Wednesday November 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews NewsBytes For November 19, 2008
Compiled by Steve Jalsevac
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LIFE ISSUES
Last-minute Bush abortion ruling causes furor
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/america/abort.php
“Scheme to cover up a fraud” - Federal court records show how Planned Parenthood over-billed government for millions -- and may get away with it
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=e9f8ba3c-2f62-48ff-bb21-073f9774e149
A Swedish feminist party says it will push for abortion to be considered a human right as it campaigns for a seat in the European Union parliament.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/134069/Swedish-feminists-Abortion-should-be-human-right
Kenyan Catholics Demonstrate Against Proposed Abortion Bill
http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=53853
Right to Die Lobby Already Wants to Expand newly passed Washington State Assisted Suicide Measure
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=c8956133-c59d-4a11-b247-1831dc887577
Depression in Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Patients
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/11/depression-in-assisted.html
China's Gruesome Organ Harvest The whole world isn't watching. Why not?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/824qbcjr.asp
Quebec's Liberal government to use taxpayer funds to pay for in vitro fertilization - This will cost the taxpayer $35 million for the first year
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=cc51fa71-c8eb-401b-b45e-5bc9445472c3
November election results should be a wake-up call that doing nothing also brings risks. The drumbeat for submission to the dominant, secular healthcare culture will only get louder in the years ahead.
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1223
Towards a coercive utopia - Some contemporary ethicists are updating eugenics.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/towards_a_coercive_utopia/
Speaking Truth to Power: European Cases Presage Huge "Conscience Rights" Bioethics Fights to Come
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/11/speaking-truth-to-power-european-cases.html
Let's Do What is Right Regardless of What Governments Tell Us is Right and Wrong - Wesley Smith
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/11/lets-do-what-is-right-regardless-of.html
OBAMA
Obama, world crisis and the new world order. A new world order has been in the making for quite some time and is now becoming “inevitable”.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13759&size=A
Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Headlines/Default.aspx?id=325130
Obama promises leadership on climate change
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/11/18/obama_promises_leadership_on_climate_change
Warmest October ever ...Not!
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1083d149-cd70-41be-b8a1-a3f13fd759ec
'Today' Begins Annual Global Warming Scare Week
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/11/17/today-begins-annual-global-warming-scare-week
Media Malpractice’: Documentary Reveals How Little Obama Voters Knew About Issues
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/223033.html
Communist Party strategist maps out Obama's agenda
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81204
Obama's Catholic backers: Supporting pop culture over church teaching
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/17/obamas-catholic-backers/
RELIGION
Why Christians long for the Second Coming: Pope explains
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=60235
God's judgment should prompt apostolic action, not fear, Pope tells audience
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=60236
Bishops Speak Out Against Adultery Ads - Internet Site Promotes Dating Service for Married People
http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-24261
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' documents on worthy reception of the Eucharist are not complete. They do not report the Church's discipline in its completeness.
http://www.ignatius.com/Magazines/CWR/crane_nov08.htm
A short time from now, some will say in reflection: "We should have listened to the warnings." The Churchillian response, fortified by two prophetic cardinals, will be, "Why didn't you? - by Rev. George W. Rutler
"http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4924&Itemid=48
Charleston Diocese silences faithful priest for presenting Church teaching on voting for pro-abortion candidates... Part One
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kralis/081117
Charleston Diocese silences faithful priest for presenting Church teaching on voting for pro-abortion candidates... Part Two
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kralis/081118
Catholic Citizens of Illinois calls for Boycott of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
http://catholiccitizens.org/press/contentview.asp?c=48745
Affluent Catholics promote dissent, English bishop charges
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=1169
Rochester Diocese, Bishop Matthew Clarke sued over alleged molestation by priest
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20081112/UPDATE/311120001
Grotesque Cardinal's Mass in Vienna
http://cathcon.blogspot.com/2008/11/cardinals-mass-in-vienna.html
Dr. Dobson: 'I Ask Our Listeners to be in Prayer for Us'
