Articles for Month: June 2006

LONDON, Ontario, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vote Marriage Canada spokesman Pat O’Brien has taken Statistics Canada’s report, “Till death do us part?” (The Daily, June 28th 2006) as confirmation that heterosexual marriage is the foundation of families and of Canadian society. Said former Liberal MP Pat O’Brien, “The Statistics Canada report, ‘Till death do us part?’, confirms that Canadians overwhelmingly support the institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman not just in public policy, but in how they live their lives.” According to the “StatCan” report, “most Canadians marry once and only once, and […]

22 Conservatives, 3 Liberals, plus 2 Conservative Senators showed up

Brussels Takes Next Step Towards Pan-European State Government

MESA, Arizona, June 30,Â2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)Â- A United Families International intervention program has been credited by scholarly evaluators with making a statistically significant impact on the sexual health of pre-adolescent children in Africa. Since 2001, the Stay Alive Program has been taught in nine African nations to more than 750,000 African children and their families. An independent program outcome evaluation in Kenya was conducted over a 2½-year time period, examining 957 children, ages 9-14, in 51 different schools representing a diverse range of social economic status, gender, religions and geographic settings. As reported by researchers at the International Conference on Global […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Life Decisions International (LDI) will release a revised edition of The Boycott List on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. The Boycott List identifies corporations that are boycott targets due to their support of Planned Parenthood, the world’s primary abortion-advocacy group. “As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 130 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood,” said LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $35 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began nearly 15 years ago. […]

By John Jalsevac GENEVA, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Geneva on Wednesday night John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), launched a UN declaration on unborn babies’ rights. “We appeal to all UN member states to put protection in place for the most vulnerable members of our society; the genuinely voiceless ones; the child before birth. The declaration on the right to life of the child before birth is the first initiative in this campaign and is central to the reason SPUC was founded,” said Smeaton. The Holy See’s permanent observer at […]

By Gudrun Schultz SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian high school that expelled two students for allegedly engaging in a lesbian relationship can be sued over the decision, the California Supreme Court ruled today. The sixteen-year-old girls were expelled last September for violating the school’s code of conduct, school principal Gregory Bork said in a letter to the girls’ parents. The 142-student school in Riverside County, which is owned by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, prohibits actions “contrary to Christian decency.” The letter stated that while the school had no evidence of any improper physical contact […]

Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Dale O’Leary June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Study demonstrates failure of condom education.” That is a headline you didn’t read in your local paper although it accurately describes the results of a study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (Winer, June 22, 2006). Instead the headline in at least one paper reads “Condoms protect against cervical cancer.” The subhead is a little more restrained: “When condoms are used effectively, a study shows they can help prevent the spread of human papilloma virus” (HPV). Most people would assume for example, that “prevent” means zero […]

By Gudrun Schultz LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Arkansas’ high court ruled against the state Thursday in a dispute over homosexual foster parents, saying the state couldn’t refuse to allow homosexuals to foster children. In 1999 the state child’s welfare board banned homosexuals from foster parenting, saying that children would be more likely to thrive in a traditional two-parent home. Four residents sued for discrimination and privacy violations against homosexuals. The court agreed with a lower court ruling against the state’s child welfare board, saying a 1999 ban on homosexual foster parenting was “an attempt to legislate […]

By Gudrun Schultz PORTUGAL, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal’s Socialist government has announced plans to push a law legalizing abortion through parliament in September, bypassing an earlier promise to hold a referendum on the issue. The Socialist party told media that a referendum would not be necessary, saying parliament was more than capable of deciding the issue, reported the People’s Daily Online yesterday. The party holds an absolute majority in the legislature, with 121 of the 230 parliamentary seats. The Socialists won in the 2005 election on a party platform that included a promise to hold a referendum in […]

By John Jalsevac TIJUANA, Mexico, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “There was a little nun in Tijuana who had very wise eyes. Their glance was sharp and critical, and the eyebrows over them arched frequently, but the light in them was unmistakable. It was the light of eyes used to gazing in love,” writes college junior Cassidy Bugos in today’s beautiful and deeply insightful special report. This past March Bugos, along with a number of her classmates, volunteered with the Missionaries of Charity in the poverty-stricken city of Tijuana Mexico. For her and the others it was a powerful experience, […]

From the Archives: Bill Gates’ Planned-Parenthood-President Dad Inspired Pro-Abort Fundinghttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/may/03050902.html Why Have Children?https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12106046_1 Swiss priest says woman claiming to be ordained faces excommunicationhttps://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0603713.htm Archdiocese of Mexico reminds Mexicans to vote to defend “values of life”https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7048 A new Canadian tool can re-grow teeth say inventors https://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/28/060628204537.2422eofv.html

By Hilary White   LONDON, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a vote this week, the British Medical Association (BMA) took a clear stand against physician assisted suicide. 65% of the 500 doctors at the BMA’s meeting in Belfast voted against the proposal to accept assisted suicide.    This represents a significant development from previous trends. In a narrow vote last year the BMA refused to take a position against assisted suicide, though individuals and pro-life organizations have said the practice is going on quietly and the courts have ruled that disabled patients do not have the right not to be […]

By Hilary White  JERUSALEM, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, has voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal to expand abortion availability. The vote was 39 to 9 against a proposal to abolish the committees – made up of doctors, rabbis and social workers – that currently judge whether a woman may have an abortion. These committees are criticized by pro-abortion feminists in the Knesset who say they are an obstacle to abortion.  Approximately 40,000 abortions are committed against Israeli children per year.  In 2002 University of Haifa’s professor Arnon Sofer warned that Israel was facing the […]

By Hilary White  SACRAMENTO, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate Judiciary Committee of California has narrowly rejected an attempt to legalize assisted suicide.   The Committee voted 3-2 on Tuesday, with Joe Dunn, a Democrat, casting the deciding vote with two Republicans. Dunn said that he could not trust that this bill would not open the door for active euthanasia for those not suffering from terminal illnesses.   Dunn told reporters at a press conference that it was with “a heavy heart” that he voted no. He said he was afraid that in the future, “the power of money” […]

