Free Republic

WASHINGTON, D.C. December 9, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of a worldwide campaign to promote global acceptance of homosexuality, the Obama administration has established a $3 million “Global Equality Fund” to fund homosexual political “advocacy” around the world at taxpayer expense. State Department guidelines suggest this could include everything from funding foreign political activists to campaign against legislation that defines marriage as a union between one man and one women, to hosting gay pride parades and concerts by Lady Gaga in far-flung countries. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton trumpeted the formation of the group in a speech she delivered in...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Obama administration Monday from using federal dollars to fund expanded human embryonic stem cell research, saying the research involves the destruction of embryos. The ruling comes after the National Institutes of Health last year issued new guidelines permitting federal funding for research on certain stem cell lines that had already been created. ... U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that despite attempts to separate the derivation of human embryonic stem cells from the research process, "the two cannot be separated" because culling those stem cells destroys an embryo. ...

Government Funding and Abortion Income Help Planned Parenthood Make a Killing, According to Organization's Annual Report 12/17/03 1:05:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Joe Giganti of American Life League, 703-928-9695 or jgiganti@all.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "It's an outrage that our government has subsidized an abortion performing organization such as Planned Parenthood to the tune of more than $3 billion over the past four decades," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International. "Planned Parenthood's just-released 2002-2003 Annual Report shows that 33 percent of its income came from government grants and contracts totaling...