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HOLLYWOOD, CA, May 9, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The media and entertainment industry must end its intolerance of Christians who believe in the sanctity of life and marriage or risk alienating an enormous part of the viewing public, according to a certified brand specialist. Chris Stone, the founder of Faith Driven Consumer, has launched a new online campaign encouraging HGTV to #FlipThisDecision, after the home improvement network chose to cancel a new reality show after a left-wing website “exposed” its hosts' pro-life, pro-family views.

GRANDVILLE, MI, May 12, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman peacefully holding a sign outside a Michigan church on Mother's Day was attacked by a pro-gay activist, who threw an ice slushie drink in her face. On Sunday afternoon, Christine Weick stood at an intersection in the city of Grandville with a sign that read, “Thank your mom today for not being gay.” Her message was that Mother's Day is a celebration of children and the natural family, something incompatible with homosexuality. A man later stood by her side and held up a sign supporting homosexuality. As a camera crew from...

Former Alabama Sen. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., a prisoner of war for more than seven years in North Vietnam, died on Friday in Virginia Beach. Mr. Denton was 89 years old. His son, Jim Denton, told The Washington Post, which first reported the news, that his father died of a heart ailment. Mr. Denton, a retired U.S. Rear Admiral, was shot down over the city of Thanh Hoa in Vietnam in 1965 and captured while leading a bombing mission. He later wrote a book about his experiences. Mr. Denton grabbed national attention in 1966 when he was forced to give...

These days there aren't too many big pro-family victories to celebrate. But Sunday's St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston was one of them! It went wonderfully. The organizers stood up to the politicians and the rabid media who tried relentlessly to force them to include overt homosexual activist groups in their traditional Catholic, pro-family parade. And in the end many others stood with them. Labor unions, small businesses, several politicians, and an almost endless procession of military, religious, school, and other groups proudly marched before huge, cheering crowds.

In Hungary, Croatia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, a pro-family, pro-life revolution and a rediscovery of Christian roots is occurring. While few in the American media have noticed, this trend should challenge those who simply lament Europe’s moral malaise. Unnoticed in the shadow of a secularized west, religion’s public role has been growing in the east since the collapse of communism. Since taking power in 2010, Prime Minister Viktor Orban—a charismatic veteran of Hungary’s anti-Communist underground—has victoriously stood at the forefront of what Americans call the culture wars. In 2011, Orban’s government ratified a new constitution that defines marriage as...

At the end of a second week of--what can only be described as--an abysmal public relations failure, Arts & Entertainment Television revealed something very intriguing to the watching world. Their foolish action in the non-issue of Phil Robertson, exposed three rather profound lessons that voters and candidates would be very advised to pay attention to. 1. Economics still defeats activism -- Let's face it, the minute the spokespeople from GLAAD began screaming on the other end of the phone, A&E executives got nervous. A lot of A&E programming is aimed at rather promiscuous audiences. GLAAD surely threw around threats of...

Recently, Anna Maria and Gabriella Hoffman interviewed Rick Santorum at the Students for Life Summer Social in Washington, D.C. In this interview, Anna Maria and Gabriella asked Mr. Santorum about how Patriot Voices and EchoLight Studios seek to reach out to the youth in order to restore our culture. Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nJsWKKT_w Spread the counter cultured love: Check out Counter Cultured! http://www.counterculturedusa.com Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/countercultur... Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/CCultured Come pin with us on Pinterest! http://www.pinterest.com/CounterCultured

I'm on a rant at the moment, so I thought this would be as good a time as any to go on the record with my humble opinions about Obama's efforts to destroy America morally, culturally, financially, socially, politically, militarily, economically, etc. (My, my, Obama's a busy little dictator wannabe, isn't he?) I have been saying for several months that the gays in the military agenda is not the final objective, but just another link in the chain that will ultimately weaken and enslave America's citizens and destroy our country and way of life as we once knew it. The...

VATICAN, December 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Federico Lombardi, Director of the Vatican Press Office published an editorial Saturday responding to mainstream media denunciations of Pope Benedict’s message for World Day of Peace. In the message, released December 14, the pope noted that “serious harm to justice and peace” comes from denying the true principles of respect for life and promotion of the “natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and a woman.” Lombardi noted that the media storm resulted specifically from the pope’s comments on traditional marriage. “This has happened,” he said, “because the pope, in...

For more than 50 years, the black community has been the wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. That may be changing. In spite of the overwhelmingly liberal voting patterns of black voters, they are an essentially conservative community. Americans of African descent are more pro-life and pro-family than the average white voter and as conservative on social issues as any white evangelical. Democrats have managed to monopolize the black vote in spite of the vast chasm between the two on social issues. This philosophical difference has become more pronounced in the past 20 years, as liberals have embraced far-left...