By John-Henry Westen KONIGSTEIN, Germany, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chairman of Slovakia’s Bishops’ Conference gave a talk at Aid to the Church in Need headquarters in Germany Tuesday saying that the defence of Gospel values against an increasing influence of Western Liberalism is “a major task of the Church.” Bishop Frantisek Tondra of Spis in East Slovakia, explained: “Liberalism is predominant in Slovakia’s mass media, thus infiltrating and subverting Christian values, family values and the values of life in the public opinion. This happens in particular via private TV and several of the most widespread newspapers.” The Bishop […]

By Gudrun Schultz HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Kentucky, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Criminal charges have been dismissed against Professor Sally Jacobsen, a former professor at Northern Kentucky University who destroyed a pro-life campus display in April. District Judge Karen Thomas said Jacobsen’s successful completion of a mediation program would stand in lieu of the first-time misdemeanour charges, which included two counts of misdemeanour theft and two counts of third-degree criminal mischief,  reported the Cincinnati Post. Jacobsen tore down a pro-life sign and 400 small white crosses, intended to represent a cemetery for aborted babies,  which had been displayed by the campus […]

Reproduced with permission of United Catholic Asian News (UCAN) HYDERABAD, India, June 28, 2006 (UCAN)—Indian police detained four Missionaries of Charity (MC) nuns on charges of attempting to convert people when the nuns visited a government-run hospital in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The nuns were on a regular visit to Ruia hospital in Tirupati town, a popular Hindu pilgrimage center, 2,060 kilometers south of New Delhi.   Police detained the nuns in the hospital on the evening ofÂJune 25Âand later took them to a police station, keeping them there until 10:30 p.m. Christian leaders say police acted at […]

By John Jalsevac NEW YORK, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Let me also note that this Review Conference is not negotiating a ‘global gun ban’, nor do we wish to deny law-abiding citizens their right to bear arms in accordance with their national laws.”  So said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday in an address to the United Nations Small Arms Review Conference in New York.  The Secretary General added, “Mr. President, with your permission, I would want to repeat, because there are people around who either have not heard this, or do not want to hear.  We are […]

WICHITA,  June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life group Operation Rescue has announced that it has purchased the building that housed Central Women’s Services, an abortion mill located at 3013 E. Central in Wichita, Kansas. Central Women’s Services had not been able to pay the rent, and the property was put up for sale. When Operation Rescue purchased the property, under the stipulation that the current tenant not be allowed to remain, it forced the mill to close. The facility is to be renovated and serve as the pro-life group’s corporate headquarters, and will feature a memorial to the pre-born victims of […]

By Gudrun Schultz JERUSALEM, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evangelical Christian, Jewish and Moslem leaders in Jerusalem are calling on the Israeli government to intervene and block plans to hold a week long World Pride celebration in the holy city. “We do so out of our great love and respect for Jerusalem, the only city in the world that the Bible decrees as holy,” said an open letter to the government issued by three evangelical Christian groups, Christian Friends of Israel, Bridges For Peace and the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. American Rabbi Yehuda Levin, with Jews for Morality, held […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Pentagon issued a statement on Wednesday retractingÂits classification, in a military document, of homosexuality as a mental heath disorder, after the American Psychiatric Association and several homosexual activist groups objected. In a document outlining policy for discharging or retiring service members because of physical disability, “homosexuality” was included in a list of “certain conditions and defects of a developmental nature…[that] do not constitute a physical disability.” Other elements on the list included sexual gender and identity disorders, personality disorders, mental retardation, and alcoholism. “Homosexuality should not have been characterized […]

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court has ended years of legal battles over the right of citizens to display pro-life messages on their cars’ license plates.  The court declined to reviewÂlower court decisions, and let stand decisionsÂby the Fifth and Sixth Circuit Courts of AppealsÂthat permitted pro-life license plates to be sold in Louisiana and Tennessee.  Bearing the message “Choose Life,” the plates offended abortion supporters who claimed that the tags violate the First Amendment by not permitting an abortion rights message in the same forum.“Tennesseans have waited long enough to get this […]

Disgraced South Korean scientist heads back to labhttps://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-06-27T110527Z_01_SEO109483_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCIENCE-KOREA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 Maternal smoking linked with severe tic disorderhttps://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-06-26T193646Z_01_COL670543_RTRUKOC_0_US-MATERNAL-SMOKING.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 Persecution of Christians on the Rise At Least 55,000 Christians Are Killed for their Faith Every Yearhttps://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06060135.htm Bell Sympatico to begin Monitoring Internet Activity – Big Brother watchinghttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060627.gtsecurity0627/BNStory/Technology/home Homeschoolers take case to EU Human Rights Court – German Supreme Court turns down appeal by Christian parentshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50812 Colorado Planned Parenthood Distributing Abortion-Causing Morning after Pill for Freehttps://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Colorado_Contraception.html  

By Hilary White  TORONTO, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The makers of Hollywood blockbusters seem to have learned an important lesson from Mel Gibson’s spectacular success with The Passion of the Christ: religion sells, even if only ersatz religion revolving around fallible caped superheroes.  Superman Returns, which opens today, is a fitting tribute to the iconic Superman heroic legend and a summer blockbuster that pushes all the right buttons as a piece of entertainment. Its handsome and indomitable hero, played confidently by newcomer Brandon Routh, his thrilling rescues and astonishing feats are believable and attractive. The movie picks up […]

By Hilary White LONDON, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, issued a lengthy and carefully worded statement that invited the secularized liberals in the US and elsewhere to embrace the traditional tenets of Anglican Christianity or form an “associate” church that would not share in the decision-making of the larger Communion.   Williams says that despite the political characterizations of the crisis, the debate “is not essentially a debate about the human rights of homosexual people,” but one more fundamental about what it means to be Christian and Anglican.  The Worldwide Anglican Communion is […]

