Defending abortion during a debate at Canada’s Dalhousie University, Dr. Mark Mercer downplayed the whole problem of killing fetuses, saying babies aren’t even even “persons” until they are 18 months old. The philosophy professor from St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, argued that the notion of whether a fetus is human is not a…

After seeing how much fun 600 singers had when they showed up at a Philadelphia department store and spontaneously sang the Hallelujah Chorus — with no warning to shoppers — and how the public loved it … A bunch of college kids in Windsor, Canada, knew they could do it, too. And they did. Watch…

Seven million people have enjoyed this, so we thought we’d share it with you. The idea by a Philadelphia opera company was to just show up at a department store with 600 friends from choirs, chorus, even school music classes… and everybody sing the Hallelujah Chorus. What is incredible is the crowd’s reaction. Notice — the…

Great Britain’s prime minister has endorsed a British court’s ruling that a childless Christian couple cannot host foster children.  Their disqualification? Their strong, fundamentalist convictions.  The court upheld a British Equalities and Human Rights Commission judgment that any children who might be given to the care of Owen and Eunice Johns could be “infected” by…

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