Babies Cost Gov't Too Much, Say Abortionists

Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute (research organization) latest report says that "unintended pregnancies" are costing taxpayers billions of dollars annually, thus advocating that taxpayers benefit by funding Planned Parenthood.

For background, read about states defunding Planned Parenthood, and also read how Congress failed to do so.

-- From "Who Pays For Unintended Pregnancies?" by Julie Rovner, NPR 5/19/11

While some states and the federal government debate whether to halt funding of Planned Parenthood and other providers of family planning services, a new study finds that the cost of unintended pregnancies is large, and much of the bill — about $11 billion per year — goes to government programs and ultimately taxpayers.

The study by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that was formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood, is sure to raise some eyebrows in the anti-abortion community.

In the fight to take away Planned Parenthood's funding (which is more about abortion than family planning, since the organization provides both services), many abortion foes have also claimed that access to contraception actually increases the number of abortions.

"Funding for (Planned Parenthood) has increased by the millions over the last several years, and yet STDs and abortion rates continue to rise," said Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that works to elect anti-abortion women candidates, on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

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From "Unplanned pregnancies in states reach 4 in 10" by Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 5/19/11

According to the analysis released today, more than half of pregnancies in 29 states and the District of Columbia were unintended; 38% to 50% were unintended in the remaining states.

Using another measure that calculates frequency of unintended pregnancies, the analysis by the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute found the highest rates of unintended pregnancy were in the South, Southwest and in states with large urban populations. Highest was Mississippi with 69 per 1,000 women ages 15-44; lowest was New Hampshire, with 36 per 1,000.

The analysis, based on 2006 data, the most recent available, used national and state surveys on pregnancy intentions, births, abortions and miscarriages, including data from 86,000 women who gave birth and 9,000 women who had abortions. It is published online in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

In nearly every state, about 65% to 75% of unintended pregnancies were considered mistimed and 25% to 35% unwanted, according to Guttmacher, which studies reproductive issues.

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From "Unintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending" by Emily Monea, Research Analyst & Adam Thomas, Research Director (both from the Center on Children and Families of the Brookings Institute) 5/20/11

CONTEXT: Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. These pregnancies likely represent a substantial cost to taxpayers, but national-level estimates of these public costs have been lacking.

CONCLUSIONS: The prevention of unintended pregnancy represents an important opportunity for the public to reap substantial savings, especially given the current fiscal climate. The enactment or expansion of cost-effective policies to prevent unintended pregnancies is therefore a timely and sensible strategy.

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From "As more states try to strip Planned Parenthood of pregnancy-prevention funds, new studies suggest taxpayers will pay more" by Sofia Resnick, The American Independent 5/19/11

According to data revealed in these studies, two-thirds of births, or 1 million, each year are publicly funded either through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Two studies –- on the public costs of births resulting from unintended pregnancies and on unintended pregnancy and taxpayer spending –- relied on different methodological approaches but ultimately arrived at similar figures and the same conclusion: that “huge” public savings could be seen from reducing unintended pregnancy in this country.

“Even taking our results at face value,” the Brookings Institute analysts write, “one can conclude that the prevention of unintended pregnancy would produce substantial public savings. For example, our mean estimate of annual savings ($5.6 billion) is more than three-quarters the level of federal funding for either the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ($7.25 billion) or the Head Start and Early Head Start programs ($7.23 billion).”

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From "Unintended Pregnancies Cost Government $11 Billion a Year" by Kristina Peterson, Wall Street Journal 5/20/11

To the list of hot-button ideas for reducing the federal government's budget deficit, add one more: stopping unwanted pregnancies.

Planned Parenthood, whom Republican lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to exclude from federal health programs recently, embraced the study's findings.

"If anyone doubted that affordable birth control is good for families and good for taxpayers, these new findings should set the record straight," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement. Planned Parenthood does not use federal funds for abortions.

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Top Scientist Dismisses Heaven as 'Fairytale'

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
-- Stephen Hawking (Britain's most eminent scientist)

Read the previous article Universe Created Itself, Not God, says Hawking



-- From "Hawking: 'There is no heaven'" by John Roach, MSNBC.com 5/16/11

Stephen Hawking, the famous British physicist . . . [now] 69, who was diagnosed with A.L.S. at age 21, made the heaven comment in response to a question about his fears of death.

"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he told the newspaper.

The comments are seen as going beyond those in his 2010 book, "The Grand Design," which stirred up passions with the observation that science can explain the universe's origin without invoking God.

Hawking has far outlived most people who have A.L.S., also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, producing important cosmological research and writing books. His "A Brief History of Time," published in 1988, has sold more than 9 million copies.

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From "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, science correspondent, UK Guardian 5/15/11

The physicist's remarks draw a stark line between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos.

In his bestselling 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking drew on the device so beloved of Einstein, when he described what it would mean for scientists to develop a "theory of everything" – a set of equations that described every particle and force in the entire universe. "It would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God," he wrote.

Guardian: What is the value in knowing "Why are we here?"

Hawking: The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value.

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From "Physicist Hawking Mocks Religious Faith" by James Heiser, The New American 5/18/11

Hawking’s attempted argument by [the above-quoted computer] analogy is fatally flawed on several points. There is, in fact, a fundamental asymmetry between the self-awareness manifest in human beings and the predetermined processes of programmed devices called computers.

First, if Hawking intends to argue that man is merely a biochemically programmed computer, then his position is fundamentally untenable from the outset. Computers perform only those functions for which they are programmed . . .

Second, Hawking’s argument is flawed by the asymmetry of purpose. Computers, like all machines, do not express a sentiment regarding their final disposition . . .

Third, Hawking's attempt to attribute motive to those who disagree with his metaphysical pronouncements actually undermines his position. His misguided appeal to the virtue of courage — implicitly mocking those who disagree with him as cowards who are afraid of the dark — makes the fundamental inadequacy of his position immediately apparent. Computers are never brave or cowardly; they are neither virtuous nor evil. . . .

