Dear Abby refers pregnant girl to Planned Parenthood

Kudos to the sixteen year old girl for rejecting human abortion. She should stay away from Planned Parenthood who will try to dissuade her from carrying her child to term. She should Google ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ to find the help she needs.

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Catholic high school in Des Moines chooses to honor its faith

“A Des Moines Catholic high school was within its rights when it decided not to hire a substitute teacher full time once it found out he was gay — because Iowa’s civil rights law allows religious institutions to discriminate based on sexual orientation.”

Note the slant to the reporting: “discriminate based on sexual orientation.” I prefer my headline above…

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The Indiana Catholic Bishops respond

“We believe that it is crucial that religious freedom be protected. As Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel: “No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions” (n. 183).”

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