Articles for Month: May 2003

OHIO PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD PURCHASES $700,000 FINGERPRINT SCANNER SYSTEM TO ID STUDENTS IN CAFETERIA LINES https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32800   INTOLERANCE AND RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4007/CFI/cfreport/index.htm   NEW CONDOM STUDY MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, FRC SAYS https://www.frc.org/index.cfm?i=PR03E07

AUSTIN, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a Defense of Marriage Act, making his state the 37th in the U.S. to enact such a measure. “Like the vast majority of Texans, I believe that marriage represents a sacred union between a man and a woman,” he said. “With passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, Texas now joins more than 30 states in reinforcing that basic belief.”  The law prevents the state from legally recognizing same-sex unions that are recognized in other states, particularly from judges who pass rulings claiming to legitimize homosexual unions in […]

900 people per year are euthanized without having asked for it

GENEVA, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of outrage that a non-terminally-ill British couple were assisted in killing themselves by the suicide group Dignitas, Swiss authorities have begun investigating the case and similar deaths.  The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Zurich finds the speed with which the assisted suicides took place especially disturbing. In many cases, the BBC reports, “patients were dead within a day of arriving in Zurich.”  German authorities are also investigating the case of an elderly German woman who killed herself soon after being married to a much younger man who stood to gain from her […]

Challenges grads to "be a radical, to be a rebel, to rebel against the popular culture"

VANCOUVER, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite News interviewed Chris Kempling this week.  Kempling is nearing the end of his one month suspension without pay from his teaching job for having objected, via a letter to the editor of a local newspaper, to the homosexual agenda being foisted on public schools. Kempling told LifeSite that while he is contemplating moving and looking for other work, he is still employed as a teacher and looking forward to his upcoming July 28 and 29 court challenge to the suspension.  Kempling noted that the BC Teacher’s Federation (BCTF) was forced to fund his […]

STOCKHOLM, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swedish government announced yesterday it would allow homosexual marriages for Swedish citizens to be performed at its embassies in Paris, Madrid and Lisbon.  The government went ahead with the measure only after the governments of France Spain and Portugal said that they had no objection.  In a press release issued today, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said, “It is natural for Sweden to be able to offer registration of partnership at embassies where the host country does not oppose it. France, Spain and Portugal have informed us that they have no objection to […]

LONDON, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Life League, a British pro-life group has reported that Jane Russell, the 1940s and ‘50s Hollywood movie star and pin-up girl, now aged 82, gave an interview this week slamming abortion.  “People should never, ever have an abortion. Don’t talk to me about it being a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death,” said Russell.  Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at 18: “The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion […]

Leaders of all political parties in House except Alliance support homosexual marriage

Cardinal Ambrozic "Sorry, Disappointed And Upset" With PM's Abortion Stand