Recent US News

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Virginia Memorial for Unborn Vandalized By James Tillman FRANKLIN, Virginia, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Vandals have broken and uprooted dozens of the 275 crosses set up by Rock Church in Franklin, Virginia to symbolize the victims of abortion. Rock Church has been putting the crosses up since April. Each cross stands for 10 babies killed by abortion. A sign by the crosses explains that in Hampton Roads, where Rock Church is located, 175 babies die of abortion every week. Seventeen crosses are added each week to represent those babies. “My hope would be that it’s […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Bobby Jindal Signs Landmark Abortion Reforms into Louisiana Law By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gov. Bobby Jindal signed three landmark abortion bills on Tuesday that significantly tighten the state’s regulations on abortionists and their practices, and opt out the state from the national health care reform’s abortion mandates. Jindal signed two bills that were introduced and shepherded through the legislature by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation (LARTL). The Ultrasound before Abortion Act (SB 528) adds strict ultrasound requirements to the state’s informed consent laws. The law requires abortionists to […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Hawaii Bids Farewell to Same-Sex Unions as Governor Vetoes Bill By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After months of wrangling and listening to both sides of the marriage debate, Republican Gov. Laura Lingle has vetoed legislation that would have established same-sex civil unions and made them equivalent to marriage in Hawaii. Lingle announced her decision Tuesday, the last day of a 45 working day period she was given to weigh a veto on HB 444, a bill which was suddenly revived and passed on the last day of Hawaii’s legislative session […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Hopes to Outlast Obama By James Tillman July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States of America has told friends that he will not retire until Barack Obama is no longer president, according to the New York Daily News. The Reagan-appointed justice turns 74 this month, and has spent 22 years on the Supreme Court He is considered the swing vote in many cases, and thus one of the most powerful justices. He wrote the majority opinion in 2007’s Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Performing an “end-run” around the Senate confirmation process, President Barack Obama has installed Dr. Donald Berwick, an enthusiast for medical rationing and an unabashed admirer of the United Kingdom’s socialized health care system, as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services via a recess appointment. The move means Berwick may take charge of the Center for the next year, without first having to go through Senate approval. This will allow him to have an influence on the CMS’s $800 billion budget and the myriad regulations that […]

Tuesday July 6, 2010 USA Presbyterians Get Ready to Vote on Gay ‘Marriage’ MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Presbyterians gathering this week in Minneapolis will face a potentially momentous decision: whether to preserve the teaching that marriage exists only between a man and a woman, or change the definition of marriage to a relationship between any “two people.” The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which began Saturday and concludes July 10, will take up a series of items, among them proposed constitutional amendments to change the definition of marriage in the PCUSA Book of Order. […]

Monday July 5, 2010 Rhode Island Gov. Vetoes Transgender Hate Crimes Bill By Peter J. Smith PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed a “hate crimes” bill last Wednesday that would have included transgenders as a protected class under Rhode Island state law. “I vetoed this legislation in the past and I do so again,” Carcieri declared. In a veto message, Carcieri said that Rhode Island already has hate crimes legislation on the books that empowers the state police to intervene in crimes related to bias. However, he added that the terms “gender identity […]

Monday July 5, 2010 Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Unanimously to Uphold Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban MADISON, Wisconsin, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously refused on Wednesday to tear down a voter-approved constitutional amendment that affirms marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and prohibits the state from manufacturing other legal relationships that masquerade as marriage. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief last year on behalf of the Wisconsin Family Council in defense of the amendment, which a lower court upheld as constitutional. “Voters adopted the marriage amendment in Wisconsin for […]

Monday July 5, 2010 Jimmy Kimmel Light Crew Burns Pro-Life Teen, Producers Apologize By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A light crew working for ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel drew the fury of pro-lifers in Los Angeles after the crew burned a pro-life teenage protester with a stage light. After protests were staged demanding an apology, the producers of the comedy show apologized and said they would not hire the same light crew again, according to reports. The conflict began on June 25 when the light crew encountered members of the Survivors of the […]

By James Tillman ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a new column, Archbishop Robert Carlson takes to task those who argue that abortion is simply a political issue, pointing out that it is also a serious moral issue. He also makes clear that one cannot be a good Catholic and be “pro-choice.” “People who are casual about the sin of abortion and who choose to view it as a political issue rather than the serious moral issue that it is are guilty of violating the Fifth Commandment,” he writes. Human life is sacred, according to the archbishop, because “from its […]