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Canadian Conservatives to Fight for Parliamentary Vote on Gay Marriage Bill

OTTAWA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Conservatives frustrated by a committee decision last week to declare non-votable a private member's bill defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, may still see their hopes fulfilled. Conservative MP Rob Moore has appealed the decision of the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee and will present arguments Thursday in favour of allowing his bill to at least receive a vote.

Conservative MP Bill Casey, one of the committee members, spoke to LifeSiteNews.com today noting that the Conservative Party stands behind bringing the measure to a vote.

However, LifeSiteNews.com has learned that, while members have received letters from gay rights activists objecting to allowing a vote on the bill, very few supporters of the bill have voiced their concerns or are aware that the bill could still come up for a vote.

Supporters of Moore's bill are asking Pro-family Canadians to immediately contact members of the committee and insist that this bill be permitted to advance to debate and a vote in the House.

The members of the committee, their party affiliation, ridings and contact emails follow:

CASEY, William D. (Bill) (Conservative)
Cumberland--Colchester--Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia


BOUDRIA, Don (Liberal)
Glengarry--Prescott--Russell, Ontario


GUIMOND, Michel (Bloc Québécois)
Montmorency--Charlevoix--Haute-Côte-Nord, Quebec


JOHNSTON, F. Dale (Conservative)
Wetaskiwin, Alberta


BOIVIN, Françoise (Liberal)
Gatineau, Quebec


GODIN, Yvon (New Democratic Party)
Acadie--Bathurst, New Brunswick


LONGFIELD, Judi (Liberal)
Whitby--Oshawa, Ontario


REDMAN, Karen (Liberal)
Kitchener Centre, Ontario


REYNOLDS, John Douglas (Conservative)
West Vancouver--Sunshine Coast--Sea to Sky Country, British Columbia


LEBLANC, Dominic (Liberal)
Beauséjour, New Brunswick


PICARD, Pauline (Bloc Québécois)
Drummond, Quebec


REID, Scott (Conservative)
Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington, Ontario

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President Bush to Face Noisy Demonstrations in Canada from Homosexual Activists

OTTAWA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Toronto-based homosexual activist group is organizing an anti-Bush demonstration to correspond with the US President's visit to Ottawa scheduled for November 30 to December 1.

"People across Canada are coming together to show their opposition to Bush and everything he represents," Toronto Coalition to Stop the War and the ACTivist Magazine's Dylan Penner claimed, according to the homosexual "marriage" activist website, samesexmarriage.ca. "Bush and the Cheney gang want to pressure Paul Martin and Parliament to sign onto Star Wars, send troops to Iraq and backpedal on equal marriage."

"Their administration's assault on peace, ecology and human rights is unprecedented and effects (sic) us all," Penner continued. "And so the Canadian peace movement stands in solidarity with those in the US and around the world who are resisting his policies of endless war on peace, ecology, and human rights."

The group has arranged 10 buses from Montreal, with an undetermined number to be arriving from Toronto.

The group contends that President Bush is a war criminal for his involvement in the war in Iraq, citing from a November 16 Toronto Star article charging the same: "On the face of it, Bush seems a perfect candidate for prosecution under Canada's Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act," referring to the act passed in Canada in 2000 that mirrored International Criminal Court legislation enacted there.

Lorne Gunter said in his National Post column Monday, commenting on the lack of world opposition to France's actions in Ivory Coast: "The truth is, international opposition to the Iraq war (including French opposition) was prompted as much by bitter anti-Americanism and irrational hatred of George W. Bush as it was by any true concern for peace or multilateralism."

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Massive Study Finds Negative Pregnancy Outcomes Associated with Non-Married Status

OTTAWA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as pre-term birth, low birth weight, small-for-gestational-age, stillbirth, and neonatal and post-neonatal mortality have been found to be more common in mothers living in common-law unions than those in traditional marriage relationships, according to a Statistics Canada study of pregnancy outcomes in Quebec.

Statistics Canada, the government statistical service, notes that the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among common-law mothers are of great public health concern because of the high and increasing proportion of births to mothers in common-law unions. In 1997, 44% of births in Quebec were to common-law mothers, more than double the proportion in 1990.

The authors explained that some of the differences in adverse pregnancy outcomes may be related to maternal smoking, which is more common among women in common law-unions compared with those who are legally married. Additionally, mothers in common-law unions may also experience greater stress during pregnancy owing to less stable relationships than those in traditional marriage.

The study Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes According to Marital and Cohabitation Status, was published in Obstetrics and Gynecology. It was based on a birth cohort-based study of all 720,586 births registered in Quebec for the years 1990 to 1997.

An abstract of the study is available online at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra...

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U.S. Congress Acts to Save Mountain-Top Cross - Atheist Blames 'Jihad Jesus Republicans'

RANCHO SANTA FE, CA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a surprising turn of events, the United States Congress has joined the fight to keep the 43-foot tall cross atop Mount Soledad in San Diego, California, by designating the land on which it stands and the granite memorial walls surrounding it, a national veterans memorial. The congressional action came as a result of efforts by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that fights for the religious freedom of Christians.

