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Pope Recalls Fondly Trip to America: "I had the opportunity to pay homage to that great country"

By John-Henry Westen

VATICAN CITY, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking to thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square for the weekly general audience, Pope Benedict XVI remarked at length about his visit to the United States from April 15-21.  "I had the opportunity to pay homage to that great country, which from its beginnings was built on the foundation of a harmonious union between religious, ethical and political principles," he said.

In the context of "moral and social questions of the day," particularly around marriage of a "man and a woman", the Holy Father noted that "contradictions" in the US "threaten the coherence of Catholics and even of the clergy."  He said he urged the Bishops to press on with defending marriage as "a gift and an indissoluble commitment between a man and a woman, the natural environment in which to welcome and educate children."

Recalling one aspect of his mission in addressing education, the Pope said, "The Church and the family, as well as schools must co-operate in offering young people a solid moral education."

While his remarks were delivered in Italian, the Pope provided a summary of his reflections in English in which he noted, "My visit was meant to encourage the Catholic community in America, especially our young people, to bear consistent witness to the faith."

The aspect of the trip which seemed to strike the Pope most was the Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.  "I will never forget", he said, "with how much warmth they congratulated me for the third anniversary of my election to the See of Peter. It was a moving moment, in which I particularly felt the support of all the Church for my ministry." 

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President and 50 State Governors Declare May 1 National Day of Prayer

"We recognize our dependence on the Almighty," says President Bush

 By Michael Baggot

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Tomorrow, the nation that claims that its citizens are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" will officially recognize the Source of their life and liberty with the 57th National Day of Prayer (NDP). 

"America trusts in the abiding power of prayer and asks for the wisdom to discern God's will in times of joy and of trial," stated President George W. Bush in his official proclamation of the day. "As we observe this National Day of Prayer, we recognize our dependence on the Almighty, we thank Him for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us, and we put our country's future in His hands."

The National Day of Prayer was established in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman and is normally observed on the first Thursday of May.

Bush encouraged citizens to use the day to thank God for the freedoms and blessings they have received and to ask "for God's continued guidance, comfort, and protection."

The annual NDP is meant to "reaffirm the role of prayer in our society," added Bush.

"In order to realize the potential outlined in the Declaration of Independence, we must continue seeking Divine counsel, asking for His intervention and direction," stated Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the NDP Task Force.

Dobson went on to encourage those who are overwhelmed with the vast array of attacks on human life and traditional family values present in American society to turn to the Author of Life for strength and guidance.

"We are facing threats from within our borders and from enemies overseas, and immoral practices and ideologies are prevailing in nearly every segment of our culture. Clearly, there is an urgent need for God's people to seek His protection and wisdom as we confront these dangers," added Dobson.

The NDPTF is a Judeo-Christian group that encourages participation in the NDP, emphasizes man's need for prayer and repentance, and seeks to "protect America's Constitutional Freedoms to gather, worship, pray and speak freely."

One of the more unusual NDP activities is the scheduled PrayerFlight, in which pilots will hover over each state capital in prayer on Thursday. 

"Our dedicated men and women believe that it is from our perspective in flight that allows us the opportunity to observe God's awesome creation and are reminded of our duty to pray for our fellow man, cities and nation," states PrayerFlight.org.

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Cardinal Arinze Voices Support for May 3rd One Million Rosaries for Unborn Babies Prayer Event
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08042202.html

Learn more about the NDP:
http://www.ndptf.org/home/home.html

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Uruguay's Pro-Life President Receives Support from Seven Major Religious Groups

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MONTEVIDEO, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Representatives of seven different religious groups in Uruguay have made a joint declaration supporting president Tabaré Vázquez' promise to veto legislation to decriminalize abortion.

The religious groups include the Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic Churches, and Baptist, Mennonite, and Pentecostal groups.

The signers denounced "false opposition between the good of the mother and the good of the unborn child" and observed that "the two goods do not exclude each other, but rather are essential for one another."

