Articles for Month: September 2003

Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida Rejects Decision on Gay Bishop https://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/6822508.htm   Pennsylvania Court Rules Against Common-Law Unions https://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-common-law-marriage,0,5705551.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines   Abstinence Radio Ad Pulled After Planned Parenthood Objects https://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Sep-16-Tue-2003/news/22166959.html   South Florida Lab to Freeze Humans after Death in Eternal Life Scam https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6822915.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp   Christian Medical Association Blasts FDA over RU-486 Death https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030922/180/5csj3.html   Washington State Health Coverage Expands to include Unborn Children https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030922/180/5cqul.html   Bush Clears Way for Faith Based Groups https://washingtontimes.com/national/20030922-105412-3534r.htm   Builders boycott to prevent abortion facility construction https://www.caller.com/ccct/state_texas_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_876_2289621,00.html

LITTLE ROCK, September 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a case which was voted one of the most spiked stories of 1999, Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the 25-year sentence against a homosexual man who with his male partner raped and killed a young boy.  Joshua Macabe Brown, then 22, and Davis Don Carpenter, then 38, were convicted in 1999 of the brutal rape and murder of 13-year-old Jesse Derkhising.  The story did not gain national prominence until featured in a column by WorldNetDaily founder and editor-in-chief Joseph Farah.  Rather than give prominent coverage to the Derkhising case, most media focused […]

TROCHU, Alberta, September 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mel Middleton, Executive Director of Freedom Quest International, an Alberta-based organization, recently wrote to Canadian Senator Doug Roche about international implications of last week’s passage of Bill C-250. The bill added “sexual orientation” to Canada’s hate crimes law.  In urging the senator to not vote in favour of the legislation, Middleton, who has promoted human rights and democracy in some of the world’s most oppressed countries for 25 years, asked, “Why should there be an exemption for ‘sincere religious views’, but not for views based on health, science, or politics?”  Middleton continues that […]

Says timing of legislation appears "intended to muzzle opposition to same-sex marriage."

LONDON, September 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Royal Society, a major academic institution in Britain has called on the United Nations to avoid attempting to ban human cloning when the human clones created will be used for research and killed before birth. However, the Royal Society has urged a ban on human cloning “for reproduction” – where the clones would be allowed to be born live. The news comes as the United Nations is gearing up for another attempt to address the cloning issue. An original effort to pass a UN resolution to ban cloning was delayed as some countries […]

DUBLIN, September 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A government official has said that the Irish government will not oppose a European Union measure to use Irish tax dollars to fund destructive research on human embryos. Despite the fact that such research is illegal in Ireland, Ned Costello, a spokesman for the Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment told The Irish Catholic that: “The government has indicated that it is not opposing the current proposal.” Ireland's opposition is crucial since Germany, Austria and Italy already oppose the proposal and Ireland's opposition would be sufficient to block the consensus needed to proceed with […]

Father says 'There are just too many things that can go wrong" with Ru-486

TORONTO, September 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senior judges involved in some of the most high-profile judicial rulings concerning homosexuality have apparently cozy ties to homosexual activists, says a report from REAL Women of Canada.  “If there is anyone left in Canada who still believes that our judges are fair and impartial on the homosexual issue,” the group says, they need only review the guest list of parties on June 26, 2003 connected with this summer’s Gay Pride Week.  On a guest list was Ontario Superior Court Justice Harry LaForme, who wrote the majority decision in support of same-sex marriage. “He […]

The October issue of the Campaign Life Coalition National News is now published on LifeSite and contains several significant stories and action items:  * C-13 must be voted down   * Provincial elections   * Pro-marriage motion defeated   * Hate crimes and the homosexual debate   * A Liberal plot on gay “marriage”?  * Sanctity of marriage prayed for   * Liberal MP opposed to same-sex “unions”  * National marriage rally in Ottawa   * UN is being watched closely   * ABC link suppressed by politics   * Easier to get MAP in Saskatchewan   * Canadian National […]

Jerome Lejeune Foundation offers pro-life English info bulletin on bioethics https://www.genethique.org/indexen.htm.  Head of National Abortion Rights Action League Michelman Steps Down https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/22/national/22WOME.html?ex=1064808000&en=142fe6bda94a87d8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE   A university professor provides a strategy against anti-Christian bigotry on campus.  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4605/CWA/freedom/index.htm   Consumer Complaints Spike at the FCC https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4603/CWA/pornography/index.htm   Married Women Healthier, Study Finds https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028002.cfm   Increasingly across America, the sick and elderly, some with terminal illnesses, are being murdered simply by withholding food and water.  https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/9/22/165543.shtml