Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Heroic News: “Gay old France...” plus 6 more




Posted: 23 Apr 2013 09:27 AM PDT
France legalized gay 'marriage' on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate and protests that flooded the streets of Paris. Legions of officers and water cannon stood ready near France's National Assembly ahead of the final vote, bracing for possible violence on an issue that galvanized the country's faltering conservative movement.
 
Posted: 23 Apr 2013 07:05 AM PDT
During the past couple of weeks there has been a concerted effort by pro-lifers to get the mainstream media to cover the ongoing trial of notorious late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Mollie Z. Hemingway at GetReligion has been especially active, tweeting at a number of reporters and mainstream-media outlets who were not covering the case. In response, Sarah Kliff who covers abortion policy for the Washington Post tweeted that she had not written about the Gosnell trial because she covers policy “not local crime.”
Posted: 23 Apr 2013 07:02 AM PDT
"Green sex is the concept of sex ‘au natural,’ as God – or nature – intended. Sex without props, potions or procedures. One man, one woman, no equipment necessary. It’s cost effective, has a carbon footprint of essentially zero, and is a basic proven predictor of marital longevity. In laymen terms: it’s free, cheap and easy. Green sex is also the idea that contraceptive use – or the deliberate destruction or suppression of the reproductive functions – is in fact seriously deleterious to the environment and may indeed be harmful to the human person - physically, psychologically and relationally."
 
Posted: 23 Apr 2013 06:55 AM PDT
In March, the Supreme Court took up two fundamental cases. The first case addressed the Defense of Marriage Act, which was passed with bi-partisan support in 1996. The second case involved Proposition 8 in California, whereby nearly 7 million Californians affirmed marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
 
Posted: 22 Apr 2013 02:18 PM PDT
A recent anti-bullying presentation at a middle school in New York that focused on homosexuality and gender identity has angered parents after their daughters have come home to tell them they were forced to ask another girl for a kiss.
 
Posted: 22 Apr 2013 01:59 PM PDT
On Pentecost Sunday 2009, Scott Roeder entered Wichita’s Reformation Lutheran Church and fired a single round into the forehead of George Tiller, a 67-year-old late-term abortion provider who was serving the congregation as an usher that morning. News that Tiller had been killed in church softened his public image, and tributes from family and colleagues seemed to cut against the conservative media’s portrait of him as a cold and calculating killer.
 
Posted: 22 Apr 2013 01:57 PM PDT
We have a godawful habit of seeing children as things so small, cute and fluffy that we hollow them of that dignity hard as titanium steel — the dignity of being a human person.