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Californians seek to halt law requiring homosexual history lessons
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A team of family organizations and advocacy groups is beginning to collect signatures for a proposed California voter referendum to overturn the state’s new law requiring schools to teach “gay” history. The law, signed recently by Gov. Jerry Brown, would require public schools to teach students to look up to homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders, and others who…
GODONOMICS: Why can’t we tax the rich some more and fix all our problems?
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“Godonomics” author Chad Hovind recalls: Margaret Thatcher said, “The problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money.” I had a conversation with a teenager recently who parroted the typical bumper sticker thinking of our culture: “Why don’t those rich people pay more taxes?” I asked him how much they are currently…
Washington Post: Iran’s Ahmadinejad, clerics fight over length of women’s veils
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Every summer, Iranian police get tough on women who violate the country’s strict Islamic dress code by adjusting their veils and long coats to try to cope with the rising temperatures. But this year, amid the annual crackdown, the issue of how women wear the veil — and what the government does about it —…
Signs proclaiming Muslim “shariah” law zones go up in England
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In Stratford, England, non-Muslim residents say they are feeling “threatened and intimidated” as posters declaring neighborhood under Islamic shariah law are showing up on walls and lampposts. The bright yellow signs read “Shariah Controlled Zone” with “Islamic rules enforced” in smaller text — and are showing up all across England. The British newspaper the Telegraph reports: In the past…
Senator: Retired cop’s tip derailed conscientious objector’s planned Fort Hood bloodbath
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Retired Killeen, Texas, cop Greg Ebert knew there was something wrong with the nervous 21-year-old ammunition customer. “He stands here and asks the manager, ‘what is smokeless powder?'” recalls Ebert, who works at Guns Galore. “Well, my God, if you don’t know what it is, why would you buy six pounds of it?” Thursday, police arrested 21-year-old Private…
Baptist Press: Why is the government involved in marriage anyway?
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If you’ve paid any attention to the public discussion on the nature of marriage in the past few years, you’ve no doubt heard the call from some for the government to get out of the marriage business altogether and just leave it to religious folks. This has caused many to ask two key questions: Is…
Highest-paid Planned Parenthood abortionist suspended for alcoholism issues
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On July 25, the California Medical Board issued an “interim suspension order” against a contract abortionist for Planned Parenthood, according to Jeremy Kryn, writing for LifeSiteNews. “Earlier this year, Doctor Jesse James Joplin had been placed on probation for seven years,” reports Kryn. ” The conditions of Joplin’s probation provided that he abstain completely from the…
Video pushing homosexual marriage mocks Christians, shows boys kissing
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Beliefnet’s John Kennedy reports a website in support of gay marriage in Minnesota has come out with a new vulgar video in which actors mock and slander Christians and even shows two young boys kissing each other. The purpose of the website is to raise money for Minnesotans United for All Families, an organization whose…
Chuck Norris: Why are mosques being built with U.S. tax money?
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“As the White House and Congress debate cuts in federal spending, millions of dollars are being funneled overseas to help build many Islamic mosques and structures,” alleges TV star Chuck Norris. He says a USAID official confirmed about $2.3 million was used on a Cairo mosque “to help lower the groundwater at the mosque area, replacing…
Jewish group calls for Iran to be barred from Olympics for boycotting Israeli athletes
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The World Jewish Congress says Iran should be barred from taking part in the Olympics and other international sporting events until its athletes stop boycotting their Israeli counterparts. The congress called the Iranian behavior “unsportsmanlike and smacks of anti-Semitism.” “Iranian swimmer Mohammed Alirezaei pulled out of a race that included an Israeli at the world swimming championships…
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