Uruguay already has a liberal penal code in relation to abortion.  Abortion in Uruguay is not penalized in cases in which the mother's life is in danger, rape, or severe economic hardship.

However, legislation under consideration by the nation's legislature would allow first-trimester abortions for virtually any reason (see previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022506.html). Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez, an obstetrician, has stood against his own party by promising to veto the legislation if it is passed.

Along with its condemnation of abortion decriminalization, the collective letter advocates a legal reform that will minimize punishments received by mothers and increase those given to doctors and others who actually carry out the abortion.  It also advocates the creation of crisis pregnancy centers to help pregnant women in need.

In the face of newly-legalized "homosexual unions" in Uruguay, the joint statement included a reminder to Vazquez that adoption should not serve the interest of special interest groups, but rather the true interests of the child.  

The state, wrote the representatives, "has the obligation to oversee the right of the child to receive a healthy education in an environment that guarantees him the necessary conditions for emotional, psychological, and moral development, over and above the demands and interests of those who request an adoption."

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Evangelical and Catholic Groups Call for Curbs on Human Rights Commission after Anti-Christian Ruling

By John-Henry Westen

TORONTO, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The editor of Canada's national Catholic magazine of news, opinion and analysis, Father Alphonse de Valk, has renewed his call for the federal government to rein in the far-reaching powers of human rights commissions in Canada. 

The move comes in light of the recent ruling by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) in the case of Christian Horizons, a service organization for the disabled. De Valk called the decision, "a brazen attack on the rights of religious associations and individuals to conduct their activities without having to check their religious principles at the workplace door."

The OHRC on April 15 decided that, because Christian Horizons required a former employee to sign a Lifestyle and Morality Statement that prohibited homosexual relationships, Christian Horizons must: pay lesbian Connie Heintz two years' wages and $23,000; no longer require its employees to sign a lifestyle and morality statement; develop 'anti-discrimination' policies; provide 'training' to all employees and managers; and review all of its employment policies to ensure they are in compliance with the Ontario Human Rights Code.

De Valk, the editor of Catholic Insight magazine, originally issued a call for the powers of the Human Rights Commissions to be curtailed when a human rights complaint was filed against his magazine in February 2007.

Brian Rushfeldt of the Canada Family Action Coalition was outraged by the ruling saying, "The ethos of immorality reigns in the Human Rights Commission at least in Ontario." The Commission, he explained, "by the very fact it orders an agency not to require employees to sign a statement regarding unbecoming conduct and behavior is endorsing immorality."

"This decision is further reason citizens who have rights, hold to religious beliefs and have a sense of morality must force governments to rescind the Human Rights Acts that interfere with normal functions of a civilized society and democracy," said Rushfeldt. "The empowerment of a few appointed people to act as dictators is a dangerous deception of democracy. Governments must be held to account as they are the perpetrators of this authoritarian arm of government."

Don Hutchinson, General Legal Counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, was also incensed with the decision.  He told LifeSiteNews.com that the ruling was "the decision of a single adjudicator functioning as a human right tribunal."  He added: "It is unreasonable for any tribunal to make a decision which assumes that faith and practice can be severed and in this case the capacity for practice in the type of ministry that Christian Horizons exhibits is dependent on a shared faith commitment amongst its staff."

Referencing the many cases where Human Rights Commissions across Canada have threatened the freedom of religion of Christians and Christian businesses, Hutchinson said, "I think there is general knowledge in Canada right now in regard to the decision-making capacity of Human Rights Tribunals across the country."

De Valk quoted Pope Benedict XVI in noting that, "Human rights must include the right to religious freedom, understood at once (as) individual and communitarian…It is inconceivable, then, that believers should have to suppress a part of themselves - their faith - in order to be active citizens. It should never be necessary to deny God in order to enjoy one's rights."

