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 The New York Times Thursday was a full-page ad that many will consider anti-Catholic. Headlined “Dogma Should Not Trump Our Civil Liberties”, the ad claims “All-Male, All-Roman Catholic Majority on Supreme Court Puts Religious Wrongs Over Women’s Rights.” The
Buzzfeed ran photos Wednesday of two gay men welcoming their new son who was born from a woman who had rented her uterus to them though not her eggs. Those came from yet another woman. Jennifer Lahl, a campaigner against
A second source has confirmed that JP Morgan Chase has asked each of its employees whether they are “an ally of the LGBT community,” which employees have taken as a veiled threat. Each year JP Morgan Chase sends its employees
LGBT activists have started a national campaign to publicly identify and shame small businesses that are not supportive of the gay cause. Called “If You’re Buying,” the organizers and their allies approach small businesses with a request to put a
Professor Robert George of Princeton University, the head of the International Commission on Religious Freedom, claims that a major U.S. bank has asked all of its employees to reveal their support–or lack therefore–for the LGBT cause. In a blog post at
The alliance between feminists and population controllers has always been uneasy. While feminists have supported a global right to abortion as a matter of human rights, population controllers support such a right as a means to reduce numbers, sometimes coercively.
A new document released this week in Rome puts a wet blanket on the hopes of many Church progressives. The working document in preparation for the global Synod of Bishops reasserts core Church teachings on controversial issues the left had
Up until last week you could tune into Verizon Fios and find movies like Daddy Likes Em Young, Club Teeny Bopper 10, Deep in Daughters and A Mother’s Sons. Along with such child-themed porn movies Verizon also offered movies that are racially and
Last Thursday the State Department hosted its now annual Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies Pride day. One of the speakers was journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen, who has been an outspoken critic of the Russian government on
Influential playwright David Mamet told a theater company in Milwaukee it must cease and desist production of his play Oleanna because the company cast a man to play the female lead. The play was performed for one show only at the
The world is on fire. Libya is in chaos. Baghdad is about to fall to a new and toxic strain of Islamism. Syria is in civil war. Israeli teenagers have been kidnapped by terrorists. Russia is expanding, taking over Crimea,
Paul Clement has had one of the most storied careers in the law. One top legal recruiter said that when Clement was graduating from Harvard Law, all the firms were practically salivating to get him: “Paul Clement is the Holy
In what will only be seen as an in-your-face response to religious conservatives, the Nabisco company has released another pro-LGBT ad, this time in Twitter form. The Huffington Post was all atwitter that Nabisco released the ad just in time
It is no surprise to traditional marriage advocates that they lost the Proposition 8 case that challenged the constitutionality of California voters to declare that marriage can only occur between a man and a woman. Though not known at the
Robert Reilly is one of the more respected men in Washington, DC. As a very young man, he was a special adviser to President Reagan. He is a longtime music critic, specializing in teaching the emergence of amazing new orchestral
Anti-porn activists are claiming victory Friday with the announcement by Google that it will no longer accept advertising for explicit sexual material. In a message reportedly sent to AdWord clients in violation of the new anti-porn policy, Google wrote: Beginning
This week Kevin Williamson of National Review stepped into the LGBT buzz saw for the crime of believing that a person with XY chromosomes is a man and not a woman. He has been castigated in the gay press, mocked
Pope Francis is fast becoming known as the Pope of the family and of the devil. He mentioned both in the same breath this weekend at a massive gathering of a movement called the Catholic Charismatic Renewal at a packed
You can now change your sex and charge the American taxpayer, according to new rules just issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. Up until now, the government denied Medicare payments for such surgeries, which were considered not
Founders of the pro-family movement are reacting skeptically to an article published this week at Politico that claims their movement was founded on racism. University professor Randall Balmer insists the social conservative movement failed to coalesce over abortion, prayer in
European pro-lifers are outraged at what they consider the anti-democratic decision by the powerful European Commission to ignore a pro-life petition signed by nearly two million people from more than twenty EU member states. The petition, called One of Us,
The tolerant liberal paladins of Madison, Wisconsin have decided a motivational speaker on teen suicide may not appear at the annual Brat Fest because he also supports a pro-life initiative that encourages abortion-minded women to view ultra-sound images of their
Israelis and Palestinians found themselves in a situation similar to conservative and liberal Catholics in the United States as they attempted to decipher the words and actions of Pope Francis, wondering if he has a side and which one he’s
The UN torture committee has concluded that the Catholic Church is not guilty of torture or in violation of international law. In a report issued today, the UN torture committee does criticize the Church for its handling of various abuse
It’s been slightly more than two weeks since the Holy See stood in the dock before the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva and was told the Church may be in violation of international laws against torture. On Friday, the
The Obama administration seems to have forgotten the International Day of the Family last week that was celebrated at the UN and around the world May 15. Yet the administration was very enthusiastic about the May 17th celebration of the
In a letter to top donors released this week, the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA-List) reveals its campaign plans for the fall elections. SBA-List, through its Women Speak Out super PAC, intends to direct most of its firepower to Senate races,
After it was reported that SunTrust Banks had stopped all business with Benham Real Estate, the group owned by David and Jason Benham, SunTrust spokesman told Breitbart News Friday afternoon that whatever issues caused Benham Real Estate to lose SunTrust
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS–One of the more influential leaders of the Catholic Church came to the UN Thursday to deliver a strong message about the importance of the family. At a side-event organized by the Holy See, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president
Under pressure from outside groups, the White House is deciding to overturn part of the 1973 Helms Amendment which bans American money from being used to perform or promote abortion overseas, reports the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam)
Politically left-wing Catholic pundits seem very eager to use the words of Pope Francis to pounce on political conservatives who criticize or even question the sometimes confusing Tweets and other statements of the Pope. The most recent example includes a
In recent years pro-life advocates have been remarkably successful at instituting new laws regulating abortion clinics; more laws like these have passed in the past two years than in the previous decade combined. As a result, abortion clinics are closing
The sometimes-deadly disease syphilis is exploding in the United States, with most of the increase since 1995 among men who have sex with men (MSM), according to a new report from the Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control (CDC). As recently
Pope Francis met with the Secretary General of the United Nations along with the heads of all the major UN agencies. In his message he directly and indirectly mentioned the thorny UN issue of abortion. Francis told the gathered heads
Abortion advocates on the UN anti-torture committee hectored Vatican representatives for two days running in Geneva this week, insisting that opposing abortion is tantamount to torture and therefore a violation of international law. On Tuesday the Vatican rep pushed back
A federal judge has ordered Ryan Bomberger to stop making fun of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Court effectively ruled that Bomberger and his group, The Radiance Foundation, are not very funny. Bomberger, who founded
The UN Committee Against Torture began its questioning of the Holy See Monday morning in Geneva. So far, the questions have focused on a number of controversial topics including the sexual abuse of minors and Catholic opposition to abortion, both
The Boy Scouts appeared successfully to have “split the baby” when they changed Boy Scout policy to allow open and avowed homosexuality on the part of their youth members but still disallow it among adult leaders. However, the opprobrium began
People today, especially those under 50, will have no idea how a single television show can have dominated the media landscape. Before 500 channels, before micro-targeted programming, there were only three networks, and the national conversation could center on a
The spokesman for Joseph Daul, head of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament who made a controversial statement about pornography this week, told Breitbart News that Daul only used the porn analogy to make a point about the