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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.

Articles by Austin Ruse

As the World Burns, UN General Assembly Takes on Bullying

The world is in flames, Christians beheaded all over the Middle East, much of that region in anarchic chaos, increased nuclear saber-rattling from Russia, many parts of the world crippled economically, hundreds of thousands dying from malaria, and a billion

As the World Burns, UN General Assembly Takes on Bullying

Reports of Tetanus Vaccine Sterilizing Kenya Women Proven False

The report rocketed around the Internet, trading in equal parts outrage and glee–outrage that the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF might be spiking tetanus shots of poor African women with a sterilizing vaccine, glee that they’d been caught. Doubts

Reports of Tetanus Vaccine Sterilizing Kenya Women Proven False

At UN, Western Europe Goes After Developing World on LGBT Rights

An analysis of UN human rights reporting just released by the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam) shows that Western Europe has put gay rights in the developing world front and center in tackling human rights issues at the UN.

At UN, Western Europe Goes After Developing World on LGBT Rights

Detroit Archbishop Cancels Appearance by LGBT Campaigner

The Catholic Archbishop of Detroit has cancelled a speech by the founder of a Catholic LGBT-rights group at odds with Catholic teaching. Archbishop Allen Vigneron cancelled the appearance of Francis DeBernardo, executive director of something called New Ways Ministry, a

Detroit Archbishop Cancels Appearance by LGBT Campaigner

Controversial Cardinal Tells Catholics to Contact Pope

American Cardinal Raymond Burke, recently demoted from the highest legal office in the Vatican, told a conference in Ireland that Catholic layman should write to the Pope to voice their opinions about the general Synod of Bishops to take place

Controversial Cardinal Tells Catholics to Contact Pope

At UN, Europeans Gang up on El Salvador on Question of Abortion

(United Nations) – El Salvador is currently undergoing something the UN calls the Universal Periodic Review, a fairly new human rights process that looks at countries’ implementation of various human rights treaties. And even though no UN treaty mentions abortion,

At UN, Europeans Gang up on El Salvador on Question of Abortion

Myth of Matthew Shepard’s Murder Invoked by Secretary John Kerry

In announcing the State Department’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, Secretary of State John Kerry invoked the name of Matthew Shepard, a gay young man who was murdered many years ago and whose death remains an iconic moment for those fighting

Myth of Matthew Shepard’s Murder Invoked by Secretary John Kerry

Critics Think Internet Is Killing Religion

Atheists and others are practically giddy at a new data analysis that shows a correlation between an increase in Internet use and a decrease in religious affiliation. Writing at Salon.com, frequent critic of religion, Amanda Marcotte, celebrates the new data.

Critics Think Internet Is Killing Religion

UN General Assembly Considers Naming 2016 the 'Year of the Camelid'

The UN General Assembly is set to debate whether to name 2016 as the Year of the Camelid. The resolution, sponsored by Bolivia, reads in part: Noting that camelids are strictly herbivorous, even-toed ungulate mammals that first appeared in America

UN General Assembly Considers Naming 2016 the 'Year of the Camelid'

Anti-Cop Rapper on Michael Brown Delegation to UN Torture Committee

A rapper using the name Tef Poe was among the delegation from Ferguson, Missouri to the Geneva-based UN Committee on Torture.  On Twitter, Poe bragged he was going to Geneva “to slap these Ferguson pigs with war crime charges and torture charges.”  Michael Brown’s

Anti-Cop Rapper on Michael Brown Delegation to UN Torture Committee

UN May Ask US to Prosecute 'Gay Conversion Therapy' Practitioners

On Wednesday, a UN committee in Geneva asked State Department representatives what the federal government was doing to prosecute psychologists who help patients change their same-sex attractions. The questioning came during the U.S. report to the UN Committee on Torture

UN May Ask US to Prosecute 'Gay Conversion Therapy' Practitioners

Harvard Sex Week Explores Islamophobia, Imperialism, Anal Sex

Harvard students are enjoying an opportunity to learn all the details of anal sex during what has become an annual event at the elite school. At a Tuesday panel called “What What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101,” experts from

Harvard Sex Week Explores Islamophobia, Imperialism, Anal Sex

Christian Group Receives Death Threats Following LGBT Group 'Hate' Report

The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest LGBT pressure group, has issued a report along with scare-videos called “The Export of Hate” that targets Christian conservatives who work on LGBT issues overseas. The targeted Christians are calling foul. 

