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Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse is president of C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He is also a bi-weekly columnist with Crisis Magazine.

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Rowan County clerk Kim Davis gives a statement about her intentions on applying her signature to same sex marriage licenses on her first day back to work, after being released from jail last week, at the Rowan County Courthouse September 14, 2015 in Morehead, Kentucky. Davis was jailed for disobeying a judges order for denying marriage licenses to gay couples on the basis of her religious faith. (Photo by

Kim Davis Fights On, Issues Altered Licenses As Left Complains

Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis continues her war against same-sex marriage. Ordered by a court to issue them, jailed for five days for refusing, she is now issuing them but with an alteration that has the left complaining. She has kept her name off of the licensees, but instead has inserted “Pursuant to Federal Court Order.” Davis is making a strong point that the licenses do not come with her personal approval.

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All Ten Planned Parenthood Videos, in Order, for Dems to Watch

The abortion-friendly media are having a heyday challenging Carly Fiorina’s assertion during Wednesday’s debate that on the Planned Parenthood videos you can: “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’”

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Dubious New Study Says Critics of Gays are Nuts

Same-sex attraction used to be in the diagnostic manual of psychiatry. After a years-long political campaign by gay activists and psychiatrists, it was removed. Now the move is afoot to classify “homophobia” as a psychiatric disorder.

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County Clerk Kim Davis to be Honored in Washington

The Family Research Council will present Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis the “Cost of Discipleship Award” for her refusal to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in defiance of the Supreme Court Obergefell decision and a Federal Court order.

Rowan County clerk Kim Davis gives a statement about her intentions on applying her signature to same sex marriage licenses on her first day back to work, after being released from jail last week, at the Rowan County Courthouse September 14, 2015 in Morehead, Kentucky. Davis was jailed for disobeying a judges order for denying marriage licenses to gay couples on the basis of her religious faith. (Photo by

Kim Davis Remains Defiant on Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

Kim Davis denies she is a hero and says she understands why her employees agreed to issue licenses to same-sex couples. “I understand their tough choice, and I will take no action against them. However, any unauthorized license that they issue will not have my name, my title or my authority on it. Instead, the license will state that they are issued pursuant to a federal court order,” she said speaking from a handwritten note and surrounded by Sheriff’s deputies this morning.

Tony Perkins speaks during The Family Research Council (FRC) Action Values Voter Summit September 14, 2012 at a hotel in Washington, DC. The summit is an annual political conference for US social conservative activists and elected officials. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN

The Dry Martyrdom of Young Christians in America

The enemies of truth are all around us. Well funded and commanding the heights of law and culture, they have the whip hand and are lustily using it. Their targets: any Christian who may even question the New Orthodoxy.

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Kim Davis, Prisoner of Conscience: RELEASED!

Judge David Bunning jailed Kim Davis last Thursday after she repeatedly refused to grant any marriage licenses from her office as long as they had to include same-sex couples. Davis cited her religious beliefs in refusing to issue the licenses, even though the Supreme Court imposed same-sex marriage on the country last June 26.

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Kim Davis, Prisoner of Conscience: Day Four

The fourth day dawned on the incarceration of Rowan Country Clerk Democrat Kim Davis who has been jailed by Federal Judge David Bunning for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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Kim Davis, Prisoner of Conscience: Day Three

Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis is enduring her third day in jail Saturday after sleeping soundly and in good conscience, according to her attorney Matthew Staver of the public interest law firm Liberty Counsel.

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Exclusive — Planned Parenthood ‘wholesalers of abortions,’ Fox Journalist Says

He said the Fox news people paid attention to the videos from the very start. “Here was a national brand, Planned Parenthood, and allegations that the activists were making about the selling of baby parts. You had to stop and say, huh? Almost from the start, as it progressed, not too far in it occurred to us that this is potentially an important though a very difficult hour-long special.”

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Live Baby ‘Just Fell Out,’ Parts Sold for Profit

The ninth video released by the Center for Medical Progress provides a glimpse into the murky and cutthroat world of the baby-harvesting business, with rival companies competing for valuable livers, hearts and kidneys. According to the Center for Medical Progress, non-profit Advanced Bioscience Resources “is the oldest baby-parts company in the U.S., founded in 1989 by Linda Tracy. For twenty-six years they have partnered with multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates to harvest fetal tissue to sell for experimentation.”