Stephen Hawking’s metaphysical pronouncements are significant because they are not computer output; rather, they are the religious beliefs of a human being who has faced tremendous obstacles in life and whose views have been shaped, in part, in response to his self-aware reflections on such struggles. . . .

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ACLU Threatens to Stop Graduation due to Cross

The ACLU is saying religious symbols on a building that has hosted the graduating class of Neptune High School in Ocean Grove, N.J., for the past six decades, in ceremonies that often have religious undertones, makes the ceremony unconstitutional because it violates the separation of church and state.

UPDATE 5/25/11 ACLU & school settle dispute: Religious signs will be covered plus other program changes.



-- From "ACLU may sue Neptune over tradition of holding graduation at Ocean Grove's Great Auditorium" by Michelle Gladden, Staff Writer, Asbury Park Press 5/9/11

School administration officials said they first received a First Amendment complaint about mixing church with state shortly after a nonresident attended the 2010 ceremony.

The administration immediately addressed the complainant’s program concerns by doing away with a student-led convocation and the students’ musical performance of the 19th-century English hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

But still discussions between the school board attorney and the ACLU continue over the venue, specifically the large cross on the outside of the historic structure and a sign on its interior that references praising the Lord.

One of the key reasons graduation is held at the Great Auditorium is because of its capacity to accommodate the 3,000 tickets printed each year for the event, [school Superintendent David A.] Mooij said.

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From "ACLU Threatens N.J. High School With Legal Action Over Graduation at Christian-Owned Site" by Cristina Corbin, Fox News 5/17/11

For generations, graduates of Neptune High School have walked down the aisle of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, where the impressive 6,500-seat venue dominates the landscape of one of the area’s most historic beach towns. Built in 1894, the auditorium is owned and operated by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that owns not just the building, but all of the land beneath every home and structure in town.

The ACLU of New Jersey threatened legal action against the Neptune school district after an attendee at last year’s graduation ceremony took offense to the building’s religious symbols and Christian-based references -- among them a 20-foot white cross above the auditorium’s entrance. The ACLU asked the school to remove or cover up the cross and three other religious signs, arguing their visibility during a public school event is a First Amendment violation.

. . . The Camp Association said it could not cover the cross, said to have been a gift from movie director Woody Allen, who used the auditorium during shooting for the 1980 film "Stardust Memories." Nor would they cover up the two illuminated indoor signs – “Holiest to the Lord” and “So Be Ye Holy” – which are said to be the oldest operating electric signs in America.

Mooij said the school board received a letter on Thursday from the ACLU saying they would “likely have to take legal recourse” if their demands to cover the cross and signs were not met.

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From "ACLU Wants Religious Symbols Covered for NJ High School Graduation" by Lee Warren, Christian Post Contributor 5/14/11

The graduation ceremony is scheduled for June 20 and with both sides at an impasse, the ceremony may not happen in the historic auditorium.

More than 100 parents and alumnus of the high school showed up for a Neptune school district meeting Wednesday night to voice their opinion.

Former board member Michael D. Fornino read the First Amendment, prompting applause from the crowd. He went on to say, “It does not say a public cannot use a facility that is a religious institution.”

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Kansas Restricts Abortion, Defunds Planned Parenthood

The Kansas legislature has passed a multi-faceted pro-life bill that cuts Title X funds from Planned Parenthood and excludes automatic abortion coverage from private health care plans and the health insurance exchanges required by federal law to begin in 2014.

For background, read States Will Defund Planned Parenthood

UPDATE 3/26/14: Federal Appeals Court OKs Kansas Defunding Planned Parenthood

UPDATE 8/30/11: Federal judge orders Kansas to restore funding to Planned Parenthood temporarily

UPDATE 8/16/11: ACLU sues state of Kansas over limits on abortion insurance

UPDATE 8/1/11: Federal judge temporarily blocks Kansas law defunding Planned Parenthood

UPDATE 7/1/11: Federal judge stops new regulations from closing 2 of the state’s 3 abortion clinics

UPDATE 6/27/11: Planned Parenthood Defunded by More States

-- From "Kansas governor signs new restrictions on abortion clinics into law" by John Hanna, The Associated Press 5/16/11

Kansas will require annual, unannounced inspections of abortion clinics, impose new health and safety rules specifically for them and prevent them from using telemedicine systems to dispense pregnancy-terminating drugs under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Sam Brownback.

Along with mandating annual inspections, the new law directs the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to write standards for exits, lighting, bathrooms and equipment. The department would issue annual licenses, have the power to fine clinics and could go to court to shut them down.

The law comes with new rules for administering abortion-inducing medications, such as RU-486. Only a licensed physician will be allowed to provide the drug in the presence of the patient. Clinics won’t be allowed to dispense such drugs to patients at faraway sites through telemedicine systems.

“In order to make money doing abortions, they have to do a lot of them. Medical regulations slow them down,” said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life. “Anything we could do to require the clinics to care more about women than about their profit margins is a good thing.”

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From "Analysis: Unusual process saves Kan. abortion plan" by John Hanna, The Associated Press 5/16/11

. . . The resulting bill will ban insurance companies from automatically covering abortions in their health plans, except when a woman's life is at risk. The prohibition also will apply to insurance exchanges set up under last year's federal health care law. Women or employers who want the coverage will have to buy separate, abortion-only policies.

Supporters argue that the bill protects the "conscience rights" of employers who want to offer health insurance for workers but oppose abortion. They contend some employers pay for abortion coverage without knowing it -- or don't have the clout to avoid the coverage otherwise.

Critics argue the goal is limiting access to abortion by blocking a way for poor and middle-class women to pay for it. A routine first-trimester abortion typically costs between $400 and $700; the cost for procedures done later can run thousands of dollars.