De Valk says workplaces must indeed be free of harassment or poisoned environments. However, the OHRC decision violates the rights of evangelical Christians, even though Christian Horizons was offering its services to all without discrimination. "No complaint appears to have been filed by any client of Christian Horizons or by the developmentally disabled people they serve," said de Valk. "In addition to disrupting the fine work being undertaken by the organization's employees, the OHRC decision ominously threatens the rights of other faith-based institutions, as well as their employees and volunteers, in Ontario."

Rushfeldt concluded, "Canadians - wake up - next election, both federally and provincially we must demand of those who want to govern that they will resolve these authoritarian hate based actions by Human Rights Commissions."

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Anglican Church of Canada Loses Prominent Theologian over its "Poisonous Liberalism"

By Hilary White

VANCOUVER, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Anglican Church of Canada has lost another prominent member due to its "poisonous liberalism" which holds homosexuality in high esteem but increasingly marginalizes Christian morality and scriptural tradition.

James Innell Packer, a British-born Canadian theologian in the Calvinistic or Evangelical Anglican tradition, has announced that he will be aligning himself with the groups of Anglicans who have left the jurisdiction of the ultra-liberal Anglican Church of Canada and are seeking episcopal oversight from more traditional wings of the Anglican Church.

On April 23, Dr. Packer handed in his clergy licence to Canadian Bishop Michael Ingham, the bishop of New Westminster, who had already declared him and ten other clergy to be guilty of "abandoning" their ministry. Dr. Packer told a meeting of the Anglican Network this week that he could no longer serve in ministry under Bishop Ingham.

He told a conference of 400 orthodox Anglicans this week, "It seems to me that in a situation where arguably, elected bishops become heretical, what is the divine answer to that, there must be possibility for realignment for the faithful where heresy, doctrinal and moral is approved."

The 81 year-old Dr. Packer was educated in Protestant theology at Oxford University - where he met and was strongly influenced by C. S. Lewis - and was ordained to the Anglican ministry in 1953. In 2005 he was named by Time magazine one of the twenty most influential evangelical theologians of the 20th century. Dr. Packer serves at the parish of St. John's Shaughnessy in Vancouver, which in February 2008 voted en mass to leave the Anglican Church of Canada when Bishop Ingham imposed "same-sex blessings" on the local church.

The parish, together with several others around the country, joined the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in South America through the auspices of the Anglican Network in Canada, an alternate "ecclesial structure" set up to help traditionally Christian Anglicans remain in communion with the larger Anglican Church around the world.

Ingham has been among the forefront in the leadership of the Anglican Church of Canada pushing the church to abandon traditional Christian doctrine on sexual morality and biblical authority. In February, Ingham issued a "Notice of Presumption of Abandonment of the Exercise of the Ministry" to nine Anglican ministers and two deacons who had sought alternate oversight with Southern Cone. 

These eleven clergy responded to Ingham in a letter saying that they have determined that "in order to uphold our ordination vows," they must relinquish their licences from the diocese of New Westminster. They will receive licences to continue their present ministries from Bishop Donald Harvey under the jurisdiction of the Primate of the Southern Cone, Archbishop Gregory Venables.

The letter concluded, "In this way, we will be able to continue our Anglican ministry within the Anglican Church, under the jurisdiction of and in communion with those who remain faithful to historic, orthodox Anglicanism and as part of the Anglican Communion worldwide."

Dr. Packer told the audience at the Anglican Network meeting that despite the current troubles, "I have a joyful heart. One cannot be seeking to live under the leading and power of the Holy Spirit without joy in one's heart."

Dr. Packer said that scripture stories "prompt us to ask what God was doing."

"I ask the same question: what is God doing not to the Anglican Church of Canada but the disorder that only seems to grow in the old west?" meaning the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

"We pray for an end to it but we do not see an end to it. I continue to pray that out of all this God is going to purge the old west of its poisonous liberalism which is weakening and shrinking the churches." He said it is "God's way of purging" to allow problems to "grow to its full stature so that its real nature can be seen so that finally it is squeezed out."

