LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY britzkrieg)

Selected headlines and blurbs from solarbird's cultural warfare update for 7/15:

* Focus on the Family (FotF) claims that women who have abortions are more likely to abuse drugs later.
* FotF criticizes an anti-discrimination bill in Oregon, claiming that adding gays to existing basic civil rights law would "force churches and religious institutions and organizations into hiring homosexuals."
* FotF protests the dropping of charges against a mayor arrested for performing gay/lesbian marriage ceremonies.
* Albertan premier Ralph Klein says Alberta will allow marriage, but "will focus its attention on protecting those who support traditional marriage."
* Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute, was recently interviewed for comment on the Fx Network’s show ’30 Days.’ The show featured a young man with strong Christian faith living with a homosexual in San Francisco’s Castro district for 30 days. During that time, the young man is persuaded over and over to change or renounce the biblical teaching that homosexuality is a sin.
* Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich declared Tuesday that the state will spend 10 million dollars on stem-cell research -- both adult and embryonic. FotF is predictably pissed.