By John Jalsevac LATVIA, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International has publicly condemned Latvia for refusing to pass legislation that would have included “sexual orientation” in employment anti-discrimination laws. The legislation went before the Latvian parliament several weeks ago, where it was rejected for reasons centering largely on Latvia’s family-friendly tradition and beliefs and the fear that passing such legislation could significantly erode traditional family values. The Latvian president Vike-Freiberga vetoed the amended legislation, requesting that the Latvian parliament reconsider. In a letter to the Latvian parliament president Vike-Freiberga said that despite the fact that the legislative body had […]

Also Says Embryonic Stem Cell Researchers Excommunicated Just Like Abortionists

By Gudrun Schultz MARSEILLES, France, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A documentary promoting euthanasia received the 5th European Broadcasting Union Golden Link Award, at the documentary film festival the Sunny Side of the Doc, in Marseilles last week. EXIT, le droit de mourir (the right to die) was produced using public funds by an association of five European Public Broadcasters. The documentary promotes Switzerland’s liberal approach to assisted suicide, where organizations have set up clinics offering assisted suicide “services”, for a fee, to both Swiss residents and foreigners. The film purports to show “how volunteers accompany sick and handicapped people […]

By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic and Evangelical Churches of Canada have both voiced their support for the abortion-restriction bill C-338, presented to Parliament on June 21. The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), co-sponsored by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, issued a statement in support of the proposal by Liberal MP Paul Steckle, who tabled An Act to amend the Criminal Code (procuring a miscarriage after 20 weeks of gestation) last week. Bill C-338 would make performing an abortion after 20 weeks […]

Babies Conceived After Reversal "May Have Problems" Says Researcher

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the elections, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper made a promise which startled and offended Canadians who hold life sacred. Speaking of abortion legislation, Harper said, “I’ll use whatever influence I have in Parliament to be sure that such a matter doesn’t come to a vote.” (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011707.html ) And that is exactly what seems to have happenedÂwith the Canadian version of the Unborn Victim of Violence Act – even though the bill had nothing to do with abortion per se. The details of the account ofÂtheÂsudden death of that billÂare […]

Catholic Hospitals Considering the Procedure

By Hilary White  OTTAWA, June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced that it will allow the creation of living human embryos specifically for research purposes.   Although pro-life advocates working to kill the Liberal government’s 2002 Assisted Reproduction Act predicted that embryonic stem cell research with “fresh embryos” would be the next move—although the bill purported to protect against this type of research—they were roundly criticized as “alarmist” during the debates over the bill. Meanwhile, biotech lobbyists have worked steadily to find ways around the legislation or simply to amend it to get […]

By Hilary White   BOSTON, June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of clergy including members from a number of mainline Christian denominations and other religious organizations, including a number of Catholics, is calling on the Catholic hierarchy to end its opposition to homosexual “marriage,” claiming that it is in violation of “religious freedom”.  The group, calling itself the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, will release an open letter to Cardinal Sean O’Malley and Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts asking the Catholic hierarchy “to respect religious freedom and stop lobbying for a constitutional amendment that would deny civil […]

By Gudrun Schultz SEATTLE, Washington, June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study on condom effectiveness in protecting against the cancer-causing human papilloma virus has shown a discrediting 30% failure rate. The report, however,Âis being praised as a breakthrough for its claim that condom use offers “significant” protection against the virus. The study relied on the journals of 82 female university students who kept daily records of their sexual behaviour, and found that 70% of the women, who reported 100% consistent condom use, were virus-free at the end of three years. The Illinois Family Institute criticized news reports of the […]

By Gudrun Schultz CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It’s okay for guest houses catering to a homosexual clientele to discriminate against heterosexual couples, women, and lesbians, the Commission on Gender Equality ruled recently, saying it is a “necessity in our democratic society.” The Human Rights Commission received an official complaint against two Amsterdam guest houses over a year ago, stating that the resorts were billed as “men only.” The Gay and Lesbian Alliance initiated the action after claiming to receive 107 complaints of discrimination from women, lesbians and heterosexual couples who had been turned away, Pretoria […]

By Gudrun Schultz June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper identified Ottawa based journalists with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as “problem” media elements, in an interview with the Western Standard last week. Discussing recent media conflict over the decision by the prime minister’s office to structure press gallery question periods, bypassing the traditional media scrum scene, PM Harper said “the key journalists causing the problem are from CBC, but strictly the ones in Ottawa.” Under the new rules, each journalist is called on in order from a pre-set list and allowed two questions. That has triggered an […]

LifeSiteNews Special Report detailing Stephen Harper's views on Abortion

Part II of Two Part Report

By John Jalsevac NEW YORK, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The wealth of the two richest men in the world, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, has just been consolidated in a dramatic fashion. Buffett has announced that he will be giving away over 80% of his wealth in the next number of years, $31 billion of which will be given to the Gates foundation in the form of stocks. The result, according to Forbes, is a giant charitable organization worth approximately $60 billion. To pro-life and pro-family advocates, however, the new arrangement hardly makes things any worse—and certainly not any […]

Schools only acted on filtering sex sites out of school computers after Mom went to the mediahttps://www.fotf.ca/tfn/education/stories/062306.html Toronto Mayor David Miller, NDP Leader Jack Layton, and Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman Join Toronto Gay Pride Marchhttps://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060624/pride_weekend_toronto_060625/20060625?hub=CTVNewsAt11 Top Sponsors for Toronto Gay Pride Were Labatt’s Blue, VIA Rail, and TD Canada Trusthttps://www.pridetoronto.com/sponsors/index.htm U.S. National Education Association Set to Endorse Homosexual Marriagehttps://www.afa.net/neaendorses.asp Don’t meddle in our affairs, Gorbachev warns the West https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C3-2243314%2C00.html The State Was Made for Family, Not Family for the State https://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=1553&authid=10 Philippines Ends Death Penaltyhttps://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=91552 Catholic Boom for United States – Hispanic Immigrants Boosting the Rankshttps://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=91505 Same-Sex Marriage Flounders […]

