Because of a new law in Washington D.C. making homosexual marriage legal that does not make any provision for religions that believe differently, Catholic Charities will stop offering health care benefits to spouses of new employees in the district.
Rather than cancel its partnerships with the District of Columbia, Catholic Charities of Washington, D.C. has announced [...]
Blogger Dad29 passes along the following story about foster care in Washington D.C.:
WASHINGTON, DC, February 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has been forced to give up the foster care program it ran with the aid of public funds, after repeated warnings that there would be no other choice should the D.C. [...]
Owen Robinson offers his support for gays in the military.
…I think it’s a bit ludicrous to exclude people from military service based on their sexual preference. The military is a very merit-oriented profession where their job is to blow up stuff and kill people. If they do that well, why do we care [...]
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) usually waits for Ann Coulter to speak before the controversy to start. The registration has just opened for the February conference and the controversy has already started.
Some are objecting to the participation of a conservative homosexual rights group, GOProud, as a co-sponsor. From the group’s website,
GOProud represents gay [...]
Meredith Baxter, thrice-married, has made the lesbian-coming-out career move. “…It never once occurred to me that I was gay.” What’s so unique about this that People Magazine even bothers to cover it? Will the publicity boost Baxter’s career? Unlikely. Ellen has a daytime talkshow, and the Bono kid upped the ante with a sex change. [...]
(Note: I am behind on posting my newspaper column here. Here is my column from August 6th, the week that Doyle’s domestic partner registry went into effect.)Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date:Aug 6, 2009; Section:Opinion; Page Number:10AStrike down domestic partnerships
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://wigdersonlibrarypub.blogspot.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs [...]
“In other eras, a disgraced Benedictine monk would disappear into obscure days of prayer and penitential labor; these days he publishes a tribute to homosexuality and anxiously awaits a booking to appear on Charlie Rose and Oprah.”
George Neumayr, The Catholic World Report, “Pilgrim’s Regress”
From the Associated Press a few days ago:
Wanda Sykes and wife Alex are the parents of twins.
Sykes’ publicist, Danica Smith, says the babies, daughter Olivia Lou and son Lucas Claude, were born April 27.
Smith says Alex gave birth to the twins and “all are happy and healthy and at home.” The twins are the first [...]
Pretty rough when a gay advocate website is more concerned about our tax climate than our acceptance of homosexuals. (Ht: Real Debate Wisconsin)
As state governments scramble to stay above water – cutting both unneeded and needed services – the local legislatures grapple with ways to increase revenue.
And you know what that means. More taxes for [...]
West Bend Aldermen voted against confirmation of the re-appointments of the libary board members after their “stonewalling” over keeping sexually graphic material in the library’s youth section. The vote against approval was 5-3.
Alderman Vrana began the conversation stating his disappointment in the library board’s handling of the issues concerning inappropriate materials in the youth [...]
