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CRTC CONTROLS RELIGION, CAN'T CONTROL HARD-CORE PORN

OTTAWA, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The CRTC has recently acknowledged its inability to monitor and, therefore, censor violent and degrading pornography that is supposedly illegal in Canada. A Fifth Estate expose last Wednesday dealing with the substance of two hard core pornography channels made available by Bell Express Vu, showed Bob Warren of the Ontario Film Review Board visibly disturbed while responding to questions and viewing content, reports Thomas Langan of the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL). CRTC representative, Pierre Blais, said that there are far too many channels to monitor.

He did say, however, that they would look into the evidence produced by Fifth Estate regarding Bell ExpressVu which is owned by Bell Canada's parent BCE. "Only after Gartner pressed him several times did he indicate the CRTC would look into the matter," wrote Sid Adilman in the Toronto Star. "This proved to be academic because BCE, informed about The Fifth Estate's report, pulled the channels off Bell ExpressVu a few hours before the program aired. Licence renewal application hearings for BCE's CTV take place next month. Renewal is a shoo-in, but BCE would not want embarrassing questions about its other broadcasting service."

The hard-core pornography is troubling enough by itself, but what makes the current revelations even more disturbing for Canadian Christians is that they come in a context of aggressive anti-Christian discrimination by Canada's communications regulator. "What we find most disturbing is that [the] CRTC has been rejecting application after application for religious programming," notes Mr. Langan. "EWTN, the largest religious broadcasting service in the world, applied at the same time as Playboy four years ago. Though Playboy was accepted on the first round of applications, EWTN is in need of support to be licensed now. The CRTC felt it necessary to protect Canadians not from disturbing pornographic images, but from programming that is based on the moral values and principals upon which Canada was founded. Where is the balance that Heritage Minister Sheila Copps speaks of so regularly and so proudly?"

For more, see:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=13657
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServ...
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UNICEF'S UP-COMING ANTI-FAMILY CHILDREN'S RIGHTS VOTE

OTTAWA, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Canadian Alliance MP and Family Issues Critic Grant Hill reported Friday that UNICEF is organizing another children's right's "election". Last year's rights election was a complete flop in Canada despite the support of Elections Canada because many schools chose not to participate due to objections raised by parents. Despite the autonomous-rights propaganda fed to many of our children, the right to a family came out on top, rating well above "protection from harm," a category which included spanking, or corporal punishment. For election purposes, these rights were identified as "candidates".

Dr. Hill says that the upcoming election "will be done with UNICEF around the world and kids will vote over the internet instead of in person at polling stations in schools." The launch date, he says, is April 26 and voting will continue until August. Finally I think UNICEF has figured out a way to get the results they're looking for: this election won't have any "family" candidate. It seems as though UNICEF's anti-family agenda is becoming more overt. Dr. Hill said: "I think UNICEF has figured out a way to get the results they're looking for: this election won't have any 'family' candidate."

For more information, contact Grant Hill at:
hillg0@parl.gc.ca
http://www.granthillmp.com

See LifeSite's UNICEF page and stories on the Canadian UNICEF Child right's vote
http://lifesite.vservers.com/waronfamily/unicef/index.html

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ABORTION LEAGUE FIGHTS AGAINST BUSH, WOMEN

WASHINGTON, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) finally feels as though it has organized itself sufficiently to fight back against what it is calling an "unprecedented, GOP-led assault on abortion rights," following the election of George W. Bush to the Presidency. NARAL's $40 million campaign, Fight4Choice, sounds ambitious. It is designed to "mobilize pro-choice Americans to block anti-choice Supreme Court appointments, restore pro-choice leadership in Congress, elect a pro-choice president and fight anti-choice policy initiatives at every level" by "build[ing] on NARAL's leadership as the political voice of the pro-choice movement."

Colleen Parro, executive director of the Republican National Coalition for Life, says that NARAL is "going to lose, because the truth will [win] out." Tim Lambert of the Republican National Committee told the Houston Chronicle last week that Bush's abortion stance is "more representative of American attitudes" than NARAL's. Concerned Women for America accused NARAL of launching "a fight against women." Communications Director Wendy Wright said, "any campaign that pushes abortion promotes the pain abortion inflicts on women."

