The War on Families

Phyllis Schlafly says it best

The Cost to Taxpayers of Missing Fathers

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Cardinal Dolan: Obama's 'gay marriage' support undermines society

cna ^ | May 10, 2012 | Michelle Bauman Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan Washington D.C., May 10, 2012 / 02:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is charging President Barack Obama with undermining the very cornerstone of society by supporting gay marriage. Cardinal Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, described the presidents endorsement as deeply saddening. The bishops cannot be silent in the face of words or actions that would undermine the institution of marriage, the very cornerstone of our society, he said in a May 9 statement. The people of this country, especially our children, deserve better. Cardinal Dolan said that the announcement...

Germany gives rights to tiny babies who die

The Local ^ | 9 May 12 16:41 CET | (DAPD/The Local/jcw) A German law which meant that very small babies were not recognized as people meaning that when they died due to miscarriage or after a premature birth, they could often not be buriedhas been changed. Until now, dead babies weighing less

than 500 grams (1 lb 1.62 oz) were not recognized by German authorities as having a legal identitythey could not be included on the civic register and were often thus not released or accepted for burial. As many German states require a person to be on the civic register before they can be buried, hospitals have often refused to give...

President Obama says Sasha and Malia influenced his stance on same-sex marriage
CBS ^ | 5/9/2012 | Norah O'Donnell President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage Wednesday, just hours after North Carolina adopted a constitutional amendment to ban it -- one of 41 states where same-sex marriage is illegal. President Obama's declaration does not change any law, but it does inject a contentious social issue into the race for the White House. "For me personally it is important for me to affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married," Mr. Obama said. CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell reports Mr. Obama has often said he was in favor of civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and...

Chilean Study Proves that Outlawing Abortion Does Not Lead to Coat-hanger Deaths
http://www.redstate.com/ ^ | May 08 2012 | Leon H. Wolf For decades, supporters of abortion on demand have insisted on two completely unproven assertions concerning what would happen if abortion were made generally illegal in this country. First, they have asserted, somewhat counterintuitively and again without any proof, that such a law would not work, and women would continue to get abortions. Second, based on the first unfounded assertion, they insist that therefore women would be forced into back alley abortions which would presumably always be performed with a dirty coat-hanger, thus leading to massive maternal mortality. These two pronouncements have been peddled uncritically with all the fervor (and factual...

CALIFORNIA: Boy Scouts policy barring gay members sparks Assembly fire

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 5/8/12 | Jim Sanders A proposed resolution to commend the Boy Scouts of America on its 102nd anniversary died today in an Assembly committee because the measure did not urge the group to accept gays and lesbians. Instead, the Assembly Judiciary Committee passed a separate resolution that applauded the Boy Scouts but said its policy against accepting homosexuals is harmful and discriminatory -- and should be reconsidered. The measure that passed, crafted by committee Chairman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, encouraged the group to "accept for membership and leadership positions all qualified boys and men, without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or religious...

Best recession insurance: Marriage

The Washington Times ^ | May 3, 2012 | By Janice Shaw Crouse Economists refer to the economic benefit that accrues to married couples as the marriage premium. A recent CBS television special asked the question, Why is marriage such an economic turn-on? The program MoneyWatch gave three reasons based on a report from the Pew Research Centers report, Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage: Economies of scale: Married couples share the cost of necessary expenses, such as health insurance, utility bills and mortgage payments. That is especially significant today when more than two-thirds of men have working spouses and 22 percent of wives make more than their husbands.

A Better Life for Julia

News Blog from The Heritage Foundation ^ | 5/4/2012 | The Foundry Yesterday, President Obamas team introduced the Life of Julia, a portrayal of a liberal vision of life for one woman. Our version shows how conservative policies, like the ones outlined in Heritages Saving the American Dream plan, can empower Julia and all Americans without government interference at every stage of life. **Slideshow

THE LIFE OF JULIA (Obama "War on Women" Mega Hurl Alert)

Obama 2012 ^ | May 3, 2012 | Staff

Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime and how Mitt Romney would change her story.

Who the hell is "Julia" and why am I paying for her whole life?
Human Events ^ | 05/03/2012 | by David Harsanyi In the new Barack Obama campaign piece The Life of Julia, voters can "Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime -- and how Mitt Romney would change her story." It is one of the most brazenly statist pieces of campaign literature I can ever remember seeing. Let's, for the purposes of this post, set aside the misleading generalizations regarding policy in the ad (no one is innocent on that account, obviously). What we are left with is a celebration of a how a woman can live her entire life by leaning on government...

The cradle-to-grave, government-supported existence of Julia (Obama's imaginary beneficiary)

Hotair ^ | 05/03/2012 | Ed Morrissey Today's buzz surrounds the rollout of yet another composite character from the imagination of Barack Obama, this one named "Julia" Julia represents the arc of a life under the beneficent care of Barack Obama's policies. Interestingly, at every stage of Julia's life, a government program exists to shield her from life's woes. And just as interestingly, Julia never gets the bill for all of this government handholding.Let's present a more realistic view of Julia's life: 3 years old --- Julia gets a new-and-improved Head Start, which a new HHS study shows won't do anything for her anyway.17 years old --...

I Had an Abortion Shirt Sales Stir Controversy at University of North Carolina Wilmington
The Blaze ^ | April 19, 2012 | Christopher Santarelli While the right to privacy may have been the key to securing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, some advocates of the controversial procedure today want to walk around with a sign, t-shirt to be exact, broadcasting their reproductive decisions. In 2004, abortion advocate and author Jennifer Baumgardner launched the I Had an

Abortion project to encourage women and men to come out about their procedures. The campaign featured shirts that read I Had an Abortion, a book, photo exhibit, and documentary film featuring 10 women including feminist Gloria Steinem describe their abortion experiences spanning seven decades.

Hilary Rosen Apologizes to Ann Romney: Lets Put the Faux War Against Stay-at-Home Moms to Rest
The Blaze ^ | April 12, 2012 | Madeleine Morgenstern Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen is out with a statement apologizing to Ann Romney for saying she never worked a day in her life. Via Talking Points Memo: Lets put the faux war against stay at home moms to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is,

Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say

Telegraph ^ | 4/12/2012 | Staff Writers Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are morally irrelevant and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued. The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not actual persons and do not have a moral right to life. -snip- The journals editor, Prof Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, said the article's authors had received death threats since publishing the article. He said those who made abusive and threatening posts about the study...

Fathers of Illegitimate Children Would Lose Rights to Adoption

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/04/10/fathers-of-illegitimate-children-would-loserights-to-adoption/ ^ | Josie Butler A bill presented in the House would allow the adoption of a child to take place without the consent of the father, if he has not previously developed a consistent

and substantial relationship with the child. The definition of consistent and substantial relationship, has not been specifically defined in Missouri law. The bill seeks to express clearly the actions a father must take to develop a consistent and substantial relationship. Unless actively thwarted from doing so by the mother, the father must provide: Consistent prenatal financial support Payment of prenatal and natal medical care for the mother and baby Child...

The new American household: 3 generations, 1 roof

http://money.cnn.com ^ | 4/9/2012 | Les Christie As the economy continues to take a toll on consumers' finances, a growing number of people are discovering that becoming roommates with mom and dad, or a 20- or 30-something son or daughter, helps to ease some of the financial pain in tough times. As of 2010, 4.4 million U.S. homes held three generations or more under one roof, a 15% increase from 3.8 million households two years earlier, according to the latest data available from the Census Bureau. For multi-generational households, there is typically a nice payoff.

Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, Send Strong Message in Favor of the Natural Family
lc.org ^ | 04/09/2012 | n/a Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, overwhelmingly voted in favor of the natural family by rejecting Proposition 5, a measure that would have given special rights based on lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual behavior. Proposition 5 would have given special rights to sexual behavior and would have been used as a club to silence dissent of the faith community. Alaska voters sent a loud and clear statement to the rest of the country that forcing people to provide special privileges based on sexual behavior is unwise. The measure was put on the ballot and supported by a consortium of LGBT groups, called

The End of Marriage - A Sign That We Are In The Last Days!

