Politics
Tuesday June 6, 2006
See today's LifeSiteNews stories- Abortion is a Crime that Must be Punished Says Vatican
- Homosexual Activist Steals Holy Communion at Church, Distributes Among Sash-Wearing Activists
- Senator Ted Kennedy: "A vote for this (marriage) amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple."
- U.S. Report Soft-Pedalling on Germany and Canada Sex-Trafficking say Anti-Trafficking Experts
- Australian Government Will Overrule Gay “Marriage” Law
- United States Court of Appeals: FDA Failed to Provide Adequate Explanation for Withholding Abortion Pill Documents
- Catholic Pharmacist Case Dismissed -- K-Mart in the Right to Fire over Refusal to Dispense Abortifacient Pills
- Insurance Discount for Women Who Refuse Abortion in Switzerland
- US Presbyterian Church Gropes Towards More Pro-Life Position
- Canada Unborn Victims of Violence Bill Loses Appeal to be Declared Votable
Abortion is a Crime that Must be Punished Says Vatican
New Vatican Document Warns We Are Entering a "Post-Human World"
By John-Henry Westen
VATICAN CITY, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family has published a document today which uses some of the strongest language the Vatican has employed in decades. The introduction to "Family and Human Procreation" says: "today man has become a great enigma to himself and lives through the most acute crisis of his history in its family dimension: the family is subject to attack as never before; the new models of the family destroy it; procreation techniques jettison human love; the politics of birth control lead to the current 'demographic winter.' ... Along these paths ... we deviate towards a 'post-human' world. It is necessary to save man."
The document specifies that abortion is a crime which must be punished. "Today people want to trivialise abortion with the claim that authorities must not penalise this abominable crime," says the 57-page document signed by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the head of the Pontifical Council. "It is not acceptable that a crime should remain unpunished."
The document also condemns the attack on the family as the "eclipse of God". The five-chapter document says: "Couples made up of homosexuals claim similar rights to those reserved to husband and wife; they even claim the right to adoption. Women who live a lesbian union claim similar rights, demanding laws which give them access to hetero fertilization or embryo implantation. Moreover it is claimed that the help of the law to form these unusual couples goes hand in hand with the help to divorce and repudiate,'' the document said.
The document in its first chapter speaks of "procreation" and "why the family is the only appropriate place for it". It explains that artificial procreation is illicit since "Procreation is the means of transmitting life by the loving union of man and woman," and it "must be truly human."
The philosophical key to moving out of the culture of death, suggests the document, is "an integral understanding of what is human." It explains, "Without a 'meta-anthropology' which touches the being, the substance, the spirit, there can be no integral understanding of what is human, because the concepts of person and being are emptied of content. Morals and religion, which are fundamental and decisive values, are reduced to a 'private matter.' The return of metaphysics is vital in order to regain a sense of what is human in man."
(with files from the Vatican Information Service, ANSA, and AP)
Back to Top Homosexual Activist Steals Holy Communion at Church, Distributes Among Sash-Wearing Activists
Diocese Refuses to Press Charges Against Offender
By Gudrun Schultz
ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Homosexual activists followed through on their threats to disrupt mass at Roman Catholic Cathedrals on Pentecost Sunday. Last Sunday more than 50 activists, wearing rainbow-coloured sashes "celebrating" homosexuality, demonstrated at St. Paul's Cathedral during Holy Mass.
The demonstrators were not given Holy Communion. Chaos broke out when one man, not wearing a sash, received Communion and then broke the host and distributed the fragments to some sash wearers, who consumed them.
Ushers threatened to call the police, reported the Washington Post, and one church employee wept when Communion was re-distributed to the protesters by the unidentified man. The Mass continued, however, and the incident "ended peacefully," Archdiocese spokesman Dennis McGrath told the Post.
"It was confrontational, but we decided not to try to arrest the guy," he said.
The group wears rainbow-coloured sashes while attending Mass to indicate they are actively living a homosexual lifestyle, but intend to receive Communion regardless. The demonstration challenges the Church's teaching that homosexual behaviour is gravely immoral and constitutes a mortal sin. Under church teaching, a Catholic cannot receive Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin; he must first confess his sin and receive absolution from a priest.
Several U.S. bishops issued public invitations to sash-wearers in the past, inviting the group to receive communion in their dioceses. Bishop Harry Flynn, of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, has been applauded by the homosexual community for offering encouragement to activists.
