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CNSNews.com) - The celebration of a homosexual pride event at the Justice Department on Wednesday is drawing fire from family groups, who oppose what they call "the use of taxpayer funds to sponsor an event that promotes sexual behavior." After the Commerce Department withheld official sponsorship of a similar event on its premises - and President Bush turned down a request by a government employee group to recognize June as "Gay and Lesbian Pride Month" - family groups expressed disappointment that the Justice Department, under conservative Attorney General John Ashcroft, gave the go-ahead for the celebration. Robert Knight, director...

This morning, like every other morning, I woke up, got the children off to school, sat and talked with my husband for a while before he left for work. Like everyone else, I have things in my life that I have to be concerned about, education, household matters, and what’s going on in hotspots around the world. Admittedly, the local school council’s latest agenda, and getting my floors sanded without costing an arm and a leg weigh more heavily on my mind than fanatics in the Middle East or Afghanistan. It’s not that I’m some self-absorbed ugly American. The order...