The Ignorant Fishermen.com ^ | 4/9/12 | DJP , I.F.

It is well know that in the Western cultures of Europe and now in America, that the God ordained institution of marriage - which was ordained before the world began (Eph 5:28-33) - has been rapidly falling by the way side. This out right rejection of the institution of marriage is found mostly in liberal/progressive circles and is a progressive liberal trait. What is most alarming is that these "western" countries which once embraced the Judeo/Christian moral absolutes of the Bible - are now secular wastelands reaping the whirlwind of their anti moral absolute rebellion.

Obama weighs in against Minnesota's marriage ballot

startribune.com ^ | April 9, 2012 | PAM LOUWAGIE President Obama's Minnesota campaign waded into the state's marriage amendment fight on Monday with a statement saying the president opposes the proposal that would define marriage only as the union of a man and woman. Obama for America's Minnesota communications director, Kristin Sosanie, said in a news release that "while the President does not weigh in on every single ballot measure in every state, the record is clear that the President has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples. That's what the Minnesota ballot initiative would do -- it would single out and...

Rick Santorum is Right, It Takes a Family. Now, It Will Take a President

Catholic Online ^ | 4/1/12 | Keith A Fournier ... I am deeply concerned... The dream called American is threatened. I share the growing sense that it is not because the American people have lost that dream, but, at least partially, because we have the wrong leaders in political office... I am disturbed to once again hear and read the mantra of the main stream media that the 2012 Presidential campaign is over. You know the drill; that Mitt Romney is the nominee to face President Obama and anyone who feels differently should stop their efforts and sing the song of the establishment... The lyrics have gone through revisions....

Remembering the Importance of Family

Townhall.com ^ | March 29, 2012 | Jackie Gingrich Cushman

When I was young, I thought that I knew everything. The older I have grown, the more I have begun to understand how little I know. As a young, determined, hardworking financial consultant in the late 1980s and early 1990s, life seemed rather simple: Work hard, get ahead. As a consultant at BDO Seidman, where I began working while in graduate school at Georgia State University, the hours were long, but my future seemed bright. Arriving before the sun was up, my work often lasted until late at night, and more often than not, through the weekend. Once I earned...

Suicide: The Unexpected but Proven Result

Live Action ^ | 3/27/2012 | Heidi Miller The latest Human Rights Report on China (2010) from the Department of State links the One Child Policy with high female suicide rates in China: A high female suicide rate continued to be a serious problem. According to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, there were approximately 500 female suicides per day in 2009. The Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center reported in 2009 that the suicide rate for females was three times higher than for males. Many observers believed that violence against women and girls, discrimination in education and employment, the traditional preference for male children, birthlimitation...

Don't use words husband and wife...same-sex wedding reforms would axe terms from official documents
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 15 March 2012 | STEVE DOUGHTY Reforms to allow same-sex marriage will see the words husband and wife removed from official forms, it was revealed last night. Tax and benefits guidance and immigration documents must be rewritten so they no longer assume a married couple is a man and a woman. And private companies will be told to overhaul paperwork and computer databases containing the words. New versions of documents willreplace references to husband and wife with the more neutral terms spouses and partners. The cost of the red tape revolution demanded by the Equal Civil Marriage plans will run into millions, according to an official...

Marriage Is Best for Raising Children, Government says

The Telegraph ^ | 12 Mar 2012 | James Kirkup Iain Duncan Smith will make the Coalitions most explicit official statement in favour of parents marrying and staying together. He will say that children from such homes are most likely to end up with a good education and a job. The Work and Pensions Secretary will make the declaration as he announces an Early Intervention Foundation to raise millions of pounds from private investors to help disadvantaged children. The Social Justice Strategy Paper will set out plans to tackle the causes of poverty and disadvantage. It makes clear that the stability of parents relationships is a key factor in childrens...

Families' exodus leaves S.F. with lowest pct. of children in U.S.

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/9/12 | Heather Knight Last year, a family of three earning $111,000 a year could afford just 23 percent of homes for sale in San Francisco - mostly in southern neighborhoods, including Bayview-Hunters Point.The median price of a house in the city in 2010 was $668,000. Just 2 percent of new housing units built in the city since 2001 are single-family, detached homes.These were just a few of the scores of statistics presented at a special Board of Supervisors hearing Thursday to help explain why San Francisco is bleeding families with children - losing 5,278 people younger than 18 between 2000 and 2010, according...

President Obama Invokes Sasha & Malia In Response To Rush Limbaugh Slut Remarks
Mediaite ^ | 3/6/12 | Tommy Christopher At Tuesday afternoons press conference, President Obama crystallized the terms of the widespread outrage over Rush Limbaughs attacks on Georgetown law student and activist Sandra Fluke, denouncing the remarks, and telling reporters that when he called Ms. Fluke, it was with his own daughters in mind. The President said he wanted his daughters to be able to speak their minds in a civil and thoughtful way. And I do not want them attacked or called horrible names. The major miscalculation that Rush Limbaugh made, and which GOP candidates like Mitt Romney have compounded, is that average Americans

Is Chick-fil-A Anti-Gay? And if so, Should You Not Eat There?

Reason ^ | 2 March 2012 | Nick Gillespie Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit points to a story at Tax Prof Blog about Northeastern University's decision to bar the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A from that fine institution's campus. Why the exclusion? On the basis of some of its charitable giving, Chick-fil-A is considered to be anti-gay by the gay rights group Equality Matters. Among the groups that raise ire are outfits such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), Focus on the Family, The Family Resource Council, and Exodus International. Certainly some of these groups talk often about pushing back on what they consider "the homosexual agenda" that has continued to...

California govt. mailing condoms to teenagers at home in unmarked envelopes

lifesitenews.com ^ | 02/27/2012 | THADDEUS BAKLINSKI THADDEUS BAKLINSKI The California Department of Public Health has begun a program of providing free condoms by mail to children as young as twelve. The Condom Access Project (CAP) was rolled out the week of February 14th in Alameda, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Kern and parts of San Francisco counties under the direction of the California Family Health Council. These areas were chosen, according to the STD Control Branch of the Department of Public Health, because of the high rates of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and infections among teens in these counties. Supporters of the program admit that while abstinence is the...

Ethicists Argue in Favor of After-Birth Abortions as Newborns Are Not Persons

The Blaze ^ | 02-27-12 | Liz Klimas Two ethicists working with Australian universities argue in the latest online edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics that if abortion of a fetus is allowable, so to should

be the termination of a newborn. Alberto Giubilini with Monash University in Melbourne and Francesca Minerva at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne write that in circumstances occur[ing] after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. The two are quick to note that they prefer the term afterbirth abortion as opposed to infanticide. Why? Because...

Bastard Nation-a social pathology that keeps women in poverty and destroys children's futures
FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 23, 2012 | Daniel Flynn The New York Times reports that 53 percent of babies delivered to women under the age of 30the prime motherhood demographicenter the world without their parents married to one another. But its not the rise of illegitimacy that scandalizes sex scribbler Katie Roiphe. It is the newspapers peculiar moral undertone. [M]arriage is very rapidly becoming only one way to raise children, Roiphe explains at Slate, noting that other countries are obviously way ahead of the United States in incorporating a rational recognition of the vicissitudes of love, and the varieties of family life, into cultural attitudes toward unmarried parents.

Out of Wedlock Birthrate Continues to Soar. Nothing Less than the Future of Our Country is At Stake
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | February 21, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope The breakdown of the traditional family is at the heart of what Daniel Patrick Moynihan once called a tangle of pathologies. The image I have often used is that the breakdown of the nuclear family is in fact a kind of nuclear fission. For the family (not the individual) is the basic unit of society. Splitting the family is like splitting the atom, it leads to a destructive chain reaction that, if not somehow controlled and contained, destroys just about everything in sight.So many of our national ills are show a strong connection to the breakdown of the family: poverty...

