Articles for Month: September 2005

VANCOUVER, B.C., September 29, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past February Canadian gay activist and former New Democratic Party MP Svend Robinson told CBC News Sunday that a return to politics for him is not out of the question. It seems that possibility is soon to become a reality. According to a Vancouver Sun report Robinson is testing the waters in preparation for a comeback. The Sun quotes Robinson as saying “I still have a lot of energy and passion and care deeply about many of the issues that are front and centre in political life today … I still have […]

LISBON, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The push for a referendum on abortion in Portugal by the country’s ruling socialists has moved forward with a vote in parliament approving the measure. The thin edge of the abortion wedge is in place if the country supports de-criminalizing abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy as the referendum question will request. Current law in Portugal restricts abortion to cases where the mother’s medical health is threatened or in cases of rape. Despite enormous international pressure, Portugal, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, has resisted full legalization of abortion. A June […]

John Roberts Sworn in as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly appointed head of the US Food and Drug Administration is no friend to women, says Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Andrew Von Eschenbach was named acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, following the abrupt and unexpected resignation of Commissioner Lester Crawford after just two months in the position. “Von Eschenbach is no friend of women,” warned Malec, a cancer survivor. “He’s a friend of the anti-woman abortion and pharmaceutical industries.” Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach was director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute […]

COBOURG, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com reported on August 11, that Fr. Edward Cachia, a Catholic priest in Cobourg, Ontario, submitted an Op Ed piece, published in the local paper, strongly supporting the internationally publicized “ordination” of a group of women on a boat in the St. Lawrence River. A number of dissident, anti-Catholic and even pro-abortion organizations, including Catholics for a Free Choice, were vocally supportive of the St. Lawrence River “ordination” stunt. The Cobourg Daily Star reported September 7 that Fr. Cachia had taken a one-month leave of absence from his parish duties. The paper strongly implied […]

OTTAWA, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an expected vote, but nevertheless shockingly outrageous to many observers, a strong majority of Canada’s Members of Parliament rejectedÂtwo proposals to raise the age of consent for sex from one of the lowest in the world at 14 to 16 – the norm in most of the world, with some nationsÂeven having it at 18. Bill C-313, which would have raised the age of consent, was supported by 99 MPs, including all Conservative Party membersÂand a few Liberals, whileÂthe New Democratic Party, the Bloc Quebecois, and the majority of Liberals combined to defeat […]

PHILADELPHIA, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The release of the Grand Jury Report on the sexual abuse of minors by clergy in the Philadelphia Diocese highlights the danger of having homosexuals serving in the ministry, a pro-family group said today. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) reviewed the over 400-page report and found that of the 28 ‘Selected Case Studies” listed in the report the victims of 23 priests were males ranging in age from 11-18 and the victims of two priests were both male and female. This review also reveals the efforts by media to downplay […]

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Alabama Senator wrote that hurricanes Katrina and Rita are God’s judgment being visited upon a sinful nation. “New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness,” Sen. Hank Erwin wrote in a column appearing in the Birmingham News Wednesday. “It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God.” He said that after visiting the Alabama gulf coast, he was “awed” but not surprised at the devastation that occurred. “Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why […]

CALGARY, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has come out swinging again, this time warning that the normalization of same-sex “marriage” will “usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.” In a pastoral letter published in the Calgary Sun on September 11, Bishop Henry warned that “Same-sex marriage proponents use the language of openness, tolerance and diversity, yet the foreseeable effect of their success will be to usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.” He warned that same-sex […]

The United Nations wants the Internethttps://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ramosmrosovsky_barillari200509280810.asp Israeli Researchers Develop Freezing Technique that could Help the Infertilehttps://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050914/ca_pr_on_he/health_ovary_transplant CTV bringing back Raunchy MTV for Teenshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050928.wCTV0928/BNStory/Business/ $10M in federal funds go to firm linked to Canada’s PMhttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=bff57a28-437b-4f24-b5b6-df80f4185969 Abuse of mentally ill is reported in Turkeyhttps://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/turkey.php Palm Beach Passes ‘Bubble Zone’ Law Against Pro-Life Protestershttps://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/09/27/s1b_buffer_0927.html Embryo destruction order appealedhttps://washtimes.com/upi/20050927-082311-7108r.htm Judge rules against abortion protestorshttps://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b4-5contemptsep24%2C0%2C2455991.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed Stemming the Embryonic Tide: Pro-lifers face a scientific and public relations juggernaut.https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/010/22.60.html US bishop asks prayers for conversion of pro-abortion politicians https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39869 EU prepares internet lawshttps://afr.com/articles/2005/09/23/1126982224201.html Terri Schiavo’s family writes tell-all bookhttps://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/12758347.htm Mich. Judge: Gay Couples Can Get Benefithttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/28/101350.shtml Just […]