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Supreme Court Decision Grants Major Victory to Religious Organizations

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a ruling that may prove pivotal for religious organizations in the future, the Supreme Court decided to let stand a lower court decision in favor of a religious employer’s right to make employment decisions based on religious beliefs.

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NY Town Clerk Refuses to be Bullied in Same-Sex Marriage Battle

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Homosexual activists may have met their match in 57 year old Rose Marie Belforti, the town clerk for the small town of Ledyard, New York who is refusing to be bullied into resigning because she won't sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples.

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Church Decries Banning of Rosaries from Public Schools

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist  The Archdiocese of Omaha is criticizing the Fremont Public Schools in Fremont, Nebraska for forbidding a sixth-grader from wearing a rosary to school, saying it violates the dress code and has been used as gang-identification symbols in several western states.

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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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