Region: USA

Friday July 30, 2010 CBS President Apologizes for Not Having Enough Homosexual Propaganda By James Tillman July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — CBS President Nina Tassler has apologized for the network’s low rating on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) recent “Network Responsibility Index,” which ranked broadcast and cable networks by the percentage of “LGBT-inclusive” hours in their original prime time programming. “We’re very disappointed in our track record so far,” said Tassler at the Television Critics Association fall previews. “We’ll try to do better.” CBS received the worst rating of the five broadcast networks evaluated, with 7% of […]

Friday July 30, 2010 Abortion Leaders Complain: HHS Abortion Ban ‘Not What We Expected’ By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the White House continues to claim that a ban on abortion funding was always understood to apply to the whole federal health care law, abortion leaders, who once hailed the health care bill as a “huge victory,” are still expressing shock at the Obama administration’s last-minute ban of elective abortion funding in federally-funded high risk insurance pools. The thoughts of various abortion lobby leaders were collected in a Politico piece Friday detailing the pro-abortion confusion […]

Thursday July 29, 2010 Judge Orders Arizona to Help Pay Homosexual Partners’ Insurance By James Tillman PHOENIX, Arizona, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has blocked the enforcement of an Arizona law preventing health insurance benefits for the dependents of state employees from being offered to homosexual partners in domestic partnerships. He also denied a motion by state Attorney Charles Grube to dismiss the case Collins v. Brewer and ordered that the case proceed. Arizona currently provides subsidized health care to the dependents of eligible state employees, including spouses or domestic partners. However, domestic partners may either be […]

Wednesday July 28, 2010 Archbishop Urges All to Oppose Opening of New Planned Parenthood By James Tillman OMAHA, Nebraska, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Archbishop George Joseph Lucas of Omaha has released a statement asking “Catholics and all women and men of good will … to oppose the opening” of a new Planned Parenthood facility in Omaha both by prayer and by petitioning their elected officials. It would be the first Omaha Planned Parenthood to provide abortion. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) has announced plans to open an abortuary at 3105 N. 93rd Street in Omaha, the archbishop explained, […]

Thursday July 29, 2010 Hawaiian Gay Couples File Lawsuit Demanding Marriage in All but Name By James Tillman HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Six homosexual couples are filing a lawsuit in Hawaii today asking for the same benefits and responsibilities as marriage, but without the title of “marriage” or even of “civil union.” The suit had been threatened by the ACLU and by the homosexualist legal organization Lambda Legal after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed HB 444 on July 6, which would have granted same-sex couples many of the same rights as marriage. At the time she said that […]

Thursday July 29, 2010 Pro-Life Educator/Speaker Melanie Pritchard in Critical Condition By Chris Faddis, publisher of www.livinggracefully.net/ July 29, 2010 (LivingGracefully.net) – Melanie Pritchard, Catholic speaker, Pro-Life Educator, Chastity speaker, and a true woman of God is in critical condition after giving birth to her second child. During labor there were complications and Melanie was rushed into an emergency C-section. During the C-section Melanie’s heart stopped beating. The baby was born and is doing great. But Melanie’s condition is very serious. She has now had surgery on her heart and while she is stable on machines, is not recovering well. […]

Wednesday July 28, 2010 ‘In God We Trust’ Again Upheld by Federal Appeals Court WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 3-0 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, DC, ruled that the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” is constitutional and does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Quoting the 1970 decision in Aronow v. United States, the Court wrote: “It is quite obvious that the national motto and slogan on coinage and currency ‘In God We Trust’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment […]

13 Senators urge HHS: bar abortion funding "immediately"

Tuesday July 27, 2010 DISCLOSE Act Fails in Senate By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat leaders in the U.S. Senate failed Tuesday afternoon to overcome a Republican filibuster on a campaign finance disclosure bill that critics say threatens the ability of grassroots political organizations, and the pro-life movement, to communicate effectively with voters during election cycles. Democrats in the Senate could not muster all 60 “yes” votes they needed to break the GOP’s filibuster on the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act” (S.3628). The Senate voted 57 – […]

Wednesday July 28, 2010 Tiller Associate Faces Discipline from Kansas Medical Board Kansas, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA) has filed an 11-count petition against Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus for negligence while making late-term abortion referrals for the late Dr. George Tiller. “This petition is verification that we were correct about our allegations that Neuhaus and Tiller were operating outside the law,” said Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger. “It is also evidence that the efforts to work peacefully within the legal system that have been employed by us for over two […]