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the installation Mass of the new Archbishop of Washington, Donald W. Wuerl, Thursday, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the representative of Pope Benedict XVI, was seen giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion Senator and former Presidential candidate John Kerry. The incident was reported by the Catholic News Service (CNS), the official news service of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. CNS states: “During the Mass, Kerry, who supports keeping abortion legal, received Communion in the hand from Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States and Pope Benedict XVI’s representative to the […]

By Hilary White  BEIJING, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chinese communist government has dropped a proposal to amend the criminal code to include sex-selective abortion. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress had proposed fines and prison terms up to three years for the offence but it proved too fractious an issue for the Chinese rulers who remain dedicated to their One Child population control policy.  According to the latest available numbers China has a demographic gap between boys and girls being born and the restriction of one child per family is making it wider. Currently the ratio […]

By Hilary White  HO CHI MINH CITY/HUÊ, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion is running rampant in Vietnam. Recent statistics have shown that as many as 74,264 children were killed by abortion in Ho Chi Minh City alone inÂthe first nine months of 2005. The problem has become so serious that a public conference, attended by almost 1000 people, was held in Ho Chi Minh City in February 2006 on the issue.  Fr Joseph, one of the organizers, said that it’s“necessary to put in place programmes to protect human life and to push back the culture of death in Vietnamese […]

By John Jalsevac CALGARY, Alberta, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s most out-spoken Catholic Bishop, Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary, is once again making headlines, this time as he comes head to head with the Calgary Catholic School Board. The dispute between Bishop Henry and the Board is ostensibly over what the bishop says is the immoral practice of using monies raised by means of gambling. OnÂa more fundamental level, however, it is a battle over what right a person or institution has to call themselves Catholic if they will not accede to the Church’s ecclesiastical powers when those powers […]

By Gudrun Schultz ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Governor Robert Ehrlich has appointed an openly homosexual judge to the Baltimore District Court, one week after firing an appointee to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for speaking out against the homosexual lifestyle. Judge Christopher Panos, 47, has been appointed as special master to the city Circuit Court family division. Panos has been in a homosexual relationship with partner Dennis Cashen for 17 years, and the two are raising a young girl, Cate, reported the AP. Last week Governor Ehrlich fired Transit board member Robert J. Smith over his […]

By Gudrun Schultz HOLLYWOOD, California, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken his support for homosexual activists one step farther in agreeing to be the keynote speaker at a Hollywood homosexual fund-raising event this week, reported WorldNetDaily on Sunday. Held by the political group the Log Cabin Republicans, the event costs $250 a plate, but an additional $5,000 will get attendees a photo of themselves with the governor. The California based organization, Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), condemned Gov. Schwarzenegger’s decision to speak at the event.”n an unprecedented act honouring transsexual-bisexual-homosexual ‘pride’ (which is parading […]

By Gudrun Schultz ENGLAND, United Kingdom, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual couple who sexually abused foster boys placed in their care have received sentences of only five and six years, reported the Times Online on Saturday. The two men, Ian Wathey, 41, and Craig Faunch, 32, were convicted of sexually molestingÂ4 foster boys aged 8 to 14 years. The men were approved as foster caregivers three years ago by the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, reported the Times, and within just a few months began molesting boys placed in their care. Both men were convicted of multiple counts of […]

By John Jalsevac MONCTON, N.B., June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Tuesday New Brunswick Right to Life announced their belief that Dr. Georges Dumont Hospital in Moncton is one of the two hospitals in the province that is scheduled to begin performing abortions by the end of June. On June 21 approximately 75 pro-lifers, including Richard Doucette, State Deputy of the Knights of Columbus, held a protest at Dumont Hospital. Participants in the demonstration held Acadian flags and signs including “Let Our Acadian Babies Live” and “Hospitals Are for Saving Life Not Destroying It.” The Acadian hymn “Ave Marie […]

Maryland Governor Slammed for Firing Faithful Catholichttps://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20060622-111950-2939r.htm Judge Orders Planend Parenthood to Release Files on Sexual Abusehttps://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/14877145.htm More Than 3 Million Babies Born From IVFhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5101684.stm St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese Pastors Rejecting Talking About Touching https://thewandererpress.com/a6-1-2006.htm Chicago’s Cardinal Delivers His Greatest Sermonhttps://thewandererpress.com/a6-8-2006.htm Homosexuality misrepresented by fabrication and biashttps://catholicinsight.com/online/political/homosexuality/article_667.shtml  

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the Vatican made official the long-rumoured appointment of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, archbishop of Genoa, Italy, as the new Secretary of State, the second highest position in the Vatican next to the Pope himself. The appointment is set to take effect on September 15, 2006 until which time the current Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, will continue in the role. In a letter explaining to the Catholics of the archdiocese over which the Cardinal now presides why he would require the services of their bishop in the Vatican, the Pope […]

  By Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2005, 19 women members of Congress pressed US President George Bush on his support for abstinence education, saying that this indicated opposition to contraception and was evidence of a right wing conspiracy against women’s “reproductive rights”. At the time the women wrote a letter to BushÂdemanding to know ifÂhe supported birth control. One year and four letters later, John O. Agwunobi, Bush’s Assistant Secretary for Health, responded to their inquiry. “The President has asked that I respond on his behalf,” he began, stating that“This Administration supports the availability of […]

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Addressing Catholic Bishops from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia today, Pope Benedict XVI said that while he would like to speak to them about many things he would limit himself to the very important topic of the family. He noted that the Baltic states suffer “from the plague of the abortion and the demographic crisis” as well as from inadequate formation of children in “authentic values.” The Pope warned the Bishops that “Modernity that is not rooted in authentic human values is destined to be dominated by the tyranny of instability and […]

By Gudrun Schultz OLYMPIA, Washington, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The owners of a popular groceryÂstore have refused to stock abortifacient Plan B medication, triggering threats of a month-long boycott by women’s rights activists. Kevin Stormans, co-owner of Ralph’s Thriftway, said the store pharmacy would not carry Plan B medication because of moral concerns over the drug, the Olympian reported on Wednesday. “I don’t want to get into a detailed debate. I just think people have to choose when they believe life begins,” Mr. Stormans told the Olympian. “There are questions about this drug on that issue.” Widely touted as […]

