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In having to catch up on the NewsBytes after a several days interruption, we have a rather lengthy list for you to examine. The items have been divided into subject category where feasible to assist LifeSiteNews readers.
US NATIONAL POLITICS:
Report that 2/5th of registered Democrats are Born Again Christians
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Perspective&PerspectiveID=28
Drudge has emerged unexpectedly as more of a threat to the Republican than to the Democrat
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10744.html
Barack Obama can run, but his ties to Trinity and its radical political and theology roots are deep - By Stanley Kurtz
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3415/pub_detail.asp
The Father Pfleger Show
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1086
John McCain Is Losing the Religious Right by Deal W. Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3774&Itemid=48
Analysis: McCain, Obama polar opposites - "No matter who wins this election, the direction of this country is going to change dramatically," McCain said.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQ5OIN9-PllOvlBIGNICzwoF9B6QD912TATG
Governor Jindal, The "Christian Right," And The "Catholic Issue"
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/AustinHill/2008/06/01/governor_jindal,_the_christian_right,_and_the_catholic_issue
Democrats Continue to Stall on Judicial Nominees
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000007570.cfm
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bobby Jindal, potential running mate for McCain
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bobby-jindal.html
ABORTION:
Looking Into The Eyes of a Billion Aborted Bodies
http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_8894.php
How Catholics Gave Governor Paterson Cover - pro-abortion governor received 100 percent rating from NARAL - awarded 2004 "Margaret Sanger Award" from Family Planning Advocates of New York State
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3791&Itemid=48
‘Sarah’s Law’ qualifies for Nov. 4 ballot; proponents say 2008 version of parental notification answers critics’ objections to earlier measures
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=7f24d2d2-60e8-486e-913a-471cc401efa3
“The only publicly pro-life pharmacy" in California”
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=e67bb884-386f-4ef6-a39e-4ab994a3c5b8
Planned Parenthood’s Obscene Profits By Michelle Malkin
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/06/04/planned_parenthoods_obscene_profits
Nigerian bishops say development conference must not push for abortion
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12834
It appears one of the top media outlets in Kansas is treating Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline with a new degree of respect.
http://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000007513.cfm
Planned Parenthood Takes Credit for Abortion Decline in Michigan
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000007561.cfm
The Bitter Irony of Sex-Selective Abortion By Colleen Carroll Campbell
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3409/pub_detail.asp
EMBRYOS:
Ohio lawmakers are currently exploring legislation that would ban all embryonic stem cell research.
http://media.www.newsrecord.org/media/storage/paper693/news/2008/06/02/News/Ohio-Considers.Stem.Cell.Ban-3377549.shtml
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Resurfaces on Capitol Hill
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15289/CWA/life/index.htm
Embryo Adoption Growing in Public Awareness
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15285/CWA/life/index.htm
CANADA’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS:
Canada’s obscene "human rights" commissions - "Everything about this case stinks to high heaven"
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=7a0f1fad-ef43-4045-8a5f-461ff39cb6cd
British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal - "one of the most bizarre legal proceedings to have occurred in this province"
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=4cae05a2-2fb0-4305-b502-a7284b33eae7
"ludicrous. Presumptuous. And false" complaints against Maclean’s, "on behalf of all the Muslim residents of the province of British Columbia."
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=562782
Religious groups providing public services fight for right to stand by beliefs - Charles Lewis, National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=536971
MISCELLANEOUS:
European watchdog attacks cloak of secrecy in Brussels
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4053705.ece
Stunning new DVD shows universities today resemble totalitarian states
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66110
Flunked: Fixing Our Education System
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1154&Itemid=10
Media Get It Wrong: 1 in 4 Teens Do NOT Have STDs
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/06/03/media-gets-it-wrong-1-4-teens-do-not-have-stds
Muslims attack Christians with machetes and sticks in Indonesia
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12827
Western Media Swallowing Chinese Propaganda Whole
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/05/27/western-media-swallowing-chinese-propaganda-whole
FAMILY:
Five Myths about No-Fault Divorce
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3783&Itemid=48
Stressed families
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=553020
More sect children reunited with happy parents
http://www.townhall.com/news/us/2008/06/04/more_sect_children_reunited_with_happy_parents
CANADA
Quarter of Canadians don’t believe in any god, poll says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080531.wgodpoll0531/BNStory/National/home
Quebec is a world leader in cultural change. Problem is, where is it leading the world to?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/future_spotting/
GLOBAL WARMING AND EXTREME ENVIRONMENTALISM:
Environmentalists Pick Up Where Communists Left Off By Charles Krauthammer
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/05/31/environmentalists_pick_up_where_communists_left_off
Media Double-Standard on Global Warming "Censorship"
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/amy-ridenour/2008/06/03/media-double-standard-global-warming-censorship
Carbon Taxes: Hand over your money! “We are saving you from yourself” By Dr. Tim Ball
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3333
Our Spotless Sun - With the debate focused on a warming Earth, the icy consequences of a cooler future have not been considered - Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=552919
The Carbon experiment - What do states do with all the new tax revenue? - Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=552921&p=2
From Communism to environmentalism - the whole global warming process is already in the hands of those who are not interested in rational ideas and arguments - by Vaclav Klaus, Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=550864
The point of the climate change/biodiversity game is to stop industrial society as we know it - Peter Foster, Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=550863
Rising Biofuel Investing To Keep Food Prices High - Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=551008
HOMOSEXUALITY:
So-called "same-sex marriage" is a counterfeit. It’s a fraud and not even a good one at that - By J. Matt Barber
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15284/CFI/family/index.htm
Gay and ‘transgender’ activists are targeting corporate America to bring about widespread cultural change. ExxonMobil Resists
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007572.cfm
Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ and the Persecution of Civil Society
http://ncregister.com/site/article/15099/
Same Sex Marriage Threatens Religious Liberty
http://www.religiousliberty.info/blog/?p=75
Cardinal Rouco: Homosexual “marriage” is rebellion against man’s biological limits
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12757
Only a few California chanceries willing to discuss consequences for Catholics if they seek civil same-sex marriage
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=13a4ecca-aca3-4f0e-b225-72dc97851b0e
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a new web site geared toward LGBT activists
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977359430&grpId=3659174697244816&nav=Groupspace
See video of corrupt Massachusets Senate passing amendments through phony “voice votes” - This is how the $850,000 homosexual funding for schools got put into the 2009 budget!
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt08/budget/senate05.html
Disney’s annual pro-homosexual bash
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=126400
Sex-change author Jan Morris remarries wife he wed as a man
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2070830/Sex-change-author-Jan-Morris-remarries-wife-she-wed-as-a-man.html
Now it’s EX-‘gays’ getting pummeled - verbal to violent, attacks rise against former homosexuals
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65112