Articles for Month: July 2003

GM’s Diversity Policy Excludes Religious-Based Employee Groups https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200307/CUL20030718b.html   ‘Bring It on,’ Climatologist Says of Global Warming Litigation https://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200307/NAT20030721a.html   Gays applaud Michigan governor’s attitude Groups hope support translates into passage of key legislation https://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0307/14/c01-216576.htm   Gay Lawmakers Assail Marriage Amendment https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026942.cfm

EDMONTON, July 18 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health Canada is warning of a syphilis outbreak mostly around homosexual men.  Seventeen cases of the previously rare sexually transmitted disease, syphilis, have sprung up since March in Edmonton.  The outbreak, with cases mostly occurring in gay or bisexual men, is the first such outbreak in Edmonton since the mid-1980s.  The Edmonton incident is not an isolated incident, however, with syphilis cases on the rise among ‘gay’ men in a number of North American and British cities which had no such problem a decade ago. Ottawa is on syphilis alert with 11 cases detected […]

Edmonton, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Western Canadian journalist Lorne Gunter has written another revealing article on the dangers to Canada of upcoming Liberal Party leader Paul Martin’s likely appointment of Maurice Strong as a senior advisor.  Gunter relates that “Everything that is wrong can, in Strong’s mind, be traced to three sources—industrialization, wealth and free markets. I’d add a fourth—Christianity—except Strong never quite comes out and blames it for the world’s ills. He merely hints at it with statements such as “We are all gods now, gods in charge of our own destiny,”  Strong, Gunter says, sees himself as […]

ADELAIDE, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A South Australian police task force into child sex abuse has identified 217 victims and 48 possible offenders among both married and unmarried Anglican clergy, with the number of victims expected to rise to over 400.  “We have well over 200 matters to follow through on at this stage, with the possibility of that number increasing significantly,” said Police Commissioner Mal Hyde. “There is evidence, over the years, of some networking … which is what you expect from offenders of this type,” he said.  Meanwhile another denomination, the Uniting Church of Australia, with which […]

MOMBASA, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kenya’s Catholics are girding themselves as feminist MPs promote the legalization of abortion and the glorification of homosexuality. Several government ministers are calling for legalization. Others say what is needed is tougher laws to support pregnant women and to force adulterous men to support the children.  Mombasa archbishop John Njenga called abortion “outright killing” and said the proposals are a threat to the moral fabric of society. “Nobody should interfere with the unborn child; it has the right to be in the womb until it’s time to be born, and anybody flushing it out […]

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The more time young children spend in day care, the more likely they are to be aggressive or disobedient, says the latest report from an ongoing U.S. federal study released today by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIHCD).  The report confirmed the importance of the majority of young children’s time being spent with their parents.  The link between daycare hours and behavioural problems “occurred across all family backgrounds and all types and quality of care,” said the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which involved more than 1,000 […]

DALLAS, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norma McCorvey, the former Roe of Roe v. Wade, has filed a Notice of Appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of the District Court’s Order denying her Motion to have her landmark 1973 Supreme Court Case reheard.  Her attorney, Allan E. Parker, Jr., Justice Foundation CEO, stated: “Ultimately, the United States Supreme Court will determine whether Roe should be vacated because it is no longer just.”  He explained that “the Supreme Court has a duty to reexamine its precedents because of changed legal and factual conditions.”  McCorvey presented 5,437 pages of evidence […]

OTTAWA, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada have expressed deep disappointment with the Liberal Government’s proposed legislation on the redefinition of marriage and the legislation’s reference to the Supreme Court.  In a release the CCCB said it continues to promote the traditional role of marriage, which is ‘the lasting union of a man and woman to the exclusion of others’ in opposition to that set out in the proposed legislation because ‘it discriminates against heterosexual marriage and the family, which will be deprived of their social and legal […]

OTTAWA, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some Canadian pro-family activists have suggested another political strategy in the battle to retain the traditional marriage definition in Canadian law. On June 9, 1999, Parliament voted 216-55 to affirm “that marriage is and should remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others”.  This vote was taken with the knowledge that court decisions were headed in the direction of possibly changing the definition of marriage and that the vote would be Parliament’s pre-emptive strike against any such abuse of legislative decision-making by the courts on this issue.  […]

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