Enforcement of DADT Forcing Christian Chaplains Out of Service

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

The Obama Administration has begun to write the policies that will enforce an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military – known as the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) policy – many of which will either stifle the free expression of religion in the armed forces or force Christian chaplains out of service altogether.

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Ohio Township Takes the “Easter” out of Easter

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Citizens in Munson Township, Ohio are fighting another case of political correctness run amok after township trustees decided to abolish all references to Easter for this year’s Easter Egg Roll and are now calling it “The Spring Egg Hunt.”

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Shows, Smiles, Conference, Miles

Just got home from a very busy two weeks. Father Edmund Sylvia, C.S.C., Tom Sullivan, and I myself were in production at EWTN for the next several weeks of programming for Women of Grace®. And those seven days of production put a big smile on my face. What a wonderful array of guests and topics! You will not want to miss them. They are (not in airing order):

 

 

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California’s “Pro-Gay Indoctrination” Bill Advances in Same Week that Priest is Accused of “Anti-Gay Indoctrination”

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

In the same week that the California Senate Education Committee advanced a law that will require the state’s public schools to rewrite their social science curriculum to promote homosexuality, the chaplain at a private Catholic high school in Indianapolis is being accused of spreading “anti-gay propaganda” for explaining Church teaching on homosexuality in class.

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Biotech Company Using Aborted Fetal Cell Lines in Testing

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Children of God for Life (COG) is calling for a public boycott of major food companies such as Pepsico, Kraft Foods, Solae, and Nestle who are partnering with Senomyx, a biotech company that produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products.

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