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Out of Wedlock

New York Times ^ | February 17, 2012 | JASON DePARLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE LORAIN, Ohio It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage. Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America. The fastest growth in the last two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree, according to Child Trends, a Washington research group that analyzed government data....

Vladimir Putin ridiculed after demanding Russians have more sex to halt declining population
Daily Mail ^ | 2/13/2012 | Will Stewart Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was mocked by his own countrymen today after urging Russians to start having more sex to put a stop to the country's declining population. In one of his more controversial presidential election campaign pledges, Putin vowed to give cash incentives to mothers who have a third child, to help encourage more births. Russia is the largest geographical country in the world but its 142 million population is smaller than both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Putin, who served two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 followed by his current term as prime minister, warned that the current...

Vanity: Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger on Charity, Disease and Sterilization

The Pivot of Civilization (Margaret Sanger) ^ | 1922 | WPtG Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents."The Pivot of Civilization", Page 108 It [charity] encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of

unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader...

Pelosi: Girl Scouts' Relationship With Planned Parenthood Very Valuable

CNS News ^ | February 1, 2012 | Elizabeth Harrington (CNSNews.com) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Planned Parenthoods relationship with the Girl Scouts of America is very valuable, Wednesday, at a congressional reception to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the organization for young girls. Rep. Pelosi was featured at the reception with a group of female government leaders to promote the Girl Scouts new initiative To Get Her There, which seeks to create gender balanced leadership in one generation.After the event CNSNews.com asked Pelosi: The Girl Scouts has had some ties to Planned Parenthood, do you think thats a valuable relationship to have working together?

Veterans Affairs sued over same-sex marriage policy (Who saw this coming?)
The Virginia Pilot ^ | February 1, 2012 | Mackenzie Weigner A federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday challenging the Veterans Affairs Department for refusing to recognize legally married gay and lesbian military couples and denying them the same family benefits as their heterosexual colleagues. With the repeal last year of Dont Ask, Dont Tell allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military, activists have now turned their focus to gaining full benefits for legally married same-sex active duty and veteran service members and their families. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the law firm WilmerHale filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Los Angeles on behalf of military veteran Tracey Cooper-Harris...

Teen births: Nearly half in state are to Hispanics (Although only 13% of population-CT)
The Day ^ | 1-26-2012 | MAGALY OLIVERO

At 13 percent of the state's population, the Hispanic community is growing at a dramatic rate - by almost 50 percent during the past decade - and experiencing increasing social and health inequities. Almost a third of Hispanic children ages 17 and younger live in poverty. Almost 22 percent of all Hispanics have no health insurance. The state's Hispanics had the third highest unemployment rate in the nation in 2010, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Hispanics had a four-year high school graduation rate of 64 percent in 2010, according to state Department of Education...

Hungary Defies Critics With New Family Law

C-FAM ^ | 1/26/12 | Susan Yoshihara New York, January 27 (C-FAM) Hungarian leaders have passed a law protecting the traditional family, defying ongoing criticism that their new constitution would curtail abortion and homosexuality. The new law says the family, based upon marriage of a man and a woman whose mission is fulfilled by raising children, is an "autonomous community...established before the emergence of law and the State" and that the State must respect it as a matter of national survival. It says "Embryonic and foetal life shall be entitled to protection and respect from the moment of conception," and the state should encourage "homely circumstances" for...

STAR PARKER: Ruling on ultrasound law worth celebrating

San Angelo Standard Times ^ | January 23, 2012 | Star Parker The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave good reason for celebration for the hundreds of thousands who will arrive in Washington for the 39th annual March for Life last Monday. The court earlier upheld the constitutionality of a new law in Texas requiring that abortion providers do ultrasound exams and that a woman listen to the physician's description of her unborn child and to the heartbeat before deciding whether to abort. The law, signed by Gov. Rick Perry in May, was blocked by a federal-district court in August. It argued that the law impinged on the free-speech rights of...

Starbucks supports gay marriage legislation [WA]

Seattle Times ^ | Jan. 24, 2012 | Andrew Garber Starbucks today joined a growing list of corporations, including Microsoft, that have endorsed gay marriage legislation in the state House and Senate. Gay marriage supporters have apparently secured the votes needed to pass a measure through both houses, and Gov. Chris Gregoire has said she'll sign it into law. Starbucks' statement below: Starbucks is proud to join other leading Northwest employers in support of Washington State legislation recognizing marriage equality for same-sex couples. Starbucks strives to create a company culture that puts our partners first, and our company has a lengthy history of leading and supporting policies that promote equality...

Marriage: Saying 'I don't'

Los Angeles Times / LATimes.com ^ | January 19, 2012 | By Stephanie Coontz As of 2010, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, married couples had fallen to barely 51% of U.S. households, with a full 5% drop in new marriages between 2009 and 2010 alone. The data for 2011 aren't in yet, but if that decline continued last year, less than half of American adults are in a legal marriage now. Is marriage going the way of the electric typewriter and the VHS tape? Not exactly. The decline of marriage seems especially dramatic in comparison to the way things were 50 years ago. In 1960, almost half of 18-...

The Volume Pricing of Abortion- $135 million for Planned Parenthood

Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2012 | Political Calculations Now that we've revealed the pace at which the most prolific abortion providers in the United States conduct their business, it's time to consider their primary motivating factor behind achieving such economies of scale: revenue. To do that, we'll need to determine the average amount of money collected for each abortion performed in the United States based upon their annual caseloads. Fortunately, the Guttmacher Institute has once again collected the data we need to construct a model by which we can estimate the average price paid for an abortion in the U.S. depending upon the annual volume of abortions performed...

Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together
USCCB.ORG ^ | Jan 12, 2012 Dear Friends: The promotion and protection of marriagethe union of one man and one woman as husband and wifeis a matter of the common good and serves the wellbeing of the couple, of children, of civil society and all people.The meaning and value of marriage precedes and transcends any particular society, government, or religious community.It is a universal good and the foundational institution of all societies.It is bound up with the nature of the human person as male and female, and with the essential task of bearing and nurturing children.

Another Tebow article http://www.reporterherald.com/news/loveland-local-news/ci_19708509 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832298/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832350/posts In his first 2011 start as the Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow was in the glare of the national spotlight.

During pregame activities before playing the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 23, though, Tebow focused not only on the football game ahead but also on 16-year-old Garrett Atwood.

Garrett, a Winter Springs youth who has been treated for a life-threatening illness in Jacksonville, spent time with his hero, thanks to Tebows desire to help children and families, especially those in crisis.

I know there are more important things than winning a game; like Garrett hes more important. Putting a smile on his face before the game was more important than winning, Tebow said during his post-game news conference. That is the perspective that my faith gives me.

50 Rules for Dads of Daughters

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Pope: homosexual marriage threatens the future of humanity

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/9/12 | John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, January 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) In his annual address to ambassadors to the Vatican today, Pope Benedict XVI warned that laws permitting abortion and undermining the traditional family are threatening the future of humanity. Speaking particularly of the West, the Holy Father said, I am convinced that legislative measures which not only permit but at times even promote abortion for reasons of convenience or for questionable medical motives compromise the education of young people and, as a result, the future of humanity. Similarly, the pope spoke of the family, based on the marriage of a man and a...

Holy Gridiron! Tebow Throws for 316 Yards, Averages 31.6 Yds. Per Pass, OT 31.6 Television Rating
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 9, 2012 | Jim Hoft <p>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.</p> <p>Tim Tebow started sporting John 3:16 way back during his college career.</p> <p>Yesterday Tim Tebow Tebow passed for 316 yards against the Steelers, completing 10 of 21 pass attempts meaning he passed for 31.6 yards per completion.</p>

The war against the family

PGA Weblog ^ In The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx/Engels write:(Page 39) Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the

Communists On what foundation is the present family the bourgeois family based On capital on private gain In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians and in public prostitution. This is written as a response to objections by "bourgeoisie" detractors, though it's not exactly written as a complete refutation of the charge....

