The nun was not the issue. She was never the issue. At most the nun was a vehicle, an instrument of the unhappy dissenters. She was collateral damage in an attack on a priest trying to bring orthodoxy into a
A high-ranking UN official told students last week that they ought to take over UN buildings. Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director of the billion-dollar UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said this to students gathered to participate in the UN Commission on
New survey numbers from Rasmussen show public opinion turning slowly against the Boy Scouts. Though most Americans still view them favorably, their numbers continue in a perennial trend of decline. The national poll taken by telephone shows 59% of Americans
A religious sister from the highly respected Nashville Dominicans has come under attack from liberal Catholic parents and students who objected to her lecture on same-sex attraction and divorce at a Catholic high school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North
It is likely that Geoff McGrath wants to test the Boy Scout rule that openly gay adults are not allowed as voluntary leaders in the Scouts. After all, why would he agree to appear on an NBC News program about
In an argument over tactics and alleged insubordination, the largest pro-life group in America has essentially fired its longtime Georgia affiliate and replaced it with a newly formed group started with the support of RedState founder Erick Erickson. Carol Tobias,
If President Obama opened the International New York Times when he woke up at the US Ambassador residence Thursday morning in Rome, he would have been greeted by a full-page ad from the dissident “Catholics for Choice” telling him to ignore
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims they are still in the good graces of the FBI and that reports the FBI has severed ties are false.Heidi Beirich, Director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project told Breitbart News that she does not know
Christian groups are celebrating with the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have scrubbed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) from its hate crimes webpage, where the controversial group was listed as a resource and referred to
With Missouri recently losing its penultimate abortion clinic, the race is on to become the first state without any abortion clinics whatsoever. Missouri joins five other states–Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming–with only a single abortion clinic. The
A state legislator in Hawaii has filed an ethics complaint with the State Department of Education alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center is bribing elementary teachers to take an SPLC course called Teaching Tolerance. State Representative Bob McDermott also
The issue of same-sex marriage and gay families marching through American institutions is also marching through the Republican Party, at least among the youngest numbers of Republicans. A new poll from the Pew Research Center reports that only 39% of
An academic study has accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of having an anti-Christian bias in its reporting on hate groups in America. Once considered the “gold standard” in reporting on violent anti-government or racist groups in America, the
Pro-life leaders have noticed that not a single panel or specific speaker on life issues has been scheduled for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is supposed to be the preeminent annual gathering of conservatives in America. Pro-lifers note
Western cultural imperialism aimed at Africa–by everyone from Barack Obama to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow–has been blamed for the passage of what many see as the new draconian laws on homosexual behavior in Uganda. Writing in the prestigious Foreign Policy
John Stemberger is not at all surprised that Disney World says it will no longer financially support the Boy Scouts nor allow any of its 66,000 employees to volunteer for the Boy Scouts and have those hours counted toward Disney volunteer
Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay basketball player, met with the parents of gay icon Matthew Shepard after a game this week and gave them one of his jerseys, which carries the number 98–honoring the year Shepard was murdered.
