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Church to DOD: Catholic Chaplains Will Not Preside Over Same-Sex Marriages

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In response to a sudden change in position by the Department of Defense (DOD) to allow chaplains to preside over same-sex marriages on military bases, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for Military Services, says Roman Catholic priests will not be performing the ceremonies.

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Bishop Says Archdiocese Will Stop Conducting Marriages If Forced to Wed Same-Sex Couples

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Same-sex marriage has already forced the Church out of the adoption business in many U.S. states where the unions are sanctioned, but it is now threatening to force the Church out of the marriage business too, says Archbishop Barry Hickey of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, who says he'll stop performing marriages altogether if forced to conduct the unions.

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New York Considers Medicaid Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Only months after becoming the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage, the state of New York is once again pushing the cultural envelope by considering a proposal to allow Medicaid to cover transgender surgery and hormone replacement therapy.

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Abortion Lobby Behind HHS Birth Control Mandate

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist An international pro-life group has discovered that 11 of the 15 members of the Committee on Preventive Services for Woman of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the group that advised the Department of Health and Human Services HHS to force all private health insurers to pay for FDA-approved contraception,  are either tied to major pro-abortion groups or to politicians who support that ideology.

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It's On! Justice Department Petitions Supreme Court to Hear ObamaCare Challenge

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

In what many consider to be a risky political move, lawyers for the Obama Administration have officially petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging the constitutionality of portions of the president's health care reform law, which means a decision could come in the middle of the 2012 presidential election.

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