Shock: 40% of New York pregnancies aborted

Life Site News ^ | 1/5/12 | Peter Baklinski

NEW YORK, New York, January 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) With the highest abortion rate in the nation, nearly double the 23% national average, New York continues to be a place that babies in the womb cannot love. New York City Department of Health released data that shows that 83,750 abortions were performed in New York City in 2010, which translated to 40% of all pregnancies, down from 41% in 2009. The Bronx saw a staggering 48% of pregnancies end in abortion. The city lost 38,574 African-Americans babies to abortion, a dumbfounding 60% of the citys African-American pregnancies.

Planned Parenthoods Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions
CNS ^ | 1.3.12 | Penny Starr According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a twelve-month period and performed 329,455 abortions. In addition, the number of adoption referrals made by the organization continued to decline.

Surprising Top Ten List of Anti-Christian Acts of 2011

Christian Newswire ^ | January 3, 2012 | Dr. Gary Cass SAN DIEGO, Jan. 3, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- DefendChristians.Org solicited the members of their online community to vote for their choice of the top ten anti-Christian acts of 2011 in the U.S. "I am always surprised at the results of our poll and this year is no exception," said Dr. Gary Cass of DefendChristians.Org. "The fact the number one and number two issues are public policy and political in nature shows Christians are very concerned about the political direction of the

country. I wouldn't be surprised if this translates into a strong political response in 2012." These results do not necessarily...

Married couples at a record low

Wapo ^ | 12/14/11 The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society. Just 51 percent of all adults who are 18 and older are married, placing them on the brink of becoming a minority, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census statistics to be released Wednesday. That represents a steep drop from 57 percent who were married in 2000. Maryland is a little below the national average, at 50 percent, while Virginia is a little...

Daddy Bear http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2792714/posts SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. -- When a bear is lost in the mountains, it hardly garners a mention. When a bear lost in the mountains belongs to a little girl, it can mobilize an army. Sometimes that army - online and in person - can make a miracle happen. The story of the bear nicknamed "Daddy Bear" begins on Tuesday night. Six-year old Justice Wadsworth and her family were driving back from a trip to see family in Idaho when Justice got carsick along Interstate 90. In the rush to get her out of the car and onto the side of the highway near Ellensburg, Daddy Bear fell out and went for a trip of his own. "I remember seeing the pillow go up to the top of the car, and I remember vaguely seeing something white, too," said Wadsworth's grandmother, Patty Sweeney. "It's heartwrenching because it means so much to her," she said, fighting back tears. Most teddy bears don't typically bring tears, but this one is different. Justice's real dad, Sgt. Claudio Wadsworth, is stationed with the army in South Korea. He sent Daddy Bear to his daughter when he was deployed to Afghanistan four years ago. The teddy bear was meant to be there while he's away.

"That's Daddy when Daddy's gone," Sweeney added. "She goes to bed with him every night." "It makes me feel likeI'm cuddling with my dad," said Justice. "We couldn't find him. I was still sad, so I was crying. And the more I cry, the sadder I get." With Daddy Bear missing somewhere along Interstate 90 between the Thorp fruit stand and Elk Heights, Sweeney took to Facebook. On Wednesday, she posted a note on the page for the Washington State Department of Transportation, who then tweeted about it. Within 24 hours, ordinary citizens and seasoned state employees were searching the side of the highway for the missing teddy bear. "I honestly didn't think anybody would find him," Sweeney said. "I mean, who finds a teddy bear lying on the side of the road?" On Thursday, Sweeney's phone rang. It was WSDOT, calling with the news that two maintenance workers found Daddy Bear, tucked into a bush, sandwiched on the side of the road, surprisingly clean after being protected from rain and road debris. And on Thursday evening, on their own time, those two seasoned state employees made the three and a half hour trip from Cle Elum to Sedro-Woolley to make sure a little girl didn't spend another night without Daddy Bear. "When my daughter was born, I bought her a similar teddy bear," said Harry Nelson, assistant maintenance superintendent for WSDOT. "She's 13 now, and she still cherishes the thing and won't part with it. We both really understand that it's really important to a child." "I have never been asked whether there was a teddy bear I had to go find out there somewhere," added Terry Kukes, an area maintenance and operations superintendent who has been with the WSDOT for 33 years. "At least she'll sleep tonight." "It means the world to her to have that bear," added Sweeney. "For them to do that on their own time is amazing. I just want to thank them. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank them for doing that."

Illinois bishops announce shutdown of adoption services

CNA/EWTN News ^ | Nov 15, 2011 | Marianne Medlin Bishops in three Illinois dioceses announced Nov. 14 that they have dropped their lawsuit against the state and will shut down their adoption and foster care programs, after a civil union law required them to provide their services to same-sex couples. The decision not to pursue further appeals was reached with great reluctance, but was necessitated by the fact that the State of Illinois has made it financially impossible for our agencies to continue to provide these services, said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, and Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Joliet. Since we...

Microsoft, Starbucks among 70 major organizations to join suit AGAINST DOMA (shopping season alert!)
Seattle Times ^ | November 4, 2011 | Janet I. Tu Microsoft and Starbucks are among 70 corporations, financial institutions, medical centers, and other major organizations that have signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).The organizations are, or represent, major employers who argue that DOMA imposes significant administrative costs, and that it harms their ability to attract and retain talent."Microsoft has joined dozens of corporations, organizations and governments in support of a challenge on constitutionality grounds to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA," the company said in a statement.

Young boy wishes to join Girl Scouts

Yahoo News ^ | 10/26/2011 | Mike Krumboltz Bobby Montoya is a 7-year-old boy from Denver. Unlike a lot of young boys, Bobby has no desire to join the Boy Scouts. Instead, he wants to be a Girl Scout. We first saw Montoya's story over at 9news.com. The NBC affiliate reports that when the boy's mother, Felisha Archuleta, tried to sign her son up for Girl Scouts, a troop leader told her no.

Why Marriage Preserves More Perfect Union

IBD Editorials ^ | October 25, 2011 | PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY http://news.investors.com/Article/589282/201110251850/Why-Marriage-PreservesMore-Perfect-Union.htm Most Americans are unaware that about $700 billion a year of federal taxpayers' money is handed out to nontaxpayers who are allegedly below the poverty line (in addition to $250 billion a year given out by the states). After Barack Obama became president, he increased federal welfare spending by a third because, as he promised during his campaign, he wants to "spread the wealth," knowing that increasing welfare spending promotes dependence on government and votes for the Democrats. This federal welfare apparatus consists of 69 means-tested programs: 12 programs providing food, 10 for housing assistance, 10 for social services,

Gay Couple 'Dilemma' .. Son to dress as Princess for Halloween?

cbs47 ^ | 10-22-11 | cakid1 A 4-year-old California boy wants to go out and trick-or-treat dressed as a princess. According to LA Times, that's sparked a "dilemma for his two moms, Anna and Louisa Villeneuve." Anna.. says.. "I want to encourage him to stand up and be himself.. but my 4-year-old is too little and too fragile to know where the social boundaries are. And I don't want his feelings hurt on what should be one of his happiest nights." (Anna and Louisa got married the first day gay marriage was legal in California.)

Profanity in TV and video games linked to teen aggression

Brigham Young University ^ | October 17, 2011 | Unknown

Minnesota's child care, averaging $9,900 a year, is among least affordable

pioneer press ^ | 10-9-11 | Jennifer Bissell

Minnesota ranks as the fifth least affordable state for prekindergarten child care, after New York, Montana, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Minnesota is among the most expensive for child care partly because the industry is highly regulated by the state, according to Ann McCully, executive director of Minnesota Child Care. For example, Minnesota requires a lower ratio of staff to children than other states, which requires centers to spend more money on personnel. McCully said it can be difficult for centers to make a profit or simply break even.