By Hilary White CALGARY, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently, Canadians voted in a nationwide contest for who they thought was the “Greatest Canadian” of all time. They chose socialist icon, Tommy Douglas, the “father of medicare,” and founder of the extreme left party, the New Democrats.   The 2004 “Greatest Canadian”, however, held views on the poor and disabled that his zealous fans on the left would like to keep quiet. In the July 3 edition of the Western Standard, John Robson quotes Douglas’ 1933 master’s thesis, where heÂargued that“The subnormal family presents the most appalling of all family […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A three–judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stay Federal District Judge Gordon Thompson’s order to remove San Diego’s Mt. Soledad Cross pending an appeal. The 43 foot Cross was erected in 1954 and currently is the centerpiece of a national memorial honoring American veterans of all wars. According to a court order, the City of San Diego must remove the Cross by August 1, 2006, or face fines of $5,000 per day thereafter. In its decision, however, the Ninth Circuit scheduled oral arguments on the matter […]

By Gudrun Schultz FRANCE, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than half of France’s adult population is opposed to same sex “marriage,” and almost two thirds don’t support adoption or artificial procreation for homosexual couples, a new poll has revealed. Angus Reid Global Scan reported today on a survey conducted by TNS-Sofres, published in Le Nouvel Observateur. The poll found that 51 per cent of those questioned were opposed to same-sex “marriage.” 45 per cent said they favoured same-sex “marriage.” Support for the adoption of children by homosexual couples was even lower. 60 per cent of respondents said they opposed […]

By Terry Vanderheyden JERUSALEM, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israeli rabbis have joined Arab sheikhs to denounce a week-long World Gay Pride event planned for Jerusalem in August. Brooklyn-based Jews for Morality leader Rabbi Yehuda Levin is in Israel to lead a coalition of religious leaders that includes Israeli-Arab MK Sheikh Tzartzur and Rabbi Menachem Fruman, among others, who oppose the anticipated homosexual event. Rabbi Levin has even called for a ceasefire (“hudna” in Hebrew) between Israelis and Arabs so the two factions can join forces against their common moral enemy. Several news agencies from around the world attended Levin’s […]

By Terry Vanderheyden SACRAMENTO, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California legislative committee passed a bill yesterday that would force all public schools to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality on campus. The California Senate Education Committee approved AB 606 on a 7-to-2 party-line vote, Democrats for, Republicans against. The author is Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, a Los Angeles Democrat.   AB 606 would authorize the California Superintendent of Public Instruction to arbitrarily withhold state funds (around 2/3rds of a school district’s budget) from any district that does not adequately promote transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality in its school policies. AB 606 repeals […]

By Hilary White   VANCOUVER, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The fallout of the dissolution of the legal institution of marriage in Canada is proving the recently established maxim that the modern world is impervious to satire.   While homosexual activists insisted that with the redefinition of marriage to allow them to register their partnerings, the whole affair would be closed, activists defending marriage warned that the redefinition had kicked the supports out from under the institution. Many warned that taking marriage out of its natural context and re-defining it according to the whims of special interest groups would lead […]

By Hilary White   LAS VEGAS, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The name of Christ is so offensive to modern secular ears thatÂClark County School District officials, who knew it was coming, cut off the microphone during a valedictorian addressÂbefore they or anyone else could hear it.   Brittany McComb is a Christian and a top student graduating from Foothill High. SheÂknew that her valedictorian address would probably be cut short, but was determined to go ahead and mention the one name that is for her above every other name.“I went through four years of school at Foothill and they […]

By John Jalsevac LATVIA, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than a week after the Latvian parliament refused to bow to EU demands to insert “sexual orientation” into employment anti-discrimination laws, the Latvian president has vetoed the bill and sent it back to Parliament for a revote. President Vaira Vike-Freiberga wrote a letter to parliament explaining her reasons for vetoing the bill. “Allow me to remind the members that during Latvia’s pre-accession negotiations with the European Union, as well as during the process of transposing EU directives, no objections were raised to recognising discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, United States, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The teachers union of Washington state has refused to allow a Christian teacher to have her union dues diverted to an organization that fights sex-trafficking, reported Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink yesterday. Teacher Susan Wiggs objected to the Washington Education Association’s support of abortion and gay marriage and requested that her union dues be directed to Shared Hope International, a charitable organization dedicated to the eradication of sex trafficking and slavery of women and children. The union rejected her choice, saying Shared Hope was not qualified. Michael Reitz is […]

By Gudrun Schultz POMONA, New York, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emergency contraception sales in Canada have almost doubled since Health Canada last year made prescriptions unnecessary for the abortifacient drug Plan B. Researchers are speculating that at least part of the increase is due to American women purchasing the medication over the border or on the Internet, the Boston Globe reported yesterday. The Canadian manufacturer of Plan B, Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., is now selling 41,000 pills per month in Canadian pharmacies compared to about 23,000 per month in 2005, according to the Internet retail company DoctorSolve Healthcare Solutions. Duramed […]

By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, June 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Conservative Government introduced a bill today that would raise the age of sexual consent in Canada to age 16 from age 14, thereby following through on a pledge to address what many child advocates feel is a dangerous laxity in the law. The bill will allow law-enforcement workers to better protect young teenagers from adult sexual predators, particularly on the Internet. The proposed legislation includes close-in-age exceptions to prevent the prosecution of teenagers who are in sexual relationships with each other. The age gap must be no more than […]

By Terry Vanderheyden June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An economist is warning that the source of China’s economic prowess, its abundant labour force, is heading towards collapse. The country’s one-child policy, initiated in 1979 to offset what was seen as an overpopulation problem, will reduce the country’s labour force by 10 percent by 2030. Greg Peel, writing for the economic news service FNArena.com, explained that according to United Nations statistics, the percentage of people over 60 years old is expected to double by 2030. In the same period, the working age population will reduce by a tenth. “GDP growth will […]