Dr. Packer exhorted those present to prepare for greater troubles to come, echoing warnings of persecution that are increasingly being heard from Christians all over the post-Christian secularist West: "God is preparing and toughening us for specially demanding conflict. In our call to mission, I suspect that over the next generations it is going to be exceedingly tough as we face secularism and ethnic religions surge which do not tolerate Christianity. The pressure is on and increasing. God is toughening us for mission."

At the same meeting, the Archbishop of Southern Cone, Gregory Venables, told attendees that the Anglican Communion is "in the first stages of divorce".

"With reference to the two positions in Anglicanism at present we are incompatible doctrinally and ethically and quite different in our presuppositions. Once we recognize that maybe we can have an amicable divide. This is separation from an apostate situation. Perhaps we can have an Anglican federation but even that seems unlikely at present," said the archbishop.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

The Split Widens: Leader of Traditional Anglicans to Speak in Vancouver Friday
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08042208.html

Largest Anglican Parish in Canada Secedes over Same-Sex Blessings
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08021505.html

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Ex-Abortion Clinic Owner Tells Pro-life Group Truth about Abortion Business

By Michael Baggot

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Methodist pro-life ministry Lifewatch recently hosted a free luncheon featuring former abortion clinic owner Carol Everett.

Everett spent six years working in the abortion industry in the early 80s, before experiencing a profound conversion. In 1995 she founded the Heidi Group - a group of inner-city crisis pregnancy centers named after one of Everett's own children that she aborted in 1973.

"We are an injured nation, for many of us are unwilling to admit or deal with our pain," Everett told her audience.

Everett has testified in the past that while she was working in the abortion industry she was on track to make over a million dollars a year. "You can imagine what my motivation was," she said. "I sold abortions."

In order to sell as many abortions as possible the telephone "counselors" at Everett's clinics were trained to lead distraught women callers to think that there is only one solution to their unwanted pregnancy, and then to assure women that their child is only a "blob of tissue" and that the procedure itself will be basically painless.

"I cannot tell you one thing that happens in an abortion clinic that is not a lie."

"When we opened" Everett told Lifewatch, "we did 45 abortions in the first month. The last month (we were opened) we did 545." Everett was paid $25 per abortion.

To address the plight of women considering abortion, Everett's Heidi Group centers offer parenting classes, Bible studies, counseling, and prenatal medical care.

The mission of Lifewatch, also called the Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality, is to "work to create in church and society esteem for human life at its most vulnerable, specifically for the unborn child and for the woman who contemplates abortion."

Lifewatch is committed to removing language supportive of abortion in the Book of Discipline, a guiding document for the Methodist community. The Book of Discipline defends "the legal option of abortion under proper medical procedures" in order to protect the "well-being of the mother."

Learn more about Lifewatch:
http://lifewatch.org

Learn more about Carol Everett:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/testimony/everett.htm

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Outgoing Italian Centre-Left Government Weakens Embryo Protections as Parting Shot

New incoming government is expected to be more pro-life

By Hilary White

ROME, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As a parting gift, the outgoing Italian government has granted permission for eugenic "screening" of embryos in artificial procreation techniques such as in vitro fertilization. The last-minute changes were made in anticipation of the start of the new centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi, that is expected by many to be more pro-life than the outgoing centre-left coalition.

IVF centres will now be able to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to select against possible genetic abnormalities or disorders. The new guidelines will also allow men with sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV or hepatitis B and C to participate in IVF, even though such diseases could be transmitted to the woman and the baby. 

Until the changes, the law also outlawed pre-implantation genetic diagnosis on the grounds that once an ovum is fertilized; it becomes an embryonic human being and cannot be killed because of disability or illness.

The guideline changes do not affect the prohibition on the number of embryos created in IVF, or on singles, same-sex couples and women beyond child-bearing age receiving IVF. 