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From "Kansas cuts Planned Parenthood funding" posted at Catholic News Agency 5/17/11

HB 2075 requires that over $300,000 in Title X federal money will go to local full-service health clinics instead of Planned Parenthood. It will also put $300,000 into a grant-matched fund for pregnancy maintenance and adoption counseling.

Under the Kansas law, private health insurance plans will only cover abortions done to save the life of the mother. Kansas insurers may still offer abortion coverage, but through individually purchased riders that cost about $2, the Associated Press says.

Kansans for Life said the restriction makes sense because pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not health care. Many businesses have objected to paying for elective abortions in the health plans they purchase for their employees.

Seven other states limit abortion in private health insurance plans.

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Also read Indiana Squeezes Obama in Abortion Battle via Medicaid

Prayers Misplaced in Local Governance

City Council members in Salisbury [Maryland] are questioning whether to continue to start their meetings with the Lord's Prayer as they have for more than 50 years.

UPDATE 7/12/11: Lord's Prayer dropped in favor of "rotating faiths" opening

-- From "Lord's Prayer before Salisbury City Council meeting questioned" by The Associated Press 5/10/11

Newly elected council member Laura Mitchell brought up the issue of the prayer after a request from a colleague.

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From "Lord's Prayer Becomes an Issue for Salisbury City Council" posted at WBOC TV-16 5/10/11

Monday night's Salisbury City Council meeting began with a moment of "meditation," instead of the traditional Lord's Prayer. Council members will further discuss the issue at a work session next week.

City clerks believe the Lord's Prayer has been adopted alongside the agenda since May 1958. This year may be the first time it is up for discussion.

The council is bi-partisan in nature, so members are not required to disclose their party affiliation nor religious practice.

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From "Praying in public" by Jean Marbella, The Baltimore Sun 5/14/11

In Carroll, where commissioners often end their invocations with "…in Jesus' name I pray," according to the Carroll County Times, the practice has attracted the interest of the American Civil Liberties Union.

"The problem in Carroll County is you have the commissioners explicitly stating sectarian messages," said David Rocah of the Maryland ACLU chapter. "They explicitly invoke Jesus."

While Rocah calls case law on the issue of prayer at public meetings "extremely muddled," he and other lawyers say it generally is interpreted to allow invocations that do not favor one religion over another.

"We are a religiously pluralistic country, and that is one of our greatest strengths," Rocah said. "I think sectarian invocations are problematic and divisive. They exclude other beliefs. They exclude non-believers."

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Supreme Court Ignores Atheist's Complaint

The Supreme Court is brushing aside an atheist’s challenge to religion in government, refusing to hear a complaint about President Barack Obama adding “so help me God” to his inaugural oath of office.

-- From "Supreme Court won’t hear atheist’s argument against ‘So help me God’ during presidential oath" by The Associated Press 5/16/11

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Michael Newdow, who argued that government references to God are unconstitutional and infringe on his religious beliefs.

The case is Newdow v. Roberts, 10-757.

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From "Inauguration Prayer Challenge Turned Away by U.S. Supreme Court" by Greg Stohr, Bloomberg 5/16/11

. . . Newdow sued participants in President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, including Chief Justice John Roberts, who administered the oath of office. The oath contained both the words required by the Constitution and the phrase “so help me God,” which incoming presidents have included at every inauguration since 1932.

Newdow also objected to prayers offered at the 2009 ceremony by two private clergy members, Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery. More than 250 people and 19 organizations joined Newdow in filing the church-state suit.

The justices earlier this year rejected Newdow’s challenge to “In God We Trust,” the motto that adorns U.S. currency and offends some non-believers.

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From "Judge doesn't ban 'God' in inaugural oath" by The Associated Press 1/15/2009

A federal judge . . . refused to order the words "so help me God" taken out of President-elect Barack Obama's oath of office . . . or to prevent ministers from praying at the inauguration celebration.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton turned down a request from a group of atheists and agnostics to force Chief Justice John Roberts not to add those words to the 35-word inaugural oath outlined in the Constitution.

The National Archives says George Washington added the words "so help me God" when he took the oath at his 1789 inaugural, and most presidents have used it since. However, some have argued that the first eyewitness account of a president using those words came at President Chester Arthur's inauguration in 1881.

Newdow, who lost a Supreme Court battle to get the words "under God" taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance, has failed in similar challenges to the use of religious words and prayers at President George W. Bush's inaugurations.

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From "Court Rejects Challenge to Inaugural Prayer" posted at Fox News 1/15/2005

A federal judge . . . rejected a challenge brought by atheist Michael Newdow to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration.

. . . Newdow told U.S. District Judge John Bates that having a minister invoke God in the Jan. 20 ceremony would violate the Constitution by forcing him to accept unwanted religious beliefs.

The court . . . said it doesn't have the power to order the president not to speak at his own inauguration and the act of ordering the president not to permit an invocation and benediction — which Newdow sought — would be one and the same.

Newdow argued he would be harmed as someone attending the inauguration by being forced to listen to sectarian and specifically, Christian, prayer. The court said that harm is simply too small to warrant its involvement in the matter. Also, the court said Newdow really doesn't have the legal standing to make this request since he sued over inauguration prayers in 2001 and lost that case in two federal courts.

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'Under God' OK in NH School: Court Ruling

Court Rules God References NOT Religious

Abortion Restricted in Missouri after 20 Weeks

The legislature, with veto-proof majorities, passed restrictions to abortions past 20 weeks gestation unless the fetus is proved to be not "viable" plus a second physician's evaluation of the mother -- a law unlike other states' latest legislation.

"I'm pro-life for myself, but I'm pro-choice for everyone else."
-- Rep. Tishaura Jones, D-St. Louis

For background, read Pro-life Legislation Floods America and also read 'Late-Term' Abortion Redefined: Fetal Pain

-- From "Bill with stricter abortion limits goes to Nixon" by Jason Noble, Kansas City Star 5/12/11

Performing an abortion on a viable fetus when the mother’s health did not require it would be a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison or a fine of up to $5,000.

