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.
In today’s Washington Post, there is a picture of a nearly naked man laying supine in the dirt; hovering over him, a person fully covered in Hazmat gear — covered head to toe — dousing the dying man with disinfectant.
The LGBT Human Rights Campaign has called for a federal officer to enforce the LGBT agenda around the world. In a letter sent Thursday, HRC president Chad Griffin is asking supporters to sign a letter to Secretary of State John
In a statement released Wednesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, says neither he nor his predecessors have ever told the St. Patrick’s Day parade organizers who could or could not march. This was in response to the controversy that
It looks like major corporations have achieved what LGBT activists could not do on their own, even after two decades of trying: force the St. Patrick’s Day Parade to allow gay groups to march under their own banner. The St.
GOP Senate candidate Cory Gardner is betting that contraception will get him at least a few votes among Colorado women who’ve bought into the “war on women” meme promoted by the Democratic Party. Gardner has released an ad in which he
Federal judges are having a field day lately striking down what abortion proponents call draconian new laws that require abortionists to have admitting privileges at their local hospital. Abortion proponents say this imposes an “undue burden,” and they are “medically
Two protesters were arrested at a pro-family conference on Saturday in Melbourne, Australia. ABC News reported 50 demonstrators attended the event, despite critics’ previous promise that thousands of protesters would block the entrances. The event is a regional conference of
A jolly local TV host was murdered this week, and the alleged trigger man tried unsuccessfully to kill himself, according to local police. The murder has exposed a reported double life led by a Briton named Scot Rogers who, it is now
The polygamist reality TV stars of “Sister Wives” can sleep easy tonight as a Federal Judge in Utah has struck down at least part of the State’s ban on polygamy. The Utah ban made it illegal and punishable by up to
Colorado has been the scene of two bruising fights over what supporters call “personhood,” efforts to recognize the unborn child as a person under state and therefore federal law. The “personhood” fight has come to Colorado again this year and
The Parliament of Macedonia is set to halt any prospect of same-sex marriage in this land-locked state that used to be a part of Yugoslavia. A plenary session of the Parliament is expected to pass a package of constitutional changes
On Monday the Governor of Oklahoma issued a public condemnation of the Black Mass scheduled for the Oklahoma City Civic Center late next month. Republican Mary Fallin said, “This ‘Black Mass’ is a disgusting mockery of the Catholic faith, and it should
Left-wing and mainstream media are slowly catching on there’s something happening in Europe, with a rapidly growing conservative movement that looks an awful lot like the same movement here. This was true exponentially for BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder, who was hired
Los Angeles issued only 40 permits all of last year for porn productions, according to a nonprofit group that tracks film production cited by The LA Times. This is a drop from 400 permits issued in 2012. So far this
LGBT advocates continue to show alarm over the new numbers released from the Centers for Disease Control that show gays and lesbians make up no more than 1.6% of the adult population of the United States. The adult population of the
A review of relevant U.S. laws and regulations has deepened questions about the marriage between the US Ambassador to a multilateral organization located in Austria and his same-sex partner over the weekend in Vienna. Daniel Baer, U.S. Ambassador to the
Reverend Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, long-time radical Foreign Minister of the Marxist-inspired Sandinista regime in Nicargua, has had his 29-year long priestly suspension lifted by Pope Francis, allowing the 81-year old priest to say Mass and resume other pastoral activities. The American-born priest
The legality of it is still unclear, but the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe is claiming he and his male partner were married this weekend in Austria. Along with a majority of European
An affluent Australian couple contracted with a poor Thai food vendor to carry their baby in a process called gestational surrogacy. Through a surrogacy agency in Bangkok, $9,300 was to be paid for a process that would have cost substantially
Gay leaders are expressing alarm at the just-released numbers from the Center for Disease Control that place the percentage of Americans identifying as homosexual at only 1.6% of the adult population. That would mean the total number of gays in
Despite more than twenty years of rejection by the UN General Assembly, abortion advocates continue to clamor for an international right to abortion that is supported by UN treaties and international law. It is one of the most-contested propositions in
A U.S. Circuit Court ruled Tuesday that the state of Mississippi may not require abortion doctors in that state to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The court said the requirement “imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to
In what has become a regular occurrence, another abortion clinic has closed its doors after years of protests and legal action by pro-life activists. Operation Rescue is reporting that Central Family Medical in Kansas City, Kansas, announced on its website
Though not yet confirmed by the Vatican, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has announced that Pope Francis will make his first visit to the United States to attend the World Meeting of Families that will take place in Philadelphia next
Proponents of personhood–the political and legal proposition that the unborn child should be recognized as a person entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, thereby making abortion illegal–have hoped that a state would enact a personhood amendment. Such
The highest human rights court in Europe has told European LGBTs that they have no human right to same-sex marriage, in a case that also shows how complicated sexual and marital norms have become in this new transsexual world. The
The Human Rights Campaign has said that David Tyree’s views on marriage mean that he couldn’t possibly be a good football coach, encouraging the New York Giants to rethink the retired receiver’s spot as director of player development. Citing Tyree’s
For years the political left at the UN has gotten its way on issues related to the family, but not recently, and they are upset. The issue is over language. The left does not like the use of the singular
The American Bar Association will vote on the controversial notion that being and acting LGBT is a human right protected in international law. The resolution will be considered by the ABA House of Delegates at their annual meeting this August
One of the last vestiges of colonial rule is increasingly under protest and legal action around the world where the sun once never set on the British Empire. Anti-sodomy laws are getting hearings, sometimes in the street but often in
The World Health Organization is reporting that the rate of HIV infection among young gays is growing so rapidly the agency is recommending for the first time that men who have sex with men take anti-viral drugs as a preventative.
A UN committee in Geneva blasted Ireland for its laws against abortion, saying its pro-life stance violates the terms of a long-standing UN human rights treaty. Committee members told Irish Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald that the constitutional provision defending
It is remarkable how the world cares about who gets appointed to key posts in the Catholic Church. Immediately the tea leaves are examined and determinations are made about whether he is on the left or right. This is certainly
A source from inside Chase bank has provided what he says is a photograph of the actual question all employees were asked in a company-wide survey about their support for “the LGBT community.” This is the first time an alleged
The recent exposé of the employee survey that asked probing questions about employee support for the “LGBT community” has focused attention on something that the typical depositor might not be aware of, and that is the massive time and attention
A year ago The View co-host Sherri Shepherd announced she and her husband Lamar Sally were going to have a baby using a surrogate. The procedure was to use Shepherd’s eggs and the womb of a stranger. Shepherd said at
A spokesman for JP Morgan Chase told a reporter for the Daily Signal, a news site published by the Heritage Foundation, that the annual employee survey that included controversial questions about support for the LGBT community was “anonymous.” If true,
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has ordered a Catholic priest to reveal something said to him in confession, asking him to do something that would result in his automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church. The case revolves around a 12-year-old
Search “Chase and LGBT” on the Internet, and you will see the controversial Chase employee survey on LGBT dominates the results. Moreover, the issue shows no signs of abating. A Chase employee who reached out to Professor Robert George of
Two weeks ago in a visit to southern Italy, Pope Francis said that members of organized crime are excommunicated. In response, mobsters in Calabria have struck back in an unusual and insulting way. The Italian press and the Catholic news