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Print- Election 2006 Buzz
- “March for Canada Too” - Canadian Pro-Life Leader to US March for Life
- Canada Opens First “Hogwarts” Witchcraft School
- US Supreme Court Avoids Major Abortion Ruling
- Hollywood ‘Homosexualizing’ America
- How to Vote Responsibly - An Election Sermon for the Last Sunday Before the Election
- Schadenberg: Globe and Mail Poll on Euthanasia Misleading
- Benedict’s First Encyclical to Focus on Real Meaning of Love
- Phoenix Priest Who Was Outspokenly Positive About Homosexuality Resigns
- Canadian Election Pro-Life Voting Strategy
- Etobicoke-Lakeshore Riding Report
- LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes
Election 2006 Buzz
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Conservatives Take 18-Point Lead, Poll Shows - CTV
The Conservative Party has an 18-point lead over the Liberals in a new poll, giving them 42 per cent support nationally and setting possibly setting the stage for a major electoral shift. The Tories have gained two points since a similar poll released Monday, while the Liberals fell three points. "These numbers would deliver a majority government," pollster Tim Woolstencroft of The Strategic Counsel told CTV.ca on Tuesday.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060117/elxn_poll_060117/20...
Anne McLellan Says Martin's National Campaign Has Hurt Her Re-Election Chances
The comments from Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan were a further indication of disarray in the ruling Liberal Party which is trailing badly in polls ahead of the Jan. 23 elections.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_re_ca/canada_elections_5
Martin's legacy -- a decline in moral values
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/weinreb011706.htm
Liberals Fighting for Their Lives in Ontario
...another Liberal source said Grits do believe there is a small group of Liberals inside and intent on "sabotaging" the campaign. Why are they in the war room? Why are they doing a bunch of other things? And I guess the implication is always there; that the Chrétienites have not rolled over and died.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/janu...
Martin Appeals to NDP Voters to Form `coalition'
Prime Minister Paul Martin is asking New Democrat voters to form a "coalition" at the ballot box next week to avert a Conservative government and save Canada's social programs.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T...
Tory Trend Might Give Tony Clement the Last Laugh
Clement ignored advice and opted to become the federal Conservative candidate in Parry Sound-Muskoka. And now, with a Conservative wave sweeping the province, he is poised to win the cottage-country riding and be appointed to Harper's cabinet.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T...
New Reality of Election Loss Looms For Tory defectors Scott Brison and Belinda Stronach
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20060118/ELXNATLA...
Key players on Harper team
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T...
New Quebec support helps Harper
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T...
Lorne Gunter- expect some unexpected Liberal smear tactic this weekend
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/comment/blog/gunter.html?post=2588
Buzz Hargrove attacks Harper as separatist
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ade4f619-c66b-4ba8-b873-6e...
Courts Stacked With Liberal Judges: Harper
Harper reiterated and expanded upon comments he made Tuesday that any Tory government would find itself facing a series of checks and balances from Liberal-appointed judges, senators and top bureaucrats. He said the civil service has also been influenced by 12 years of Liberal government — so much so that the Liberals have been "parachuting" political staffers into civil service positions where they can exert influence. Mr. Harper said he's worried about the roadblocks that Liberal-appointed Senators are likely to pose for the Tories should they form the government. "The Liberal Senate in the past was extremely uncooperative when their party wasn't in power, so it's a worry," he said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060118.wharper0118/BNStory/...
Smitherman Will Move Up Same-Sex Wedding If Tories Win
Stephen Harper's pledge to review the rights of same-sex couples to get married has some couples rushing to tie the knot, and has created confusion and turmoil in the budding Canadian gay wedding industry. George Smitherman, Ontario's health minister, says he and his partner Christopher Peloso may move up their wedding date if Mr. Harper wins the federal election on Monday. The couple is now considering getting hitched this year, which is earlier than originally planned.
