By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
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.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The promotion of the homosexual agenda in the nation's schools is set to get a big push by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which has launched a new campaign aimed at suing schools that use filters to block access to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Web content by their students.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A UK teen and former Wiccan who gave it all up to convert to Catholicsm has created a stir throughout the neopagan world by publishing a booklet on the dangers of witchcraft.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Thomas More Law Center filed a petition this week with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that it reverse a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision which upheld San Francisco’s virulent anti-Catholic resolution.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
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.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
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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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new FY2012 budget unveiled by the White House yesterday includes much steeper decreases in funding to abstinence education than to "Safe Sex" programs, confirming that the Administration's priorities remain with the promotion of contraception-based programs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Homosexual activists are now targeting the popular new Catholic Confession app for Apple's iPhone, saying it promotes "anti-gay spiritual abuse."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A man who allegedly stabbed women in the back of the neck and then sucked their blood while they were riding subways in Russia has been arrested.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an age of MTV and sex ed programs that encourage teens to have sex, a new study released on Wednesday has found that an overwhelming majority of young people say they want to remain chaste until marriage.
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