The bill now goes to Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat.

Rep. Tim Jones, the Eureka Republican who sponsored the bill in the House, said the changes rewrite Missouri’s ban on “partial-birth” abortion to be a ban on “late-term” abortions.

With passage of the bill, Jones said, Missouri joins Kansas as the only states in the nation with a true late-term abortion ban.

The House passed the bill on a bipartisan 121-33 vote on the next to the last day of its 2011 session. The Senate approved it 27-5 in early April.

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From "Abortion restrictions pass Missouri Legislature" by Rebecca Berg, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 5/13/11

Current state law already prohibits abortions of fetuses considered viable except "to preserve the life and health of the woman." The new measure would allow such an abortion only in the case of a medical emergency or if the life of the mother is at serious risk. Though some legislators lobbied for it, an exception was not added for the mental health of the mother.

The other change in the new bill specifies that the new restrictions apply to abortions after 20 weeks. Current law does not set an exact gestational age, but instead relies on viability alone to determine what constitutes a late-term abortion.

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From "With veto-proof majorities, legislature passes new abortion restrictions" by Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies, St. Louis Beacon political reporter 5/12/11

State Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, called Jones' bill "a constitutionally defensible bit of legislation that relates to the primary purpose of government -- the protection of life." He mentioned seeing a sonogram of his first grandchild after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

"That is a child, that is a child, which government must defend," Cox said, referring to the picture. "To defend the weak is the primary role of government."

State Rep. Paul Curtman, R-Pacific and an abortion opponent, read portions of the U.S. Constitution that he said made clear that "we're all entitled to equal rights and opportunity under the law,'' whether born or in the womb.

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From "Late-term abortion bill heads to Missouri governor" by Bruce Olson, Reuters 5/12/11

. . . Elizabeth Nash, a policy analyst with the Guttmacher Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based pro-choice group that tracks state abortion laws, said Missouri's law is unique.

"It doesn't ban abortion outright at 20 weeks," Nash said. "What it says is you have to determine if the fetus is viable or not after 20 weeks. Before doing the procedure a number of tests are required including lung maturity. If the fetus is not viable, then you report those findings and you can do the abortion."

Nash said the emphasis on viability means the Missouri law could stand a better chance of withstanding legal challenges. This is because the U.S. Supreme Court has moved away from a trimester-based approach when considering laws that limit abortion and toward an approach based on viability.

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Obama Presses Church on Amnesty for Illegals

At the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, President Obama compared illegal aliens to Israelites in bondage to Pharaoh.



-- From "Obama at Hispanic Prayer Breakfast: Immigration reform a ‘moral imperative’" by Elizabeth Tenety, Washington Post 5/12/11

Quoting the Book of Deuteronomy to the gathered group of pastors and activists, Obama called on Americans to see themselves and their ancestors in the face of present-day [illegal] immigrants. “Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt,” Obama said.

America, the president said, “is a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws,” and he acknowledged that simply enforcing the law of the land when it comes to immigration “may mean inflicting pain on families.”

Obama asked the group to “keep preaching, keep persuading” their communities to build “a widespread movement for reform.”

When it comes to building consensus within the country’s Hispanic population, faith-based groups are good place to start.

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From "Illegals in the US" Posted at The Irish Times 5/12/11

On Tuesday in El Paso in a major speech [President Obama] also insisted that the overwhelming majority of these folks are just trying to earn a living and provide for their families and contribute positively to the US economy. It is a sympathetic although controversial line, one that will, however, certainly endear him to a large Hispanic voting bloc which was critical to his election in 2008 and will be again in 2012.

But in relaunching at six events over two weeks his welcome campaign for immigration reform – a “moral imperative” – a bid to regularise the position of 11 million undocumented without legal status Obama has returned to a cause that has frustrated him repeatedly since his election.

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From "Obama at Hispanic Prayer Breakfast Cites Biblical Scripture to Make Case That ‘Immigration Reform Is A Moral Imperative’" by Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com 5/13/11

Obama called on the [church leader] attendees to “keep praying” and “to keep preaching and persuading your congregations and communities” to build a “widespread movement for reform.”

A 2007 study by the Pew Hispanic Center and Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that “More than two-thirds (68 percent) of Hispanics are Roman Catholics. The next largest category, at 15 percent, is made up of born-again or evangelical Protestants.”

“That sense of connection, that sense of empathy, that moral compass, that conviction of what is right is what led the National Association of Evangelicals to shoot short films to help people grasp the challenges facing immigrants,” said Obama. “It’s what led the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to launch a Justice for Immigrants campaign, and the Interfaith Immigration Coalition to advocate across religious lines.”

“Ultimately, that’s how change will come,” he continued, later adding, “It was in our Episcopal churches of Boston that our earliest patriots planned our Revolution. It was in the Baptist churches of Montgomery and Selma that the civil rights movement was born.”

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Also read Obama Equates Passover to Arab Uprising

RU-486 Pill Higher Risk than Surgical Abortion

A new Australian study has found strong evidence that chemical RU-486 abortions have a far higher rate of serious complications than surgical abortion, undercutting a major selling point of the abortion drug regimen.

-- From "Abortion pill 'less safe than surgery'" by Jamie Walker, The Australian 5/7/11

The "audit" of nearly 7000 abortions performed in South Australia in 2009 and last year found that 3.3 per cent of women who used mifepristone in the first trimester of pregnancy - when most elective terminations occur - later turned up at hospital emergency departments, against 2.2 per cent who had undergone surgery.

And the rate of hospital admission jumped to 5.7 per cent for recipients of early "medical" abortions - using drugs - compared with 0.4 per cent for surgical patients re-admitted for post-operative treatment.

Use of the controversial drug, which was introduced to Australia only five years ago, is growing fast as proponents cite its safety, ease and cost-effectiveness against surgery, as well as the option it gives women to have an induced miscarriage in the privacy of their own home.