While most provincial courts have ruled that denying marriage to gays and lesbians violates their equal rights under the Charter, Mr. Harper argues the constitutional override clause would not be needed because the Supreme Court would respect Parliament's stance on the issue and not overturn any legislation it implements.
Many law professors have said that the only way Parliament could overturn same-sex marriage is to use the notwithstanding clause. Mr. Harper has dismissed what appears to be the legal consensus.
"Mr. Harper is suggesting legislation that legal experts agree is unconstitutional," said Laurie Arron, director of advocacy for Egale Canada, which represents gay and lesbian issues. "Ultimately, it won't hold up in court, but it will be messy, costly and pointless in the meantime."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060118.wgayweddings0118/BNS...
Back to Top“March for Canada Too” - Canadian Pro-Life Leader to US March for Life
By Hilary White
TORONTO, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Canadian pro-lifers prepare to vote in Monday’s general election, those in the US are getting ready for the annual March for Life. President George W. Bush is expected to address the marchers by phone. This will be the 33rd year for the annual event which is expected to draw tens of thousands of marchers from across the US.
In recent years, both the US and Canadian March have been drawing a younger crowd with schools and churches chartering buses. The event will be surrounded by various prayer vigils and conferences.
The Washington March normally includes a substantial contingent of Canadians who enjoy making contact with their American friends and confreres. This year, however, the Canadian contingent may be significantly smaller since the March and the Canadian election both fall on the same day.
Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition, asked the marchers to pray for divine intervention for Canada.
Hughes said, “We could use all the help you can give us.”
“With no laws against abortion and now legalized same sex marriage and legalized swinger’s clubs; with polygamy, assisted suicide and euthanasia and legalized marijuana coming next, please pray for us, your Canadian cousins on the verge of this election.”
Canada Opens First “Hogwarts” Witchcraft School
By Terry Vanderheyden
EDMONTON, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It would seem there is truth to the warnings against the Harry Potter series if the opening of an honest-to-goodness witchcraft school in Canada is any indication of increased interest in the occult that has resulted from the books.
The new school, Northern Star College of Mystical Studies, is compared to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter books by a CanWest News Service report. The school offers diploma and two-year certificate programs, open to adults only. The school teaches potions, astrology, tarot, hypnotherapy, divination, magic and other occult practices, among other subjects.
“Harry Potter starts to get everybody curious about the mystic inside of them,” admitted Catherine Potter, a hypnotherapist and professional astrologer who teaches at the school. She is a fan of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling series. “I think it stirs a yearning in people to know more than just the five senses.”
Despite naysayers, Potter’s own admission that Harry Potter spurned her interest in the occult confirms warnings like those from Pope Benedict XVI, Gabriele Kuby, Catholic artist and author Michael D. O’Brien, Father Alfonso Aguilar, and even Rome’s official exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, who said, “Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil.”
In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Pope Benedict XVI – then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – thanked his friend Gabriele Kuby for her “instructive” book about Harry Potter – gut oder böse (Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter books corrupt the hearts of the young, preventing them from developing a properly ordered sense of good and evil, thus harming their relationship with God while that relationship is still in its infancy.
“It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly,” the Pope wrote.
Both O’Brien and Father Alfonso Aguilar meanwhile condemn the books for their similarities with an early anti-Christian cult known as Gnosticism. “The wizard world is about the pursuit of power and esoteric knowledge, and in this sense it is a modern representation of a branch of ancient Gnosticism, the cult that came close to undermining Christianity at its birth,” O’Brien explained in his essay, Harry Potter and the Paganization of Children's Culture, available here: http://www.lifesite.net/features/harrypotter/obrienpotter.html.
“The so-called ‘Christian Gnostics’ of the 2nd century were in no way Christian, for they attempted to neutralize the meaning of the Incarnation and to distort the concept of salvation along traditional Gnostic lines: man saves himself by obtaining secret knowledge and power,” O’Brien wrote.
