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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A California appellate court has ruled in favor of four San Diego firefighters who sued the fire department after being forced to participate in the city's Gay Pride Parade, an action which the court believes constituted sexual harrassment.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In what some are calling a "stinging rebuke" of the Obama Administration, a federal court judge rule yesterday that the president's executive order allowing embryos to be used in stem cell research violated an existing law prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds in research that involves the destruction of human embryos.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A religion instructor who was fired by the University of Illinois for teaching the Roman Catholic stance on homosexuality has been reinstated and will return to his job this fall.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Attorneys with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights asking it to hear the case of a seven-year-old boy seized by Swedish authorities because his parents homeschool.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A prominent alliance of Christian attorneys has launched a new project aimed at protecting churches from excessive and unconstitutional government intrusion prohibited by the First Amendment.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A national alliance of Christian attorneys has issued a letter to the Judge Advocate at Fort Hood, Texas, urging him to charge the suspect in the Fort Hood massacre with the killing of all 14 victims in the Fort Hood massacre, including the pre-born child of Private Francheska Velez. "All murder victims--born and pre-born--deserve equal justice," said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Senior Legal Counsel Steven H. Aden in a press release. "Women who volunteer to protect our country deserve to know that the government will enforce the laws that protect their children." To date, military prosecutors have charged Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder after last week's shooting at Fort Hood but have not yet charged him with the death of Velez's child, now known as "Baby Velez." Army officials have indicated that additional charges against Hasan are under consideration. The ADF letter urges enforcement of Article 119a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which makes it a crime for anyone "to cause the death...of a child, who is in utero at the time the conduct takes place" regardless of whether the killer intended to kill the child. "According to press accounts, Private Velez had returned to America from Iraq a week before the shooting," the letter states.  "Private Velez was three months pregnant and was excited about being a new mother.  She was scheduled to begin maternity leave next month. She was filling out paperwork relating to her pregnancy when she and her child were killed... "It would cause a severe and negative impact on morale if Army women were made to believe that the Army valued their children less than they did adult victims of crime.  We respectfully request that you enforce UCMJ Article 119a against the suspect." © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly®/Women of Grace®  http://www.womenofgrace.com

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A school district in Scranton, Pennsylvania has been sued by the parents of a middle school student who was ordered to remove a t-shirt bearing the message, “Abortion is not Healthcare” on the day of President Obama’s address to students.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer A judge in a New Hampshire court has determined that a 10 year-old homeschooled girl has become too religious and has ordered her mother to enroll the child in a public school.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer A Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in a gruesome late-term abortion under the threat of losing her job filed a lawsuit against the hospital this week.

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