05.11.12
On Wednesday afternoon, to no one’s surprise, President Obama revealed in an interview that after some “evolution” he has “concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
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David E. Smith
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03.15.12
In response to the unconstitutional mandate issued by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — a mandate requiring all employer health plans to include free contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs, regardless of any moral or religious objections,...
03.07.12
The U.S. Senate has voted to block legislation which would have rescinded the Obama Administration’s contraception mandate. The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment offered by U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) which would have exempted religious organizations from including contraceptive and...
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03.02.12
Watching Rick Santorum during the Arizona debate reminded me of my trips to the grocery store with my eight children in tow. Having a large, Catholic family in today’s liberal, sexually revolutionized world makes you a target for evangelization by...
03.01.12
Today, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 51 – 48, defeated the effort led by Senator Roy Blunt (Missouri) to pass the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act as an amendment to pending legislation. Thirteen Catholic Senators joined the...
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Fran Eaton
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02.16.12
Civil unions aren’t just for same sex couples, a Decatur Herald-Review story fittingly points out on Valentine’s Day, there are a growing number of opposite sex Illinois couples opting for civil unions over marriage. And it’s not so much about...
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David E. Smith
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02.16.12
U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) has introduced the Military Religious Freedom Protection Act (H.R. 3828) — a bill that would protect the conscience rights of chaplains serving in the United States Armed Forces. Illinois U.S. Representative Randy Hultgren (R-Geneva) has...
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David E. Smith
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02.13.12
President Barack Obama’s sweeping new proposal announced at Friday’s press conference now places a burden to facilitate abortions on “insurers rather than religious institutions.” The problems with this “compromise” are obvious to most thinking Americans — obvious that is, to...
Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist...
You’d think President Obama, who professes, as all lefties do, to idolize Thomas Jefferson, would know better.
But alas, by imposing an abortifacient requirement on all private employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, Obama has taken a bulldozer to Jefferson’s...
Over one hundred Catholic bishops and institutions across the nation have issued statements denouncing the Obama administration’s national requirement to include contraception in employees’ health benefits. Bishop Thomas G. Doran of the Rockford Diocese issued a strongly worded statement urging...
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David E. Smith
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02.01.12
School officials at Shawano High School in Wisconsin have censored and punished Brandon Wegner, a 15-year-old, for writing an op-ed article explaining the Biblical view of homosexuality and supporting natural mother-father adoption, according to Liberty Counsel.
After Brandon wrote this...
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David E. Smith
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01.30.12
The Sixth Circuit issued a ruling on Friday in Julea Ward’s suit against Eastern Michigan University (EMU). The University expelled Ms. Ward, a counseling student, when she expressed concerns about counseling individuals engaged in extra-marital sexual relationships.
In the original...
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David E. Smith
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01.24.12
The United States Supreme Court has issued a monumental decision protecting the independence of American churches in church governance matters.
The High Court ruled that churches have the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to make their own employment decisions free from government...
12.09.11
A young woman was fired from the Macy’s San Antonio Rivercenter department store for refusing to violate her religious beliefs by permitting a young man dressed as a woman from entering the women’s dressing room. Natalie Johnson claims she saw...
