RE: Colorado Personhood Ballot Initiative – A Big Step for Life
To the editor:
Having been in Denver at the pro-life rally on May 13th with Colorado for Equal Rights, [https://www.gazette.com/articles/petitions_36275___article.html/supporters_today.html], I’d like to explain something. Mr. Sealover described it as “a revival-like atmosphere” when the Bible was read and some folks shouted in agreement. Also occurring were various people weeping for joy, praising Jesus, praying, and repenting for not doing more for pre-born persons earlier. Okay, perhaps emotional meetings of professing Christians can be termed, “revival-like.” But when Christians get happy after applying their faith by loving their neighbors, taking the message of human worth to hundreds of thousands of people, obeying what the Bible says about doing unto others what they would like to have done to themselves, and cooperating with Christians from other churches, that is not revival-like, it is revival!
Cal Zastrow
Westminster
For Coverage See:
130,000 in Colorado Sign Petition to Grant Full Legal Protection to Unborn Children
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051402.html
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RE: March for Life – Growing Stronger Every Year
Dear Editor,
The National March for Life (NMfL) began in May 1998 in Ottawa with approximately 700 people walking from the Supreme Court Building to Parliament Hill. Over the past eleven years numbers have steadily increased to the point where this year, in Ottawa alone, well over 7,000 people gathered to protest our country’s lack of protection for our unborn children.
One of our initial organizers, Dr. Andre Lafrance, had a vision. He dreamed of the day when simultaneous candlelight vigils and marches would take place across Canada. Dr. Lafrance died of a heart attack in 2005 and his involvement with the NMfL has been greatly missed by the committee. His main contributions were the organization and set up for the candlelight vigil and guiding the choice of our yearly theme. Last year (2007) the Rose Dinner banquet was held in his honour.
This year you have a story titled, “Canadian March for Life Participation Hit Over 10,000 Across the Country” and you recognize marches in Saint John’s Newfoundland, Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, Fredericton New Brunswick, Edmonton Alberta, Regina and Saskatoon Saskatchewan and a West Coast March in British Columbia. These all took place around the same time as the National March in Ottawa and I think that Dr. Lafrance was smiling down on us from heaven watching his dream unfold. It is true that we never know the effect that one person can generate.
Yours for Life,
(Mrs) Wanda Hartlin
Secretary
National March for Life committee
Campaign Life Coalition, Ottawa
For Coverage See:
Canadian March for Life Participation Hit Over 10, 000 Across the Country
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051411.html
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RE: More Questionable Human Rights Tribunal Rulings
Dear Editor
Shame on Christian Horizon for capitulating to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and dropping its requirement that employees must sign their basic morality state! And shame on Canada for shamelessly masquerading around as a democracy and free society while tolerating the growing efforts of its unprincipled and agenda-driven Human Rights Commissions and Tribunals to silence free speech, let alone free thought, and impose their homosexuality-obsessed tyranny on organizations and members of this society.
This Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruling against Christian Horizon once again made a mockery of justice and human rights per se’. Connie Hientz was the one who broke her undertaking, not Christian Horizon. Yet this shabby Tribunal, unconcerned with the rights of Christian Horizon to set its own standards, and plain old justice, ruled against the employer whose beliefs, particularly in regard to homosexuality, happen to conflict diametrically with a matter over which Canada’s Human Rights Commissions have consistently demonstrated obsessive sympathetic preoccupation.
Meanwhile in Quesnel, B.C., a teacher, who wrote to a local newspaper to explain the Christian position on homosexuality, was brought before inquisitors of a Human Rights Commission. He lost his case (what else with objectivity non-existent?), has had his career jeopardized, and for the past few years, at great personal expense, has fought against this Human Rights Commission’s ruling against him. He took his case right up to the Supreme Court of Canada, which then rejected his appeal. So much for Supreme Court of Canada justice!
Something is dreadfully sick in this country today, yet the politicians in Ottawa behave as if all is well. From Queens Park I expect nothing more than we already have and my expectations of it are zero.
Without substantial and combined effort, this problem of Human Rights Commission injustice and muzzling of free speech is not going to simply fade away.
Rob Porter. Mississauga.
For Coverage See:
Analysis: Ontario Human Rights Code Being Used to Beat Christianity out of the Public Square
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051409.html
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RE: Archbishop Prendergast Speaking the Truth and Leading the Way
Dear Editor:
I would like to commend Archbishop Prendergast on his recent statements. First, he stated that public figures such as our politicians should not partake of Communion if they are pro-abortion. And now he has recommended that Catholics follow the teaching of Humanae Vitae on contraception. These are brave words in a time when many of the clergy avoid both subjects of contraception and abortion for fear of reprisals.
We need more of the clergy to take Archbishop Prendergast’s lead in these areas. If our clergy were to be more outspoken on these subjects, they would probably lose some members of their congregations, but I am convinced that those who remain would be glad to hear these teachings and would support them whole-heartedly.
Sadly, however, I suspect that a great number of the clergy first need a personal conversion before they will begin to proclaim what faithful Catholics already know.
Julie Culshaw
For Coverage See:
Archbishop: For the Clergy, Obedience to Church “Requires Preaching About the Moral Evil of contraception”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051302.html
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Dear Lifesite:
Thank you for the article about the archbishop of Ottawa. I also have been waiting for years for a bishop, priest or deacon to speak up. About 15 years ago, Bishop Lacey of Toronto did speak at St John Fisher Church in Brampton ON. It is the only time I remember hearing a homily about contraception in 42 years of marriage. Thank you for making part of his homily available.
Sincerely,
Diane Paquette
For Coverage See:
Archbishop: For the Clergy, Obedience to Church “Requires Preaching About the Moral Evil of Contraception”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051302.html