Since 2004, Italy has enjoyed some of the strongest pro-life restrictions on artificial reproduction in Europe. The law restricts artificial means of reproduction to heterosexual couples, bans ova or sperm donation, restricts the number of ova that can be fertilized, bans the freezing of embryos and restricts experimental research on living embryos.

But pro-abortion elements in government have long sought to weaken the protections. In 2005, the law was threatened when the constitutional court ruled that the law regulating in vitro fertilization (IVF) must be put to a referendum to amend those aspects that protect life and the traditional family. Italy's anti-Catholic extreme left Radical Party collected 500,000 signatures to force the Italian courts to order a referendum on IVF.

But the law survived the attacks after the Catholic Church alerted the Italian people to the danger, telling them to refuse to vote. The referendum failed when only half the required voters turned out.

The changes follow court rulings that said the ban on eugenic screening of embryos went beyond the rightful powers of the legislator.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Italy Likely to Gut Pro-Life Elements of IVF Law by Referendum
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/05011407.html

Italian IVF Referendum Ends with Half the Required Vote
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jun/05061303.html

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UK Sisters Lose Appeal For Inheritance Tax Exemption Similar to That Given Homosexuals

Polls indicate overwhelming public support for extending exemption to sisters living together

By Hilary White

MARLBOROUGH, UK, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) - Two elderly sisters have lost a lengthy and complex court battle to have their relationship recognized in the same way as homosexual civil partners for purposes of inheritance and tax laws. In a 15-2 vote, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that Joyce Burden, 90, and her sister, Sybil, 82, do not face unfair discrimination under British inheritance tax rules.

Joyce and Sybil Burden have lived together in the same house all their lives, caring for older family members and now for one another. But with Britain's crippling inheritance taxes, the family home will likely have to be sold when one of the sisters dies. Spouses and same-sex "partners" are not taxed when one dies and the sisters have attempted to have the new laws interpreted to allow them to enjoy similar exemptions.

Taxes on the sisters' house in Marlborough, Wilts, have been estimated at £200,000. The house has been assessed at about £875,000.

The Burden sisters went as far as the European Court of Human Rights and were turned away on the grounds that their relationship was not the right sort to be considered. In 2006 the EU Court ruled 4-3 that the sisters were not entitled to the same rights as cohabiting homosexuals because their relationship was simply the result of birth.

At the time, Joyce Burden said "I don't have the status of a lesbian. This is an insult to single people who have looked after elderly parents. I don't call that justice."

When the Labour government, under whom the British housing market has been artificially inflated through widespread speculation and property "flipping", introduced the civil partnership law, the Burden sisters wrote to the European Court asking for help.

The Telegraph quotes the sisters' letter, written without legal advice: "In desperation we write to you, for, as second-class citizens, we seek justice against the unfair laws we live with in the British Isles."

The European Court decision upholds a previous ruling in 2006. Joyce told the Daily Mail then, "This government is always going out of its way to give rights to people who have done nothing to deserve them."

But many have reasoned that since the law extended marriage-like benefits to same-sex partners whose "unions" have no physical possibility of fulfilling the objective nature and purpose of marriage, that the principle of granting legal benefits and recognition could logically be extended to any non-sexually oriented committed groupings of people such as pairs of siblings.

Arguing on behalf of the Burden sisters, the Christian Institute said that the law ought to be extended to allow long-term cohabiting family members to register as civil partners, in the same way as same-sex couples. This would have made civil partnerships fairer and less like 'gay marriage'.

A proposal to change the law was passed in House of Lords but defeated in the Commons despite polls showing that between 84 and 91 per cent of the public supported it. The Christian Institute found that 91 per cent agreed that given that homosexual partners can be exempt, a daughter living with an elderly mother should be also be exempt. 86 per cent agreed that given the rights of cohabiting homosexuals, that sisters who have lived together more than 12 years should also be included in the inheritance tax exemption. 

Joyce Burden said: "If we were lesbians we would have all the rights in the world. But we are sisters and it seems we have no rights at all."