To see what NARAL has planned, visit:
http://www.fight4choice.com

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BILLIONAIRE'S MONEY HELPS CULL POPULATIONS

NEBRASKA, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Although he doesn't hand out as much money as fellow billionaire Bill Gates, investment expert Warren Buffett is coming under harsh criticism again for the money he gives away to fund abortion and population control agendas. In fact, Population Research Institute president Steven Mosher, reported Friday that "Buffet eclipses Gates in his fanatical commitment to population control" with a foundation "known for funding projects that other foundations, even those similarly inclined to limit human numbers, will not touch." For example, Mosher notes, "RU-486 was in part funded by Buffet, who provided $2 million to the Population Council, the chief U.S. promoter of the deadly drug's legalization."

Buffet also gave $2 million to "Family Health International for the development of quinacrine hydrochloride pills, which once inserted into a woman's uterus causes a severe chemical burn that scars shut her fallopian tubes, thus rendering her sterile. Quinacrine sterilization has become a favored method of sterilizing minorities by the Vietnamese government, not known for its strict observance of human rights."

Putting the issue in perspective, and raising questions about the motives behind such funding, Mosher says, "some of the wealthiest men in the world descend like avenging angels on the populations of the developing world. They seek to decimate their numbers, to foist upon vulnerable people abortion, sterilization and contraception. The real needs of these people, for clean water, good seed, and a safe homeland, are ignored."

See the Population Research Institute at: http://www.pop.org

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Amniocentesis, a test used to determine if a baby has Down syndrome kills more babies than it diagnoses with Down syndrome, reported Zenit yesterday, drawing on a British study which shows that the test causes up to four healthy babies to be miscarried for every abnormality it detects. The test is used after less definitive tests have shown a risk of Down's, the Sunday Times reported yesterday.
http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0104/ZE010401.htm#4159

Trinidad and Tobago is just one Caribbean country where concern is being expressed about a Norwegian "gay cruise ship" travelling through the area. CEO and General Manager of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, Colin Lucas, told the Trinidad Guardian that "the Port has received several enquiries as to whether such a ship was or had applied to dock here." He said that since homosexuality is not against the law in T&T, any cruise ship passenger who has not broken the law and who fulfills the country's entry requirements is free to come ashore.

Spain's Catholic Archbishop Agustín Garcia-Gasco of Valencia expressed his sadness this weekend at the strong political support behind a law which recognizes homosexual unions, Zenit reported yesterday. He lamented that "there was not a single political voice that mentioned the possible dangers" the measure poses to the family. The law is supported by the Popular Party, which includes Christian Democratic leaders. The opposition Socialist Party and "Esquerra Unida" did not think the measure went far enough.

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US NEWS ROUNDUP

"The arrests of two people in New York on charges of conspiring to 'harbor and conceal' James Kopp mark the first time that the government has alleged a conspiracy to aid someone accused of killing an abortion doctor," reported the New York Times Friday. "That action now seems likely to reopen a long standing debate over whether there has been a conspiracy behind anti-abortion violence."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/31/nyregion/31CONS.html

The U.S. Senate foreign affairs committee is set to vote Tuesday on whether or not to approve President George Bush's appointee as the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci. The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) and REAL Women have issued press releases urging the senate committee and Mr. Bush to reconsider the appointment due to Mr. Cellucci's pro-abortion and pro-homosexual activism while Governor of Massachusetts. The two groups have been joined by several others in signing an open letter to U.S. officials, which conveys the same message.
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0015405.html http://www.frc.org/press/index.cfm?get=recent&id=P01C10

The number of abortions performed in Nebraska last year dropped to a 25-year low of 4,178, according to information released by the state health department last week. The figure includes partial-birth, or infanticide, abortions. Chris Funk of Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, however, claims that the drop in reported abortions may be due to an increase in the use of "emergency contraception."
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=2816&past=

"A federal judge in Florida has ruled that Boy Scouts in Broward County, Fla., may not be barred from using school facilities solely because of the Scouts' positions on social issues, like homosexuality," reported Focus on the Family last week. "The decision is expected to affect challenges against the Boy Scouts across the country, according to Gregg Shields, the Boy Scouts' national spokesman."
http://www.family.org//cforum/fnif/news/A0015406.html

Joshua Macabe Brown, one of two men charged with the 1999 homosexual rape and murder of the 13-year-old Arkansas boy, Jesse Dirkhising, was sentenced Friday to life in prison for first-degree murder, the maximum allowed under state law. "Brown was initially charged with capital murder, but he avoided the death penalty when the jury acquitted him of that charge last week and convicted him instead of first-degree murder," reports Cybercast News Service.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive...

"A new survey shows six in ten Americans feel that when deeply religious elected officials vote on controversial issues like abortion, homosexual rights and the death penalty, they should be willing to compromise with other elected officials," reported CNS today. "More evangelical Christians, however, were more likely to say officials should vote based on their own religious views."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive...

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