Defending his criticism of Rowling’s work as compared to JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, who some argue also portrays magic, O’Brien added: “Rowling portrays Harry’s victory as the fruit of esoteric knowledge and power. This is Gnosticism. Tolkien portrays Frodo’s victory as the fruit of humility, obedience, and courage in a state of radical suffering. This is Christianity.”
View the roster of eyebrow-raising courses such as Plant Spirit Integration, Sacred Circle, Oracle Exploration, Exploring the Concept of Reincarnation, Earth Medicine, and Crystal and Stone Helpers, at the school’s web site:
http://www.centercollege-wholistic.ca/home.html
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels - Signed Letters from Cardinal Ratzinger Now Online
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html
Ten Arguments Against Harry Potter - By Woman Who Corresponded with Cardinal Ratzinger
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jul/05071508.html
Rome’s Chief Exorcist Warns Parents against Harry Potter
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jan/02010202.html
US Supreme Court Avoids Major Abortion Ruling
By Gudrun Schultz
WASHINGTON, United States, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today against a lower court’s decision to strike down abortion restrictions in the state of New Hampshire, but stopped short of a major ruling on the necessity of a “health clause” in abortion legislation.
In 2000 the Court of Appeals in Boston ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood New England, which had challenged New Hampshire’s parental notification law. The law required under-age girls to notify their parents before obtaining an abortion. Planned Parenthood said the law was unconstitutional because it did not allow exceptions in cases of a health risk to the girl.
In fact New Hampshire’s parental notification law does make allowances for cases in which the girl’s life is in immediate danger. In all lesser cases of medical emergency, the law requires that parents be notified of physical danger to their child. The Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower court for further hearings.
Phyllis Woods, a former state representative from Dover, N.H., who was a main sponsor of the law, told the Associated Press she was pleased by the ruling but concerned that the appeals court might require a broad health exception.
"Our concern has always been that a blanket health exception opens the door and really negates the whole purpose of the bill," Woods said
Health exceptions in abortion law have been interpreted so loosely that they have become synonymous with open access to abortion. Opponents say they are simply a method of bypassing legal restrictions to abortion. So far, the Court has avoided addressing the issue directly. It is not considered a constitutional necessity to provide for health exceptions in abortion law, although advocates say the Nebraska ruling in 2000, when the Supreme Court struck down a ban on partial-birth abortion because it did not contain provisions for health risks to the mother, set a decisive precedent.
In 1990 the Supreme Court stood in favor of parental notification laws in Minnesota, in a case almost identical to that of New Hampshire.
A Gallup poll released in November 2005 found almost 70% of Americans support parental notification laws.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
NH Abortion Parental Consent Challenge before Supreme Court
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05120103.html
Abortion Notification Law in New Hampshire under Review by US Supreme Court
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/may/05052409.html
Hollywood ‘Homosexualizing’ America
By Terry Vanderheyden
HOLLYWOOD, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This time, “Hollywood has gone way too far,” according to Stephen Bennett, Host of Straight Talk Radio, who is critical of Hollywood’s decision to award four Golden Globe awards to the homosexual cowboy movie, “Brokeback Mountain.”
“Hollywood has sunk to an all-time moral low,” Bennett emphasized. “I guess 2006 will be known as ‘The Year of the Homosexual’ in Hollywood. With ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘TransAmerica’ and ‘Capote’ winning several major ‘gender-bender’ Golden Globes - Hollywood is no doubt ‘out’ on a mission to ‘homosexualize America.”
Felicity Huffman, a star in the television series Desperate Housewives, won best actress for her role as a male who undergoes a sex change operation in the movie Transamerica. Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for his portrayal of homosexual Truman Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in the movie Capote.
Bennett, a former homosexual of 11 years, along with his wife and co-host Irene, led the charge in sounding the alarm nationally on “Brokeback Mountain” upon its release this past December. He isn’t surprised at all about last night’s celebration of homosexuality and transsexuality at the Golden Globe, though. Bennett says in Hollywood today, anything other than heterosexuality is “chic.”
