During a recent Fox News Channel debate about the Obama administration’s tax policies, Democrat Bob Beckel raised the issue of “fairness.” He pointed out that a child born to a poor woman in the Bronx enters the world with far worse prospects than a child born to an affluent couple in Connecticut. No one can [...]
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Thousands of pastors and evangelical leaders are joining Roman Catholics who oppose President Barack Obama’s contraceptive coverage mandate. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says more than 2,500 evangelicals have signed a letter urging President Obama to reverse the requirement that church-affiliated groups carry insurance providing free birth control, including “morning-after” pills and sterilization. The [...]
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Today it is contraception and the morning-after pill. Tomorrow it will be kosher slaughter, or matrilineal descent, or circumcision, or other matters of existential importance to Jewish observance. If the Obama administration gets away with forcing Catholic institutions to step across lines of life and death in the name of “health,” the federal government will [...]
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The American Life League, or ALL, has seen enough of Planned Parenthood’s materials for children to conclude the nation’s leading abortion provider is deliberately pushing kids toward sexual activity in order to drive up its business. ALL, which calls itself the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States, has produced a video [...]
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Of all the sins of leftism — its assault on our Constitution, its undermining of our inalienable rights, its hobbling of the economy — none is quite so wicked as its virtual enslavement of the black underclass. It was increases in welfare and the institutionalization of leftist attitudes that, beginning around 1964, brought a century [...]
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President Barack Obama announced today that “religious organizations” such as charities and hospitals will not be forced by the federal government to directly pay insurance premiums that cover sterilization, contraception and abortifacients but that their insurance providers must nonetheless provide those services free of charge to women insured by those organizations. Obama did not announce [...]
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Congressional Republicans aren’t impressed with President Obama’s new policy on contraception and religious institutions. Leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said they still plan to move a bill that would make further changes to the administration’s mandate. Obama said Friday that religious institutions like Catholic hospitals and universities will not have to include [...]
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Parents angry about Facebook use now have their poster child. He’s a dad wielding a .45 pistol, who posted a YouTube video showing him firing bullets through his daughter’s laptop computer as an act of discipline. The shooter, who identifies himself as Tommy Jordan from North Carolina, has not yet responded to requests for comment, [...]
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Many Protestant and evangelical leaders are standing with the Roman Catholics bishops against the Obamacare mandate to compel religious hospitals, schools and charities to purchase insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization. Although modern conservative Protestants have been accepting or ambivalent about birth control, they recognize a clear infringement on religious liberty. Mandatory coverage for [...]
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The only thing left is Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire’s signature. Legislation legalizing gay marriage is on its way to the governor after passing the state House by a 55-43 vote on Wednesday. Gregoire, who supports the measure and watched as lawmakers voted, has five days to sign the bill after it’s sent to her office. [...]
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Now, I got a note today from somebody trying to be a little funny. They said, “Rush, I know that Romney didn’t mean it this way, but the recent Health and Human Services mandate on contraception –” the Catholic Church thing “– once again shows that, yes, Obamacare is worth getting angry about. And there’s [...]
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The striking down of California’s Proposition 8 voter initiative banning same-sex couples from marrying sets up what may be a quick appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, in a 2-1 decision yesterday, ruled voters couldn’t deprive gay couples of the right to marry. Proposition 8’s only purpose [...]
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A federal appeals court ruled against California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, arguing the ban unconstitutionally singles out gays and lesbians for discrimination. In a split decision, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the state’s Proposition 8 “works a meaningful harm to gays and lesbians” by denying their [...]
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The Washington state Senate approved 28-21 Wednesday a same-sex marriage bill, handing advocates their biggest victory of the 2012 legislative session and all but ensure legalized gay marriage in the Evergreen State. “A lot of people are just stunned, particularly people in my age group and older,” said state Sen. Ed Murray, who spoke before the vote at [...]
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Have you seen crime dramas where the police start to close in on a killer? In the 1930s, the gangster would say, “You dirty rats, you’ll never take me alive.” In 2012, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which has taken so many unborn lives, issues a press release expressing “deep disappointment in response to [...]
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