Girl Scout moms participating in the national Girl Scout cookie boycott released a video Thursday calling Girl Scout CEO Anna Marie Chavez “misleading and deceitful.” The moms are responding to a YouTube video released by Anna Marie Chavez last week that
Late Wednesday afternoon, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the controversial Arizona bill that would have allowed small business owners to refuse service to certain customers under a claim of religious freedom. Brewer said, “Senate bill 1062 does not address a specific
As millions of moms consider digging into pocketbooks for Girl Scout cookies this year, they may be interested to know about the hiring of Krista Kokjohn-Poehler in the Girl Scouts executive office in New York City. Kokjohn-Poehler is an out
Ronan Farrow, best known as the estranged son of Woody Allen, debuted his new show Ronan Farrow Daily on MSNBC Monday by praising news heroes he “watched growing up,” including Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Walter Cronkite left the
There is now little doubt that the Girl Scout cookie boycott is having an effect on cookie sales this year. Girl Scout spokesman Kelly Parisi went on The O’Reilly Factor this week to try and defuse the mounting controversy, and
At this time of year they make their money, with little girls tramping up and down streets, knocking on doors, selling cookies to anyone who will listen. In this short selling season, the Girl Scouts hope to make upwards of
Warren Beatty and Annette Benning’s college-age daughter is a trans man. She’s called “Stephen Ira” and is something of an activist on the far frontiers of gender. At long last Facebook has given her a gender category, but what exactly
The Girl Scouts of the USA has sent threatening letters to at least two small pro-life groups that have been critical of Girl Scout collaborations with Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups. Since the beginning of the Girl Scout
The national boycott of Girl Scout cookies is inundating the group leading it. John Pisciotta, the boycott leader and director of Pro-Life Waco, tells Breitbart News his phone is “ringing off the hook.” What started at Breitbart News has now
A UN committee has told the Catholic Church to get over its opposition to adolescents having sex and that it needs to change its teachings on abortion and homosexuality. These explosive directives came in an official report issued by the Committee
Christian activist Joni Eareckson Tada accuses Hollywood of “shunning Christ” after the Academy Award rescinded a Best Original Song Oscar nomination to the independent Christian film Alone Yet Not Alone. Tada – a severely disabled evangelical author, radio host, and public
The Girl Scout cookiecott first reported at Breitbart News has gone viral. Now, the first major political leader has voiced his concern with the Girl Scouts and their leftward journey. Late last night Mike Huckabee announced on his Facebook page:
The left-wing blogosphere responded angrily over the Girl Scout “cookiecott” announced Wednesday by Breitbart News. Mother Jones called the boycott “bullying” even though its being run by a group so small they do not even have to file tax returns and
The Girl Scouts have apologized for seeming to endorse abortion advocate Wendy Davis in a tweet late last month, but the organizers and supporters of a planned boycott of Girl Scout Cookies are not impressed by the statement from the
A part of every Thin Mint and Do-Si-Do, every Samoa and Savannah Smile goes to support abortion advocacy. So say John Pisciotta, who runs a tiny pro-life organization in Waco, Texas, and a dozen national pro-life organizations he has convinced
On Wednesday, Pope Francis tweeted support for the 41st Annual March for Life at the same time that President Obama expressed support for the Supreme Court decision that gave America an unfettered right to abortion, calling it an “historic commitment
The Girl Scouts want you to know that nothing has happened to Josh Ackley. Last month, Breitbart News reported that Ackley–the main media spokesman for the Scouts–was also the lead singer of a “homopunk” band, The Dead Betties, who made
In less than a day, Duck Dynasty fans and non-fans alike are letting A&E and the world know they are angry that star Phil Robertson has been put on “indefinite hiatus” for what A&E perceives as his “anti-gay” remarks. At
Joshua Ackley, the lead singer of the “homopunk” band The Dead Betties, is no longer listed as the main media spokesman for the Girl Scouts two days after an article questioning whether the youth organization is best represented by an
After repeated attempts Monday, it became clear the Girl Scouts have no interest in commenting on the story published Sunday evening about their spokesman Josh Ackley and his leadership of the “homocore” punk band The Dead Betties. In that story,
If you are a national reporter writing on the Girl Scouts and you call their national office in New York City, you will talk to a guy named Josh Ackley. If you are a Girl Scout wanting regular advice or
It is remarkable that the abortion debate in the United States is such a left-right debate. Former abortionist Bernard Nathanson, later a pro-life hero, took credit for convincing the Democratic Party that abortion was a woman’s rights issue, forever after
A heretic is loose in the Church of Matthew Shepard, and the Church is out to get him. The story of Matthew Shepard can only be understood in religious terms. A young man, a perpetual innocent victim, is martyred for
