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December 14, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- A fascinating article in The Public Discourse by political scientist Carson Holloway of The Heritage Foundation makes an irrefutable case that “corporations are people, too.” Quoting everyone from William Blackstone to Alexander Hamilton, Holloway demonstrates that the idea of “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” (Chief Justice John Marshall) is not only older than the Republic but essential to the functioning of society. This has long been embedded in federal law.  Holloway cites Title I of the U.S. Code, which states that “unless the context indicates otherwise” the “words ‘person’ and ‘whoever’...

COLORADO SPRINGS, December 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Yes, you read that correctly: there was a strong Christian pro-life element to the tragic shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood. But it is not the motive or the person the media has been focused on. The person is Officer Garrett Swasey, and his motive was his Christian faith. I would like to see at least one news story cover the shooting at the Planned Parenthood from the perspective of Officer Swasey. I would like at least one reporter to ask: what was his motivation? I think Officer Swasey earned it, don't...

Did you know that college-aged women account for more than one-third of all abortions? One in 10 women will have an abortion by the age of 20! That statistic only worsens as women get older, becoming one in every four by the age of 30. Sadly, this is our reality. Young women in their teens and twenties are having abortions more than anyone could imagine. So what is it that makes women seek abortion as the answer to an unplanned pregnancy? I do not believe it is hatred toward the child, but instead a mixture of feelings—from fear to confusion—and...

RALEIGH, North Carolina, December 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Three couples are challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina's law allowing magistrates to bow out of performing same-sex "marriages." According to court documents, the plaintiffs – two lesbian couples and an opposite-sex interracial couple – argue that the state's new law is discriminatory and thus unconstitutional. They and LGBT rights activists, as well as the state's GOP governor, all argue that the intention of the law is to illegally discriminate against same-sex couples. However, ABC 11 noted that a state statute does not require couples to perform marriages, a position argued by...

“All Of Us” is an education pack about homosexuality and transexuality for teachers of Australian children in Years 7 and 8. Launched last month, it is supposed to help students be aware of bullying and discrimination and to affirm the identities of their LGBT classmates.It is a comprehensive resource, with videos, posters, student hand-outs, and a unit guide for teachers – all painting a positive, if not glowing, view of the LGBT minority.However, the statistics on the size of that minority – the crucial figures which justify the very existence of the program, are wrong.First of all, what proportion of...

December 10, 2015 (ThePublicDiscourse) -- Obergefell v. Hodges was decided by five robed justices, but only one man both wrote and signed his name to the majority opinion. The four concurring justices chose to concur silently, adding nothing more than their signatures. This case is the brainchild of one man. That man and his state of mind—indeed, his character—matter. Recently, Justice Anthony Kennedy dismissed conscientious objectors to Obergefell, such as Kim Davis, by pointing out that very few Christian judges resigned when the Nazis imposed the Nuremberg Laws on Germany. Leaving aside how offensive it is to compare gay marriage supporters to Nazis, Justice Kennedy’s...

Human history is a story of sexual restrictions. Across the world and down through the centuries, humans have strictly controlled their sexual activity. There are no exceptions: in all cultures a freewheeling primal instinct has been seen as too great a threat to human emotional and physical flourishing to leave unchecked.When medieval European men violated women they sometimes were punished by the raped women’s family members—even through castration (e.g., Abelard and Heloise). In nineteenth-century America, the shotgun wedding was the frontier custom when the arm of the law was too weak. Homosexual activity was seen for generations in China as...

Safe, high-quality “care:” this is how Kansas abortionist Cheryl Chastine (pictured) describes her full-time job dismembering preborn children in elective abortions. “Every day I go to work,” she says, “I can make it possible for someone to leave an abusive relationship, care for their children, continue their education, deal with an illness.” Chastine is the resident abortionist at South Wind Women’s Center, the Wichita abortion mill notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller operated. Like Tiller, who used to refer to third-trimester abortions as “stillbirths” and kept an in-house chaplain to minister to the parents of children he killed, Chastine couches her...

“Surreal” is how Satanist Jex Blackmore described feeling when she discovered she was pregnant while advocating for abortions. Blackmore, who runs the Satanic Temple Detroit, recently decided to blog about her experience aborting her unborn baby in Michigan, where pro-lifers are working to pass new legislation to protect more unborn babies from abortion. The women’s magazine Cosmopolitan recently published an article about Blackmore’s disturbing, pro-abortion musings, which she calls the Unmother Project. “As you know over the past year The Satanic Temple has been invested in finding creative ways to challenge oppressive reproductive rights legislation,” she told the liberal website...

Cara Combs found out she had cancer while she was 23 weeks pregnant. Her doctors advised her to have the baby immediately, but Combs, 38, wanted to wait to give the child a chance to survive. The decision meant postponing cancer treatment. "I can't begin treatment while pregnant so I have some tough decisions to make. Against the advice of my oncologist, I am choosing to delay my treatment for three weeks in order to get the baby to 28 weeks," she wrote in a Facebook status update from Nov. 13. "There is no good decision here. We will both...