'Til 2013 do us part? Mexico mulls 2-year marriage

Reuters via news.yahoo.com ^ | Fri Sep 30, 2011 | Alex Leff MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City lawmakers want to help newlyweds avoid the hassle of divorce by giving them an easy exit strategy: temporary marriage licenses. Leftists in the city's assembly -- who have already riled conservatives by legalizing gay marriage -- proposed a reform to the civil code this week that would allow couples to decide on the length of their commitment, opting out of a lifetime. The minimum marriage contract would be for two years and could be renewed if the couple stays happy. The contracts would include provisions on how children and property would be handled if...

Canada Legalizes Infanticide

pyjamas media ^ | September 14, 2011 | Rob Taylor The title isnt fair in Canada infanticide is a serious crime that can land you a tough five year sentence. Thats five years maximum, by the way. After all, its only killing a baby, nothing people need to really be punished for doing. People in Canada who think killing an infant is the act of a morally bankrupt monster who deserves more time than the average murderer are getting another kick in the teeth, courtesy of Judge Joanne Veit. She let a woman convicted of murdering her newborn baby then throwing the body over her neighbors backyard fence walk...

Unable to pay child support, poor parents land behind bars

msnbc.com ^ | 9/12/2011 | Mike Brunker

It may not be a crime to be poor, but it can land you behind bars if you also are behind on your child-support payments. Thousands of so-called deadbeat parents are jailed each year in the U.S. after failing to pay court-ordered child support the vast majority of them for withholding or hiding money out of spite or a feeling that theyve been unfairly gouged by the courts. But in what might seem like an unAmerican plot twist from a Charles Dickens novel, advocates for the poor say, some parents are wrongly being locked away without any regard for...

Study: fathers presence makes children happier, more intelligent

lifesitenews.com ^ | September 9, 2011 | Thaddeus Baklinski MONTREAL, September 9, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Research at Montreals Concordia University has shown that fathers who actively engage in raising their children make important contributions to their childrens cognitive abilities and behavioral functioning. The study carried out by Erin Pougnet, a PhD candidate in the Concordia University Department of Psychology, and associates, used data from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, an intergenerational longitudinal data set collected in inner city areas of Montreal. This topic is particularly relevant in Qubec, a demographically and culturally unique province in which female lone parenthood is relatively common, Pougnet explains in the preface to the...

HHS: Children Are Sexual Beings

CNS News ^ | 8/22/2011 | Penny Star (CNSNews.com) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering advice to parents and teens about sex education, including assurances that teens may experiment with homosexuality as part of exploring their own sexuality, and that masturbation should be of concern only if a child seems preoccupied with it to the exclusion of other activities. The information, located on a Questions and Answers About Sex link on the Quick Guide to Healthy Living portion of the HHS Web site, also describes children and infants as sexual beings. Under the question When Do Kids Start Becoming Curious About Sex?...

Obama admin website: infants and children are sexual beings

LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/24/11 | Kathleen Gilbert WARNING: disturbing content. WASHINGTON, D.C., August 24, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Borrowing Planned Parenthoods talking points almost verbatim, the Obama administration is now encouraging parents to begin thinking about their children, and even babies, as sexual beings who should be allowed to sexually stimulate themselves from infancy. Children are human beings and therefore sexual beings, says a Q&A about sex directly linked to by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Its hard for parents to acknowledge this, just as its hard for kids to think of their parents as sexually active. But even infants have curiosity about their own...

Evil: Attendees at prominent pro-pedophilia conference horrified by sessions

LifeSiteNews ^ | 08/23/20011 | Jeremy Kryn BALTIMORE, MD, August 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) Pro-family advocates who attended a controversial pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore last week say they were profoundly shaken by what they saw and heard. As a former law enforcement officer Ive dealt with situations involving suicide, homicide and other violence. That said, Ive never felt the level of spiritual oppression and evil that I felt in that room, Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber told LifeSiteNews. These mental health professionals, and self-described pedophile and gay activists were inexplicably able to cavalierly discuss, in an almost dismissive way, the idea of child rape,

Ill. judge rules against Catholics on foster care

AP via SFGate ^ | 8/18/11 | JOHN O'CONNOR, AP Political Writer An Illinois judge ruled Thursday that the state can stop working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster care placements something the state decided to do in July after the not-for-profit agency refused to recognize Illinois' new civil unions law. In his ruling, Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Schmidt said that no one, including Catholic Charities, has a legal right to a contract with the state government. He did not address the more sensitive issue of whether a state contractor that refuses to serve gays and lesbians is violating the state's new civil unions law. The state Department of...

Fashion industry outraged after French label launches lingerie for girls as young as FOUR
Daily Mail ^ | 1:51 PM on 17th August 2011 | Daisy Dumas The shots feature young girls in poses and styling that seem far too premature for their ages.Too much too young? New French lingerie label Jours Apres Lunes is designed for girls aged between four and 12 In one shot, a girl wears Jackie O-style sunglasses while lounging back on a pillow, her modesty protected by just panties and a cropped polka-dot tied top. Fashionista, which broke the story, says: 'Whats disturbing about Jours Aprs Lunes is... that its lingerie for people who probably shouldnt be old enough to even know what lingerie is.'

Britain's liberal intelligentsia has smashed virtually every social value

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11th August 2011 | Melanie Phillips The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the predictable outcome of a three-decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every basic social value. The married two-parent family, educational meritocracy, punishment of criminals, national identity, enforcement of drugs laws and many fundamental conventions were all smashed by a liberal intelligentsia hell-bent on a revolutionary transformation of society. What has been fuelling all this is not poverty, but moral collapse. When Labour came to power in 1997, it set about systematically destroying the traditional family and the idea that married parents were better for children than any other...

Romney signs marriage pledge

Politico ^ | 8/4/11 | Ben Smith Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has joined Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Sen. Pennsylvania Rick Santorum in signing a pledge to oppose same-sex marriage on a number of specific fronts. The three candidates signed the pledge advanced by the National Organization for Marriage, which has led national and state campaigns to limit marriage to a man and a woman. The signature of the front-runner, Romney, is a bit of a coup for the group, as he's been

careful about committing to other pledges, including a broad promise to a socially conservative Iowa group that caused trouble for other candidates....

Jury hears tape of polygamist discussing sex with girls (Jeffs)

AAS ^ | 8.03.2011 | Will Weissert SAN ANGELO Prosecutors played an audio recording Tuesday of a polygamist sect leader instructing his 14-year-old "spiritual wife" on how to please him sexually, and thus please God. Warren Jeffs, 55, is head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven. He is accused of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 12 and 15, who he took as brides in "spiritual marriages."

In This Brave New World, 160 Million Girls Are 'Missing'

Townhall.com ^ | July 31, 2011 | Debra J. Saunders The world is becoming unbalanced. In pockets across the globe, women are giving birth to too many boys. In China, the sex ratio is 121 boys to 100 girls. In India, it's 112-to-100. Sex selection also is a force in the Balkans, Armenia and Georgia. In her eye-opening book, "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men," journalist Mara Hvistendahl estimates that ultrasound and abortion have "claimed over 160 million potential women and girls -- in Asia alone." That's more than the entire female population of the United States.

1 in 4 gay/lesbian high school students are homeless

Children's Hospital Boston ^ | July 21, 2011 | Unknown Among homeless teens, GLB teens are more likely to live away from their families Roughly 1 in 4 lesbian or gay teens and 15 percent of bisexual teens are homeless, versus 3 percent of exclusively heterosexual teens, finds a Children's Hospital Boston study of more than 6,300 Massachusetts public high school students. Moreover, among teens who were homeless, those who were gay, lesbian or bisexual (GLB) were consistently more likely than heterosexuals to be on their

own, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. The study, published online July 21 by the American Journal of Public Health, is the first to...

Obama backs bill to repeal Defense of Marriage Act

WaPo ^ | 7/19/11 | David Nakamura The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it will support a congressional effort to repeal a federal law that defines marriage as a legal union between a man and woman. White House spokesman Jay Carney denounced the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), saying the administration will back a bill introduced this year by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to remove the law from the books. Feinsteins bill, called the Respect for Marriage Act, would uphold the principle that the federal government should not deny gay and lesbian couples the same rights as others, according to Carney. The Senate is scheduled to...

