North Carolina County Drops Abortions From Employees' Health Insurance Plan Wake County has dropped coverage for elective abortions from its employee health plan. Officials say a 29-year-old state Supreme Court ruling makes it illegal to use tax payer money to pay for the procedure and that an oversight of the rule allowed the practice to continue since the late 1990s. County Manager David Cooke ended the practice on Wednesday. |
| 02/15/10 | NARAL Seeks Pro-Choice License Plate With Proceeds Going to Planned Parenthood Clinics Abortion-rights advocates have been unable to halt the "Choose Life" license plate variations in nearly two-dozen states, so now they're working to balance the bumper debate. |
| 02/11/10 | International Planned Parenthood Pushes Sex Ed for 10–Year-Olds, Claims Religious-Based Abstinence Ed Ineffective A new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) says comprehensive sex education should be provided to children as young as 10 years old but abstinence-based sex education as promoted by religious groups, such as the Catholic Church and Islamic schools, is ineffective and should not be utilized. |
| 02/11/10 | Poll: Majority Backs Ditching ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Rule The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq, shipping out more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment from tanks to antennas along with a force the size of a small city. (AP File Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo) (CNSNews.com) – A majority of American voters support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military but support some restrictions, according to a poll by Quinnipiac University. |
| 02/08/10 | Democrats Pushing Back Against Carbon Regulations From the EPA Three House Democrats are now pushing legislation that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions—a decision the agency announced in December -- without express permission from the Congress. |
| 02/08/10 | 'Miracle' Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad puts hit on critics Touchdown! The long-awaited, much-hyped ad from Focus on the Family aired shortly after the Colts and Saints kicked off at Super Bowl. And their early hit could have the last laugh on critics. |
| 02/04/10 | Woman Wins IRS Fight for Right to Write Off Sex Change Operation A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people. Rhiannon O'Donnabhain, who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service in 2007 after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for about $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery, finding it was a cosmetic procedure and not medically necessary. |
| 02/04/10 | Doctors communicate with vegetative state patient Most vegetative state patients show no signs of brain activity British scientists said they could communicate with a patient who has not shown any sign of outward consciousness for five years. |
| 02/01/10 | New Morning-After Pill Works for Up to Five Days A new type of morning-after pill is more effective than the most widely used drug at preventing pregnancies in women who had unprotected sex and also works longer, for up to five days, a new study says. |
| 02/01/10 | States Turning to Constitutional Amendments to Ban Mandatory Health Insurance Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. |