“When Hollywood is pumping out anti-family movies with sexually explicit, twisted and perverse themes that glorify homosexuality, transsexuality and every other kind of sexual immorality – then awards itself for doing so – middle America better take note.
Last night, Hollywood exposed its own corrupt agenda.” Bennett added. “With the Oscars just around the corner, don't be surprised this year if you see Hollywood’s elite walking down the ‘Pink Carpet.’”
“Conservatives and middle America are frankly sick of having the homosexual agenda continually shoved down our throats by the media,” Bennett said. His message to Hollywood: “Give it a break - a permanent one.”
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute at Concerned Women for America commented on the awards: “Once again, the media elites are proving that their pet projects are more important than profit.”
Crouse explained that none of the three movies, Capote, Transamerica or Brokeback Mountain, is a box office hit. “Brokeback Mountain has barely topped $25 million in ticket sales,” she said. “While it has recouped all the production costs, it is doubtful that receipts have covered the massive PR costs.”
Crouse concluded, “If America isn't watching these films, why are they winning the awards?”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
US Bishops' Organization Gives Glowing Review of Homosexual-Sex Propaganda Film
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121503.html
USCCB Changes Rating on Brokeback Mountain to Morally Offensive
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121607.html
How to Vote Responsibly - An Election Sermon for the Last Sunday Before the Election
Priest: Don't Vote by Religion, "Some of the Worst Candidates are Catholic"
By John-Henry Westen
MARMORA, ON, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A priest in the diocese of Kingston has delivered a thoroughly prepared homily on the election, which he is making available to priests and pastors for the final Sunday prior to the election.
Fr. Louis DiRocco, of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, a veteran of the pro-life movement advised parishioners last Sunday of their duty to vote responsibly. He pointed out that certain issues, such as life and family issues are "disqualifying or non-negotiable issues". He directed his congregation to documents of the Church which teach that the life issues, such as abortion and euthanasia, and the family issues such as traditional marriage do not allow for compromise.
Should a candidate support stands in opposition to life and family they would be disqualified from consideration, even if their positions on other matters may be perfect.
"Let's assume a candidate has terrific positions on all the issues except one," said Fr. DiRocco.
"What if somebody said well now, the soft-wood lumber issue has been dragging on and on; let's play hardball with those Americans, let's drop an atomic bomb on Washington and get their attention. Do you think anybody would really take such a candidate seriously? No, it would be unthinkable, it would be outrageous! Well, we should be just as outraged at politicians saying that it is OK to kill innocent human beings in the womb or the elderly or the disabled. Why are those things not as outrageous? We should be outraged!"
The priest warned against voting on candidates' appearances, their personality, their media savvy, and even their religion. "What if the candidate is Catholic? Should you say 'Oh well I can vote for that candidate'. Not necessarily, some of the worst candidates are Catholic, because they are bad Catholics, they don't believe what the Church teaches, they give scandal. So if they don't believe what the Church teaches, if they don't practice it in their lives, if they are not willing to vote for it in Parliament, if they have voted against it in Parliament, if they are promoting immoral policies, then they're bad Catholics. Don't vote for them!," said Fr. DiRocco.
Rev. DiRocco spoke of one exception in voting for candidates who are not completely on side on key moral issues. In a "worst case scenario," he said, where "all (candidates) believe in something immoral". . . "you have to analyze the position of all the candidates and decide which one is going to cause the most harm and which one can cause the least harm by their positions. Which one is more likely or least likely to advance their policies, their immoral legislation. Sometimes you have to vote on that basis."
Voting for a candidate who would allow abortion only in certain cases, over one who would allow abortion on demand, could thus be justified.
In conclusion, the Kingston diocese pastor prayed that "one day we will be able to base our vote only on the negotiable issues, in other words, those issues which allow for legitimate differences of opinion, because all the candidates will be pro-life and pro-family, and in that case no candidate will disqualify himself because he is endorsing immoral laws or immoral principles, intrinsic evils." Such a situation, he said, would be "wonderful" since "Then we can all base our vote on things like the economy, and similar things."