Last year, however, the Vatican issued a definitive word that the protestors could not receive Communion.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
Homosexual Activists Again Vow to Disrupt Catholic Masses on Pentecost
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06052403.html
Homosexual Activists Disturb Masses, Some Denied Communion, Some Steal It Anyway
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/may/05051701.html
Rainbow Sashers Call for Day of Protest on Pentecost, Call Pope Benedict a "Homophobe" and Liar
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/may/05050305.html
Senator Ted Kennedy: "A vote for this (marriage) amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple."
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. Senate will vote this week on the Marriage Protection Amendment, a bill which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was quoted today as saying, "A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple."
Kennedy, who claims to be Catholic while opposing the Church on every major tenet of morality, was blasted by Catholic League president Bill Donohue.
"A vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment is a vote to maintain the traditional understanding of marriage as it has been accepted for thousands of years all over the world," said Donohue. "To brand those who support this amendment as bigots is mud-slinging: it is analogous to those who would call foes of the amendment 'gay lovers.'"
Donohue recalled that in 1996, President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act which denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages and allows states the right to deny recognition of gay marriages that have been performed in other states. "Only 14 senators voted against this bill, and Senator Kennedy was one of them," Donohue pointed out. "Thus, his proclaimed opposition to gay marriage is nothing but an empty gesture: he refuses to do anything that would protect the institution of marriage from legislative or judicial tinkering."
Donohue also noted the public support for the measure. "In the last election, all 11 states that had same-sex marriage on the ballot voted against it, including states with a 'progressive' reputation like Oregon," he said. "Moreover, more than 80 percent of the states have passed Defense of Marriage Acts."
Donohue reminded Kennedy the "Catholic" that "the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is in favor of a constitutional amendment." He also noted that "Black ministers, like Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, have rallied in favor of the amendment. Even in New York City, surveys show the people don't want same-sex marriage."
Concluding Donohue asked, "Are all these people bigots, Mr. Kennedy?" He answered the rhetorical question, saying: "Reasonable people may disagree whether a constitutional amendment is the right remedy, but only fanatics will call those who support it bigots."
U.S. Report Soft-Pedalling on Germany and Canada Sex-Trafficking say Anti-Trafficking Experts
By John Jalsevac
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the recent release of the U.S. Department of State’s annual Trafficking in Person’s (TIP) Report, a number of experts in global human trafficking have decried the gross inadequacy of portions of the report, saying that it soft-pedals on serious problem-areas across the globe.
Donna M. Hughes, a professor in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Rhode Island, and a leading international researcher on the trafficking of women and children, has drafted a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice protesting a number of the most glaring weaknesses of this year’s report.
“Year after year,” writes Hughes, “the countries of Western Europe that are destination countries for tens of thousands of victims of trafficking are given the passing high grade of a Tier 1 rating.”
Conerned Women for America agrees with Hughes' evaluation of the TIP report. Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, CWA’s point person on the trafficking issue, in a statement issued in response to the report, said, “The TIP Report will become an international joke if it continues to ignore those nations that promote sex slavery and lets other nations remain year after year on the ‘special watch’ list even though they are making no measurable progress in combating trafficking in their country."
Both Crouse and Hughes point out, in particular, what they argue is the mis-ranking of Germany as a Tier 1 country. In her letter Hughes reminds Secretary Rice that “in Germany the city governments are partners with brothel keepers in creating special areas and small buildings to house women during the World Cup games. The German Women’s Council has estimated that an additional 40, 000 women will be brought into Germany to provide commercial sex acts for hundreds of thousands of male soccer fans. Many of these women are likely to be victims of trafficking.”
Hughes also protests the Tier 1 ranking of the Netherlands. “Senior Dutch officials,” explains Hughes, “have acknowledged that a significant percentage of the women in the sex industry are literal slaves, yet there is only perfunctory investigations and prosecutions of traffickers.”
Gregory Carlin, Director of the Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition, has also denounced the placement of Canada in the list of Tier 1 countries.
For some years now Carlin has focused his attention on Canada, in particular working to bring an end to the Canadian Exotic Dancer Visa Program, which allows for foreign “exotic dancers” to apply for temporary work visas. Last year’s TIP report similarly ranked Canada in the Tier 1 category, despite acknowledging that the exotic dancer program is “a type of program that has been abused and exploited by traffickers in many other countries.”