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From "Study finds RU-486 much more dangerous than surgical abortion" by Peter J. Smith, LifeSiteNews.com 5/10/11

Pro-life advocates in the United States and elsewhere around the world have also noted the severe complications that may occur with RU-486 abortions.

RU-486 was made legal in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, and since then at least six American women have died of complications from medically induced abortion. Abroad, the Italian Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics in 2008 reported 16 maternal deaths associated with RU-486, leading the Italian Senate to delay sale of the chemical abortion regimen.

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From "New Study Undermines Case for RU486 in Australia" by Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life News 5/10/11

National Right to Life News has run many, many stories about complications associated with the use of RU486. For example, a 2009 study from Finland found that 20% of the women using the abortion pill suffer at least one significant complication and that nearly 4% reported two or more complications or “adverse events.”

More than a fifth of abortions in South Australia are done using RU486. Looking to the future the most revealing line in the story [above] is, “The findings will undermine a selling point of medical abortion–that the risk of complication is less than or equivalent to an operation–and play into the hands of opponents of the rollout of mifepristone, or RU486.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Outlawing On-line (RU-486) Abortion: Nebraska, Iowa as well as On-line (RU-486) Abortions by Planned Parenthood Going Nationwide

Same-sex Civil Unions in Delaware

Homosexual couples now have the same rights and benefits of married couples in Delaware, as Gov. Jack Markell signed civil unions into law.

-- From "Delaware legalizes same-sex unions" by The Associated Press 5/12/11

It makes Delaware the eighth state to allow civil unions or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.

The law takes effect Jan. 1, 2012.

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From "Governor signs Delaware civil unions bill" by Beth Miller, The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal 5/12/11

After decades of struggle with the gay-rights debate, the civil unions bill seemed to fly through the Legislature, moving from its filing date to final passage April 14 in less than four weeks.

Lawmakers passed the bill in both chambers by margins of almost 2-to-1, with several expressing the difficulty with which they cast their votes for and against. Scores of people testified — some warning of dire consequences if Delaware endorsed same-sex relationships, others urging lawmakers to respect the rights of all and recognize the relationships of the state's same-sex couples as valuable and worthy of legal protection.

Wilmington lawyer David Facciolo and Jane Monahan, a lawyer now living in Geneva, Switzerland, fought against Delaware's version of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, but that law passed and remains in effect, which was one reason Equality Delaware sought a civil unions bill for same-sex couples only.

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Atheist Scientists Say They're Spiritual: Study

A Rice University study of hundreds of scientists from 21 elite research universities shows that many say their spirituality is consistent with their scientific endeavors, yet deny the existence of God, or any god.

UPDATE 5/18/11: Top Scientist Dismisses Heaven as 'Fairytale'

-- From "The Spiritual Lives Of Atheist Scientists" by Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service (Huffington Post) 5/6/11

Elaine Howard Ecklund, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of sociology at the Houston university, said the research shows that spirituality is not solely a pursuit of religious people.

"Spirituality pervades both the religious and atheist thought," she said. "It's not an either/or. This challenges the idea that scientists, and other groups we typically deem as secular, are devoid of those big 'Why am I here?' questions. They too have these basic human questions and a desire to find meaning."

Ecklund and other researchers found that these "spiritual atheists" viewed not believing in God "as an act of strength, which for them makes spirituality more congruent with science than religion."

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From "Some atheist scientists are spiritual" by UPI 5/7/11

For example, the spiritual scientists see both science and spirituality as "meaning-making without faith" and as an individual quest for meaning that can never be final. For example, spirituality is open to a scientific journey, but religion requires buying into an absolute absence of empirical evidence, Ecklund said.

The study, scheduled to be published in the June issue of Sociology of Religion, says non-spiritual colleagues might focus on their research at the expense of working with students, but spiritual scientists' sense of spirituality results in them helping struggling students succeed.

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From "More than 20 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual" by Jessica Stark, Rice News staff 5/2/11

[The study] discovered that the terms scientists most used to describe religion included "organized, communal, unified and collective." The set of terms used to describe spirituality include "individual, personal and personally constructed." All of the respondents who used collective or individual terms attributed the collective terms to religion and the individual terms to spirituality.

"While the data indicate that spirituality is mainly an individual pursuit for academic scientists, it is not individualistic in the classic sense of making them more focused on themselves," said Ecklund, director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice. "In their sense of things, being spiritual motivates them to provide help for others, and it redirects the ways in which they think about and do their work as scientists."

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Sex Training by Kids is Planned Parenthood

For years public schools have invited Planned Parenthood to train students in the art of sex for the explicit purpose of these students training other students.

"We're trying to normalize sex," said Denise Jennings, Planned Parenthood in Santa Fe health educator, who trains the students and is present when they visit the schools.

For background, read previous documentation of the "FYI Peer Education Program" by Planned Parenthood

UPDATE 2/6/12 - Planned Parenthood's Business Model: Hooking Kids on Sex (Warning: Sexually graphic video)


-- From "Planned Parenthood training teens to teach sexuality to their peers" by Robert Nott, The Santa Fe - New Mexican 5/9/11

The class of Monte del Sol Charter School students watched and listened intently as senior Emma Campbell, with the help of a visual aid, demonstrated how to use a condom.

Confident and composed, she told the Monte del Sol students about the five circles of sexuality: sensuality, intimacy, sexual identity, sexual health and reproduction, and sexualization (in the Planned Parenthood parlance, using sex to manipulate others).

. . . John Przyborowski, the school's health teacher. He said he prefers to have Planned Parenthood provide the program because, "they are the experts and they have props."

When is it the right time to have sex? Ariana Maestas, a Santa Fe High School sophomore, took that query and calmly responded that you need to be emotionally and physically prepared to accept the consequences and accept responsibility for your act.