Canada's national pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition, is encouraging readers to distribute the text of the homily to their pastors and encourage them to review the homily for the development of their own sermons to their congregations this pre-election Sunday.
See the complete text of Fr. DiRocco's homily at
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/060118b.html
Schadenberg: Globe and Mail Poll on Euthanasia Misleading
By Terry Vanderheyden
LONDON, Ontario, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, a Canadian national newspaper, The Globe and Mail asks a question in an online petition (http://www.theglobeandmail.com – see margin at right for poll): “The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's right to permit assisted suicide. Should terminally ill Canadians have the right to decide when to die?”
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the euthanasia prevention coalition says that the Globe and Mail online poll asks a misleading question. “This question only reflects whether or not Canadians believe they should be able to refuse all medical treatment, it does not indicate whether Canadians support euthanasia or assisted suicide,” he explains.
“Euthanasia is an intentional act or failure to act, where that act or failure to act causes the death of the person,” Schadenberg continues. “The Globe and Mail poll does not ask whether Canadians believe that someone should have the right or responsibility to intentionally end another person’s life.”
A recent Pew Research Survey in the United States reported that 81% of Americans supported the so-called Right to Die (see http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011004.html). When reading further into the survey one found that support for assisted suicide was only 46%. “In fact the Pew Research Survey only proved that 81% of Americans supported the right to refuse medical treatment,” Schadenberg states. “When the survey asks a misleading question they get a misleading result.”
Schadenberg adds that generally people are split approximately 50/50 on euthanasia: “A poll conducted by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in March 2005 found that 45% of Canadians actually supported euthanasia, 39% opposed euthanasia and the rest were undecided.”
“Finally, the US Supreme Court did not uphold Oregon’s right to permit assisted suicide, it only stated the John Ashcroft's use of the federally controlled substances act was not constitutional,” Schadenberg clarified. “In 1997 the US Supreme Court stated that there was no right to assisted suicide.”
Euthanasia opponents point out that much of the support for euthanasia is based on poor understanding and unfounded fears of the admittedly often complex issue. Accurate information, they note, is hardly available via the usually biased mainstream media.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
US Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Physician Assisted Suicide Law
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011706.html
Benedict’s First Encyclical to Focus on Real Meaning of Love
By Hilary White
ROME, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical letter, titled Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), is to focus on the meaning of love in the context of modernity.
It is the custom of the Catholic Church that a pope’s first encyclical should outline the direction and “theme” of his papacy. As Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict was considered one of the Church’s leading theologians, which makes it unsurprising that his first encyclical should focus on theological rather than political matters.
In it, Pope Benedict discusses the difference between “eros” and “agape,” Greek words distinguishing between erotic love and spiritual love or charity.
Reuters, quoting an anonymous Vatican source, said on Tuesday the encyclical was to have been released in December, but was delayed because of revisions requested by various “departments as well as by a handful of cardinals and Church experts.”
The Pope warns that eros, while good in itself, is at risk of being "degraded to mere sex" without selfless charity or divine love.
Phoenix Priest Who Was Outspokenly Positive About Homosexuality Resigns
By Hilary White
MESA, January 18, 2006 (LifSiteNews.com) – Another priest of the “Phoenix Nine” has resigned his post as pastor of a Phoenix Catholic parish. Fr. Chris Carpenter announced this weekend to his parishioners at Christ the King Catholic Parish in Mesa, Arizona, that he was leaving in order to address, “some health and other concerns.”
Carpenter is one of the dissenting priests who, in 2004, signed the so-called “Phoenix Declaration,” that claimed the Church’s teaching on human sexuality “leads directly and indirectly to intolerance, discrimination, suffering, and even death.”
“The verdict is in. Homosexuality is not a sickness, not a choice, and not a sin,” the statement read. This flew in the face not only of Catholic teaching, but the words of Carpenter’s own bishop, Thomas J. Olmsted, who wrote in a column, "A key distinction, then, is needed when considering homosexuality, namely between the homosexual tendency on the one hand and homosexual acts on the other. Those who engage in homosexual acts commit serious sin . . . (but) persons who have homosexual inclinations but do not act on them are not guilty of sin.”