Despite assurances by Canada’s immigration department that the program has been shut down, such visas have continued to be issued. In the summer of 2005 Carlin outspokenly protested the granting of exotic dancer visas to six American male dancers. The Canadian government, however, went ahead and issued the visas to the six dancers. The bodies of two of those dancers, Mark Kraynak, 23, and Steve Wright, 20, were later discovered at the bottom of a gorge in Laval Quebec Canada, after they went missing for 10 days.
In a letter to LifeSiteNews.com Carlin criticized the gross oversight of the 2006 TIP Report’s remarks on Canada, saying “I am disappointed that the TIP report by the US govt. did not refer to the unexplained deaths of two American victims of the exotic dancer program. The oversight is quite remarkable.”
Professor Hughes concludes her letter to Secretary Rice saying, “Giving countries ratings when they have not taken significant steps to reduce the amount of trafficking sends the message that the U.S. Department of State is not serious about holding countries accountable for tolerating slavery…We call on you to make it clear that politics and friendship with the United States will not cause the United States to protect countries when they are indifferent to or complicit in the trafficking and enslavement of women.”
Read the TIP report:
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/index.htm
To sign on to Donna Hughes’ letter to Secretary Rice contact her at:
dhughes@uri.edu
See previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
German Government Blasted for Facilitating Massive Prostitution at World Cup in Berlin
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06050108.html
Canada an “International Embarrassment” on Sex Trafficking
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030209.html
Canadian Government Ignored Warnings Leading to Deaths of Two Young Americans
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/oct/05100402.html
Group Calls for Exotic Dancer Visa Probe as US Secretary of State Tours Canada
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/oct/05102404.html
United States Urges Canada to Beef Up Anti-Trafficking Efforts Especially on Exotic Dancer Scandal
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jun/05060302.html
Australian Government Will Overrule Gay “Marriage” Law
CANBARRA, Australia, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his government will overrule new laws passed by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) allowing same-sex unions, reported Reuters. Current laws in Australia define marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, but the ACT bypassed that restriction by giving same-sex couples the same legal rights as married couples but withholding the term “marriage.” Instead, same-sex couples enter into “civil unions.” Prime Minister Howard said Tuesday that the move was an attempt to undermine the 2004 Federal Marriage Act that formally defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. “Our view is very simple. We are not prepared to accept something which is a plain attempt to equate civil unions with marriage,” he told reporters. The federal government warned in March it would overturn the ACT’s civil union legislation if the capital territory brought it into law. “There is a special place in Australian society for the institution of marriage, as historically understood, and we do not intend to allow that to be in any way undermined,” the prime minister said at the time. The ACT was the first territory to introduce same-sex union legislation last March. The federal government has constitutional control over the nation’s two territories and can overturn territory laws. See previous LifeSiteNews coverage: Australian PM Howard Says Government Will Overturn Same-Sex Union Law First Australian Territory to Grant All Marriage Rights to Same-Sex Unions
By Gudrun Schultz
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06033004.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032805.html
United States Court of Appeals: FDA Failed to Provide Adequate Explanation for Withholding Abortion Pill Documents
Case Remanded Back to U.S. District Court for Further Review
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to provide adequate explanations for withholding more than 6,000 documents from Judicial Watch related to the approval of the abortion pill RU- 486. The appellate court remanded the case back to the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia for further review and ordered the FDA to provide more information about the documents withheld in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
When a federal agency refuses to release documents responsive to a FOIA request, it is required by law to produce a Vaughn index, which describes in detail the documents withheld along with the reasons for withholding them. The purpose is to allow the requester to challenge individual documents, and for the court to determine if the exemptions invoked by the government hold merit. The appellate court agreed with Judicial Watch that many of the FDA’s Vaughn index descriptions for the RU-486 documents were inadequate.
“...The FDA labeled many index entries with scientific codes, lab jargon, or other identifications specific to the agency...By using this shorthand, the FDA missed sight of the Vaughn index’s purpose – to enable the court and the opposing party to understand the withheld information in order to address the merits of the claimed exemptions,” the court ruled. “We accordingly remand the case for further explanation of these technical descriptions...”
Because federal agencies are allowed to withhold documents produced prior to the adoption of an agency policy, or documents that reflect the “consultative process,” the court also ruled the FDA must provide “dates for documents that lack them or explanations where dates cannot be found.”
