Iris Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP for Strangford, has been cleared in an internal Assembly investigation of her comments on the BBC that homosexual acts are sinful and that homosexual inclinations can be overcome with counselling. Belfast media…

I first became acquainted with the barbarism of certain aspects of Shari’a law through an article published a few years ago in the New Yorker magazine.  The author detailed how, in many middle eastern countries, Muslim men use the prescriptions…

When I drove by Eddie Gabor’s old house, I was transported back 20 years — back to the wonderful Fourth of July outings my family once enjoyed there.

Eddie Gabor was my grandmother’s longtime companion. For the last 20 years of…

A Superior Court judge has thrown out a request from local black pastors and marriage advocates to suspend a new law for the District of Columbia that recognizes same-sex “marriages” contracted outside the district until the people are able to…

Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report for 2008, highlighting the organization’s work on maternal health and its "continued efforts to ensure the universal access to reproductive health and the right of all people to decide…

[On Wednesday], seven Texas-area Muslim organizations filed an appeal of the unanimous ruling of the Texas Second Court of Appeals at Forth Worth, which protected the free speech rights of internet journalists and at the same time dealt a blow…

Having an abortion is dangerous for subsequent children, an international team of researchers has concluded.  The team, led by Dr. Robbert van Oppenraaij of Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, presented their findings on Monday to the 25th Annual Meeting of…

[Tuesday] began with the unveiling of the restored Pauline Chapel in the Vatican.

This was an extraordinary moment, for the Vatican, for world art, and even, perhaps, for theology — if we are permitted to allow Michelangelo to affect our theological…

No not pro-life, for life; like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Comrade Bob Mugabe, and that Honduran wannabe, Manuel Zelaya.

I am not a proponent of CIA sponsored right wing coups, or dictatorships of any stripe. On the other hand, all branches…

Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty’s continued campaign to advance a "right" to abortion globally.

In its entry…