Carpenter said that his resignation had not been requested by Bishop Olmsted. The bishop said in a press release, “Fr Chris will be missed very much.”
Carpenter removed his name from the list of signatories to the Declaration at Bishop Olmsted’s request saying, “I do so in fidelity to my promise of obedience and respect for the Bishop of Phoenix and in the interest of parish and diocesan unity.”
Bishop Olmsted has been among the very small number of bishops anywhere in the Church directly to tackle the issue of homosexuality among the priests in his diocese. He has published letters explaining the Church’s teaching on homosexuality on his website. The first Christmas eve after his appointment, he joined pro-lifers praying the rosary outside an abortion facility.
Most Catholics agreed that Phoenix was in need of a clean-up. The previous bishop, Thomas J. O'Brien, resigned in 2003 amid a cloud of scandal, not least when he was arrested and convicted of killing a cyclist in a hit-and-run accident.
O’Brien had offered his resignation to the Vatican earlier that year in order to avoid criminal indictment after admitting he had covered up allegations of sexual abuse by priests for decades. O'Brien revealed that at least 50 priests, former priests and church employees had been accused of sexual misconduct with children in the Phoenix Diocese. It was later revealed that the Phoenix diocese was considered a haven among homosexual priests.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
New Phoenix Bishop Orders Priests to Disassociate from Gay Document
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/04042806.html
New Phoenix Bishop Shows Impressive Leadership - Dares to Directly Address Homosexuality
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/04050603.html
Canadian Election Pro-Life Voting Strategy
TORONTO, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In its January 2006 Newsletter, the Canadian national pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition offers the following suggestions to pro-life voters on voting strategies for different scenarios that may exist in their riding. CLC organizers state they usually receive many requests for such direction every election:
A. There is one pro-life candidate who is representing one of the major parties:
Perhaps you don’t like the party, but the candidate is the incumbent who has voted pro-life and pro-family or the candidate has responded pro-life and pro-traditional marriage to the CLC questionnaire. Please vote for this pro-life candidate.
B. All the major party candidates are anti-life and anti-family, but there is a Christian Heritage Party candidate or someone running as an independent candidate:
If there is a CHP candidate or a pro-life independent candidate, vote for the CHP candidate or the pro-life independent candidate.
C. There is no pro-life candidate:
Write in blue ballpoint pen across the ballot ‘no pro-life candidate’ or ‘no pro-life Liberal/Conservative’. When the ballots are being counted, the inside scrutineers for each party’s candidate see the ballots and reflect on how many votes were lost by their party because the candidate did not reflect the values of those voters. The message is loud and clear to the party, relayed by its scrutineers.
D. There is no pro-life candidate but there is one who supports marriage:
Some voters will cast their vote for this candidate because they believe it is better to try to re-open the marriage debate with a view to restoring marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
E. All candidates are pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia and pro-same sex marriage:
Some voters will vote to defeat the incumbent and will vote to support the candidate with the best chance of accomplishing this. Another strategy may be to defeat a particular party nationally because of the party’s official platform and damage done in the recent past.
See the complete January CLC National News at
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/national_news/2006/news_0106.html
Also see the The Interim newspaper's Election 2006 issue at
http://www.theinterim.com/2006/jan/index.html
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Riding Report
TORONTO, January 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It was supposed to have been a cakewalk for a star candidate – and future leadership prospect – parachuted in from the U.S. to serve as the Liberal Party’s representative in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore in the federal election Jan. 23. But Michael Ignatieff is fighting both problems plaguing his own efforts and declining Liberal fortunes at the national level as the final days of the campaign wind down.
Conservative Party candidate John Capobianco is poised to capitalize on Ignatieff’s troubles. He also has the advantage of having run in the 2004 election against then-Liberal MP Jean Augustine, who is retiring.
