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Friday February 13, 1998
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PrintSUPREME COURT NIXES EQUAL FUNDING FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS
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OTTAWA, Feb 13 (LSN) -- The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear a case wherein Ontario parents were appealing to have alternative religious education in public schools. Parents wishing for such an option are now left with the unlikely prospect of garnering funding for the classes from the Ontario government. Ontario allows a comparative-religions class, but has prohibited instruction in any one faith since 1990. The case went to the Supreme Court after it was dismissed by the Ontario Court of Appeal last summer. Brought forward by Monhar Singh Bal, the case represented parents from the Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Mennonite and Christian Reform faiths.
Back to TopPRO-LIFE MOTHER’S IMPRISONMENT DECRIED
PITTSBURGH, Feb 13 (LSN) -- In a press release issued yesterday, Priests for Life called attention to the unjust imprisonment of Joan Andrews Bell, a recent mother of two adopted children. Christopher Bell, Joan's husband, her 5-year-old daughter, and 9-year-old son lamented that this Saturday, St. Valentines Day, will be the first time they will be permitted to visit Joan since her incarceration one month ago.
Joan was sentenced to jail on 30 December l997 in Pittsburgh for a l985 pro-life demonstration in which she stepped onto the property of an abortuary. Judge Raymond Novak threatened to keep her in prison until she agreed not to take part in any more rescues, a promise she would not make.
Mr. Bell says the governor of Pennsylvania has received hundreds and will receive thousands of letters asking for Joan's early release. More importantly, Joan is a home-schooler, and her son has special needs. Fr. Frank Pavone, International Director of Priests for Life, said from Rome, "Joan is enduring a prison sentence which is unjust precisely because she has done nothing wrong... The abortion industry, with the help of unjust laws, tells us to keep our feet off their property. It is time that they keep their hands off God's property, the precious children being killed by abortion.''
In a similar case in Canada, pro-life political prisoner Linda Gibbons, a Toronto grandmother, has been in jail for most of the last three-and-a-half years. Interestingly, she too is silent and helpless in court and in jail thus spiritually identifying with the silent and helpless victims of abortion.
THE PERVERSION OF AMERICA'S CHILDREN
WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (LSN) -- The perversion of children in America by books allowed and even promoted in public schools has been the cause of parental shock and outrage. Yesterday The Washington Times reported on the hair-raising story of Christine T. Schwalm, a mother who confronted the Montgomery County Board of Education with the perverse material recommended to students by the county school system. Mrs. Schwalm was forced to take the issue before the board, when School Superintendent Paul L. Vance denied her request to remove the filthy books from school libraries in January.
The books contained graphic sexual prose laced with profanities depicting incest, bestiality, and rape. The books in question were: "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The House of the Spirits" and "Song of Solomon," by Isabel Allende, and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison. Addressing the school board, Mrs Schwalm said, "I am sickened knowing that my tax dollars are being used to provide children with -- and instruct them using -- lewd, adult books. School system spokesman Brian J. Porter said he did not know whether the board would review the book, but said it would take Mrs. Schwalm's request "under advisement."
In a related story, the 285-member Hauppage Teachers Association in New York is investigating a possible legal challenge, to counter a move by Paul Lochner, the Hauppage schools superintendent who yanked 3 popular magazines Seventeen, Teen and YM from middle-school library shelves. The magazines were pulled in response to complaints from parents that the magazines highlighted masturbation, "kinky" sex, homosexual sex, and birth control.
DOBSON WARNS REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
ARIZONA, Feb 13 (LSN) -- Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, warned that if the Republican Congress continued to "betray" conservative evangelical voters, he would abandon the Republican Party and "do everything I can to take as many people with me as possible."
Speaking at a convention of conservative leaders, Dr. Dobson courageously identified offending parties by name. He criticized House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for inviting the notoriously pro- abortion Governor Christine Whitman to give the Republican response to the State of the Union address. In a rather lengthy list, the pro-life leader reprimanded even fairly conservative notables such as Republican Sens. John Ashcroft of Missouri, and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, for their failure to speak out against homosexuality and financing of sex education in schools.
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