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From "Information helps protect teens" by Emily Cea, a junior at Nyack High School, posted at The Journal News - LoHud.com (New York) 4/30/11

During April, teens, parents and health-care professionals are recognizing National STD Awareness Month. One in two sexually active people — 50 percent — will contract a sexually transmitted disease by age 25, but most don't know it. Chlamydia rates in this region have climbed: Between 2005 and 2009, chlamydia cases increased 65 percent in Westchester County, 29 percent in Rockland County and 34 percent in Putnam County. Sharing resources about access to STD testing and treatment is as important as ever.

As a Teen Information Peer Services educator for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, I can assure my peers that they are receiving accurate information whenever they come to me with questions or concerns. It's empowering to know that my peers can count on me for information about reproductive health issues, including how to prevent STDs or how to access emergency contraception, as well as the importance and availability of STD testing for women, men and teens.

I'm glad that Planned Parenthood's lifesaving health-care services are available to Rockland residents so that my peers and I can lead healthy lives.

From "Student gets award for volunteer work" posted at The Journal News - LoHud.com (New York) 4/25/11

Brittney Reid, a student at Ramapo High School in Spring Valley, has been honored for her exemplary volunteer service with a President's Volunteer Service Award. The award, which recognizes young people across America for outstanding community service activities, is sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals .

Reid is a volunteer with Planned Parenthood's Teen Information and Peer Services. The program is a peer education project that trains teen educators to provide health and sexuality information and referrals to teenagers living in Rockland County. TIPS peer educators attend a 15-week training program to learn to present educational programs on human sexuality, abstinence, sexually transmitted infections, birth control, and HIV/AIDS in both formal and informal settings, and participate in other health-related programs and leadership training. Reid visited health classes at Ramapo High School during the first semester to relay information to her peers and is expected to visit health classes at Spring Valley High School in May.

Abortions Restricted via Texas Sonogram Law

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to sign a law soon requiring a woman seeking an abortion to have a sonogram and hear a description of the fetus, including whether it has developed fingers, toes or internal organs.

For background, read Several Pro-life Bills Considered in Texas and also read Pro-life Legislation Floods America as well as Texas Sonogram Abortion Legislation Passes Senate

UPDATE 2/6/12: Law clears final legal hurdle

UPDATE 2/21/12 - CBS News presents sonogram as "a burden" to black mother's choice to kill her baby (video):


UPDATE 1/13/12: Federal appeals court clears way for immediate enforcement while opponents challenge measure in district court

UPDATE 8/30/11: Judge temporarily blocks key provisions of law

UPDATE 7/1/11: Abortionists file for injunction against law

UPDATE 6/14/11: Abortionists challenge law in court

UPDATE 5/20/11: Perry signs abortion sonogram bill into law


From "Texas Legislation Adds Conditions on Abortion" by Ana Campoy, Wall Street Journal 5/10/11

The goal, supporters say, is to improve medical care for women and encourage them to reconsider having abortions.

"We believe that when they see the miracle of life some will change their minds," said Dan Patrick, a Republican state senator who represents part of Houston and who sponsored the legislation, which passed both houses of the state legislature last week.

The group filed a suit challenging a similar law adopted last year in Oklahoma, contending that it violates state constitutional guarantees of privacy for patients and free speech for doctors. A state judge blocked enforcement of the law until the suit is resolved. The group plans to mount a legal challenge to the Texas legislation, if Gov. Perry signs it.

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From "Doctors must perform sonograms before abortions with new Texas Law" by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) 5/9/11

Proponents say the law is necessary to make sure women understand what every procured abortion truly entails, the intentional killing of an innocent child in the womb. Opponents say the measure somehow interferes in the doctor-patient relationship. The sonagram enables a fully informed decision on the part of the woman who carries the child.

In a statement issued by NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, a non-profit state-wide organization which defends the "right" to abortion for any reason at any time prior to the birth of the child, they expressed opposition to the legislation, insisting that the 24 hour waiting period will present a "hardship" for those who live in the 93% of Texas counties that don't have an abortion provider.

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Presbyterians Vote Yea on Gay 'Clergy'

After decades of debate, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Tuesday struck down a barrier to ordaining gays, ratifying a proposal that removes the celibacy requirement for unmarried clergy, in the latest mainline Protestant move toward accepting gay relationships.

For background, read Gay 'Clergy' in Withering Presbyterian PCUSA

-- From "Presbyterians clear way for gay clergy" by Rachel Zoll, Associated Press Religion Writer 5/10/11

The change was endorsed last year by the Presbyterian national assembly, but required approval by a majority of the denomination's 173 presbyteries, or regional church bodies.

The Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area, based in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., cast the deciding 87th vote Tuesday night. Sixty-two presbyteries have voted against the measure and balloting will continue, but the majority needed for ratification was secured in Minnesota.

Differences over the Bible and homosexuality have split Protestant groups nationally and worldwide for years. Within the Presbyterian Church, about 100 of the 11,000 congregations had already broken away ahead of the vote, but a group of large theologically conservative congregations, which calls itself Fellowship, has decided to remain in the denomination for now.

The much smaller Presbyterian Church in America, a separate denomination, bars ordination for women and openly gay clergy candidates.

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From "Presbyterians clear way for ordaining gays, lesbians" by Peter Smith, Louisville Courier-Journal 5/10/11

Non-celibate gays and lesbians will become eligible for ordination in the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) following ratification of a constitutional amendment that reverses decades of official policy.

But the Presbyterians for Renewal, a Louisville-based coalition of evangelical churches, lamented “this unfaithful action” in a statement.

“In a lot of presbyteries, evangelical folks didn’t show up in enough numbers that it swung some votes,” added its executive director, the Rev. Paul Detterman. “People really are just weary of this debate.…How opposing sides can work together without compromising their core identities under the same denominational canopy is the question of the day.”

