Forty-one states continue to affirm that marriage exists to bring a man and a woman together as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children their union produces. In California, citizens voted directly to retain this understanding of marriage (after an activist court created a right to same-sex marriage) when they passed […]
by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2013 Many Western political woman have acquiesced to Islamist customs and donned hijabs, a subject I have been following in some detail. But what happens when a woman covers insufficiently for the Islamists? Well, they do the job for her. This blog reports on Photoshopped efforts by prudes in Iran, […]
(CNSNews.com) – After years of sex education in the nation’s public schools, a new report indicates that many young people are not listening or learning how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. The report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are more than 19.7 million new sexually transmitted infections in […]
by David J. Rusin • Feb 6, 2013 at 11:03 am Islamist Watch (IW) maintains an extensive archive of news items on nonviolent Islamism in the Western world. The complete collection can be found here; lists organized by topic are accessible on the right side of the IW homepage. The following are some of the […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange strongly criticized United States President Barack Obama in a speech given by video feed to a United Nations event, Reuters reports. Assange mocked Obama for his stated support for free speech in a UN address Tuesday. Obama has “done more to criminalize free speech than any other US president,” he accused. […]
United Nations wants to turn the world into a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, legalize worldwide Prostitution, homosexuality and turn our heads to drug use. A report issued by the United Nations-backed Global Commission recommends that nations around the world get rid of “punitive” laws against prostitution – or what it calls in liberal terms […]
How would it look if the federal government took the same approach to reducing teenage drinking that it takes to reducing teenage pregnancies? Instead of telling them to wait, the focus would shift to making teen alcohol consumption “less risky.” Then, strategies would be employed to make teen alcohol consumption “less risky.” School programs would […]
The Supreme Court decision yesterday on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare, or ACA) offered only one hope of answering social issue concerns about the sweeping law: a ruling that the ACA is both unconstitutional in part and non-severable as a whole. That is, if the Supreme Court had dispatched the entire law. Instead, the law’s […]
The World Health Organization is warning that a new strain of gonorrhoea, a formerly curable sexually-transmitted disease, has appeared and is resistant to the strongest form of antibiotics used to fight to infection. Some 88 million cases of gonorrhorea are reported each year around the world, according to the WHO. The disease is spreading to numerous […]
Twelve separate lawsuits were filed today in district courts around the country on behalf of 43 separate religious organizations against the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate. The complaints demand relief from the mandate that will force almost all employers to provide and pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization regardless of the employers’ moral or […]
