Austin Ruse is president of C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He is also a bi-weekly columnist with Crisis Magazine.
Conservative founding father M. Stanton Evans was well known for his wit—he said he never liked anything about Nixon until Watergate. His funeral may have been his last witticism: a Protestant service, led by a Catholic priest, with a black Methodist choir rocking the otherwise staid Catholic Church.
Come August, Sweet Briar College will close. Located in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, Sweet Briar has educated only women for more than 100 years.
A federal judge formally accused of racism by the NAACP and other left-wing groups has been completely exonerated after a yearlong investigation conducted by the Judicial Council of the Washington D.C. Circuit.
If supporters of traditional marriage ever wonder why the issue gets little traction in the GOP, they need look no further than the amicus brief submitted by many political and policy leaders in the upcoming gay marriage case before the Supreme Court.
Some of America’s largest corporations are asking are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to impose same-sex marriage on the county. They say it’s for the good of the country, and the bottom line.
Vatican spokesman Father Tom Rosica had his lawyers send a letter threatening to sue a Catholic blogger in Canada for the man’s ongoing criticism of Rosica and his influence on the Extraordinary Synod of Catholic Bishops last fall in Rome. But now, after considerable media attention, Father Rosica has backed off and says he never really meant it.
A day after coming under fire from influential pro-lifers, Governor Scott Walker announced his support for a ban on abortions performed after the 20th week.
If plaintiffs have their way at the Supreme Court this week, come July, Obamacare as we know it will be done with. Leonard Leo says the odds of that are pretty good.
The thing to note about Ana Marie Cox’s apologia at the Daily Beast today is how old-school evangelical it is. Billy Graham has nothing on Ana Marie Cox.
David Silverman, head of the American Atheists group at CPAC, told Breitbart News that “Obama was raised by an atheist and a skeptic, so he at least knows the arguments.”
National Harbor, MD — A panel of scholars at CPAC believe single motherhood is one of the crucial issues facing America and that there are strong libertarians reasons to support traditional marriage.
After his bosses allegedly branded him a bigot and the Salt Lake City Police Department allegedly hounded him out of his job, Eric Moutsos has finally broken his silence to explain his motivations for not wanting to perform motorcycle tricks at a gay pride parade last summer. He also explains his version of what really happened.
After being largely shut out last year, pro-life and pro-family advocates are taking a more prominent role at CPAC, the premier annual gathering of conservatives held outside Washington, D.C., from Thursday through the weekend.
Two weeks ago the Girl Scouts honored the Congresswoman who claims to have coined the phrase “war on women,” and angry moms and dads have once more launched a national boycott of Girl Scout cookies.
The cover for the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue this year made news globally. Even cover model Hannah Davis expressed shock at the remarkably revealing result.
The Obama Administration is taking heat for some new rules that would require all refugee groups, including Catholic and other Christian groups, to refer some refugee children to facilities that provide abortions.
No strangers to controversy, the Girl Scouts have stepped into another muddle with the news they are charging American servicemen a whopping $20 extra to receive a shipment of cookies, even if the shipment is going to a domestic base.
A coalition of royals, prelates, and Catholic activists have sent a “filial appeal” to Pope Francis asking him to hold the line on Church teaching regarding the family.
Though it was reported widely in the mainstream press this week, the dissident LGBT group, New Ways Ministry, did not receive VIP treatment from the Vatican. In fact, Vatican officials did not even know the group was there.
Economist Nicholas Eberstadt lays out a bleak future in an important essay just published in The Wall Street Journal. Eberstadt makes the case that selfishness, as evidenced by the unwillingness of people to get married in the first place and stay married in the second, is setting humanity on an unknown and potentially dangerous course.
Father Thomas Rosica, a Vatican spokesman who works in the media, has sent a menacing legal letter to a little-known Canadian blogger, threatening a lawsuit for allegedly criticizing him unfairly.
The Tablet is reporting that the sole Jewish radio station in Copenhagen has gone off the air at least temporarily. Also closed in Copenhagen is one of the oldest Jewish schools in the world.
Father Tom Rosica, frequent official voice of the Vatican and Pope Francis, has sent out a tweet that seems to suggest the Vatican considers American Cardinal Raymond Burke a dissenter from Church teaching.
Six members of the Georgia delegation to the US Congress sent a letter last week to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed complaining about the firing of the Atlanta fire chief for expressing his religious views on homosexuality.
A few days ago, a correspondent for the Jewish news site NRG donned recognizably Jewish clothing and proceeded to walk around Paris for ten hours. He wanted to see the reaction. What he experienced did not entirely surprise him, but shocked him nonetheless.
A raft of major corporations donated huge dollars in support of a conference that bills itself as the largest annual gathering of LGBT individuals in the country. JP Morgan Chase sponsored the Creating Change conference along with Office Depot, Hilton
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is launching a national boycott of Fifty Shades of Grey, calling it little more than a how-to for domestic violence.
The Dean of Marquette University has told conservative professor John McAdams that the university has begun the process of revoking his tenure and firing him.
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland believes former Bishop Heather Cook was “inebriated” at a private dinner the day before the official rehearsal for her consecration as Bishop, according to a timeline of events leading up the fatal accident two days after Christmas.
Two weeks ago at a Sunday Mass, Pope Francis recognized a delegation of Slovaks in the crowd and encouraged their efforts in a national referendum banning same-sex adoption. Just this week, at his weekly audience, Francis did it again.
If you want to buy or sell a couch, an old dresser, or some used tools, Craigslist is the place to go. Millions of people have found it to be a reliable and quick way to buy and sell almost anything–sex, too. Now, a report suggests these ads may be linked to HIV.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has submitted a bill to the Chilean Congress that would liberalize the country’s abortion laws, allowing for abortion in the case of rape or when the pregnancy threatens the mother or baby’s life.
Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League sent a package to every abortion clinic in the country that includes a pair of handcuffs, a photo of a recently arrested abortionist, and a note: “Could you be next? If you want to get out of the abortion business, give me a call.”
A week ago roughly 500,000 young people marched in freezing weather up Pennsylvania Avenue as they have done every year for four decades calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and an end to abortion in America.