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From "Presbyterian Church Votes To Allow Openly Gay And Lesbian Clergy" by Jaweed Kaleem, Huffington Post 5/10/11

The move reflects a monumental shift in the 2.8 million-member church, which, along with other mainline Protestant denominations, has had increasingly contentious debates and struggles over issues pertaining to gay and lesbian members.

As with other denominations that have allowed gay clergy, most notably Episcopalians, disapproving congregations will likely leave the church. According to the Presbyterian News Service, around 100 congregations have defected in recent years, many of which leaned conservative. Experts say the shift toward more liberal presbyteries could be a reason some church bodies switched their votes from two years ago.

The old text of the church’s Book of Order did not refer specifically to gay clergy, but banned non-celibate clergy who did not live "within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman." That amendment was added in 1997.

The new, revised amendment also does not mention gay clergy, but it removes a requirement of chastity for non-married clergy.

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From "Presbyterians Will Allow Gay Clergy - Could Prompt Schism" by Lindsay Watts, KRDO NewsChannel TV-13 (Colorado Springs) 5/10/11

Rev. Jim Singleton, senior pastor of of the First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs called the decision "disappointing."

"I think it will be a messy year as (churches) decide how to respond," said Singleton.

Singleton is one of the founding members of the Presbyterian Global Fellowship, a group he described as seeking to unite like-minded churches that share a common view of scripture.

"We're in discussions now, but haven't crafted exactly how we're going to respond yet," he said.

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From "Presbyterian vote paves way for openly gay pastors to be ordained" by John Brewer, Twin Cities Pioneer Press 5/10/11

. . . Rev. David Van Dyke, pastor at House of Hope Presbyterian Church on St. Paul's Summit Avenue . . . said the vote doesn't mean that openly gay church members will be scrambling to serve as ministers, elders and deacons, but that congregations will now be allowed to let them serve.

"The reality is that churches that right now would never consider ordaining an openly gay elder or deacon don't have to do it," Van Dyke said. "It is not a mandate."

At Hope Church in Richfield, Pastor David Lenz said his congregation wouldn't change how it approaches the ordination of church officers because of the vote.

"This is our process - votes are taken and the majority wins. We can express our disappointment," Lenz said. "We believe the Bible reveals a different plan around this area of human sexuality."

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From "Presbyterian Church to ordain gays as ministers" by Andrew Stern, Reuters 5/10/11

Other mainline Protestant denominations in the United States to drop their prohibitions on gay clergy are the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Episcopal Church. The move by The Episcopal Church has opened rifts in the American church and in the larger Anglican Communion to which it belongs.

The United Methodist Church, a mainline Protestant denomination, continues to wrestle over the issue. The United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church broke new ground in the mid-1950s when both faiths approved the ordination of women.

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Also read Liberal 'Churches' Continue to Wither as well as Methodists Wonder Why Members Leave in Droves

Childless Women: White and More Educated

A comparison of U.S. Census Bureau 2000 and 2010 statistics shows a trend toward fewer live births for white women and for women with "higher" education.

Shifting societal norms regarding marriage are clearly affecting procreation.

For background, read Defeating Marriage & Destroying Family: Survey and also read Marriage Trend: Confined within Church

UPDATE 12/7/12: Women Who Give Birth Live Longer and Healthier

-- From "Educated women holding off on childbirth" by UPI 5/9/11

In 2000, women 25 to 34 with at least a bachelor's degree had fewer total children and were less likely to have ever given birth than women who had less than a high school education.

By 2010, the same group of women -- now age 35 to 44 -- with at least a bachelor's degree had 1.7 births, while women who had less than a high school education had 2.5 births

"Our findings show that a 'delayer boom' is under way, where highly educated women initially delay childbearing but are more likely to have children into their 30s," Census Bureau demographer Kristy Krivickas said.

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From "White women more likely to be childless, Census says" by Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 5/9/11

The Census Bureau uses age 44 as the age for completion of childbearing. The data show that 20.6% of white women were childless, compared with 17.2% of black women, 15.9% of Asian women and 12.4% of Hispanic women.

Even more marked differences in childlessness by race and ethnicity are reflected among women who have never married. Among unmarried women by age 44, whites and Asians were much more likely to be childless than blacks or Hispanics. Of unmarried white women, 69.5% were childless; 65.8% of Asian women were childless. Among unmarried Hispanic women, 36.4% were childless; 27.8% of unmarried black women were childless.

Fertility researcher Karen Guzzo, an assistant professor of sociology at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, says many women "are probably not choosing never to have children, so much as … they're not forming relationships because they're investing in their education and careers."

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From "Census Data Reveals a Shift in Patterns of Childbearing" by Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times 5/9/11

Childbearing and fertility patterns have changed greatly since the 1970s.

There are far more women in their 40s without children now than there were in past decades. In 1976, just 10 percent of all women ages 40 to 44 had no children. That percentage had jumped to 19 percent by 2010.

In 1976, the earliest year in Monday’s data release, more women had three children than had two, but that has shifted over the years, with far more women having two children than three.

And it is more likely for a woman who has never married to have a child now than it was in the 1970s. Just 3 percent of women who had never been married had a child in 1976. Now the number is about 21 percent, up sharply even from 2008, when it was 15 percent.

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'Gay Rights' = Civil Rights: Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has elevated the drive to normalize "sexually perverted acts" to the stature of America's greatest struggle for human rights by its celebratory display of historical Gay Agenda documents.

-- From "Gay rights papers shown at US library" by Brett Zongker, Associated Press 5/9/11

Documents from gay rights history are on display for the first time at the Library of Congress as part of an exhibit on the nation's constitutional history and civil rights protections.

The documents come from gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, who was fired as a government astronomer in 1957 because he was gay. The library is showing Kameny's 1961 petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, contesting his firing.

Though it was denied, Kameny's was the first petition to the high court for a violation of civil rights based on sexual orientation. He argued the government's actions toward gays were an "affront to human dignity."

