Articles for Month: June 2003

Very quick to use the court decision to avoid political and moral accountability

Decision based on previous activist judge-made law that overruled Charter framers

SYDNEY, Australia,  June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Daily Telegraph reports that that a Dutch bio-tech company, Crucell, working through a Sydney contract research organisation, Parexel International is involved in a secret plan to collect tissue from aborted babies and export it for medical experiments.  Those behind the project, says the Guardian, were hoping to carry it out without the public knowing. The abortion doctors who collect the tissue would be paid an “hourly rate” for their time.  Right to Life Australia spokeswoman Margaret Tighe said the plan was appalling.  “Not only do we kill babies and use Medicare funds […]

Warsaw, June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a nationwide referendum, Polish voters strongly approved the ratification of Poland’s accession treaty to the European Union. President Aleksander Kwasniewski triumphantly stated, “We are returning to the great European family,” and “We are returning to the place which Poles and Poland deserve in 1,000 years of history.” Others were not so happy about the vote. The EU’s developing secularist, almost anti-religious philosophical direction has faithful Catholics and others who cherish traditional moral and family principles worried. The New York Times reports that “Populist political parties and many priests in this strongly Roman Catholic […]

PM quietly withdraws appointment after becoming aware of rejection

Canada's First Gov't-Recognized Homosexual 'Marriage' Takes Place

TORONTO, June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Soon after LifeSite News published an expose on The Arthritis Society (TAS), revealing a position paper and statements by TAS President and CEO Denis Morrice in support of funding embryonic stem cell research, the Knights of Columbus met with TAS. The Knights of Columbus (KofC) of Ontario, which has given the organization some $15 million, expressed its concerns to members of the TAS Medical Research Advisory Committee at a May 27 meeting.  In a June letter to all Grand Knights in Ontario, KofC Ontario State Deputy Robert Cayea, explains “We discussed our position and […]

The Ontario Appeals Court decision on homosexual marriage is coming down tomorrow June 10, 2003   Celine Dion song banned: ‘Too Christian’ for school https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32973   Focus on the Family Canada Special Analysis – Marriage and Homosexuality 32 page Adobe Acrobat format document https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/analysis/052303_marriage.pdf   Pope Tells Catholics to Defend Traditional Family https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=10&u=/nm/20030608/ts_nm/pope_croatia_dc   U.N. To Host Global Gun-Control Event – Latest UN Global Governance Attempt Just days after French President Jacques Chirac called for a global tax on individual firearms purchases the United Nations has announced it is gearing up to sponsor a global gun-control forum next month in […]

CLC Manitoba chastises NDP Party for not letting candidates give views on life issues

LIFESITE, June 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Newsmax.com reports today that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski recently complained that while the recently drafted EU Constitution acknowledges the Greek and Roman contributions to European culture, the writers have ignored the influence of Christianity. “I am an atheist and everybody knows it,” he told the London Telegraph this week. “But there are no excuses for making references to ancient Greece and Rome, and the Enlightenment, without making references to the Christian values which are so important to the development of Europe.”