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Fears of Poland's gay community By Adam Easton BBC News, Warsaw As Warsaw's annual gay rights march got under way outside the Polish parliament a music system blared out its anthem: "Homophobia, the worst disease, you can't love who you want to love in times like these." Despite the message, there was a festive mood. Drag queens stood beside the speakers on a truck decorated in rainbow coloured balloons. Somebody brought along a pet mouse, somebody else, a snake. Police with riot shields ensured there was no contact between the several thousand marchers and a nearby small counter demonstration of...

Pro-Lifers Ensure Pampered Chef Profits No Longer Support Abortion By Candi Cushman Pro-life moms working for The Pampered Chef — the nation's largest direct-sales kitchenware company — have scored a major victory against the abortion industry by stopping pro-abortion donations from one of the world's largest megacorporations, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Headed by billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the abortion industry's top financiers, Berkshire is a conglomerate of corporations including The Pampered Chef, Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom. For years, the company has funneled millions of its profits into The Buffett Foundation, which in turn bankrolls several "reproductive rights"...

(AgapePress) - A growing number of Christian, pro-life mothers are leaving lucrative careers with a national kitchenware company because of the new owner's support of abortion. "The Pampered Chef" is one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing kitchenware companies. The company, founded in 1980 by professing Christian and stay-at-home mother Doris Christopher, has been driven mostly by stay-at-home moms who sell the products from home. The company boasts more than 67,000 "Kitchen Consultants" and sales of $700 million annually. But now, according to Citizen magazine, many Christian mothers are walking away from the company because Pampered Chef's new owner, billionaire...