Christian Group Receives Death Threats Following LGBT Group 'Hate' Report

Singapore Upholds Sodomy Ban

In a huge setback for LGBT activists, this week, the high court of Singapore upheld the country’s ban on anal and oral sex between men. Challengers to Section 377A of the Penal Code argued that the ban violated their rights to

Singapore Upholds Sodomy Ban

Despite Ban, Transgender Troops Already Serving Openly in U.S. Military

Last week, transgender military personnel from various countries allied with the United States convened a conference in Washington, DC to put pressure on the U.S. military to allow transgender soldiers to serve openly. Organizers claim more than 15,000 transgender soldiers now serve

Despite Ban, Transgender Troops Already Serving Openly in U.S. Military

Jesuit College Recognizes Pagan Group

A Catholic university located in Chicago has given its blessing to a student organization for “pagans,” according to The Campus Fix. Loyola University of Chicago, a Jesuit school, pushed back a little bit and asked the group to change its name

Jesuit College Recognizes Pagan Group

Transgender Soldiers Meet in DC, Want Ban on Military Service Struck Down

Transgender military personnel from a number of American allied countries met in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss what they say are the benefits of allowing open transgenders in active military service. Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, the conference

Transgender Soldiers Meet in DC, Want Ban on Military Service Struck Down

Forty-One Bishops Oppose New Vatican Document

Vatican — Opposition increases in Rome as gays celebrate, traditional Catholics fret, bishops complain, and no one seems to be able to explain exactly what the document released Monday means for the Catholic Church. Late Monday night, experienced hands with

Forty-One Bishops Oppose New Vatican Document

Gay Group Rejected for Ownership of '.gay' Web Domain

A gay advocacy organization’s bid to own a proposed “.gay” domain address has been rejected by the governing body of domain names. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit body located in California that governs

Gay Group Rejected for Ownership of '.gay' Web Domain

Press Grill Vatican on Divorce, Remarriage, and Homosexuality

VATICAN CITY, Vatican– Today, the Vatican released the controversial compilation document that will guide the Synod of Bishops next year. The document was put together by a committee and was intended as a distillation of the speeches given by Bishops

UN Again Spreads Overpopulation Fears

A new report from UN statisticians says their earlier predictions about global population stabilization are wrong and that we are on the cusp of major and dangerous growth.  The UN Population Division has traditionally been an objective purveyor of information

UN Again Spreads Overpopulation Fears

Sexual Left Tells GOP Chair Reince Priebus to 'Shun' Social Conservatives

A small coalition of hard-left groups have called on GOP chairman Reince Priebus to “shun” several social conservative groups for their positions on homosexuality.  An expensive full-page ad appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post signed by the Southern Poverty Law Center,

Sexual Left Tells GOP Chair Reince Priebus to 'Shun' Social Conservatives

Germans May Approve Incest

German brothers and sisters are on the verge of being able to have sexual relations without worrying about breaking the law and going to jail. A government committee has said laws that ban incest are a violation of right to sexual self-expression. 

Germans May Approve Incest

Pew: Has Support for Same-Sex Marriage Peaked?

After years of steady and even dramatic increases in support, a new Pew survey has found support for same-sex marriage declining.  Pew found more Americans support same-sex marriage than oppose it, but that support had dropped five percentage points between February

Pew: Has Support for Same-Sex Marriage Peaked?

Hillary Clinton 'Embarassed' US Won't Sign Liberal UN Treaty

Last Friday, to a packed hall at the modernist Ford Foundation building not far from the UN, former Sec. of State and presumptive presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she was embarrassed that the United States has never ratified the UN

Hillary Clinton 'Embarassed' US Won't Sign Liberal UN Treaty

Pioneering Queer Studies Professor Busted for Sex with Kids

A pioneering professor at the University of California pled guilty on Friday of traveling to foreign countries to have sex with underage boys. The professor, Walter Lee Williams, was a pioneer in what is called “queer studies” and worked at

Pioneering Queer Studies Professor Busted for Sex with Kids

Will 'Personhood' Doom Joni Ernst's Senate Bid?

When she was in the Iowa state legislature, GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst supported a change in the Iowa constitution which would have recognized the unborn child as a person from the moment of conception. Called “personhood”, the idea has

Will 'Personhood' Doom Joni Ernst's Senate Bid?

Two Catholic Bishops Having Tug of War Over Potential Saint's Body

It was reported this week that the cause for the canonization of Bishop Fulton Sheen, known in the 1950s as the TV Priest for his awarding-winning and widely-watched television show “Life is Worth Living,” had been mysteriously halted. There was

Two Catholic Bishops Having Tug of War Over Potential Saint's Body

Canonization of TV Priest Inexplicably Halted

For a time in the 1950s, Bishop Fulton Sheen was one of the biggest television stars in America. His prime-time show “Life is Worth Living” had one of the biggest audiences in TV history. He went up against Milton Berle

Canonization of TV Priest Inexplicably Halted