Articles for Month: October 2003

NEW HAMPSHIRE, October 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Gene Robinson, the practicing homosexual Episcopal Minister who is to be consecrated a bishop November 2, has refused to step down from his appointment and has gone even further saying that “it is God’s will” that he become a bishop.  Anglicans the world over including the Archbishop of Canterbury have acknowledged the move will cause a massive split in the Church but Robinson remains determined to go ahead.  However, even within the diocese there is much unrest.  Donations to the diocese are down due to protests by some parishes. See local coverage:  https://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=61204&ran=195906

YWCA Fires Pro-abortion Lesbian, Wiccan praising, socialist Patricia Ireland The YWCA’s decision to fire Patricia Ireland is late but welcome, according to the pro-family lobby which conducted a national campaign for her removal.  https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1246   Vote in CNN’s marriage poll:  https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/30/bush.gay.marriage/index.html   Strong Indications Mike Harris Will Join New Party Leadership Race Former Ontario premier will give speech Wednesday on new party in N.S.  Toronto Star reports Tom Long, a key adviser to Mike Harris, said people should pay close attention to the Wednesday speech to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a right-wing think-tank. A united conservative party lead […]

PHILADELPHIA, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist Canadian politicians – federal MP Svend Robinson, Ontario MPP George Smitherman and Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray – will be featured guests at an international homosexual activist conference this Spring in Philadelphia. The ‘Equality Forum’, is featuring Canada this year as a model country for homosexual activism.  The executive director of the international forum, Malcolm Lazin, said of selecting Canada, “It was an easy choice, Canada is really a leader when it comes to gay and lesbian civil rights.”  Two of the homosexual activists who were part of the organized campaign of court […]

Stories are as follows:  *Dirty tricks to get C-13 passed   *Pro-life M-83 defeated   * Canadian duplicity at UN cloning talks   * Municipal elections   * Ontario election   * Pro-life premier re-elected in PEI   * Supreme Court rejects BC bubble zone challenge   * Judges cozy ties to gay activists exposed   * Paul Martin is PM in waiting   * RU-486’s lethal history   * Youth proclaim truth about ABC link   * Sr. Lucille Durocher, RIP   * Edmonton National Conference, Nov. 6-8   * Christmas cake sales   * Fr. Ted Scholarship   […]

MECHELEN, Belgium, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 70, the left-leaning media favorite to become the next pope, held a press conference at his residence Wednesday, in which he publicly belittled fellow Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo. Cardinal Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, repeated the Church’s teaching against contraception to a BBC program, and also noted the scientific evidence showing that condoms are not fail-safe protection against AIDS.  He suggested that rather than allow the false image of ‘safe sex’ with condoms, condom packages should warn consumers that they are not reliable protection against […]

TAMPA BAY, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of Terri Schiavo, the disabled Florida woman who is destined to starve to death after a court ordered the removal of her feeding tube, were able to have a supervised visit with their daughter after her feeding tube was removed. Bob and Mary Schindler visited their daughter accompanied by Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski, a Roman Catholic priest who visits Terri weekly. The New York Times reports that Father Malanowski took a scrap from a robe worn by Mother Teresa into Terri’s room and blessed her with it.  Recalling the fact that Mother […]

TAMPA BAY, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Catholics reacted with dismay to the weak statement issued by Bishop Robert Lynch of St Petersburg regarding Terri Schindler, the disabled Florida woman whose life-sustaining feeding tube was removed by court order two days ago.  Whereas pro-life leaders and anti-euthanasia experts internationally have identified the act as an act of euthanasia, the official statement from the bishop failed to even mention that there was wrongdoing at work in Terri’s starvation.  The two paragraph statement by the bishop reads:  “With the news that the feeding tube has now been removed from Terri Schiavo, […]

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case to Protect Children from Internet Porn https://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3263777,00.html   Mel Gibson forced to rename The Passion in America after Miramax objects https://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-film-gibson-passion,0,7510662.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds   UK Paper claims Plan to Press Pope to Resign revealed by “a very senior church official who declined to be named”  https://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=453804 Canada’s MD shortage among worst in Western world https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031016.wdoct1016/BNStory/National/  Author Says It’s Time GOP Fought Back Against Liberal Tactics https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/162003e.asp   Publisher Fears Canadian Law Could Label Holy Scriptures ‘Hate Speech’  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/162003a.asp   ‘They Want Marriage to Mean Nothing’  What do you think of the new report from the […]

TORONTO, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, LifeSite has posted a new page on voting by federal Members of Parliament on life and family issue votes that have been recorded in the House of Commons.  The page also gives brief summaries of the bills and motions concerned and links to the original Hansard records of the vote.  This service is intended to help our readers hold the Members accountable for their actions and to facilitate praise and encouragement for those who have acted on behalf of life and family and facilitate effective grassroots lobbying of those who have done the […]

LONDON, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has come out against the appointment of a practicing homosexual as an Anglican Bishop.  The US Anglican diocese of New Hampshire has refused to halt the consecration of homosexual minister Gene Robinson as a Bishop, which will take place November 2.  An emergency meeting to discuss the crisis over the U.S. bishop-elect and another Anglican Bishop in Canada who is also refusing to heed the direction of the worldwide Anglican leadership asking him to refuse to bless homosexual ‘marriages’ ended without resolution.  “Undoubtedly there is a huge crisis […]