A well-documented fact about abortion is that the main organization that pushes it in the U.S. (Planned Parenthood) was conceived by America's most influential eugenicist, Margaret Sanger. She described Blacks and dirty, poor immigrants as weeds who should be sterilized.Listen to learn more about Sanger’s goal for Black Genocide.Eugenics was always tied to birth control. In 1915, Sanger published her first booklet, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, in which she wrote: “It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stoop breeding these things....

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Governors Paul LePage of Maine and Pat McCrory of North Carolina, along with the attorneys general of South Carolina, Arizona, Mississippi, and West Virginia, have filed a "friend of the court" brief against letting boys use girls' toilets, showers, locker rooms, and private facilities. As LifeSiteNews reported, a lawsuit was brought by the ACLU on behalf of a teenage girl, Caitlyn Hope Grimm, who, with a name change to "Gavin" and the declaration "I'm a boy," demands the use of the men's room at school. At issue is whether local school districts throughout...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Sex education promoting "positive representations of LGBT-related topics" may be coming to a school near you, thanks to a partnership among Planned Parenthood, a sex education group, and three LGBT organizations. According to a document published by the organizations, abstinence-only education and traditional views on family are eschewed in order to provide LGBT students with education that empowers sexual relationships between members of the same sex. "In qualitative research conducted ... LGBTQ youth reported either not having any sex education in their schools or having limited sex education that was primarily or exclusively...

December 7, 2015 (CrisisMagazine) -- Homosexuality is an issue that has been shaped by Western values, and is now front-and-center in almost every country and culture around the world, especially those societies influenced by secular humanism. But even more traditional societies, such as those in Africa, have not gone unaffected by it, given how social media shrinks our globe. In polemics over homosexuality, Catholicism is often falsely accused of being both “homophobic” and “anti-science.” But the Catholic Church is far from being against science, a fact that can be seen by the large number of priests who have been top scientists,...

The Bodnariu family NORWAY, December 7, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Norway’s child welfare agency has reportedly seized a Christian couple’s five children, aged 9 to three months, on charges that parents Marius and Ruth Bodnariu subjected them to “Christian radicalization and indoctrination.” The London-based Christian Today reports that the agency, or Barnevernet, seized the four oldest Bodnariu children November 16, and three-month-old Ezekiel the next day. On the third day, it notified Ruth that the girls had been sent to a separate foster home from the boys and claimed that the children were not missing their parents. According to Christian Today,...

Imagine for a moment that reporters broke the news that the Vatican had destroyed the bulk of its archival records. Researchers around the world justifiably might accuse the Roman Catholic Church of a deliberate cover-up.Well, the Vatican has done no such thing. But it appears as if the right-to-die movement has. If so, one might well ask; why did people in the movement do it? Are they trying to hide something about their past?One thing is clear: if the euthanasia movement’s records have indeed been destroyed, a lot of history has vanished, Orwell-like, down a cavernous memory hole. And with it,...

Planned Parenthood executives bargain to sell aborted body parts, Bruce Jenner strikes a pose across the cover of Vanity Fair, Justice Anthony Kennedy spews purple prose in Obergefell, and California Governor Jerry Brown signs a law allowing doctors to kill.All in the name of dignity.Underlying all of these events is a rapid and radical transformation in our culture’s understanding of what it means to be human, and, in particular, what it means to have dignity. Dignity apparently justifies abortion, transgenderism, the redefinition of marriage, and physician-assisted suicide. But what exactly constitutes this New Dignity? The work of George Kateb, professor...

MSM CHASING THE "MISTRESS BOMB "BUT IS THERE MORE THAN ONE? Numerous national media outlets are pursuing multiple allegations of infidelity involving U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida , all in the aftermath of the "mistress bomb" report we published earlier this week. Specifically, three mainstream media outlets have independently supplied us with the names of two additional women said to be romantically linked to the GOP establishment's candidate of choice. These names are in addition to the woman we referenced earlier this week , a lobbyist whose alleged proximity to Rubio was discovered during a deep dive into the...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 3, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Presidential politics turned to abortion today, as Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, said a fully pro-life GOP presidential nominee could not win the U.S. presidency. According to The Hill, Graham told the Republican Jewish Coalition that "Ted Cruz doesn't have an exception for rape and incest," and thus would lose to the Democratic nominee next year. Graham, who has twice introduced a bill to ban most abortions after 20 weeks' gestation, asked the donors and others in attendance if they support abortion's legality if a woman was raped, something The Hill reports drew cheers....

PALATINE, Illinois, December 3, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The suburban Chicago school district sued by the Obama administration for refusing a teen boy access to its girls' locker rooms, bathrooms, and shower facilities may have to concede to the administration's demands in the 11th hour. With the school's federal funding at risk, along with possible litigation, Township High School District 211 in Palatine, IL will hold an emergency board meeting tonight to consider an agreement with the administration as its 30-day notice for the district to comply comes to an end. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights condemned the...