Recent US News

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has once more rebuffed a request from media outlets to televise the closing arguments in the legal battle over California’s ban on same-sex “marriage,” a case which could well become the Roe v. Wade of marriage in the United States. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker once again denied the request from media organizations to televise the closing arguments in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, where two homosexual couples and the City of San Francisco are arguing that Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment defining marriage […]

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Pro-Life Hero to be Ordained a Catholic Priest By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a journey from Reform Judaism through the Episcopal Church, pro-life hero Deacon Paul Schenck, who was involved in founding Operation Rescue, is soon to be ordained a Catholic priest. “I consider the most important pro-life battlefield to be religious indifference,” he told LifeSiteNews. “I hope that as a Catholic priest, I’ll help to awaken Catholics and all people of conscience from the slumber of indifference to authentic concern and effort to defend innocent lives.” Together with his […]

Monday June 7, 2010 Florida Enacts Legislation Protecting Private Prayer in Schools By Peter J. Smith TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida has enacted a new law protecting the rights of individuals at public schools to engage freely in prayer and other religious expression. Gov. Charlie Crist signed the bill, which had been passed by the legislature in May, on Friday. The bill (HB 31) originated as a response to a controversy surrounding the Santa Rosa County School District, which had been pressured by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to adopt a policy that forbade all school […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals appears to be shifting away from its neutral stance on contraception in favor of a qualified endorsement of the practice. A new survey released by the NAE claiming to represent 45,000 evangelical churches reveals that Evangelical pastors overwhelmingly believe in artificial contraception. “Most associate evangelicals with Catholics in their steady leadership in pro-life advocacy, and rightly so,” said Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, in a press release. “But it may come as a surprise that unlike the Catholic church, we are open to contraception.” “Our leaders […]

Monday June 7, 2010 Commentary: Homosexuality and the Military — What’s Really at Stake? Commentary by Albert Mohler, President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary June 7, 2010 (AlbertMohler.com) – Get ready. Big changes are coming to the United States military. Congress seems poised to pass legislation that would call for the elimination of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy put in place in 1993. With the support of the Obama administration, and with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, it appears that the official normalization of homosexuality within the U.S. armed forces may take place sometime this summer, after […]

Tuesday May 18, 2010 USCCB Belongs to Pro-Abort Coalition Supporting Kagan with Video Ad By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A civil rights coalition that boasts the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) among its members has published a 30-second ad endorsing Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who is pro-abortion and homosexualist, for the Supreme Court. The advertisement, which lists Kagan’s various achievements while President Obama describes the ideal Supreme Court nominee in a voiceover, is available on the website of The Coalition for Constitutional Values, a project of the Leadership Counsel for Civil and Human Rights […]

By James Tillman SACRAMENTO, California, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The IRS has released a memorandum stating that Californian registered domestic partners (RDPs), the great majority of whom are homosexual couples, must average their incomes and each report this averaged amount on their separately filed tax returns. This ruling gives homosexual couples a tax break similar to that given to married couples and even means that (according to one analysis) that under some circumstances homosexual RDPs will pay less income tax than would heterosexual married couples with the same income. The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage to be only […]

Friday June 4, 2010 Colorado Abortionist works at Catholic Hospital By James Tillman DURANGO, Colorado, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Dr. Richard Grossman earns his living delivering babies at the Catholic hospital Mercy Regional Medical Center (MRMC). But one day a week, he is paid to kill them at the Durango Planned Parenthood. The abortionist’s work at a Catholic hospital has elicited outrage from local pro-lifers since at least 2007. Michaela Dasteel, past director of the local pro-life organization LifeGuard, has written that a “Church that tolerates abortionists on staff in its hospitals is not a prophetic Church. It is […]

Wednesday June 2, 2010 FDA Readies Public Hearing for Next Generation Abortion Drug By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) readies a June public hearing for a new drug billed as an advanced form of “emergency contraception,” pro-life advocates are warning that ulipristal acetate is in fact the “next generation” of the abortion drug RU-486. Ulipristal acetate functions similarly to RU-486, which has been related to a number of maternal deaths both in the U.S. and abroad. Americans United for Life filed testimony with the FDA’s Advisory Committee […]

By Peter J. Smith HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Connecticut Superior Court judge has ruled against two doctors who argued that a state law against assisted suicide did not prohibit them from prescribing lethal drugs to consenting patients who were expected to die anyway. The Hartford Courant reports that Judge Julia Aurigemma dismissed the case brought by Ronald Levine and Gary Blick, who asserted in their lawsuit against the state that “assisted suicide” is not the same thing as “aid in dying”– a claim Aurigemma flatly rejected. “[The statute] is aimed at precisely the situation presented by the […]