By Peter J. Smith Ottawa, Canada, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new bill has just been introduced for the consideration of Canada’s House of Commons that would revise the Human Rights Act toÂprotect the behavior and lifestyle of transsexuals. The New Democratic MP, Bill Siksay of Burnaby-Douglas, British Columbia has submitted a private member’s bill that would make discrimination on the grounds of “gender identity or expression” among the many prohibitions in the Human Rights Act. The bill, dubbed “a top priority” by Egale, Canada’s largest homosexual civil rights group, is a re-introduction of C-392, which Siksay had set […]

by Hilary White NEW YORK, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the inaugural meeting of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, the Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo called on the newly formed body to uphold human dignity by defending the right to life. The new 47-member council was formed after the UN’s previous body, the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission, was disbanded amidst criticism for its frequent election of members from countries with poor human rights records, such as Sudan. The United States has opposed the establishment of the Council. Ambassador to the UN, David Bolton, said the US wanted […]

By John Jalsevac   SINGAPORE, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice and the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, has warned Amnesty International (AI) against moving towards abortion advocacy. Amnesty International (AI), one of the world’s best known human rights advocacy groups, has proposed actively fighting against the right to life for unborn children by using its resources to promote a so-called ‘right to abortion’. “I have great esteem for Amnesty but doing this, they cut off their hands. I hope they don’t do […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Paul Steckle stood today in the House of Commons to introduce the first piece of pro-life legislation in the current parliament under the Conservative Government. In introducing Bill C-338, ‘An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (procuring a miscarriage after 20 weeks of gestation),’ Steckle called on the House to debate the issue noting that Canada was one of the only countries in the world with absolutely no protection for the unborn in law whatsoever. The bill would restrict abortion after twenty weeks gestation; currently in Canada abortions are […]

By John Jalsevac   COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the same day that the U.S. Presbyterian church voted to allow homosexual clergy, the national convention of the U.S. Episcopalian church rejected a ban onÂconsecrating homosexual bishops. Only twenty-four hours later, however, the church convention partially reversed its decision. The last minute reversal was made in the hope that the Episcopalian Church, the U.S. faction of Anglicanism with official ties to Canterbury, could avoid a split with the worldwide Anglican Church. The original ban was proposed by Anglican leaders with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury and […]

By Hilary White LONDON, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – England’s Catholic primate, Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, has called upon the British Parliament to re-examine the 1967 act that made abortion legal in nearly all cases. The BBC reports that he is supporting a Commons motion by 31 MPs who are calling for a review of the law and specifically a reduction in the time limit for gestational age for legal abortion.   In a meeting with the health minister, Murphy-O’Connor said today, “This is not primarily a religious issue. It is a human issue.” The Cardinal agreed with the 31 MP’s […]

By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll, commissioned by the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC) and claiming that 76 per cent of Canadians support government funded day care, was based on skewed and misleading questions, according to REAL Women of Canada. Gwendolyn Landolt, national vice-president of REAL Women, told LifeSiteNews.com that the CCAAC poll asked questions that were biased in favour of a national daycare program. “It is totally slanted, the questions were set up to gain a desired response,” Ms. Landolt said. “The wording of the poll is so complicated—that is […]

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, June 21, 2006 – “Ryerson’s half-hearted support of its own decision to give Dr. Somerville this honour is yet another example of how the forced acceptance of the gay ‘marriage’ agenda is restricting free speech in circles including the academy.” That was the comment of Phil Horgan, President of the Catholic Civil Rights League, on the controversy surrounding the decision of Ryerson University to grant an honorary degree to Margaret Somerville, professor of the Faculties of Law and Medicine at McGill University. Dr. Somerville accepted the degree and addressed the graduates at the convocation ceremonies.   […]

Louisiana governor signs bill that would end abortion if Roe vs. Wade Were Overturnedhttps://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/06/louisiana-governor-signs-bill-that.php Let Great Apes be apes – Advocating simian rights an attack on human principleshttps://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/18/INGQCJEDCC1.DTL&type=printable Planned Parenthood Celebration Jolted by Abortion Survivor https://www.family.org/cforum/commentary/a0040927.cfm Cardinal Pell applauds civil unions defeathttps://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1665819.htm Only three paedophiles banned from taking sex trips abroadhttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2232244,00.html UN Advisory Body Pushing For ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health’ in New Reporthttps://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=1551&authid=11 Revealed: UK set for first face transplants https://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1800266,00.html Anti-Christianity in the Public Square – Interview With Professor Joan-Andreu Rocha Scarpetta https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=91134 49 per cent of respondents in Ontario support the law that allows same-sex marriage in the […]

Says some high caste Hindus fear losing cheap labor of converted lower caste "untouchables"

Part IV of LifeSiteNews Special Reports from India

By Hilary White TORONTO, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the end of May, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the United Nations International Children’s’ Fund (UNICEF) announced that it would be ending its annual Hallowe’en collection drive. The UNICEF spokesman, Evelyne Guindon, said that the collection of coins by school children that had been a feature of Canadian life for five decades was costing more money than it was worth, but that “alternatives” were being considered. Now UNICEF Canada is coming back with “Trick or Treat for UNICEF,” a program for schools to encourage children to become involved in the abortion-promoting group. […]

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-homosexual group known as Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military (CSSMM), a think tank at the University of California, Santa Barbara, claims to have unearthed a current Pentagon document that lists homosexuality as a psychological disorder. According to the CSSMM the Department of Defense Instruction that so categorizes homosexuality was signed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in 1996 and re-certified as “current” in 2003. Although homosexuality has traditionally been considered a psychological disorder the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality […]

By Hilary White  NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Linda Hirshman, a feminist US writer on cultural issues, has told the world why she thinks staying at home with the children is an occupation “not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings.” She complains at length that the feminist movement, while making some gains in public life through legal activism, has largely failed in the one area where it counts most: the family.  She upbraids women who stay at home for failing the feminist agenda, saying, “They do not require a great intellect, […]