The library quietly placed the documents on view at the end of April in an exhibit called "Creating the United States," which traces the evolution of the nation's founding documents and legal framework. Organizers of the Kameny Papers Project, which donated about 50,000 items to the library in 2006, planned to announce the display Monday.

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From "Two documents on gay rights added to Library of Congress display" by Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post 5/9/11

In 2006 Frankli n E. Kameny, a pioneer gay rights activist, donated 50,000 letters, correspondence and testimony to the Library of Congress.

[The exhibit includes] a 1966 letter written by the chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission telling Kameny his firing was justified.

John W. Macy wrote: “Persons about whom there is evidence that they have engaged in or solicited others to engage in homosexual or sexually perverted acts with them, without evidence of rehabilitation, are not suitable for federal employment.”

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From "On Our Gaydar: Library of Congress" by Natalie Hope McDonald, Philadelphia Magazine 5/10/11

You may not immediately think about visiting the Library of Congress to get your gay on, but a new display may inspire you to do just that. . . .

[Kameny] received an apology in 2009 [from the Obama Administration] for the “shameful action” by the Civil Service Commission of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management – 50 years after the fact.

. . . a law professor from Yale – William Eskridge – compared Kameny to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but for the gay rights movement.

Not only is it an important exhibition about how far civil rights have come in the U.S. – including LGBT rights – but it’s a great reason to visit the nation’s capital, which according to a recent report, actually boasts the most same-sex households in the U.S.

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Also read Black Pastors Denounce Gay Rights Tie to MLK

Gay Sailors will 'Marry' by Christian Chaplains

Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies -- if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.

UPDATE 5/11/11: Navy reverses itself -- Admiral Tidd suspends his own directive

-- From "Navy says chaplains may perform same-sex unions" by Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press 5/9/11

Navy chaplains will be trained about their ability to perform same-sex civil marriage ceremonies under new guidance that would take effect if the Defense Department moves to recognize openly gay military service.

Navy officials said Monday that they updated the training after questions came up about civil ceremonies for gay couples. Military training to apply the new law allowing gays to serve openly began earlier this year, and is expected to be complete by mid-summer.

Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said Monday that the federal Defense of Marriage Act does not restrict the types of ceremonies a chaplain may perform in a chapel on a military base. The military would not compel chaplains to perform a same-sex marriage if it is against their religious beliefs.

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From "Navy Allows Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex Unions" by Dave Eberhart, Newsmax.com 5/9/11

Rear Admiral Mark L. Tidd, the Chief of Navy Chaplains, noted via a directive to the field . . . “If the base is located in a state where same-sex marriage is legal, then the base facilities may be used to celebrate the marriage.”

“Regarding chaplain participation, consistent with the tenets of his or her religious organization, a chaplain may officiate a same-sex, civil marriage: if it is conducted in accordance with the laws of the state which permits same-sex marriages or union; and if the chaplain is, according to applicable state and local laws, otherwise fully certified to officiate that state’s marriages,” the directive concludes.

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From "Navy would allow gay weddings on base" by Sam Fellman, Navy Times - Staff writer 5/9/11

The federal Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Responding to questions about the law and the new policy in an email, Defense Department spokeswoman Eileen Lainez wrote: “DOMA does not limit the type of religious ceremonies a chaplain may perform in a chapel on a military installation. Chaplains are authorized to perform religious ceremonies consistent with the practices of the chaplain’s faith group in chapels on military installations.”

But conservatives contended this policy violates the Defense of Marriage Act.

“This new guidance from the Navy clearly violates the law,” Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., chairman of the House Armed Services seapower subcommittee, said in a statement Monday. “While our president may not like this law, it is unbelievable that our Navy would issue guidance that clearly violates this law. While a state may legalize same-sex marriage, federal property and federal employees, like Navy chaplains, should not be used to perform marriages that are not recognized by federal law.”

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From "Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in Naval Chapels" by Pete Winn, CNSNews.com 5/9/11

Citing "additional legal review" by Navy attorneys, the admiral said the Navy "has concluded that, generally speaking, base facility use is sexual orientation neutral.”

“The administration and various states may be operating as if DOMA doesn't exist, but the Navy and Marine Corps and all the Armed Services are sworn to obey the law, which this new instruction violates,” [said Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo.]

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), said the change in training was a “good example of the type of uncertainty and confusion created in the rush to change the previous policy.”

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Also read Christian Chaplains Likely to Buck Homosexual Training

Homosexualists to Buy White House, Say Media

President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign is banking on gay donors to make up the cash it’s losing from other groups of wealthy supporters who have been alienated and disappointed by elements of Obama’s first term.

For background, read Same-sex 'Marriage' Via Purchasing of Politicians and also read Obama 'In Bed' with Homosexuals for 2012

Keep in mind that the American Homosexual Population is Tiny: Study

For documentation of President Obama's Gay Agenda payback, CLICK HERE to see the vast list of homosexualist appointments.

-- From "Gay donors fuel Obama 2012 campaign" by Ben Smith & Maggie Haberman, Politico 5/9/11

Pleased by an all-out White House push to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay donors have surprised campaign officials with the extent of their support. And the campaign’s new fundraising apparatus appears designed to capitalize on their enthusiasm: Obama’s finance committee included one gay man in 2008; there are 15 this year, a source said.

The Obama campaign finance director, Rufus Gifford, was a top California gay fundraiser; the DNC finance chairman, Andrew Tobias, is gay; and the White House social secretary – traditionally a key, if unofficial, fundraising job – is also a gay man, Jeremy Bernard.

The spur for the gay community becoming an anchor for Obama’s re-election fundraising is a series of policy shifts in 2010. After a year of rocky relations and suspicion from Obama’s gay supporters that he wasn’t really committed to their issues, the last year saw a surge in activity. Along with the high-profile repeal of the military ban, Obama’s Justice Department recently refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. And the administration has taken smaller steps, like gay partner hospital visits and hate crimes legislation, concrete and important gestures that simply weren’t made during the Bush administration.

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