San Diego area Congressmen, Reps. Duncan Hunter, R -El Cajon, and Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Escondido, inserted the memorial designation as part of a spending bill awaiting approval by President Bush.

Phillip Paulson, the atheist who mounted a successful 15- year legal battle to remove the cross with support from the ACLU, told the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Jihad Jesus Republicans need to understand that the separation of church and state has kept this country from getting into religious wars."

The ACLU of San Diego also criticized the legislation calling it "political gamesmanship".

San Diego attorney Charles LiMandri, Director of the Law Center's western regional office who has led the effort to save the Mt. Soledad cross, called the congressional action "an act of God". LiMandri said Congress was not unconstitutionally endorsing religion because it intended to honor veterans in the same manner as the crosses at Arlington National Cemetery.

President Bush is expected to sign the bill within the next few weeks.

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The Harmful Effects on Children of Exposure to Pornography

EDMONTON, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In recognition of World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse (Nov. 19), the Canadian Institute for Education on the Family (CIEF), has released a research paper, titled: The Harmful Effects on Children of Exposure to Pornography

Quoting numerous scientific studies, the paper demonstrates a strong correlation between exposure to pornography and subsequent deviant sexual behaviour by children. Canadian society has become an increasingly pornographic society in recent decades with disturbing implications for the children raised in it. The explosive growth of the Internet over the last decade and the freely available pornography to be found on this new medium pose an additional significant public health and safety threat to children, the study demonstrates.

The research paper shows that "...exposure to pornography is counterproductive to the goal of healthy and appropriate sexual development in children." The paper concludes that legislation and regulation are needed to protect children from exposure to pornography from traditional sources (television, magazines, etc.) and new criminal code provisions are required to meet the challenges posed by pornography on the Internet.

See the full report at:
http://www.cief.ca/research_reports/harm.htm

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Non Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment Allows Paralysed Brazilian To Walk, Talk Again

RIO DE JANEIRO, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Brazilian scientists have successfully transplanted adult stem cells into a woman's brain, facilitating her recovery from a brain hemorrhage that left her paralysed and unable to talk.

Maria da Graca Pomeceno, 54, had bone marrow stem cells taken from her pelvis and injected into her damaged brain. Local television broadcasts showed her walking up stairs and talking.

Hans Fernando Dohmann, director of Rio's Pro-Cardiaco Hospital, said that hers was the first reported successful treatment of this condition, but that trials with 14 more patients are in the works. "We are still at a stage where we are focusing on the safety of the procedure and trying to avoid potential side effects. The next phase will be to test the treatment's effectiveness," he told the AFP.

Dohmann said, however, that he also supports the use of embryonic stem cells, which have had vastly less success than adult stem cells, praising proposed legislation tabled by the Brazilian Senate that would legalize the unethical research.

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Abortion Approval Jumps in Australia

SYDNEY, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Australians are currently almost twice as likely to approve of abortion as compared to the results of a similar survey conducted only 14 years earlier, according to a 2001 report released Tuesday.

Fifty-eight percent of Australians in 2001 said abortion should be readily accessible to women, versus only 39 percent in 1987, according to an Australian Institute of Family Studies report: Diversity and Change in Australian Families.

The increased support for access to abortion was noticed equally between women and men, whereas support dwindled with rising age of those surveyed.

"Almost 70 per cent supported abortion if there was a serious defect in the baby but only 42 per cent supported abortion in the case of a woman wanting the abortion because of the low income of her family," the report said, according to Australia's theage.com.

The report release coincides with debate in the Australian parliament over whether increased restrictions should be placed on access to late-term abortions, or a restriction of Medicaid funding for abortion should occur. Prime Minister John Howard, however, emphasized last week that there would be no cabinet debate on the abortion issue.

See the related LifeSiteNews.com report:
Australian Prime Minister Howard Says No Debate on Abortion Restrictions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/nov/04111504.html

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Former Canadian Catholic Prime Minister Awarded for Homosexual Activism

TORONTO, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Canadian homosexual "marriage" advocacy group announced Monday the presentation of their "10th annual International Role Model Award," to former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, for his role in advocating acceptance of same-sex "marriage" in the country.

"As Canada's Prime Minister, Jean Chretien championed same-sex marriage," Equality Forum executive director Malcolm Lazin said. "In 2003, then Prime Minister Chretien called on Canadian citizens to support marriage equality. This impressive support by Mr. Chretien demonstrates the importance to Canadians of minority rights and separation of church and state."

According to the Equality Forum news, Chretien is expected to attend a gala to accept the award in April.

"Jean Chretien is an especially worthy candidate," according to the Equality Forum's vice president, Michele Bogrette. "He is a devout Catholic, who adhered to his public responsibility of equality for all Canadian citizens. With his impetus, most of Canada's provinces legally sanction same-sex marriage," she said.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Outgoing Prime Minister Chretien Finds His Own Betrayal of Catholic Faith Unbelievable
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/nov/03111402.html

Prime Minister's "Eternal Salvation is in Jeopardy" Says Canadian Bishop
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jul/03073101.html

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Vatican seeks priests from Africa to re-evangelise the West
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