Rejection of common law, history and tradition (Law that redefines fatherhood clears CA state leg)
CalCatholic ^ | July 18, 2011 Yet another bill opposed by the states Catholic bishops is on its way to the governor for his signature this one co-sponsored by homosexual advocacy groups that seek to redefine fatherhood in a way that favors children with same-sex parents. The bill, AB 1349, sponsored by Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, passed the state Senate by a vote of 23-14 on July 14. It cleared the Assembly 5222 in May. The measure was co-sponsored by Equality California and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. AB 1349 is a bill that is intended to redefine fatherhood for children born to...

Government Proposal to Break The Seal of Confession is Without Precedent [Ireland]

The Irish Catholic ^ | 7/14/11 | David Quinn The Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Children are all indicating that a proposed new law will require priests to break the seal of confession if someone confesses to them the crime of paedophilia. This would

make us the one and only country in the Western world to have such a law. Even Revolutionary France in the days of its worst violence against the Church did not pass a law requiring the breaking of the seal of confession. The justification for the law is that the crime of paedophilia is so heinous that no one who hears...

Kody Brown and His Four 'Wives'

Townhall.com ^ | July 14, 2011 | Steve Chapman When it comes to sexual relationships and cohabitation among consenting adults, Utah takes a permissive approach. If a guy wants to shack up with a lady, that's fine. If he wants to shack up with several, no problem. He can father children by different roommates, with no fear of the law. But if he marries one woman and represents three others as his "spiritual wives," like Kody Brown? Then he's committed a felony. Not because of the stuff that goes on behind closed doors. It's the public act of claiming to be part of a lifelong "plural marriage" that raises...

Top Cisco employee reportedly fired for defending marriage, family

Life Site News ^ | July 12, 2011 | REBECCA MILLETTE Dr. Frank Turke was reportedly fired by Cisco simply because he had authored a book defending true marriage. July 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) The American-based multinational corporation Cisco Systems, a company that touts its inclusion and diversity strategies, has come under attack for the recent firing of a top employee, reputedly over his off-the-job work defending true marriage. Earlier this year, the company fired Dr. Frank Turek, Ciscos leadership and teambuilding program co-ordinator, after receiving complaints from a homosexual manager with the company regarding Tureks authorship of a book on homosexuality and marriage, entitled Correct, not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex...

Census: Share of Children in U.S. at Record Low

Black America Web ^ | July 13, 2011 | Hope Yen

Children now make up less of America's population than ever before, even with a boost from immigrant families. And when this generation grows up, it will become a shrinking work force that will have to support the nation's expanding elderly population even as the government strains to cut spending for health care, pensions and much else.

"Sister Wives" clan challenging anti-bigamy law

Associated Press ^ | 07/12/11 AP) SALT LAKE CITY A polygamous family made famous by the reality TV show "Sister Wives" plans to challenge the Utah bigamy law that makes their lifestyle illegal, a Washington-based attorney said Tuesday. In an email to The Associated Press, attorney Jonathan Turley said he will file the lawsuit challenging Utah's bigamy law in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court on Wednesday. Turley represents Kody Brown and his four wives, Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn. Brown is only legally married to Meri Brown. Originally from Lehi, the Browns, who have 16 children, has been featured on the TLC reality...

Three Louisiana Abortion Centers Fail to Report Child Rape

LifeNews.com ^ | July 7, 2011 | Steven Ertelt Three Louisiana Abortion Centers Fail to Report Child Rape Three abortion centers in Louisiana, according to state documents, have failed to properly report instance of statutory rape to state officials, as required by state law. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/07/07/three-louisiana-abortion-centers-fail-toreport-child-rape/

Good Article Broken Families, Broken Economy: The real obstacle to growth
Weekly Standard ^ | 7/4/11 | Mitch Pearlstein Dont look now, but the fiscal mountain blocking our path is rockier than usually advertised. Why? Because even if House Budget chairman Paul Ryan prevails on every contentious detail of his long-term plan for prosperity, family fragmentation -- more severe in the United States than in any other industrialized nation -- will

make it more difficult than generally assumed to balance our books. Very high rates of family breakdown, as it used to be known, are subtracting from what many American students learn in school and so holding them back economically. That harms the country by making millions of citizens...

United Way in Wisconsin Refers Raped Teens to Planned Parenthood

LifeNews.com ^ | June 28, 2011 | Steven Ertelt United Way in Wisconsin Refers Raped Teens to Planned Parenthood Madison, WI -- The United Way in Wisconsin is coming under fire from pro-life advocates for launching a new campaign to raise awareness about statutory rape that refers teens and young women to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/28/united-way-in-wisconsin-refers-raped-teensto-planned-parenthood/

NH Legislature overrides Governor veto of parental notification law

Feministing ^ | 23 June | Miriam Angry young feminist blog's take: "Sh!t. That makes 37 states with such a law." link that their link sub-links: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/politics/23brfsLAWMAKERSOVE_BRF.html?_r=1&src=recg

President Obama Vows At Midtown LGBT Gala To Keep On Fighting For Same-Sex Marriage
newyork.cbslocal.com ^ President Obama Vows At Midtown LGBT Gala To Keep On Fighting For SameSex Marriage June 23, 2011 8:29 PM NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) President Barack Obama urged his supporters to recapture their enthusiasm from his 2008 campaign even though he says hes old news. Speaking to high-dollar donors Thursday night, Obama said he may not be the new, fresh candidate anymore, but his vision for the country is still the same as it was in 2008. Obama

spoke at a fundraiser at the exclusive restaurant Daniel on Manhattans Upper East Side. The dinner fundraiser which reportedly cost over $35,000...

'Cultural generation gap': Most US babies are minorities, census shows

MSNBC ^ | 23 June 2011 | Hope Yen 'We're living in a different world than the 1950s' WASHINGTON For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies. Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women mostly single mothers now exceeds African-American households with married couples, a sign of declining U.S. marriages overall but also of continuing challenges for black youths without involved fathers. The findings, based on the latest government...

Police: Boy, 7, hit speeds of 50 mph as he drove toward father's home

India Times ^ | 6/21/2011 Barefoot and still in pajamas, the 7-year-old boy stood on the side of a Caseville, Mich., road Monday morning, crying and begging to see his dad. Police say that as his mother slept, the boy drove his stepfathers red Pontiac Sunfire more than 20 miles from Sheridan Township by himself to try to get there, hitting speeds of 50 mph with police in pursuit. I was hoping he wasnt going to crash, Caseville Police Chief Jamie Learman said. A couple of times he went off the right side, onto the berm in the gravel, and the vehicle was fishtailing a...

Gwyneth Paltrow: whats wrong with second graders learning about homosexuality?
Life Site News ^ | June 13, 2011 | KATHLEEN GILBERT

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is thrilled that her second-grade daughter is learning about homosexuality. June 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, a top gay rights proponent in Hollywood, is thrilled that her second-grade daughter is learning about homosexuality. In her newsletter GOOP, the Iron Man actress says that when her daughter came home with news about a classmates lesbian parents, she was enthusiastic. When my daughter came home from school one day saying that a classmate had two mommies, my response was, Two mommies? How lucky is she?! she wrote. Paltrow went on to question how Arkansas school board member...

Top gay rights leader: kids of religious families are target demographic of ... ad
Life Site News ^ | Fri Jun 10, 2011 | Kathleen Gilbert Top gay rights leader: kids of religious families are target demographic of anti-gay bullying ad by Kathleen Gilbert Fri Jun 10 7:18 PM EST June 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After the broadcast of a homosexualist advertisement during the family-friendly Fox show American Idol prompted outrage, the founder of the ad campaign has confirmed that such advertisements are intended to promote the message of the gay rights lobby to young children in households that normally wouldnt support it. One conservative leader has now demanded that Google, Fox, and Disney-Pixar sever their ties with the campaign. Peggy Nance of Concerned Women...