Presidential Voter Guides include U.S. Senate races prepared by Faith and Freedom Coalition. Also Family Research Council Action's Voter Guide & Score Cards Are your like-minded friends, family, neighbors & co-workers really registered to vote? Quickly find out online - http://www.areyouregistered.org/ffc/ Faith and Freedom Coalition: 2012 Congressional Scorecards - http://ffcoalition.com/sites/default/files/2012-FFC-SCORE-CARD.pdf FRC Action: 2012 Values Voter Presidential Voter Guide - http://downloads.frcaction.org/EF/EF12F14.pdf FRC Action: 2012 Values Voter Presidential Voter Guide (Spanish Language) - http://downloads.frcaction.org/EF/EF12I01.pdf FRC Action: 2012 Pro-Family Congressional Scorecards (and 5 previous Congresses, also searchable by Name, etc.) - http://www.frcaction.org/scorecard FRC Action Voter Tools - http://www.frcaction.org/votertools FRC Action: 2012 Political Party...

Retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, whose fiery exhortations to protect America from encroaching Shariah law and other dangers have highlight headlines in recent months, has been named executive vice president of Family Research Council. According to today’s announcement, he will be tasked with the responsibility of overseeing day-to-day operations including policy, church ministries, finance, development, communications, human resources, facilities, information technology, constituent communications and customer service. An original member of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force, he ultimately commanded the elite team in combat operations, and later led the Army’s Green Berets as well as the Special Warfare Center and...

When the General Assembly returns to town all eyes focus on the state budget. Despite media-driven perceptions that the legislature obsesses over "controversial" social issues, economic issues dominate every legislative session, and 2012 will be no exception. Given the new Senate configuration, however, members will be expected to multitask and address other issues that were on the minds of many Virginians when they voted in November. Representing tens of thousands of those voters, The Family Foundation will have several legislative priorities we hope will find success. The first indicator of whether change has come to the state Senate will occur...

In an interview on Studio B Monday, Shepard Smith challenged Rick Santorum on his position on gay marriage. Santorum said that whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry is really a question of values, saying, “The question is whether we should change the laws of this country to reflect a different value structure. What we’re talking about here are different values. We have to Judeo-Christian values that are based on Biblical truth and truth that can be acclaimed and resolved through reason. And, those truths don’t change just because people’s attitudes may change.” He went onto say, “People are allowed...

Sarah Palin is not running. Rick Perry has shown himself not up to the challenge (unfortunately). Herman Cain got borked by the establishment media and could not take the heat (unfortunately). Ron Paul, for every sensible position, has one that marks him as a kook. Newt Gingrich is being attacked relentlessly, fairly or unfairly, and because of his very mixed record on many issues, the attacks are weakening him. Michelle Bachmann's apparent role as Mitt Romney's attack dog has left her mired in single digits in the polls. So the political class in this country (and I include the elites...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom some pundits had written off as the GOP's nominee, may find a second coming in Iowa, if new poll data holds up. As Mitt Romney's campaign has suffered a startling decline in recent weeks, only to see Newt Gingrich eclipse the former Massachusetts governor's front-runner status, the battle for the Iowa caucuses set for Jan. 3 has become a wide-open race. New survey data prepared for the Perry campaign and shared by a source close within the campaign shows that the Texas governor may be poised to do much better in next month’s Iowa caucuses...

Sen. Santorum throws down a gauntlet to the other candidates on marriage: "What New York did was wrong. I will oppose it. And I will go to New York if necessary and help overturn it....The 10th Amendment does not mean that states can do whatever they want whenever they want it..." He seems to be referring to reports that Gov. Perry said he's "fine" with gay marriage in New York.

...I write to address a political golden calf; the claim that the current agenda calling itself "progressive" is progressive at all. The term implies progress toward something better. The political agenda being offered under the moniker of "progressive" is, in effect, regressive. What is happening is a clash of worldviews which involves competing definitions of human freedom, human flourishing and true progress. The commentator Glen Beck has convinced many that the word "progressive" should be abandoned. He asserts that the word has been so utterly co-opted by George Soros and others with left wing political ideologies that it is irretrievable....

Hey, Admiral, did you see Free Republic's pro-life, pro-family disclaimer?Mom's gonna be real happy when we tell her ... ya think it's a good time to ask for a sister?

Pro-family write-in against anti-family Charlie Baker for Governor in Mass Republican primary Send a strong message to Massachusetts RINO establishment! POSTED: Aug 12, 2010 Finally, "the rest of us" have an alternative for Governor. As you know, the Massachusetts Republican Party establishment has selected Charlie Baker and Richard Tisei as candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor. Baker and Tisei are arguably among the most radical anti-family Republican party-endorsed Governor or Lt. Governor candidates ever in Massachusetts - or in of any state in America. In any place but Massachusetts they would be liberal Democrats, not Republicans. How bad are they?...