Shortly after the FDA rushed the abortion pill RU-486 to market in the United States in the closing days of the Clinton administration, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request seeking all FDA documents related to the RU- 486 approval process. When the FDA failed to produce documents, JW filed a lawsuit. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the FDA to produce all responsive documents by October 15, 2001. The FDA disclosed 9,000 documents, but withheld over 4,000 in their entirety and parts of almost 2,000 more.
“We are pleased the court will not allow the FDA to continue to subvert with the open records process,” said JW President Tom Fitton. “The American people have a right to know why a dangerous and deadly drug was approved by an agency charged with protecting public health. Judicial Watch will continue to aggressively push for the release of documents related to the approval of RU-486.”
To read a copy of the court’s opinion, visit http://www.judicialwatch.org
Catholic Pharmacist Case Dismissed -- K-Mart in the Right to Fire over Refusal to Dispense Abortifacient Pills
By Hilary White
MADISON, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Christian pharmacist fired by K-Mart for refusing to dispense abortifacient drugs has had his lawsuit dismissed by a Wisconsin judge. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz ruled that K-Mart was right to fire Neil Noesen who brought a suit of religious discrimination against his former employer and against Medical Staffing Network, which had placed him temporarily with K-Mart.
Noesen refused to accept a settlement fine of US $250 and brought a suit against K-Mart who, he said, was violating his religious principles by insisting that he dispense birth control pills or refer the client to another pharmacist who would.
A lawyer representing Medical Staffing Network, Stephanie Adler, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that this is among the first cases to go to trial in which a pharmacist had been fired over refusal to dispense the hormonal contraceptives.
"It demonstrates there has to be a balance between accommodating someone's religious beliefs while at the same time providing a service and allowing people access to medical care,'' Adler said. "Noesen believes that his personal beliefs are more important than a patient's right to have access to legally prescribed medication.''
Medical Staffing Network said that Noesen was given accommodation for his religious beliefs but that a priority must be to fill legal prescriptions. The judge ruled that Noesen's behaviour was "disruptive", as he repeatedly refused to find another pharmacist to fill the prescriptions.
The case illustrates a growing dilemma for Catholic health workers. Under Catholic moral law, artificial birth control, even without a secondary abortive effect, is mortally sinful and a Catholic pharmacist may neither dispense it nor be the direct cause of it being dispensed. This requirement supersedes for Catholics the requirement to fulfill the terms of employment.
Advocates of conscience legislation for pharmacists and other Catholic healthcare workers have said that the provision where a pharmacist is required to find another to fill a prescription does nothing to solve the problem.
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Christian Pharmacist Still Fighting Charge of Unprofessional Conduct over Contraceptives
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/sep/04092904.html
Insurance Discount for Women Who Refuse Abortion in Switzerland
By Gudrun Schultz
SWITZERLAND, June 6, 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) - A program aimed to decrease abortions in Switzerland offers health insurance discounts to women who refuse abortions, in vitro fertilization and prenatal diagnosis, Zenit News Service reported yesterday.
The policy is an initiative of the pro-life organization Swiss Aid for Mother and Child, according to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation. At least five health insurance companies have agreed to participate in the program, offering rate discounts of 10% to 40% to eligible women. The service is well used--Zenit reported that thousands of women have signed on to the deal.
Citizens of Switzerland are obligated to purchase membership in a health insurance company.
There has been some opposition to the endeavour. Josef Zisyadis, national adviser of the communist Popular Workers Party, recently spoke out against the system of special rates. The Federal Council, however, said it would not interfere with the program.
Switzerland voted to loosen existing abortion laws in 2002. A national referendum showed 72% of the population backed a parliamentary measure to allow abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Previously, the country had one of Europe's strictest anti-abortion laws. Under the old law a woman convicted of aborting her child or procuring an abortion carried up to a five-year prison term plus a heavy fine.
Switzerland's birth rate stands at 1.43 children per woman, well below the rate of 2.1 children needed to prevent a shrinking population.
US Presbyterian Church Gropes Towards More Pro-Life Position
by Hilary White
LOUISVILLE, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Since 1983, the US Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) has officially endorsed abortion as a "moral choice" for mothers, but has been slowly groping its way forward to a more pro-life position.
A recent proposal from Presbyterians in Pennsylvania suggests that the next General Assembly adopt as policy: "In cases where problems of life or health of the mother arise in a pregnancy, the church supports efforts to protect the life and health of both the mother and the baby. When late term pregnancies must be terminated, we urge decisions intended to deliver the baby alive."
