A new and powerful way to express the pro-life message is surging through churches with a program that helps pastors convince their congregations to vote their convictions. That’s according to Ray Comfort, whose DVD “180,”which accompanies his new book “Hitler, God, and the Bible,” takes direct aim at the rationalization and accommodation that sometimes appears even in [...]
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The Republican Senate Budget Committee released a chart Wednesday afternoon showing that governments in the United States spend more money per person than those in Portugal, Italy, Greece, or Spain. According to the graphic, data from the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook show that in 2011 the United States (at the federal, state and [...]
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Last week, the presidential hopeful told Fox News host Neil Cavuto, “I know many gay couples that are able to adopt children — that’s fine. But my preference is that we … continue to define marriage as the relationship between a man and a woman.” Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) takes [...]
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President Obama openly spoke of repealing the Defense of Marriage Act at a fundraiser Monday, as he defended his personal view that gay couples should have the right to marry. While his administration has put out statements on the idea of repealing the 1996 federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman, [...]
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Hardball anchor Chris Matthews, who routinely smears his political opponents as racist, on Monday lectured an African American minister who opposes gay marriage, “I hope you evolve.” The host patronizingly added, “I’m just teasing.” How would he (or MSNBC for that matter) react if a conservative said such a thing to a black leader? Matthews interviewed Bishop Harry [...]
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It seems as if Newsweek may have jumped the shark with its latest cover implying President Obama isn’t just a supporter of gay marriage, but that he is actually gay himself. The news-magazine, which hits stands today, is using the shock factor of labeling the straight, married, father-of-two President to draw attention to itself. President [...]
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On Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, a former MSNBC contributor and author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” echoed the sentiment he voiced on last weekend’s “The McLaughlin Group,” about President Barack Obama’s newfound gay-marriage position. But this time he voiced his disappointment that the Republican Party [...]
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Speaking Saturday night at an event sponsored by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky expressed surprise that President Barack Obama would say that his support for same-sex marriage was rooted in the Bible. “What version of the Bible is he reading?” Paul said. ““The president recently weighed in on marriage,” [...]
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On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see [...]
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The White House’s plans for “Gay Marriage Week” don’t seem to be working out very well. Except for the habitually overly impressed media and some gay rights groups, most people seem to have greeted President Obama’s “evolution” on gay marriage, and all the attendant stories planted in the media, with skepticism. By now, a substantial [...]
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Immediately after President Obama announced his support this week for same-sex marriage, attention turned to politics. The outcome of this year’s election will be determined by a handful of states — one of them is Iowa, where the politics of same-sex marriage are complicated. Same-sex is legal here, but three of the state Supreme Court [...]
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said President Barack Obama’s embrace of same-sex “marriage” on Wednesday was not political “at all,” nor due to concerns over fundraising from the LGBT community, adding that she’s not “big in the bundler crowd.” At her weekly press conference with reporters on Thursday, Pelosi was asked whether fundraising may [...]
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Though an anti-porn organization reports that a boycott against an online “daily deals” company appears to be working, the boycott continues. Morality in Media (MIM) has been calling out Groupon for its support of two porn producers, Kink and Playboy (see earlier story). The disputed ads have since been removed from the company’s website, as [...]
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On the same day that President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage, the House Armed Services Committee backed measures prohibiting the practice on U.S. military bases. The panel stepped into the gays in the military issue as it considered a sweeping, $642 billion defense bill for next year that buys new weapons, ships [...]
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North Carolina has become the 31st state to add an amendment on marriage to its constitution, with voters banning same-sex marriage and barring legal recognition of unmarried couples by state and local governments. North Carolina is the last state in the South to add such an amendment, and supporters hoped for a resounding victory. Incomplete [...]
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