Articles for Month: August 2005

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 […]

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 […]

More documents released about Roberts than any Supreme Court nominee in history

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 […]

Police said 4 large photos of aborted babies "offends people"

RALEIGH, N.C., August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired US Senator Jesse Helms compared the tragedy of abortion to the 9/11 terrorist strikes and to the Holocaust in his memoirs being published this week. Helms, who acted as a Republican Senator for North Carolina for 30 years, wrote that “I will never be silent about the death of those who cannot speak for themselves,” in his memoir, Here’s Where I Stand, scheduled for release Tuesday, according to an AP report. Responding to criticism about his comparison of abortion with the Holocaust, Helms wrote, “I reject that criticism because this is indeed […]

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 […]

Woman denied automatic divorce from husband who has gay lover

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 – […]