Articles for Month: June 2003

TORONTO, June 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Tory Government has admitted to donating $100,000 to Toronto’s ‘Gay Pride Week’.  Ontario Tourism Minister Brian Coburn confirmed he made a $100,000 donation to the event glorifying homosexuality which runs from June 23-29. The organizers of the event are confident that the federal Liberal government and the Toronto City Council will match the provincial donations. The funding follows complaints from the event organizers that due to the SARS scare the numbers of participants are expected to be diminished. See the Toronto Star coverage:  https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1052251719670&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

OTTAWA, June 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has discovered that another popular Canadian charity has chosen to support anti-life embryonic stem cell research. The ALS Society of Canada which has for 25 years been funding leading research to find therapeutic approaches and a cure for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rapidly progressive fatal neuromuscular disease, has threatened its donations by sponsoring the controversial research. An ALS Society of Canada press release on stem cell research issued on May 9 last year notes that the group will “endorse and encourage research using embryonic and adult stem cells into the cause, treatment and […]

Falwell's Paper Headlines Threat to Abandon Bush

Canadian Alliance warns marriage committee may become irrelevant

ORLANDO, June 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s struggle to have a separate guardian appointed for the unborn baby of a mentally handicapped rape victim, as well as a guardian for the mother who does not have a guardian either, is going ahead. Having last month overruled so-called “child welfare” officials who claimed such an appointment would be “illegal,” Bush went ahead with the attempt.  “Given the facts of this case, it is entirely appropriate that an advocate be appointed to represent the unborn child’s best interests in all decisions,” Bush said. The state’s motion notes that the […]

CRACOW, June 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President George W. Bush praised the faith, history, and tolerance of the people of Poland down the centuries, in remarks from Cracow, the premier city of southern Poland and the home town of Pope John Paul II.  The president said, “Through the years of the Second World War, another legacy of the 20th century was unfolding, here in this city of Krakow. A young seminarian, Karol Wojtyla, saw the swastika flag flying over the ramparts of Wawel Castle. He shared the suffering of his people and was put into forced labour. From this priest’s […]

OTTAWA, June 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of marriages in Canada in 2000, long in decline, was the highest in five years, Statistics Canada has revealed in its latest statistics—with the first increase in Quebec in 12 years. The numbers do not includes common-law “marriages” in the numbers as occurs in some misleading Statscan publications.  Nationally, 157,395 couples were legally married in 2000, up 1.1% from 155,742 in 1999. This was still well below the most recent high of 160,251 in 1995.  Data from the 2001 Census showed that the trend toward common law was again strongest in Quebec, […]

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 760) on June 4 or 5.  Before voting on final passage of the bill, the House may first vote on a phony-ban substitute proposal to be offered by Congressmen Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Jim Greenwood (R-Pa.).  The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is strongly opposed to the Hoyer-Greenwood substitute, which Hoyer and Greenwood have admitted would allow abortions even during the final three months of pregnancy for “mental health.”  Following Senate approval of the ban in March, NRLC Legislative […]

Legal euthanasia "would radically undermine the moral and legal basis of society"

DUBLIN, June 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a shocking move, the supposedly pro-life government of Ireland has opposed a European Parliament motion to ban all human cloning, including for ‘therapeutic’ purposes.  Initially the Irish government had backed the measure. An Irish Department of Health spokesman said that the government was opposed to reproductive cloning but was concerned that a ban on therapeutic cloning would hamper potentially beneficial research.  Dana Rosemary Scallon, the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland, charged that “The new Irish position is clearly in conflict with our constitutional protection of life from conception.”  Green Party […]