“As citizens of California,” Catholics need “to avail ourselves of the opportunity” to overturn the the California Supreme Court’s May 15 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, said the California Catholic Conference in a statement issued last week. The California Catholic Conference is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops. The way Catholics can overturn the ruling, [...]

The Democratic National Committee has given $25,000 to help defeat a proposed constitutional marriage amendment in California, despite the fact that a significant percentage of Democrats in the state are expected to support it this fall. The DNC’s donation was made to Equality for All, a leading homosexual activist group in the state seeking to keep [...]

By R. Albert Mohler Jr., Baptist Press The fact that the Los Angeles Times favors “same-sex marriage” is not a new revelation. To the contrary, the paper has positioned itself in support of “same-sex marriage” for some time. Furthermore, no informed reader will be surprised to find that the paper’s editorial position is quite liberal. Given our [...]

Regina Griggs, President of Parents and Friend of Ex-Gays (PFOX), has been accused of lying to the public. The latest supposed bold-faced lie is a quote mentioned in an OneNewsNow article titled “PFOX: Children incapable of self-identifying sexually” published on July 26, 2008. The following is what she is quoted as saying: “Why are we allowing [...]

Supporters of Proposition 8, the California marriage amendment, filed a lawsuit yesterday to block a change made by California Attorney General Jerry Brown to the language of the measure’s ballot title and summary. The petitions circulated to qualify the initiative for the ballot said the measure would amend the state Constitution “to provide that only [...]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski As the California Marriage Amendment debate heats up Barack Obama and John McCain have made clear their respective positions on the issue. Two weeks after the California Supreme Court announced its decision to allow same-sex couples to “marry”, opponents of same-sex marriage succeeded in placing on the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment [...]

“This is not just a conservative issue. Liberals, too, believe in human rights. This is a broader human rights issue, because people have the right to make their own decisons about their personal life — to stay in homosexuality, or to change.” — Arthur Goldberg of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) Is your job or [...]

The Washington Post recently ran a sympathetic article about a 15-year-old boy named Saro who described his homosexual feelings and how Gay Straight Alliance student clubs help such gay teens to deal with discrimination and bullying in high school and middle school. “What the article failed to describe,” said PFOX Executive Director Regina Griggs, “is the [...]

You don’t have to be Catholic to detest production like Jerry Springer–The Opera in Concert. It is as despicable as the Springer show–maybe worse if that’s possible. That should make its anti-Christian, anti-moral, anti-decency content offensive to just about every parent, moral, and religious person everywhere. I learned about this productions continued showing in America [...]

By Piero A. Tozzi (C-FAM June 19. 200 With the recent addition of Bolivia, seven counties have now ratified a treaty called the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth (ICRY), a document that worries Latin American social conservatives for its not-so-veiled promotion of radical social policies. The document includes references to “sexual and reproductive [...]