Capobianco is attracting the attention of voters concerned with life and family matters as the only candidate in the riding who supports their views. He scored perfectly in a questionnaire on life and family issues sent to him by Campaign Life Coalition, the national political arm of the Canadian pro-life movement. As well, his support for the traditional definition of marriage has won him the endorsement of Vote Marriage Canada, a non-partisan organization that has former Liberal MP Pat O’Brien serving as a co-chair.
See the Complete Etobicoke-Lakeshore Riding Report at
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/060118a.html
LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes
Catching up from the lack of NewsBytes since last Saturday:
Canada's Conservatives take 18-point lead, poll shows
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060117/elxn_poll_060117/20...
The latest information you can use — and encourage others to use — to support the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037317.cfm
Democrats renege on agreement and delay committee vote on Alito.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9921/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm
Alito Surely Will Be Confirmed - Paul Weyrich
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/15/194148.shtml
Senators Max Baucus, Barbara Mikulski Say 'No' on Alito
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/18/125200.shtml?s=ic
'Earthy' Alito Hearings Contrast Roberts' - by Robert Novak
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11671&o=ENPR003
First Lady Laura Bush Speaks Out for Abstinence
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9913/BLI/education/index.htm
3 of 4 New York City Babies Aborted
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382990p-325078c.html
Pro-abortion organizer to lead U.S. Planned Parenthood
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22453
It's Okay to Be Against Suicide
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/012/10.26.html
Australian doctors apply for abortion pill
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060117-093737-7644r
"Women Deserve Better Than Abortion"
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/walkforlifewc2006_jan06.asp
Lots of criticism from C.S. Lewis fans over Narnia movie
http://lookingcloser.blogspot.com/2005/12/chattaway-greydanus-weigh-in-on-narnia...
Spiritual Warfare Is Theme of Peretti Film
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/172006e.asp
Study shows years between late-teens and mid-twenties conducive to moral and physical break-down.
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0039228.cfm
Mexican bishops urge laity to participate in politics
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5774
Spanish president: Faith has no place in public square
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5773
Martin Luther King's Conservative Legacy
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AmericanFoundingandHistory/wm961.cfm
The Cultural Contradictions of Feminism
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucmg/20060117/cm_ucmg/theculturalcontradictionsoffeminis...--
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http://www.ncregister.com/articulo2.php?artkod=MTcw
Christian groups accuse Golden Globe Awards of promoting films with gay or “leftist” themes to serve political agenda.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1990992,00.html
The Next Conservatism and the Republican Party
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/4/194852.shtml
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/11/140901.shtml
Abdallah of Jordan: Don’t empty Jerusalem of its Christian population
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5147
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http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5148
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http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-10-018-v
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http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=19-01-013-v
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http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=19-01-034-f
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http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover011806.htm
Professor Rice shares his personal views on relevant issues facing Ave Maria School of Law
http://whoseamsol.blogspot.com/2001/10/professor-rice-shares-his-personal.html
Doctor Bans Boy From Playstation To Stop Head Twitching
http://www.local6.com/news/6061002/detail.html
Actor Stephen Baldwin on crusade against porn
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48347
Animal eggs 'to grow stem cells'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4605926.stm
U.S. Senate Needs to Consider Broadcast Indecency Legislation
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039212.cfm
Laws Lacking in Prosecuting Porn on Wheels
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0039210.cfm
Ted Kennedy's Secret Love Child Exposed
http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=121772
Boycott Urged of Gay-Supporting Companies
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/255905_gayrights17.html
U.S. Government Agency Celebrates Homosexuality
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/182006g.asp
Southern Baptists Remove Church Over Homosexuality
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22464
South Africa Bans Blood From Active Gays
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1862094,00.html
Gay-rights groups make covert plans to crash the annual White House Easter egg roll.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/596bqyrw.asp
Episcopalian bishop removes priest for stance against gay bishop
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5770
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