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Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A former Catholic parish employee in Missouri is suing the Diocese of Kansas City -- St. Joseph two months after she was fired when the diocese learned she had "married" a female Lutheran minister. Colleen Simon says that a year after " marrying " Donna Simon in Iowa, she took the position as Director of Social Concerns for St. Francis Xavier . According to Simon, her relationship was not an issue for the former and current pastors of St. Francis. However, once Colleen and Donna were highlighted by a local publication, Bishop Robert Finn  became aware of her relationship  and told St. Francis' pastor to terminate her employment. In a public statement sent to LifeSiteNews, the diocese said that while it "has not seen the filing," it reserved "the right to live and operate according to our faith and Church teachings." "We regret this situation ha

The building housing the most important Italian newspaper, "Corriere della sera" in via Solferino in Milan (Italy). It was projected by Luca Beltrami in 1904. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, January 20 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In a case that is rapidly gaining national attention, the Italian government ’s education ministry has threatened a “severe” response to a Catholic school in northern Italy that sacked a teacher believed to be a lesbian. Education Minister Stefania Giannini told  La Repubblica  that her office has started an investigation into the decision of the school’s headmistress not to renew the contract of a female teacher out of a need to protect the “moral ethics” of “the school’s  environment.” Mother Eugenia Libratore, a religious sister of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the headmistress of Sacro Cuore school in Trent, said the teacher, who has not been named in the press, was “adequate and professional.” She added, how

English: View of Capitol Hill from the U.S. Supreme Court Česky: Pohled na Kapitol z budovy Nejvyššího soudu Spojených států (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The highest human rights court in Europe shattered hopes that it would judicially impose same-sex marriage when it told a male to female transsexual and his wife that a civil union should be good enough for them. European human rights law does not require countries to “grant access to marriage to same-sex couples,” according to a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case that tests the remote boundaries of possibility in law and fact. The parties to the litigation and supporters of same-sex marriage acknowledge the result was predictable. Nevertheless the judgment has a devastating effect on gay rights in Europe, dashing hopes that same-sex “marriage” can become a reality there. The facts of the case are distinctive. Heli Hämäläinen of Finland had a sex change operation in 2009 to appear anatomically as a

David Tyree at the Giants Rally after victory in Super Bowl XLII. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) First, it turns out that Tyree is a strong Christian, and his faith  drives his belief  that marriage is between a man and a woman.  CBS reports : "This will be the beginning of our country sliding  toward, it's a strong word, but anarchy ,” Tyree told the pro-marriage group, the  National Organization for Marriage , three years ago when talking about marriage equality. "How can marriage be marriage for thousands of years and now all the sudden because a minority, an influential minority, has a push or agenda ... and totally reshapes something that was not founded in our country.” In 2013, he said this. "I don't agree with [gay marriage] because God doesn't agree with it. As a Christian, I don't agree. Society may be changing but God is not,"  Tyree said . "This is not personal. I could still be in a locker room with a  gay man  and still lo

I'm not a fan of the New York Giants . They ruined a perfect season for the New England Patriots in 2008, and stopped the Pats again in the 2012 Super Bowl . And I was made aware this morning that the team hired the Giants player  who made their 2008 victory possible , David Tyree , as their new Director of Player Development. So yeah. Not exactly a fan of the Giants. But after the other thing I read this morning, that might have to change. First, it turns out that Tyree is a strong Christian, and his faith  drives his belief  that marriage is between a man and a woman. CBS reports : "This will be the beginning of our country sliding  toward, it's a strong word, but anarchy ,” Tyree told the pro-marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage , three years ago when talking about marriage equality. "How can marriage be marriage for thousands of years and now all the sudden because a minority, an influential minority, has a push or agenda ... and

It has long been clear that same-sex marriage activists don't want a fair and even-sided debate. They don't want honest public discourse that hears both sides. They want instead the enforcement of double standards that work to bolster their own side while silencing any opposition. To take one instance: the oft-repeated call to a standard of "live and let live" is not  really  meant to apply equally, to everyone. It isn't meant to apply to people of faith, or those who believe in traditional marriage . No,  such people are supposed to be harassed and harried for their views at every opportunity.  Their businesses should be targeted with nuisance lawsuits, and ultimately they should be forced out of public life altogether unless they wholly embrace the ideology of so-called "marriage equality." Imagine a game—say a football game—where the sides were deliberately matched unevenly. A game with two sets of rules: one for them, and one for us, their opp

Gordon College (Massachusetts) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) What Lies Ahead What does the current legal and cultural landscape suggest? Here are three predictions. Prediction #1: Only religious groups (by no means all of them) will impose restrictions based on sexual conduct . That is in stark contrast to the many groups that make gender-based distinctions: fraternities and sororities, women's colleges, single-sex private high schools, sports teams, fitness clubs, and strip clubs, to name a few.  It is perhaps unsurprising in light of these observations that views on gender and sexual conduct have flip-flopped. Thirty years ago, many people were concerned about gender equality , but few had LGBTQ equality on their radar. Today, if you ask your average 20-year-old whether it is worse for a fraternity to exclude women or for a Christian group to ask gay and lesbian members to refrain from sexual conduct, the responses would be overwhelmingly in one direction. That trend will l