Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe owner of a bridal shop in Pennsylvania has been forced to close her doors after a lesbian couple launched a social-media bullying campaign in retaliation for the owner's refusal to service their same-sex wedding.
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More than 1,000 parents in the Fremont School District in California are threatening to sue over a ninth-grade "heal" textbook containing graphic sexual images and references practices such as the use of vibrators and sado-masochism.
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The Amish people, supported by Catholics and Christians of all denominations, are banding together in protest of a rash of reality show programming that features a bigoted misrepresentation of their religion.
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Veteran Supreme Court reporter Richard Wolf says there's an Achilles heel in recent federal appeals court decisions in favor of same-sex marriage - most were not unanimous and the dissenting judges waged excellent arguments that will most certainly be considered when these cases reach the nation's highest court.
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The national trend toward religious discrimination shows no signs of slowing as news breaks today of a shopping mall in a rural Georgia town that will allow no prayer on its premises, not even over meals in its restaurants.
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The U.S. Bishops are lending their support to a new law that will reverse legislation prohibiting the federal funding of any adoption agency that opposes adoption by same-sex parents.
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Women across America are reacting with outrage to the newly released trailer for the upcoming
Fifty Shades of Grey movie which romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence and the degradation of women.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is expressing great concern about President Obama’s July 21 executive order which prohibits federal government contractors from what the Administration deems “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” discrimination.
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As news broke that the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ordered all Christians out of the Iraqi city of Mosul this weekend - allowing them to take nothing but the clothes on their backs - Pope Francis expressed deep sorrow and compassion for their plight.
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The largest ever survey of Americans' sexual orientation has revealed that only 1.6 percent of the population identifies as homosexual.
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