PITTSFIELD — A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother's semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery.

Pittsfield police responded to a call shortly before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the city's Morningside neighborhood, where the assault allegedly occurred.

Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

By Peter Henderson and Alexandria Sage

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -

California's Supreme Court justices on Thursday grilled lawyers seeking to overturn a ban on gay marriage, signaling to some that the court would leave intact the state constitutional amendment on same-sex weddings passed by voters in November.

The seven justices who opened the door to gay marriages last year by striking down a previous ban have 90 days to decide whether a proposition outlawing same-sex weddings approved by 52 percent of California voters in November should stand.

Mar. 5, 2009 (CWNews.com)

“Normally, it would be a source of joy and pride to have a Catholic from Kansas named by the President to an important Cabinet post. Unfortunately, I experience neither with President Obama’s selection of Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his choice to serve as the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),” writes Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann in a column that will be published in his archdiocesan newspaper tomorrow.

The Ethics Commission has not only failed to be an effective and trustworthy enforcer of City campaign finance laws, but is actually guilty of disseminating false and mis-leading information to the public in an effort to try and destroy the reputations of those who disagree with current public policy. This was the mission of the Ethics Commission in the recent Tony Hall investigation.

     
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MEXICO CITY, February 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.

Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 2/2/2009 7:20:00 AM

California unions have combined forces in hopes to overturn Proposition 8.

In November, voters in California passed Prop. 8, which amends the state constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Now many of the state's unions have filed a brief before the California Supreme Court to overturn it. The brief, according to a Pacific Justice Institute press release, claims Prop. 8 "would strip one class of citizens of a fundamental right."

(LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama Administration has posted its plans to implement the most radical homosexualist policy agenda in the nation's history on the White House's official website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/civil_rights).