The Possible Coming Censorship and Control of the Internet – In-Depth Report

August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The days are now numbered for surfing an uncensored, open-access Internet, using your favorite search engine to search a bottomless cyber-sea of information in the grandest democratic forum ever conceived by humankind. Instead you can look forward to Googling about on a walled-off, carefully selected corpus of government propaganda and sanitized information “safe” for public consumption. Indoctrinated and sealed off from the outer world, you will inhabit a matrix where every ounce of creative, independent thinking that challenges government policies and values will be squelched.”  – Eliot D. Cohen Ph.D. Is this true? Is this […]
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Toronto Gay Church to Celebrate Passage of Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Bill

TORONTO, Ontario, August 31, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Brent Hawkes of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, which serves a large homosexual congregation in the city, has planned a celebration to commemorate the recent passage of Canada’s same-sex ‘marriage’ Bill C-38. Scheduled for Sunday, September 18, Rev. Hawkes indicated in a press release that “We have noticed that, despite this extraordinary process with its remarkable result, there has really been no opportunity for Canadians to mark this achievement. A major event each year in our Church is “Homecoming Sunday.” We have decided to dedicate this year’s event to acknowledge the […]
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Pope Encourages Catholics to Have Large Families, Citing “Demographic Deficit”

ROME, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In remarks given during his weekly audience, during which he meets with pilgrims around the world, Pope Benedict XVI focused on the gift and the beauty of the large family, while citing a “demographic deficit” that he says is depriving Western nations of “freshness, energy, and the future incarnate in children.” “With the Lord,” said the pope, commenting on the text of Psalm 126, “there is prosperity and fruitfulness, a family rich with children and serenity, a city well supplied and protected, free from fears and insecurities.” “The father who had children in his […]
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Ten year old arrested for giving food to Terri Schiavo apologizes

TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions. The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, “I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center’s […]
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The Stem-Cell Conspiracyhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/135/12.0.html Catholic Church needs to play hardball over loss of parish and diocesan assets because of abuse by some individual clergyhttps://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%203/050829_hardball.html Florida museum plans to open corpse show despite state board’s rulinghttps://travelcanada.sympatico.msn.ca/Home/ContentPosting.htm?contentid=415d554d-1be2-41b3-ae9c-a7ce46626a5b&show=True&number=5&showbyline=False&abc=abc Britain’s elite get pills to survive bird fluhttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1753892,00.html Alarm bells ring in the West as China’s quest for resources means making deals with some of the world’s worst regimeshttps://www.sundayherald.com/51455 MTV unveils new gay channelhttps://uk.gay.com/headlines/6318 British Army Gay Recruitment Drive Launchedhttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2087-1753905%2C00.html Presbyterian Church Panel Urges Gay-Clergy Changehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/25/AR2005082501879.html Falwell speaks in favor of gay civil rightshttps://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story223.htm Reality show for sperm donorshttps://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story232.htm US abstinence drive hurts AIDS fight – […]
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Abortion Law in Texas Could See Abortion Docs Charged With Capital Crime

AUSTIN, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new law in Texas could have the unforeseen effect of capital murder charges for doctors aborting babies in the third trimester or without the consent of the parents of the mother. While legislators have insisted that it was not their intent, the Texas District and County Attorneys Association has warned that the parental consent legislation to come into effect this week in conjunction with the 2003 fetal protection law may result in charges against doctors in a state that retains the death penalty. Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, who sponsored the parental consent measure, […]
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British Government Aims to Ban “Extreme” Internet Pornography

LONDON, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The British Government announced today plans to broaden laws against “extreme” pornographic material to the Internet. After an extensive, and still ongoing joint Home Office/Scottish Executive consultation, Home Office Minister Paul Goggins said the new law would outlaw possession of “extreme pornographic material which is graphic and sexually explicit and which contains actual scenes or realistic depictions of serious violence, bestiality or necrophilia.” While the law aims only to outlaw “extreme” pornography, experts in the field of sexual abuse note that all pornography is harmful. Such experts have long pointed to the relationship between […]
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UK School to Allow F-Word in Class, But Only Five Times

WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK secondary school has drafted a new policy for classrooms – pupils are now allowed to swear at teachers, and are allowed to use the f-word up to five times per class before being ‘spoken’ to. Weavers School contacted parents this week, in advance of next week’s resumption of classes. Assistant headmaster Richard White wrote in the letter to parents, “Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all students can […]
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