MONCTON, New Brunswick, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Brunswick Right to Life has revealed in a press release that Georges Dumont Hospital is about to take up performing abortions after all other hospitals in the province have abandoned the practice.  Abortions are set to begin at the Dr. Georges Dumont Hospital in Moncton as of July 1, according to a New Brunswick Right to Life Association press release. “What had been a rumour has now been confirmed,” said executive director Peter Ryan. According to provincial law abortions will only be funded by provincial healthcare if the abortion is performed […]

By Gudrun Schultz PIERRE, South Dakota, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Voters in South Dakota will decide if the law banning almost all abortions in the state will stand or be overturned, after opponents of the legislation gathered enough signatures to force a public vote on the issue. The petition drive collected about 38,000 signatures, more than twice the amount needed to ensure the issue would become a ballot question in the November 7 vote, the AP reported yesterday. Leslee Unruh, who runs a crisis pregnancy center, told the AP the campaign to protect the ban would be working to […]

By Gudrun Schultz WEST SUSSEX, England, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christian girls who have pledged to remain chaste until marriage have been told they can’t wear a silver ring symbolizing purity to their school, the Daily Mail reported yesterday. Officials at the all-girls institution of Millais School said the rings contravened the school’s strict dress code—the only jewellery permitted are small stud earrings. Heather and Phil Playfoot, parents of one girl who wants to wear the ring, have been fighting the school for two years over the issue and are now considering a court case. “There are Muslim girls […]

By John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com In Canada you mustn’t step out of line with homosexual activist orthodoxy or you’ll end up on the hit list of the politically correct thought police. Case in point this week in Canada was the granting of an honorary doctorate to Canada’s best known ethicist, McGill Professor Margaret Somerville. The graduation ceremony at Toronto’s Ryerson University over the weekend was marred by a protest by gay activists outside and even a disgraceful display of intolerance by University professors who shared the stage with Somerville. As students and homosexual activists outside denounced the University for going […]

By Gudrun Schultz ROCHESTER, New York, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother ofÂa thirteen-year-old girl who was given a prescription for emergency contraception by her school nurse without her mother’s knowledge is outraged that her daughter was able to obtain theÂcontraceptive,ÂWROCTV news reported last week. Chavonna Thomas discovered her daughter had received the prescription, along with two boxes of condoms, when the pharmacy phoned her home. “The school is not going to put clothes on her and her baby’s back if she gets pregnant. That school is not going to feed and take her and her baby to the […]

By John-Henry Westen PARIS, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The battle for the soul of France will take centre stage in April of next year as the country elects a new President to replace Jacques Chirac. According to the most recent polls, the two front-runners are running neck and neck, but represent widely divergent constituencies. One has proposed legalizing homosexual ‘marriage’, while the other has proposed re-examining religion to revitalize hope in the nation. The latest poll numbers show Nicolas Sarkozy of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) with 32 per cent support followed closely by Ségolène Royal […]

By Peter J. Smith Manila, Philippines, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Filipino government has backed off from its trial run of sex education on account of the strong resistance by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. The government had distributed the program to two areas of Metro Manila as part of the “pilot stage” of the Department of Education’s attempt to introduce it to the whole country. The government was testing the reception of integrating the sex-education program into the general curriculum, including it among such subjects as health, Filipino, science, and livelihood education. In what the United […]

By Hilary White LOS ANGELES, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An independent study has disproved the claims of “miracle” cures made by a Beijing doctor, Hongyun Huang, who uses cells derived from aborted foetal tissue.  Huang’s clinic has been the destination for hundreds of clients from around the world willing to pay thousands of dollars to be cured of illnesses where conventional medicine has failed.   The study, published in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, shows that it is likely Huang is falsifying his results. Huang’s surgery involves drilling holes in the skull or spinal column of patients and […]

By John Jalsevac VANCOUVER, B.C., June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A legal contract obtained by the Vancouver Sun under a freedom of information request has revealed that the province of British Columbia has granted homosexual activists Peter and Murray Corren an unprecedented say in the curriculum review that is set to affect courses from kindergarten to grade 12. The review is being undertaken in order to insert so-called LGBT issues into the curriculum, starting at the kindergarten level. Wayne Ross, an education professor at the University of B.C. said that he was unaware of any similar contract in any other […]

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The task force appointed by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to “study” the issue of whether or not to give communion to Catholic politicians who persistently hold positions at odds with Catholic teaching has released its final report this weekend.  After years of deliberation and meetings, the verdict is in: bishops should decide for themselves. Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington and head of the task force, reiterated the interim decision made by the US bishops at their meeting in Denver in 2004. He said there was “no substitute […]

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court is set to revisit a second Bush Administration appeal that seeks to reinstate a ban on partial birth abortion, reports the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). The ACLJ, which specializes in constitutional law, said it is pleased the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case, which involves the constitutionality of the national ban on partial-birth abortion. “The Supreme Court took a significant step today that clearly puts the issue of partial-birth abortion front-and-center,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ, which litigates pro-life […]

By Gudrun Schultz UNITED KINGDOM, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British fertility researchers have increased the number of potential genetic malformations they are able to detect in human embryos from 200 to almost 6,000, the Guardian reported today. Using new procedures for scanning genetic information, the testing allows researchers to identify a vast array of previously undetectable genetic diseases.   Researchers are hailing the study as a breakthrough, saying it will allow parents to ensure they bear a healthy child. But religious leaders and life advocates have condemned the technology as immoral since it leads to the death of thousands […]

By Gudrun Schultz EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland’s government is considering recommendations that primary school children should be given “anti-homophobia” classes, and a buddy system set up to offer protection against bullying for children who say they are gay. Researchers at the Edinburgh University’s Centre for Education for Racial Equality and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth Scotland questioned children in an Internet survey about their sexual orientation, reported the Times online. The results from that survey showed that two children, age 12, said they were homosexual. Another eight said they were “gay, lesbian, bisexual or […]

By Gudrun Schultz BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Family Association (AFA) is asking supporters to express their concerns after a Metro transit board member was fired for expressing opposition to homosexuality. Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired Robert J. Smith of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority last Thursday, after the board member, a Roman Catholic, referred to homosexual behaviour as “deviant” on a talk show interview. One of his colleagues on the transit board, who is openly homosexual, complained about the comment during a board meeting on Thursday and demanded Smith retract his comments […]

