Articles for Month: July 2005

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews) – In an interview with the Rome-based Zenit news service, Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons a psychiatrist and member of the Catholic Medical Association, said that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has ignored evidence that homosexual behaviour is a manifestation of a psychiatric disorder. In their recent call for the legalization of homosexual marriage, the APA has revealed a political bias that is of no service to homosexuals, said Fitzgibbons the primary author of the Catholic Medical Association’s document ‘Homosexuality and Hope.’ Fitzgibbons, the co-author of a book on forgiveness published by the APA, said the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to an ‘exclusive’ report printed on DrudgeReport.com, the popular conservative online news portal, a Hillary Clinton insider has said that Senator Clinton intends to vote to confirm Judge Roberts, “unless some unforeseen development occurs.” “Look, we’re not thrilled President Bush is in office and gets to make these choices,” said the source, “but we have to make the best of the situation until the next election!…[Hillary] is simply doing what is right for the country, not MOVEON.ORG.” MOVEON.ORG is one of the liberal activist groups that have come out swinging against Roberts, […]

JERUSALEM, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israeli police have put under house arrest, Oded Golan, the owner of the so-called “James Ossuary”, the fake ossuary that attempted to promote the idea that Jesus Christ had brothers. The trial has begun. The next session, will be held in Jerusalem, September 4, 2005. A 27-page indictment in a Jerusalem court was based on a two-year investigation involving the Jerusalem police and the Israel Antiquities Authority. Golan was among the five charged with 17 counts of antiquities forgery and fraud in January 2005. If they are found guilty they face the possibility of […]

DENIA, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new Spanish legislation calling homosexual partnerings ‘marriage’ is to be subject to a legal challenge by a judge who refused to participate in such a ‘wedding.’ Judge Laura Alabau of the city of Denia in southwestern Spain refused to “marry” a lesbian couple and has filed a legal challenge against the reform of Spain’s Civil Code allowing same-sex couples to contract “marriage.” Judge Alabau is basing her argument on article 32 of the country’s Constitution, which says, “Men and women have the right to contract marriage with full juridical equality.” The constitution also […]

OTTAWA, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Voting in favour of the homosexual ‘marriage’ bill C-38 on final reading Tuesday nightÂwere 47 Senators including the following Liberal Senators: Austin Maheu   Bacon Mahovlich   Baker Massicotte   Biron Losier-Cool  Bryden Mercer   CallbeckÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂMilne   Chaput Mitchell   ChristensenÂÂÂMunson   CookÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂPoulin  Cordy Pearson   Dallaire Pépin   Downe Peterson   EggletonÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂPoy   FairbairnÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂTardif  FitzpatrickÂÂÂÂÂRinguette   Furey Robichaud   Grafstein Rompkey   Harb Smith   Hubley Trenholme Counsell  JafferÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂJoyal  Kenny   The Liberals were joined by a handful of Progressive Conservative (PC) and Conservative ‘C’ Senators as well as an NDP and a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 1999 the Liberal majority Canadian Parliament voted by an overwhelming 216 to 55 to uphold the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. Six years later a Liberal minority Parliament formally legalized homosexual ‘marriage’, giving to gay partners precisely the same legal recognition as heterosexual couples who vow lifelong committement. The unprecedented speed with which the dramatic reversal took place, and the many similarities between the legal systems of Canada and the United States, especially that of activist courts, provoked Bradley Watson of the Heritage Foundation to write […]

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this week, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the company manufacturing the abortion drug, RU-486, admitted Monday that there have been five deaths of women who used it. Danco Laboratories refused to admit that there was “any causal relationship” between the women’s deaths and their drug, while admitting that the drug was ‘successful’ in its baby-killing mission in over 460,000 cases. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) followed on Tuesday with an announcement that they would be investigating the dangers of the drug while issuing a public health advisory on the risk of sepsis or […]

MEXICO, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico’s newspaper Desde la Fe, carries a strong condemnation of President Vincente Fox’s plan to allow the morning after pill to be included in government sponsored health clinics for poorer areas. The editorial called the pill, “a lethal weapon against the innocent.” The bishops wrote, “The wrong decision by authorities is leading to a moral and social degradation, the costs of which we are already paying in a society that has become increasingly inhumane. It is not by distributing contraceptives in bulk that we will resolve the health problems related […]

OTTAWA, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative MP and co-chair of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus Maurice Vellacott expressed great sadness at the brutal slaying of a pregnant Edmonton woman and decried the injustice made evident by this case. Liana White’s husband, Michael White, has been charged with second-degree murder and offering an indignity to a body for leaving it in a ditch. But he is not facing any charges in the death of their unborn child. Comparing this case to the Peterson case in California, Vellacott said, “If White faces a murder charge against his wife, Liana, he should also […]

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