In 1992 the General Assembly moved away from support for abortion on demand, and adopted the position that, while still a possible "moral choice" abortion ought to be restricted and considered a "last resort." The church rejected abortion for sex-selection and said that adoption was a "preferable" choice. It also ventured that partial-birth abortion was "a matter of grave moral concern."
A PCUSA official backgrounder says the church offers a "relief of conscience" plan in which the Medical Plan dues paid by employers conscientiously opposed to abortion are set apart so they cannot be used to pay for abortions.
In the light of medical advances such as 3-D ultrasound technology, which pro-life advocates say shows beyond a doubt that the unborn child is a fully human individual, Church members have begun to consider the moral challenge of "post-viability" abortion.
The 2003 General Assembly gave four circumstances under which PCUSA considers abortion to be a "possible moral option": "when necessary to save the life of the woman; to preserve the woman's health in circumstances of a serious risk; to avoid fetal suffering as a result of untreatable life-threatening medical anomalies; and in cases of incest or rape."
Pro-life observers will note that these exceptions leave little room for real restrictions and ignore the fundamental issue of the humanity of the unborn child. The 'health of the mother' clause was the excuse used by former President Bill Clinton to veto proposed bans on partial birth abortion and has been interpreted so broadly by courts and medical associations as to constitute de facto abortion on demand.
Further, the stipulation allowing abortion in cases of "fetal suffering as a result of untreatable life-threatening medical anomalies," is medical parlance for the practice of active eugenics. Disability rights and other pro-life organizations have pointed out that the elimination of the disabled on the grounds of suffering is the standard cry not only of promoters of eugenic abortions but for the legalization of euthanasia.
The PCUSA's movement towards a more pro-life position continues this year with more proposals centred on the rights of the child to be considered human and valuable.
This year's General Assembly, being held later this month in Birmingham Alabama, will consider proposals to remove exceptions for rape and incest as well as the eugenic option. A similar proposal in 2004 was defeated by just four votes.
Another proposal calls for the 217th General Assembly to "affirm that the lives of viable unborn babies - those well-developed enough to survive outside the womb if delivered - ought to be preserved and cared for and not aborted."
The church will also be considering a report, issued in September 2005, discussing the issue of ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians.
Those interested in expressing their concerns may contact:
General Assembly Council
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
100 Witherspoon Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202-1396
Dial (888) 728-7228 then 1 plus the extension number.
FAX (502) 569-8080
TDD (800) 833-5955
Canada Unborn Victims of Violence Bill Loses Appeal to be Declared Votable
Attorney General Scuttles Effort with Shock Last Minute Letter Claiming Unconstitutionality
OTTAWA, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Mr. Leon Benoit MP Vegreville-Wainwright, Alberta appealed a decision today to the Standing Committee on Procedural and House Affairs. Last week his Private Members Bill C-291 was deemed non-votable by the sub-committee. Bill C-291 would make it a separate criminal offence to harm an unborn child in cases where a pregnant mother is assaulted or murdered.
Mrs. Mary Talbot, the mother of Olivia Talbot who was six months pregnant when her assailant shot her once in the head and her child in utero three times, travelled from Alberta to speak to the committee, but was denied the opportunity to do so. Her daughter's assailant was only charged with one count of murder. Since then Mrs. Talbot has been seeking justice on behalf of her grandchild.
Talbot is reportedly dismayed with the callous disregard with which her concern was received by the members of the committee.
The committee voted 7 against the appeal, 1 in favour, with 4 abstentions. Attorney-General Vic Toews sent a message to the committee just prior to the vote that the Bill was unconstitutional.
In his defence of the bill, Benoit pointed out clearly how the charges of unconstitutionality were groundless.
Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) responded to the nixing of the bill saying, "This very reasonable piece of legislation deserved to be debated and heard by the whole of Parliament...The Laci Peterson case in the United States proved that most reasonable people understand that two victims die at the hands of the murderer when the woman is pregnant."
"When it was decided that all Private Members Bills would be votable, it seemed that the voices of the average MPs would finally be heard in Parliament," said Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer of CLC. "But when a committee can so easily squelch those voices I wonder how much democracy we really have, no matter which Party is in power," she continued.
Campaign Life Coalition has called on Parliament to give Mr. Benoit an opportunity to bring his Bill C-291 before Parliament for a debate and a vote in the House.
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