It’s officially known as “Southern Decadence” and informally as “Gay Mardi Gras” in New Orleans’ French Quarter. It’s difficult to ignore, drawing tens of thousands of people in a homosexual or lesbian lifestyle and pumping millions of dollars into the city’s economy. At Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, 100 local pastors and church members gathered just days before the Labor Day weekend festival to broach a subject some felt has been too long ignored: How to minister to those in same-sex attraction without compromising biblical principles. Fred Luter Jr., pastor of Franklin Avenue, said the “Embracing Restoration” summit […]

Some teachers in the St. John School District have disaffiliated with the Washington Education Association (WEA) and the National Education Association (NEA) because they no longer wanted to give money to causes they didn’t believe in. “Many of the teachers in St. John were just fed up with funneling huge amounts of their paycheck to advocate for immoral causes that the WEA and the NEA advance,” said Cindy Omlin, executive director of Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE). “They thought those causes were hurting children, and they were tired of it.” The NWPE helped St. John teachers with negotiation options, legal and […]

“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better to have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake,” wrote Thomas Paine in 1776. Federal law mandates that all high schools, colleges and universities across the country that receive federal funds host educational events about the Constitution on Constitution Day, which was celebrated recently on Sept. 17. Yet we would do well to do more than pay lip service to the Constitution […]

Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s newly appointed Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done. Outlined in the 2008 book “Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness,” Sunstein and co-author Richard H. Thaler […]

The Susan B. Anthony List announced a list of House and Senate targets for the Susan B. Anthony List’s “Votes Have Consequences” project, an effort to educate citizens about the voting records of legislators who are out of step with their districts. “If there’s one thing many members of Congress learned over the August recess, it’s the danger of being out of step with your constituents,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. “Votes do have consequences, and the current tensions over health care reform should drive that message home. The ‘Votes Have Consequences’ project will shine […]

Another “morning-after” pill with abortion-causing qualities will soon be on sale in stores. Watson Laboratories has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market a generic version of Plan B, a post-intercourse “emergency contraceptive,” as it is commonly known, that can cause an abortion. The new generic drug will be marketed under the name “Next Choice.” Like Plan B, it will be available for purchase without a prescription for women 17 years of age and older and for prescription use by girls younger than 17. Next Choice works like Plan B to restrict ovulation in a female. It […]

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. … It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787). Here’s a breaking News alert for all Americans: if you take part in protest rallies, voice your discontent through picket signs or disrupt events with yelling or intermittent shouts, then you are likely a right-wing extremist or a member of an angry mob, and you must be silenced. At least that’s the chilling message coming […]

Editor’s Note: The Good News does not promote or endorse the following celebrity or the television shows and magazines discussed in this article. This article is simply meant to inform readers about something of interest to the pro-life community. Last month, News spread that Kourtney Kardashian – the American socialite best known for her family’s reality television shows “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Kourtney and Khloe take Miami” – was pregnant. And according to People magazine, she did her research before making a decision that would affect her and the life of her unborn child. “I was sitting on […]

Leaders at the Episcopal Church’s tri-annual convention voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution that opens “any ordained Life ” to homosexuals. The move lifts a moratorium on ordaining gay or lesbian bishops that the church passed three years ago. Biblically orthodox Anglicans, many of whom are part of the newly-formed Anglican Church of North America, decried the move as heretical. “It appears that the Episcopal Church is determined to move its own agenda forward despite calls from various senior levels to respect the order and discipline of the church,” said Rev. Canon Julian Dobbs, canon missioner for the Convocation of […]

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a lifelong Democrat and member of a political family that largely embraced abortion rights, but on that controversial issue, she was pro-life. Shriver died Aug. 11 at the age of 88 and is perhaps best remembered as the founder of the Special Olympics. But while she was a lifelong advocate of the intellectually disabled she also was an abortion opponent, and she saw her two positions as being closely aligned. More than four decades ago – before the Supreme Court issued its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion – Shriver began fearing that if abortion […]