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Embracing homosexuality is America’s future, Obama says in State of the Union

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President Obama hailed gay "marriage" as one of his proudest accomplishments and looked forward to the day when Americans would shed traditional sexual morality to embrace homosexuals in his final State of the Union address last night. The president told a combined chamber of Congress , Cabinet members, and most of the Supreme Court that upholding our "unique strengths as a nation" and heeding the "spirit of progress" made our national celebration of sexual minorities possible. "That's how we secured the freedom in every state to marry the person you love," Obama said early in his rather short national address. The reference to a highly contested, 5-4 Supreme Court decision infuriated pro-family advocates. "The Republican leadership ought to set aside an empty chair in the front of the chamber to represent the more than 50 million Americans whose votes in support of traditional marriage were stolen by...an anti-constitut

Agency linked to Swiss bishops’ conference sends LGBT activists to undermine African bishops

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emblem of the Papacy: Triple tiara and keys Français : emblème pontifical Italiano: emblema del Papato Português: Emblema papal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Reporting today that a Catholic agency in Switzerland , with close links to the Bishops’ Conference of Switzerland, are funding LGBT activists who wish to undermine the work of African Catholic bishops . Voice of the Family   has also drawn attention recently to the concerted attempts by western agencies and governments to impose contraception, abortion and the homosexual agenda on African nations . We have similarly reported on the disturbing collaboration between Vatican departments and the leading architects of the population control movement. CNA reports that the “Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund and a major U.S. foundation have helped fund an LGBT activist project intended to counter West African bishops at the Catholic Church ’s Synod on the Family.” The organisation in question, the Netherlands-based European Forum of

Dolan not right wing

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Image via Wikipedia USCCB President and New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has never shrunk from his vigorous defense of the unborn and of marriage between one man and one woman, but don’t call him “right wing.” For Dolan, being a good shepherd of the faithful by upholding Catholic Church teaching has nothing to do with the political right or left. “No question that you’re conciliatory, that you like to have dialogue,” 60 Minutes ’ Morley Safer prodded the archbishop in  an interview  published on Sunday, “but underneath that, you’re an old-fashioned conservative, in the sense of right-wing conservative.” “I would bristle at being termed ‘right wing’,” Dolan responded. “But if somebody means enthusiastically committed and grateful for the timeless heritage of the Church, and feeling that my best service is when I try to preserve that and pass that on in its fullness and beauty and radiance, I’m a conservative, no doubt.” Dolan has become famous for his cheerful attitude while