Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick issued what some are calling the most extreme executive order in the history of the U.S. when he signed into law a mandate forcing acceptance of "gender identity and expression" - including cross-dressers and transsexuals - throughout state government, and ordered immediate "diversity training" for all employees.
In an op-ed appearing in the Washington Post, Frances Kissling, a well-known abortion rights activist and former head of the now defunct Catholics for a Free Choice, said that if the pro-choice movement in America wants to survive, it has to stop pretending it's 1970 by denying that a fetus is a human being and that abortion is more than just a "medical matter" between a woman and her doctor.
In a case in which a Christian student is challenging her dismissal from a counseling program because she refused to compromise her beliefs about homosexuality, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief saying that compelling someone to act against their beliefs doesn't violate their freedoms of religion or speech because people should be expected to put aside their beliefs in their professional lives.
The Institute for Emerging Ethics and Technologies (IEET) has launched a new program that has as its goal the granting of rights to "non-human persons" such as dolphins, apes and other "higher mammals" who they believe are deserving of human rights.
In an op-ed published in the Boston Globe yesterday, a woman appointed by President Barack Obama as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is calling on American cable and satellite providers to offer access to the notoriously anti-America and anti-Israel Al Jazeera English.
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