Days after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services bowed to public pressure and posted a the results of favorable abstinence survey, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement Tuesday, stating it was “unwise” to promote abstinence-only education. In its policy statement, “Sexuality, Contraception and the Media,” AAP’s Council on Communications and [...]

A Texas appeals court reversed a lower court ruling on Tuesday – and the hopes of gay activists – when it ruled that a same-sex couple, who married in Massachusetts, could not obtain a divorce in the state. The 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas wrote that, in light of the 2006 constitutional amendment [...]

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (ICF) said today that the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling will make it difficult – but not impossible – to operate on some college campuses. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an unexpected setback for First Amendment protections earlier this year when it chose to uphold an [...]

A Texas appellate court has overturned a trial court’s divorce decree granted to two gay men married in Massachusetts now residing in the Lone Star state. There are two lessons to be gleaned from this decision: 1) Not all trial judges can accurately read and interpret the plain language of a marriage amendment (Why does [...]

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The Alaska primary holds important lessons for conservatives. Stuart Shepard gets analysis from Tom Minnery of CitizenLink and Jim Minnery, who led a successful pro-life ballot initiative.

In the wake of a federal court against all federal spending on embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a division of Health and Human Services, stopped eight research projects and the implementation of its new research governance guidelines. U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth temporarily froze federal spending on ESCR [...]

Not wanting to leave anything to chance, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) filed today a lawsuit in state court aimed at forcing California’s governor and attorney general to defend marriage.  The goal is to have the state file an appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to help ensure the case keeps moving [...]

Republican Govs. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota applied for abstinence-education funding on Monday – just meeting U. S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Aug. 30 deadline. The U.S. Congress and the administration had canceled all abstinence-centered program grants for the FY2010 budget, putting at risk more than 2 million students [...]

The Alaska primary holds important lessons for conservatives. Stuart Shepard gets analysis from Tom Minnery of CitizenLink and Jim Minnery, who led a successful pro-life ballot initiative.

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Rasmussen Reports released two significant polls – on stem-cell research and health care – that help quantify America’s growing distrust of President Obama, the U.S. Congress and the intrusion of the federal government – especially when it includes using taxpayers’ hard-earned money. Both polls show a colossal disconnect between the views of Americans and of [...]

Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., recently sponsored a bill that attempts to amend the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for the first time in 46 years – and remove religious exemptions for faith-based organizations that receive federal funds. According to the bill, it would affect “licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, pastoral [...]

Sometimes all you need to do is report the day’s news to prove a point:  Activist judges are out of control and Americans want it stopped. A couple days ago I wrote about a grassroots effort in Iowa to defeat three of their state supreme court justices who are up for a “retention” election this [...]