A sentence from a recent New York Times Magazine profile clings to the mind, like lint. The profile is of Scott Brown, whose sudden ascent to the U.S. Senate fascinated America a few months back. In 2001, the story relates, when a colleague of Brown?s, a lesbian state senator in Massachusetts, 'announced that she and her partner had decided to have children, [Brown] said that such an arrangement was ?not normal.?
In the News
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May 10th, 2010
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May 10th, 2010
Eight University of Calgary students engaged in non-academic misconduct when they refused to turn their graphic anti-abortion signs away from passersby on campus, the school's vice-provost has ruled.
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May 10th, 2010
After a recent bomb blast and gun attack in Iraq that targeted Christian students, a local bishop has criticized the government for failing to protect Christians, who are suffering from a series of violent attacks by terrorist groups.
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May 10th, 2010
A charity is launching a campaign to recruit more Muslims to lead scouting packs across London.
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May 10th, 2010
Hope College isn?t backing away from its policy condemning same-sex sexual conduct, reports the Holland Sentinel newspaper.
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May 9th, 2010
At the age of six months babies can barely sit up - let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk.
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May 9th, 2010
Traditionalist Anglicans have warned that new proposals to pave the way for women bishops would force them to leave the Church of England.
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May 9th, 2010
Laws that mean homosexual asylum seekers can be deported to countries where they face persecution under scrutiny.
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May 9th, 2010
The Church of England has moved a step closer to the consecration of women bishops, setting up a possible showdown with traditionalists who back all-male clergy in the Anglican communion.
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May 9th, 2010
The evangelist, who was recently disinvited from a Pentagon prayer event over past comments he made about Islam, pointed to the violence against Muslim women.