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 […]

In recognition of the goals of Banned Books Week by the American Library Association (ALA), Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) asked the ALA to include ex-gay books in its annual promotion of ALA’s “celebration of the freedom to read” program. “For several weeks, PFOX has attempted to secure a statement from the ALA opposing the censorship of ex-gay books,” said Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX. “According to Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, ALA policy recommends diversity in book collection development by libraries, regardless of partisan or doctrinal disapproval. However, Caldwell-Stone refuses […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

The Obama administration has initiated an effort to dispel what it describes as “wild rumors” about health-care reform, but, perhaps tellingly, it does not seek to deny that current congressional proposals will result in government funding of abortion. In his weekly radio address Aug. 8, President Obama sought to dismiss what he described as “the outlandish rumors that reform will promote euthanasia or cut Medicaid or bring about a government takeover of health care.” “That’s simply not true,” Obama said. “This isn’t about putting government in charge of your health insurance. It’s about putting you in charge of your health […]