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"Just a Simple Girl" Launches National Day of Prayer for Marriage

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Acting on an inspiration that came to her during Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, a 25 year-old Minnesota woman has launched the first national day of prayer for marriage which will take place one month from today - on August 29, 2011.

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Gay Activists Target Family-Themed Dollywood

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Acting under the direction of a gay activist group, a lesbian couple from Nashville, Tennessee have logged an official complaint with Dolly Parton's family theme park after one of the women, who was wearing a "Marriage is so gay" t-shirt, was asked to turn it inside out to avoid offending guests.

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Atheists Sue to Prevent Placement of Cross at World Trade Center Memorial

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today a federal lawsuit filed by an atheist group challenging the placement of a cross at the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum in New York City is deeply flawed and without merit.

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Activists Launch Same-Sex Marriage Bus Tour

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Proponents of same-sex marriage are planning to use the momentum they gained by the passage of New York's Marriage Equality Act to launch a bus tour that will take them into 11 states that have banned the unions with the hopes of educating locals on other ways to secure equal recognition under the law.

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Lawsuit Filed Against NY Same-Sex Marriage Law

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Alleging "flagrant violations" of New York State constitutional and legal procedures in the recent passage of the Marriage Equality Act, a lawsuit has been filed in the New York Supreme Court on behalf of several plaintiffs which could put a halt to same-sex marriages in the state as well as invalidate those that have taken place since the law went into effect on Sunday.

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Campus Crusade for Christ to Drop "Christ" from Name

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Outrage is growing in the evangelical community over an announcement by Campus Crusade for Christ, one of the nation's most prominent Christian ministries, to take the name of Christ out of its name because it was "getting in the way" of accomplishing their mission.

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"Devout Catholics" Sued for Refusing to Host Lesbian Wedding

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

A lesbian couple is suing the Catholic owners of a Vermont inn for refusing to host their fall wedding reception, a suit that could establish a dangerous precedent that will allow Christian business-owners to be forced to participate in events that are opposed to their religious beliefs.

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