One of the big news stories this week is about how the government has just enlisted members of academia to begin to "police" online opinion for possible "misinformation", but a new study has found that people are not as anxious to share their views on-line as most of us believe.
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Lawyers representing a Tennessee school student who was suspended for saying "God bless you" after a fellow student sneezed in class are demanding that the school not only exonerate the student, but to publicly apologize to her and change their unconstitutional rules.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Even while racial tensions are soaring in Ferguson, Missouri, the healing power of forgiveness changed the lives of two men - black and white - just 400 miles away.
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In what police are calling the most cold-hearted case yet, a 34 year-old Brooklyn woman was punched in the face and knocked unconscious while walking down the street with her mother.
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The recent scandal of an Australian couple who abandoned a baby with Down Syndrome born to a surrogate mother in Thailand has caused the Thai government to crackdown on the industry, leaving several couples stranded in the country who are now unable to leave with their surrogate-born babies.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe owner of a bridal shop in Pennsylvania has been forced to close her doors after a lesbian couple launched a social-media bullying campaign in retaliation for the owner's refusal to service their same-sex wedding.
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More than 1,000 parents in the Fremont School District in California are threatening to sue over a ninth-grade "heal" textbook containing graphic sexual images and references practices such as the use of vibrators and sado-masochism.
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The Amish people, supported by Catholics and Christians of all denominations, are banding together in protest of a rash of reality show programming that features a bigoted misrepresentation of their religion.
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Veteran Supreme Court reporter Richard Wolf says there's an Achilles heel in recent federal appeals court decisions in favor of same-sex marriage - most were not unanimous and the dissenting judges waged excellent arguments that will most certainly be considered when these cases reach the nation's highest court.
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The national trend toward religious discrimination shows no signs of slowing as news breaks today of a shopping mall in a rural Georgia town that will allow no prayer on its premises, not even over meals in its restaurants.
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