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A paedophile ring has been smashed after eight men were found guilty of a horrifying catalogue of more than 50 child pornography and abuse charges.Among the crimes was a shocking sexual attack carried out on a three-month-old baby boy by an executive adviser on child sex issues. James Rennie, chief executive of a publicly-funded gay rights group, was one of the men exposed yesterday as members of Scotland's biggest paedophile ring.   Rennie, 38, molested the toddler son of unsuspecting friends - a little boy he had been trusted to babysit - recording the abuse and sharing it with other...

Associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy, Frank Lombard, was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old African American son for sex to an undercover cop. Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son to the undercover officer in an online chat room under the user name "Perv Dad for Fun". He invited the under cover officer to travel to North Carolina to rape his already-molested adopted son. Lombard faces 20 years in prison if convicted but is not eligible for the death penalty.Lombard bragged to the detective that “the abuse of...

CNN -- Jesse Levey is a Republican activist who says he believes in family values, small government and his lesbian mothers' right to marry. Levey is part of the "gayby boom" generation. The 29-year-old management consultant is the son of a lesbian couple who chose to have a child through artificial insemination. He's their only child. Critics of same-sex marriage say people such as Levey will grow up shunned and sexually confused. Yet he says he's a "well-adjusted heterosexual" whose upbringing proves that love, not gender, makes a family. "You can imagine what my parents thought when I was 13...

A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage. Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account. Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't: Frank Lombard is the...

It looks like Duke University has another rape case on its hands. This one may hurt the university nearly as much as the one that rocked its campus back in 2006. Unlike the previous case, this one appears to involve a credible confession of sexual abuse. Like the previous case, crucial facts are already being filtered through the prism of identity politics. Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard...

The Catholic Children’s Society (Westminster), whose president is Archbishop Vincent Nichols, will no longer be involved with adoption placement because of legislation that forces adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples. “The Trustees are convinced that what is best for children is that they be brought up by married couples,” according to a statement from the society. “This is shown by research but it is also consonant with the teaching of the Church. In the unanimous view of the Trustees it would be totally unacceptable for our Catholic agency to act in a way that is at odds with...

First gay couple to become fathers in UK expecting fourth child By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 18th June 2009 Britain's first gay fathers have announced that they are having a fourth child on Valentine's Day. Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow sparked outrage when they used donated eggs and surrogate mothers in the USA to have their nine-year-old twins Aspen and Saffron and five-year-old son Orlando. The pair from Danbury in Essex, battled the American authorities to become the first gay couple to have both their names on their children's birth certificates.

According to a story published Thursday on SF Gate (the San Francisco Chronicle’s online version) the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision by a federal judge to throw out a suit against the San Francisco county board of supervisors. The suit was brought by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights after the board in 2006 condemned the Vatican's "hateful and discriminatory rhetoric" and urged local church officials to defy the order by Cardinal William Levada. The Catholic League sued, contending the city was expressing hostility toward Catholicism in violation of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit...

''Florida law specifically provides that adoption decrees from other states must be recognized in this state. Regardless of whether the trial court believed that the Washington adoption violated a clearly established public policy in Florida, it was improper for the trial court to refuse to give the Washington judgment full faith and credit.'' Judge Whatley from part of a decision by the Lakeland, FL appeals court which has decided that a Kimberly Ryan did not have the right to bar keep her former lesbian lover, Lara Embry, from seeing their jointly-parented daughter. In a complicated case, it is reported that...

Wanda Sykes Becomes Mom of Twins! By Julie Jordan Originally posted Wednesday May 13, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Wanda Sykes Photo by: Cliff Lipson / CBS / Landov Wanda Sykes and her wife, Alex, welcomed twins on April 27, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. Daughter Olivia Lou weighed in at 6 lbs., 7 oz., and was 19-inches long. Son Lucas Claude debuted at 7 lbs., 9 oz., and was 20-inches long. The comedian's wife gave birth to the babies. "All are happy and healthy and at home," says Sykes's rep Danica Smith. The actress, who stars on New Adventures of...

Wanda Sykes and her wife, Alex, welcomed twins on April 27, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. Daughter Olivia Lou weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces, and was 19-inches long. Son Lucas Claude debuted at 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 20-inches long. The comedian’s wife gave birth to the babies.

