Parents Impact Teen Sexual Activity

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
 

The Heritage Foundation, a pro-family research group, released their top ten findings concerning the impact of parental involvement in teens’ sexual decisions. As the facts confirm, parents remain the number one influence in their children’s lives and greatly affect their attitudes regarding sexual activity.

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Evangelical Leaders Say McCain Won at Saddleback

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

Christian leaders from across the nation are calling John McCain (R-AZ) the clear winner after he and Barack Obama (D-IL) appeared together on Saturday night for the first time since the presidential campaign began at one of the largest evangelical churches in the United States.

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U.S. Bishops Call Embryonic Stem Cell Research “Gravely Immoral”

by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

By a vote of 191-1, the U.S. bishops recently adopted a statement on embryonic stem cell research in which they call experimentation on human embryos “the deliberate killing of human beings, a gravely immoral act.” It also condemned attempts to force citizens to pay for such research, saying it would “make taxpayers complicit in such killings . . .”

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In Pursuit of the Perfect Sperm

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

The quest for the perfect baby has reached new lows. Instead of falling in love with the right man, getting married and accepting the children God sends, women in pursuit of the perfect child are actually flying to foreign countries in order to be inseminated with the sperm of men who have the traits they desire in their children.

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