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008708.cfm
Opinion: Our Mission is Culture Conversion not Culture War By Deacon Keith Fournier
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=30563
Prince Charles to be known as Defender of Faith
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/3454271/Prince-Charles-to-be-known-as-Defender-of-Faith.html
Religion alters visual perception
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16046-religion-alters-visual-perception.html
Orissa Bishops Warn of 'Master Plan' to Wipe-Out Christianity
http://christianpost.com/article/20081116/orissa-bishops-warn-of-master-plan-to-wipe-out-christianity.htm
50,000 Hindu fundamentalists demonstrate in favor of Christian persecution
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13764&size=A
Laurent Murawiec’s The Mind of Jihad is, at last, a book on radical Islam that does it all.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2QzZGVhYTUzMzkwZjlmY2M2MTI2NGNhZDYyMTFkYzg=
The Indiana Court of Appeals issued a ruling Monday that affirmed Indiana's "In God We Trust" plates are constitutional.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/17999573/detail.html
CHILDREN AND THE SEX CULTURE
Abstinence education funding -- will it continue?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=320538
Want to help your children navigate a sex-saturated culture? They'll need to learn your beliefs—not those all around them
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/so_sexy_so_soon/
Since January, Australia has required all Internet service providers to filter out pornography and other inappropriate material, in order to shield children from online porn and violence
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/anti_porn_filters_work/
Playboy head called 'coward' in marketing-to-kids dust-up
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81191
Girls as young as 13 will be pressed to have contraceptive jabs under Government plans to "urgently" bring down teenage pregnancy rates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3464466/Ministers-tell-councils-to-push-contraceptive-jabs-and-implants.html
How the U.S. Government is Covering Up HPV Vaccine Side Effects
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/15/how-u-s-government-is-covering-up-hpv-vaccine-side-effects.aspx
MISCELLANEOUS
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana said it is imperative his party offers solutions to voters, and not just be the opposition
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/16/ftn/main4607907.shtml
Murdoch Says Newspapers Betrayed Readers Trust
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/11/17/murdoch-newspaper-editors-reports-betrayed-readers-trust
Road to GOP redemption: Roll back the bailouts, draw a line in the sand
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/17/road-to-gop-redemption-roll-back-the-bailouts-draw-a-line-in-the-sand/
Bailout's 'blank check' enraging Republicans - Irate lawmakers demand Paulson show how $700 billion is spent
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81302
Rhubarb, rhubarb: the G-20’s plan to save the world - Meetings, and more meetings: the sense of urgency is gone
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/rhubarb_rhurbarb_the_g_20s_plan_to_save_the_world/
Scalia: Foreign law isn't ours - At Houston gala, he criticizes courts that cite countries' trends for rulings
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6117982.html
Foreign Aid Money Spent on $23 Million Art Ceiling at U.N. Human Rights Council
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454191,00.html
Father arrested and locked in a cell for smacking son
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/global/2008/11/17/noindex/arrest.xml
Delaying Marriage – at What Cost?
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000008712.cfm
Confessions of An Ex-Feminist
http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=3272&AFID=12&
HOMOSEXUALITY
Chicago Homosexual high school plan dropped
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-no-gay-high-school-19nov19,0,5724903.story
“Deafening silence of our elected officials” - Proposition 8 supporters want to know why politicians won’t speak out against violence
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=09ba1206-38b4-4b15-9755-f04e9730f315
ABC Devoted 64 Minutes to 'Pregnant Man' Story Since March
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/11/17/abc-devotes-61-minutes-pregnant-man-story-march
Barbara Walters Uses Pregnant ‘Man’ to Redefine Sexes, Family
http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2008/20081113213839.aspx
Owner says Prop 8 opponents hacked into LDS site
http://deseretnews.com/article/1%2C5143%2C705262907%2C00.html
What Does the Bible Say about Homosexuality?
http://www.vimeo.com/2126309
Repeal of Gay Marriage Ban May Appear on 2010 Ballot
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081115/repeal-of-gay-marriage-ban-may-appear-on-2010-ballot.htm
PepsiCo gives $500,000 to promote the gay agenda in workplace: Company ignores two requests from AFA to discuss Pepsi's support of gay groups
http://catholiccitizens.org/news/contentview.asp?c=48746
In Schools, Gay Activists Increasingly Set the Agenda
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008709.cfm
Prince, Elton John Say No to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/rockers_against_same_sex_marriage/
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