Italians not having kids, and now, not getting married either: new stats
Life Site News ^ | June 6, 2011 | HILARY WHITE ROME, June 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) The archetypal Italian family, with mamma and papa presiding over a noisy dinner table, surrounded by rambunctious children and grandchildren, has become a cultural artifact of the past. Not only are Italians not having children, they are increasingly not even bothering to get married, according to recently released government statistics. The decline in marriages is unusually uniform in a country that sees large regional cultural differences between north and south. While Italy still has a relatively low rate of divorce, with only about 10 percent of marriages failing, young people especially are increasingly either...

Federal Court Lifts Ban on Public Prayer at Texas High School Graduation After Uproar
FOXNews.com ^ | June 3, 2011 | Foxnews.com A federal appeals court has lifted the order banning public prayer at a Texas high school graduation Saturday. The reversal comes of the heels of increasing criticism of a federal judge's earlier ruling that agreed with the parents of one graduating student that religious expression during the ceremony at Medina Valley Independent School District would case "irreparable harm" to their son. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals thought differently, reversing the judge's ruling Friday and allowing students to say the words "amen" and invite the audience to pray during the ceremony.

Indiana Will Defy Obama Admin Order to Not De-Fund Planned Parenthood
Life News ^ | Indianapolis, IN | 6/2/11 | Steven Ertelt Indiana Will Defy Obama Admin Order to Not De-Fund Planned Parenthood by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 6/2/11 8:07 PMState officials in Indiana say they will defy the decision by the Obama administration asking it to not proceed with implementing a new pro-life state law that would revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.Yesterday, the top Medicaid official in the Obama administration denied Indianas use of its new state law that would deny millions in taxpayer dollars to the Indiana affiliate of the nations largest abortion business.Governor Mitch Daniels signed the law, which would cut off anywhere from...

When Tapes Show Sex Abuse Coverups, Abortion Agenda Becomes Clear
Life News/Catholic Anchor ^ | 5/30/11 | Joel Davidson Multiple Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation clinics across the country including five in Alaska were targeted as part of a nationwide phone survey that revealed clinic staff encouraging a caller who said she was a 13-year-old girl to

cover up statutory rape and child sexual abuse.The audio recordings of those March 2002 calls were released earlier this month online. The landmark survey by Life Dynamics was a precursor to and inspiration for the more recent undercover videos by pro-life group Live Action Films, which has drawn into question whether Planned Parenthood should continue receiving hundreds of millions in annual...

Married couples in less than half of US households

Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Saturday, May 28, 2011 | By NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press Data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau shows married couples have found themselves in a new position: They're no longer the majority.

Governor (Rick Perry) signs sonogram requirement for abortion (new Texas law)
AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | May 24, 2011 | CHRIS TOMLINSON Flanked by anti-abortion activists, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday celebrated passage of a law that requires doctors to conduct a sonogram before performing an abortion. Perry said the measure will save "countless lives" by discouraging women from getting an abortion. The governor had declared the matter emergency legislation and has already officially signed the bill. Tuesday's formal signing ceremony at the Capitol brought together anti-abortion activists to celebrate the passage of the law after working four years on the measure. ...State Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, said the bill was among the toughest in the nation. Only three other states require...

Italy's youth population in total slump

Presseurop ^ | 5/18/2011 Young Italians are "threatened with extinction", writes Corriere della Sera, quoting the alarm sounded by Giuseppe Roma director of Censis, the Italian institute for socio-economic research during a hearing before the lower house of parliament. Compared to a decade ago, the 15 to 34 age group is 2 million fewer, the result of

falling birth rates and growing emigration due to lack of professional opportunities. "A rent in the fabric of the labour market, where they are becoming a rarity", comments the Milanese daily, noting that this does not translate into an increased demand for young workers. On...

Sports anchor fired after backing true marriage

Life Site News ^ | May 12, 2011 | Patrick B. Craine One of Canadas leading TV sports broadcasters fired one of its anchors Wednesday after he voiced support for true marriage on Twitter. Damian Goddard, the now-former host of Connected on Rogers Sportsnet, had tweeted his support of Burlington hockey agent Todd Reynolds, who created a stir this week when he criticized New York Rangers hockey star Sean Avery for shooting a TV ad backing gay marriage. I completely and wholeheartedly support Todd Reynolds and his support for the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage, wrote Goddard on May 10th. He also voiced support for U.S. Olympic gold medalist Peter Vidmar,...

Same-sex unions legalized in Delaware

bostonherald.com ^ | 05/12/2011 | Peter Mucha Delaware has joined New Jersey in granting marriage-like rights to same-sex couples joined by civil unions. The law, which will take effect next Jan. 1, stops short of conferring full marriage rights, as has been done by five states and Washington, D.C. Gov. Jack Markell signed the legislation on Wednesday at Wilmingtons Queen Theater, as hundreds of supporters toasted the occasion with champagne.

BREAKING: Indiana first state to cut off Planned Parenthood funding as Gov. signs bill
Life Site News ^ | May 10, 2011 | KATHLEEN GILBERT INDIANAPOLIS, May 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Indiana has become the first state to cut off Planned Parenthood from taxpayer assistance because of its role in the abortion business. Governor Mitch Daniels, a potential contender for the 2012 GOP presidential ticket, signed on Tuesday a measure to block public funds from

going to organizations that perform abortions, depriving Planned Parenthood of an estimated $3 million in both state and federal funds. According to the Associated Press, Planned Parenthood of Indiana has promised to take to federal court to seek a temporary restraining order and injunction Tuesday against the new law.

Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex Marriages in Naval Chapels

Cybercast News Service ^ | 5/9/2011 | Pete Winn (CNSNews.com) Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that samesex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies -- if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.The advisory came in the form of an April 13 memo issued to all chaplains, in which the Chief of Navy Chaplains, Admiral Michael Tidd, said the Chaplain Corps was revising its Tier I training manuals, which had...

Indiana votes to defund Planned Parenthood

Politico ^ Indiana votes to defund Planned Parenthood By: Sarah Kliff April 27, 2011 06:15 PM EDT The Indiana State Legislature has voted to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding, putting the state on a path to barring the group from receiving public dollars. The legislation now hits the desk of Gov. Mitch Daniels, putting the presidential contender who has famously called for a truce on social issues squarely in the middle of a contentious, national debate over Planned Parenthoods federal funding. Daniels now has one week to veto the bill or it becomes law without his signature. The bill, which...

Tapes show hundreds of Planned Parenthood, NAF clinics covering up sex abuse
LifeSiteNews ^ | 4/13/11 | Kathleen Gilbert

April 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pro-life group behind a nationwide survey of Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation (NAF) clinics in 2002 has made available never-before-published raw audio and transcripts of hundreds of investigative phone calls that they say prove the abortion industrys widespread complicity with sexual abuse of minors, in violation of state laws. In an effort similar to the widely publicized work of undercover pro-life group Live Action Films, Life Dynamics nine years ago identified 906 U.S. facilities affiliated with either Planned Parenthood or NAF. Of these, the group was unable to contact 93, but launched a...

Mammograms? What mammograms? New video exposes Planned Parenthood false claim
LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | 30-March-2011 | by Peter Jesserer Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0kBkUZbvQ&feature=player_embedded Mammograms? What mammograms? New video exposes Planned Parenthood false claim by Peter Jesserer Smith Wed Mar 30 11:11 AM EST WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) A new Live Action sting operation on Planned Parenthood clinics across the country belies statements by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood allies that cutting funding to the abortion giant would limit womens access to health care services including mammograms. If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their health care access - not to abortion services - to basic family planning, you know,...

