By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than a half million signers of the Manhattan Declaration, a document urging Christians to stand for life, marriage and religious liberty, are protesting a decision by Apple, Inc. to pull the app from iTunes after a small pro-abortion, pro-same-sex marriage activist group accused the document of promoting "bigotry" and "homophobia."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Respect for female members of the House is behind a newly proposed project by the Speaker-in-waiting, John Boehner (R-OH) to construct a women's bathroom off the House floor which, until now, has only offered facilities to men.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois is taking on the state's "Catholic" governor who claimed his faith is what led him to support a bill legalizing same-sex civil unions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
UK authorities were shocked at the results of a recent survey in which the majority of teens said they would rather be taught about family values than sex ed.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Hundreds of thousands of drivers who enter New York City every day through the heavily traveled Lincoln Tunnel will see two opposing billboards about the meaning of Christmas on their way into town this holiday season.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Flawed surveying and political bias are being blamed for a long-awaited Pentagon study on gays in the military that claims a majority of service men and women do not believe ending the ban known as "Don't Ask Don't Tell" will have a negative effect on the nation's defenses.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pressure from the public has resulted in the removal of an offensive film from an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery that shows large ants eating a statue of Jesus on a cross.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Christian advertising campaign in the UK that features Jesus in the womb with a halo is drawing fire from abortion advocates who claim the ads are not just intended to tell the Christmas story, but are politically motivated.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federally funded Smithsonian exhibit lauding the influence of gay and lesbian artists is coming under fire for presenting an ant-covered Jesus on the cross, male genitalia, naked men kissing and other "homoerotic" portraits.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a new paper released today by the Family Research Council's Marriage and Religion Research Institute, Dr. Patrick Fagan demonstrates that adoption improves children's lives significantly.
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