Tuesday December 30, 2008


LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for December 30, 2008

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LIFE ISSUES

Born at just 23 weeks, the baby who defied UK abortion laws
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102516/Born-just-23-weeks-baby-defied-abortion-laws.html

A New Vaccine Research Initiative That Needs the Support of the Whole Pro-Life Community
http://www.hli.org/sl_2008-12-19.html

Tiny Catholic Parish goes toe to toe with Abortion clinic-sees dramatic drop in abortions!
http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/16803/


RELIGION

India, an Exporter of Priests, May Keep Them
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/us/30priest.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1230646037-dWxf8K/t6z1tAmvOybfaYw

Atheists suing to remove religion from inauguration
http://www.examiner.com/x-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2008m12d29-Atheists-suing-to-remove-religion-from-inauguration

The celebrations of the Nativity are "the only response to the evils that afflict the world," says Bartholomew I, Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14095&size=A

Disney pulls out of Narnia Film, citing costs but real reason may be creative differences over the inclusion of faith elements that were prominent in the children's novel.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/508474.aspx

Christians called to abandon public education - Children's worldview determined by 14,000 hours in classrooms
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84603

Tony Blair: "I regularly read the Koran, practically every day"; Muhammad "an enormously civilizing force"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/024064.php

HOMOSEXUALITY

Tel Aviv recruits gay athletes for 2009 World Outgames
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3644715%2C00.html

Pope 'misinterpreted' on homosexuality
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pope-misinterpreted-on-homosexuality-1217085.html

"You can church-shop and find a local parish that is accepting”; Membership in homosexual-oriented churches nosedives as mainline religions – including Catholicism – become more ‘gay-friendly’
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=3669c356-3892-4455-8783-06a23d457384

Defenders of traditional marriage shouldn't expect any help from the courts -- much less from Catholic Supreme Court justices.
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=1208-notes-invaders

Christian ministry suffers web attack - believes the web campaign is in response to his public statements favoring California's Proposition 8
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=368206

Voted for Prop 8? You're fired - Same-sex marriage activists target businesses, employees. One report included a University of California student whose car was vandalized and who was beaten over her support of Prop. 8.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84812

Firefighters ordered into 'gay' parade back in court - first trial judge banned the introduction of photographs of public sex, nudity and indecency from the parade.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=84821


CANADA

MP Rod Bruinooge in National Post: "Why I am pro-life
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1121520

Fate unclear for Liberals backing anti-abortion cause
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081230.ABORTION30N/TPStory/National

Parliamentary group wants to reopen abortion debate
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081228/abortion_politics_081228/20081228?hub=Canada

Ezra Levant: Jennifer Lynch, jet-setting lawbreaker - In other words, who'll strike her down first, Canada's Supreme Court, or Canada's Parliament?
http://ezralevant.com/2008/12/jennifer-lynch-jetsetting-lawb.html

13 CHRC Personnel Have Been Investigating Conservative Website
http://ezralevant.com/2008/12/12-chrc-bureaucrats-investigat.html


GLOBAL WARMING

Al Gore: The real Flat Earther
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84811

2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

Global warming: The new eugenics - eugenics movement and the global warming movement are similar in many respects.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84597

Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm “Mistaken”
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7226

A warmer climate may be a good thing for countries already inured to the cold, like Canada
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Warming+global+warming/992562/story.html


MISCELLANEOUS

Supreme Success: Thanks to Bush, we have a chance for a Roberts Court.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3651/pub_detail.asp

Obama the most admired man in the world, American poll says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/26/barack-obama-most-admired-man

RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts - "We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms,"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/rnc-pushes-unprecedented-criticism-of-bailouts/

AP Attacks Gov. Palin EVEN in Birth Announcement of Grandson
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/12/30/ap-attacks-gov-palin-even-birth-announcement-granddaughter

Massive Pro-Family Rally Floods Spain
http://christianpost.com/article/20081228/massive-pro-family-rally-floods-spain.htm

Students push for coed dorms, devalue modesty
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=368454

Titanic China has an appointment with an iceberg - The headlines proclaim China's growing financial power. But its ageing population may scupper its ambitions. 
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/titanic_china_has_an_appointment_with_an_iceberg/

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