To Fund or Not to Fund: Planned Parenthood Performed One Abortion Every 95 Seconds Last Year
The Blaze ^ | 04/-8/11 | Emily Esfahani Smith Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions in the United States in 2009, according to a fact sheet the group published last month. That is about as many as the 333,012 people who lived in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The 332,278 abortions Planned Parenthood performed over the 365 days of 2009 equals an average of 910 lives terminated per dayor about 38 per hour, or one every 95 seconds. CNS News also points out that 90

percent of Planned Parenthoods $363.2 million came directly from the federal governmentor from Medicaid, which is a...

The Entire Government May Shut Down Because of Planned Parenthood.

Business Insider ^ | 04/08/2011 | Joe Weisenthal According to Senator Harry Reid, Democrats and Republicans have agreed on $38 billion worth of cuts. The only sticking point, he says, is funding of Planned Parenthood. Good to know. In the meantime, John Boehner is due to give an update any minute now and Harry Reid has a floor speech planned for 11 Update Boehner is talking now... We're getting closer to a deal, but that's not it. He says the Democrats should pass a "Troop Funding Bill" so that troops will be paid during the shutdown no matter what. Update 11:04: Now Harry Reid is talking... Talking specifically...

Number of White Children Falling Fast (Whites already minority of child populations in 10 states)
New York Times ^ Americas population of white children, a majority now, will be in the minority during this decade, sooner than previously expected, according to a new report. The Census Bureau had originally forecast that 2023 would be the tipping point for the minority population under the age of 18. But rapid growth among Latinos, Asians and people of more than one race has pushed it earlier, to 2019, according to William Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution who wrote the report about the shift, which has far-reaching political and policy implications. The single largest increase was among Hispanics, whose birthrates...

One in five American mothers have children with different dads

Daily Mail ^ | 11:04 PM on 1st April 2011 | By Daily Mail Reporter

One in five mothers in America have children with different fathers, a new study shows. Researchers found that the trend was higher in minority groups and mothers with low income and education backgrounds. The data was taken over a 27-year period from nearly 4,000 U.S. women who had been interviewed more than 20 times. The study's author Cassandra Dorius said of the one in five figure: 'To put it in perspective, this is similar to the number of American adults with a college degree. It's pervasive.'

Sen. Barbara Boxer lambastes GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood as "vendetta" on women's health
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 3/24/11 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is lambasting what she calls a Republican "vendetta" against Planned Parenthood, saying that efforts in the House Republicans' proposed budget to entirely defund the organization will impact millions. In California alone, hundreds of thousands of women, the Democratic Senator said, use the organization's "life-saving" services -- including cancer screenings, mammograms, day-to-day health care, OB-GYN services as well as contraception and family planning. Boxer made the statements this week at a San Francisco press conference, where we asked Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific President and CEO Heather Estes about the controversial question of the organization's providing of...

Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister .

Right Side News ^ | 30 January 2011 | Gerry Garibaldi Welcome to our urban high schools, where kids have kids and learning dies. In my short time as a teacher in Connecticut, I have muddled through President Bushs No Child Left Behind act, which tied federal funding of schools to various reforms, and through President Obamas Race to the Top initiative, which does much the same thing, though with different benchmarks. Thanks to the feds, urban schools like minealready entitled to substantial federal largesse under Title I, which provides funds to public schools with large low-income populationsare swimming in money. At my school, we pay five teachers to tutor kids...

Report: No More Candy in Safe-Sex Kits for Students

Cybercast News Service ^ | 1/7/2011 | Susan Jones An AIDS services group is removing candy from safe-sex kits distributed to high school students in Swanzey, N.H. The kits also contained condoms and "fruitflavored lubricant," the New Hampshire Union-Leader reported. Outraged parents complained after the kits were made available to students in December as part of a World AIDS Day presentation, WMUR-TV reported. The Monadnock Regional School District, apparently not realizing what was in the safe-sex kits, has now banned the group that distributed them. WMUR quoted a school board member as saying that parents will be notified from now on when controversial programs are presented in the schools....

'Mother,' 'Father' Changing to 'Parent One,' 'Parent Two' on Passport Applications

FoxNews ^ | Todd Starnes The words mother and father will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says.

The end of middle America? Working class white families are unraveling before our eyes
NY Daily News ^ | December 19th 2010 | Kay Hymowitz Foreclosures, plant closings, offshored jobs, underwater mortgages, miserable rates of unemployment, stagnating incomes: Is there any end to the woes of the struggling American middle? Apparently not, because now comes news of a trend guaranteeing trouble ahead for the more than half of the nation that make up the moderately educated and moderately earning middle even if the economy improves. That seismic shift, outlined in a new report from the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, is towards more divorce, more out of

wedlock births and, ipso facto, fewer kids with a hopeful future. Family breakdown,...

Team effort between Tulsa Police and Navy Seals attempts to stop child trafficking
KJRH Channel 2 Tulsa ^ | 12-2-10 | Marla Carter "SCT Now brings awareness into action by actually having retired Navy Seals, exGreen Beret, ex-FBI those types of military men that are trained and qualified to do what we're asking them to do, which is basically track down child predators, gather information and then because of the law enforcement and they're ability to arrest, we take that information and gift wrap it to them," said Jason Weis with Stop Child Trafficking Now.

United States Sees 53 Million Abortions Since Roe in 1973

Life News ^ | 11/26/10 | Steven Ertelt Americans saw a political milestone this month as more pro-life lawmakers were elected to the House of Representatives than ever before, but the nation also quietly reached a less joyful mark.In January, the National Right to Life Committee provided a new analysis of the total number of abortions done in the 37 years since the Roe v. Wade decision.The Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling allowing virtually unlimited abortions at any time throughout pregnancy in January 1973. The NRLC analysis found that 52 million unborn children had been killed in abortions as of January.

Pew + Marriage = Confusion (Do 39% of Americans really believe marriage is becoming obsolete?)
American Thinker ^ | 11/27/2010 | Tom Trinko Once again, the Pew Foundation has come out with a poll that has given liberals a sound bite moment. You've probably heard that 39% of Americans said that marriage is becoming obsolete. Yet as with the Pew poll on religion, a broader

examination reveals results that liberals would like to ignore. Among them is a reference to a 2006 World Values Survey that showed that only 13% of Americans believed that marriage was an outdated institution. It seems odd that in four years, the number of Americans who reject marriage would increase threefold.

Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate

ap.org ^ | November 6, 2010 | Jesse Washington Snips from Excerpt only website: Seventy-two percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, according to government statistics. This number is inseparable from the work of Carroll, an obstetrician who has dedicated her 40-year career to helping black women. The black community's 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.

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Grim Data Persist On The Black Condition Monday, August 30, 2010 6:07:29 PM by Kaslin 32 replies IBD Editorials ^ | August 30, 2010 | GEORGE F. WILL 10,000 baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day. 10.2% unemployment rate including 1.2 million that quit looking. $9.9 trillion gap between expected revenues and outlays for state and local governments during next 50 years. $76.4 trillion gap between expected revenues and outlays for federal government over 75 years. 70% of blacks born to unwed mothers. Over 60% of black high school dropouts go to prison. Black women outnumber black men two to one in getting bachelors degrees. 35% of black children live with two parents. 24% of white eighth graders watch four or more hours of tv a day. 59% of black eighth graders watch four or more hours of tv a day. By age 4, the child in a professional family hears 20 million more words than the working class family and 35 million in a welfare family.

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Why Young Black Males Are Not Graduating High School Townhall.com ^ | August 26, 2010 | Janice Shaw Crouse A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are facts, how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers? Nancy Pearcey, in an article on American Thinker, identified certain facts that Judge Walker claims are now established by the evidence presented in his courtroom. Those...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=177245 Obama, marriage: Saboteur in chief President getting flayed for attacks on wedlock http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2541261/posts Gay Pride parade features 10 year old grand marshal Fayetteville, Arkansas Nothing else needs to be said.

No-Fathers Day Why is it so important for liberal-progressives to reduce or eliminate loyalty to the family unit? http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/06/21/no-fathers-day/ Great Painting Jennifer Marshall: Our heartless inattention to the collapse of marriage