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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…

The Arizona junior high schoolers weren’t trying to cause any problems. They just had a great idea: hey, let’s pray for the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. They were taking a walking tour of Capitol Hill with their teacher Maureen Rigo when they paused and bowed their steps. Standing on the Oval Plaza of…

Is it really against the law to sing America’s  national anthem while you are visiting the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington, D.C. national mall?   Yes, according to the National Park Service, which administers the memorial.   The ban was discovered recently when a group of high school students touring Washington, D.C spontaneously broke into…

Why didn’t Irish voters have to consider a ballot item legalizing abortion last week?   Because in a landmark decision, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights does not contain a general right to abortion.   That means Ireland can quit worrying about being forced to legalize…

Why does the loathsome Westboro Baptist Church, which Wednesday won a controversial case before the U.S. Supreme Court, call itself “Baptist?”   Westboro is best known for protesting the funerals of U.S. soldiers with highly offensive signs.   “Fred Phelps, the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church has devised a scheme for getting attention: He…

Do kids who go to church do better at school?   Absolutely and the effect is dramatic, writes Dr. Pat Fagan.  In a study just released, he cites independent findings by more than 100 social scientists who have published their own studies over the last two decades establishing the profound effect that attending church has…

The University of California at Davis has decided that Christians actually may not be oppressors who are undeserving of any rights.     The university has backed away from a policy which in effect lumped followers of Jesus with Nazis, slaveowners and skinheads.   The definition had been listed in a university document called, “The Principles of Community.”  That official statement…
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