The mother of two children who are being adopted by gay men even though their grandparents want to care for them wept yesterday as she told of her final meeting with her son and daughter. ‘I told them, “Listen, Mummy is not going to see you for a while”,’ she said. Her son replied: ‘But Mummy, I want to come and stay with you and Granny and Grandad.’ Their grandparents spent two years fighting for the right to care for the children, whose 26-year-old mother is a recovering heroin addict. She desperately wanted her parents to look after them. But...

Brian Sheldon and Matthew Shaffer are one of several gay Victorian couples taking advantage of California's liberal IVF laws. The couple ordered the two babies -- even choosing their preferred sex, male -- through US IVF pioneer Dr Jeffrey Steinberg. The Australian Family Association believed it was tantamount to "trafficking in children", while the two fathers yesterday defended their decision to start a family. "The issue is not really a gay issue. It's a reproductive rights issue for everybody," Mr Sheldon said. Dr Steinberg said an increasing number of gay Australians were visiting his Californian fertility centre to start a...

Should part of Florida Bar give opinion on gay adoption? High Court hears arguments By Tonya Alanez | Tallahassee Bureau 1:08 PM EDT, April 22, 2009 TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning on whether a section of the Florida Bar should be able to weigh in on a Miami appeals court case that will decide whether gay people can adopt children in Florida. In November, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman declared unconstitutional the state's 32-year-old ban on gay adoption and approved the adoption of two brothers, then aged 4 and 8, by a gay man....

Both women in lesbian couples with children should be given compulsory paternity and maternity leave, under proposals tabled in the European Parliament. Euro-MPs will vote next month on European Union legislation to give conventional fathers and gay second mothers mandatory rights to two weeks off work if their partner gives birth. MEPs on the parliament's women's rights committee have amended European Commission proposals on "paternity/co-maternity" parental rights to reflect "different types of family structure", including homosexual couples.

A majority of Roman Catholic adoption agencies have cut their ties with the Church rather than defy gay equality laws. Five agencies have declared themselves independent - and some have changed their names - to comply with laws that say they must allow homosexual couples to adopt children.The retreat ends decades in which the adoption charities have worked in the name of the Catholic Church with support from dioceses, clergy and congregations.The decision to end the formal connection with the Church follows a deadline set by the Government for charities to comply with the 2007 Sexual Orientation Regulations. These...

NEW ORLEANS—Louisiana has 15 days to add the names of both fathers to the birth certificate of a boy born in Shreveport and adopted by a gay couple from out-of-state, a federal judge has ruled. The state is asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the ruling by U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey, and to halt the order in the meantime, state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said Thursday. "The federal district court has significantly misinterpreted Louisiana vital records law, forcing Louisiana to import and adopt New York law," he wrote in a brief e-mailed statement. Oren Adar...

The battle by homosexuals to legally adopt children has opened on another front in Florida. Democratic State Senator Nan Rich, co-chair of the Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee, has filed a bill to repeal the 1977 law that bans homosexual adoption and a second bill to give judges the authority to determine adoptions based exclusively on what she calls the best interests the children. Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel disagrees with the measures. "The actions here by Senator Nan Rich are clearly without merit, and she has the audacity to say that she is considering what is in...

Scottish government to withhold results of homosexual adoption study Cardinal Keith O'Brien Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Mar 13, 2009 / 01:49 am (CNA).- The Scottish Government is drawing criticism for saying that the results of an official investigation into the effects of homosexual adoption in Scotland will not be made public. The announcement comes soon after Cardinal Keith O’Brien urged the government to promote adoption rather than permit same-sex couples to foster children.In 2006 the Scottish Government passed laws allowing same-sex couples to adopt. The government is now working to permit same-sex couples to become foster parents.Scottish Ministers began an investigation...

<p>The Iron Chef and her wife both have buns in their ovens.</p> <p>Cat Cora, star of Food Network's "Iron Chef America," announced Tuesday that she was 4-1/2 months pregnant with a boy.</p> <p>But this is where it gets interesting.</p> <p>Cora's partner Jennifer, with whom she already has two sons, is also pregnant, and due in April, three months before Cora.</p>