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
EU Court Denies UK Sisters Tax Benefits Granted to Homosexual Couples
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/dec/06121504.html

UK Sisters Petition for Same Tax Exemption Rights as Lesbian Couples
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06091301.html

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Australia Grants Homosexual Couples New Legal and Financial Benefits, but Not Marriage

By Michael Baggot

CANBERRA, Australia, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Australian government announced today that it will change around 100 federal laws in order to grant homosexual couples extensive legal and financial benefits, but will not change legislation forbidding same-sex "marriage".

The new laws will afford same-sex couples benefits previously reserved to married couples.  For instance, children raised by same-sex couples will be deemed dependents for tax and unemployment benefits purposes.  Also, same-sex couples will qualify as "family units" with regard to pension considerations.

While the legislative overhaul, expected to be complete by mid-2009, affects social security, health, aged care, veterans' payments, and employment entitlements, the government decided not to redefine marriage.

"The government believes that marriage is between a man and a woman so it won't amend the marriage act," said Attorney-General Robert McClelland.

Pro-homosexual activists are pleased with the law changes, but disappointed that the Federal Marriage Act, defining marriage as union of one man and one woman, was not altered.

"Gay and lesbian Australians will not be fully equal until we are allowed the right to marry the partner of our choice," claimed Rodney Croome of the Australian Coalition for Equality.

In an opinion article in today's theage.com, Croome compared the mistreatment of individuals with homosexual inclinations, to past mistreatment of slaves and women.

"Indeed, in centuries past the second-class status of blacks and women was sealed by laws that denied them the right to marry the partner of their choice in much the same way same-sex partners are denied that right today," wrote Croome.

Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, has been an outspoken critic of the sort of comparisons Croome drew today.

In an October 2007 essay, Pell decried a "false analogy drawn between alleged discrimination against homosexuals and racial discrimination."

"Opposition to same-sex marriage is therefore likened to support for laws against inter-racial marriage (which continued in some US states until the 1960s), and opposition to homosexual adoptions is likened to refusing to adopt children to black parents."

"The analogy is false because allowing blacks and whites to marry did not require changing the whole concept of marriage; and allowing black parents to adopt white children, or vice versa, did not require changing the whole concept of family, or for that matter, the whole concept of childhood," Pell explained.

Efforts to gain legal recognition for same-sex "marriages" has been part of an on-going battle in Australia.

In June 2006, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) passed a law that gave same-sex unions practically all of the rights and benefits given to married couples.  In response, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock had Governor-General Michael Jeffrey declare the ACT law invalid because it made same-sex civil unions too similar to marriage.

See previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Australia's Cardinal Pell Warns of Coming 'War' on Church from Biotech, Gay 'Rights', Islamic Fears
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07103005.html

Australia Strikes Down Law Recognizing Same-Sex Unions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06061301.html

Australian Government Will Overrule Gay "Marriage" Law
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06060610.html

First Australian Territory to Grant All Marriage Rights to Same-Sex Unions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032805.html

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Residents of Island of Lesbos are the Only Real 'Lesbians' - Suit Launched over Use of Term

By Michael Baggot

ATHENS, Greece, April 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Three citizens of the Greek Island of Lesbos are pursuing a lawsuit against the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union (GGLU) for its use of the term "lesbian".

Lesbos local Dimitris Lambrou argues that his fellow citizens have suffered "psychological and moral rape" due to the homosexual advocacy group's linguistic theft of their island's name.

"Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," said Lambrou. "My sister can't say she is a Lesbian."

Lambrou has been protesting the misuse of the term "lesbian" for many years through his magazine Davlos (Torch).

"This affair is totally ridiculous," said GGLU spokeswoman Evangelia Vlam about the case which is scheduled to be heard in Athens June 10.  "But if we are summoned by the courts, we will be heard."

The Island of Lesbos is renowned for the sixth century B.C. female author Sappho, whose poetry has been interpreted by some as being homosexual in nature.

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