By Peter J. Smith UNITED NATIONS, New York – June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A book launched at the United Nations headquarters today proposes a permanent standing UN army with “rapid reaction capability” under the sole direct command of the UN. The proposals stem from A United Nations Emergency Peace Service to Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, envisioning a standing UN army that would “take action to prevent war and dire threats to human security and human rights” within 48 hours of UN authorization. According to the book, the need for a UN Emergency Peace service stems from “the […]

Recording Artist Pat Boone: Please, leave marriage alonehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50588 Same-Sex Marriage Will Impact Religious Liberty Say Expertshttps://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=68403 Beyond Good and Evil: Why Governments Pay for Brothelshttps://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=1550&authid=9

By John Jalsevac and John-Henry Westen VANCOUVER, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an age when pro-life and pro-family advocates are increasingly being legally prosecuted for so-called “hate speech” and other similarly tenuous “intolerant” behaviour, one woman in British Columbia seems to have proven that life and family advocates don’t always have to lie down and take everything thrown their way. This past week it was determined that a Vancouver radio host who berated a Christian pro-family advocate claiming on air she was a “dangerous bigot” is liable for damages after an appeals court in British Columbia overturned a lower […]

By John-Henry Westen KAMLOOPS, BC, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The cry for tolerance for homosexuality has quickly evolved into intolerance for those who object to homosexuality. Kamloops city councillor John DeCicco, first elected in 1999, has consistently opposed the homosexual pride proclamation. But after opposing the measure again this year his barber shop was vandalized with “Homophobia Die” scrawled on the door of his business. After waiting for him to finish a haircut for one of his clients, LifeSiteNews.com spoke with Mr. DeCicco, an Italian immigrant who came to Canada at the young age of 15 and is fiercely […]

By Hilary White  NEWARK, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In some jurisdictions the effort to produce more organs for transplant patients is being aided by plans to “streamline” the medical criteria for “brain death” so that organs can be harvested from patients who are still breathing and have a heartbeat.  The New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners wants to change the rules to allow just one physician to declare brain death. In addition, the rule that currently requires at least one of the two required physicians declaring “brain death” to be a neurologist or neurosurgeon would also be eliminated. […]

By Hilary White and John Henry Westen  OTTAWA, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s federal tourism agency has decided to market Canada to US homosexuals as an ideal place to come to “tie the knot.”  The Canadian Tourism Commission, a Vancouver-based federal Crown corporation, has already run a glossy ad campaign in Passport, a popular US travel magazine thatÂspecializes in directing gay clients to posh Club Med style resorts and cruises.   A Commission spokesman told CanWest News Service that their goal was not political. “This is a very important niche,” said Yolaine Dupont. “We don’t get into the politics.”  […]

By Gudrun Schultz NEW YORK, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute has initiated a massive email campaign to enlist the support of concerned people around the world in opposing the sexual exploitation of women during the World Cup in Germany. The German government has come under intense criticism for the country’s tacit promotion of prostitution during the World Cup games now underway in the country. In particular, human rights advocates have harshly condemned the importation of 40,000 sex trade workers, many of whom they say are trafficked. “These women come from desperately poor circumstances,” […]

By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative MP Leon Benoit has said the bill for unborn victims of violence that was declared “non-votable” earlier this month will be back for further debates and another vote, in modified form. Private Member’s Bill C-291 would amend the Criminal Code to make injuring or killing an unborn child while committing or attempting to commit an offence against the mother a separate crime under law, carrying equivalent penalties to causing injury or death to the mother. The bill was drafted in response to the violent deaths of two pregnant Edmonton […]

By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Larry Spencer, one-time MP for the Canadian Alliance and ousted from the party over comments on homosexuality, has been named interim National President of the Christian Heritage Party, a pro-life, pro-family federal party founded on Christian principles. Mr. Spencer’s re-entrance into federal politics coincides with the release of his new book, Sacrificed? Truth Or Politics. The self-published memoirs tell the story of Spencer’s painful exit from the Alliance party in 2003, under the direction of then-party leader Stephen Harper, after a media uproar followed Spencer’s politically-incorrect statements on the legality […]

By John Jalsevac LATVIA, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The small country of Latvia has once again caused consternation in the EU by refusing to bow to the Union’s demands that Latvia introduce legislation extending special rights to homosexuals. This time around the Latvian parliament voted against legislation adding “sexual orientation” to anti-discrimination laws, reports BBC News. It is unclear what this might bode for the nation’s future in the EU. Latvia joined the Union in 2004 under the condition that it introduce the legislation that was just voted down by Latvian MPs. According to BBC, members of Latvia’s Christian […]

By Gudrun Schultz FREDERICKTON, New Brunswick, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The province of New Brunswick is being targeted by a concerted effort from abortion activists throughout North America for its laws limiting access to government-funded abortions. “This has been an ongoing campaign, but the volume has stepped up recently,” N.B. Right to Life director Peter Ryan told LifeSiteNews.com. “The voices are very loud and very present in the media: ‘New Brunswick has oppressive and outdated policies on abortion’.” Abortion activists have called on supporters to mail coat hangers to all N.B. MLA’s, he said. The National Abortion Federation, which […]

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com)—In an effort to help prevent commercial sexual exploitation of children in America, The Defenders, organized by Shared Hope International (SHI) has launched a national effort by men for men to combat the use of child pornography and prostitution. “She Has A Name,” an ad created by The Defenders, advances the first offensive in the battle against sexual exploitation of children by the sex industry and its buyers. The ad, calling on men to join The Defenders, airs nation-wide beginning this Friday, June 16th. The ad specifically challenges men to be defenders and protectors of children, […]

By Hilary White TORONTO, June 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The uproar over Margaret Somerville’s honourary degree at Ryerson has been exacerbated by the Toronto university’s statements to the media supporting the homosexual activists who have opposed to the award. Somerville dared to step away from the strictly orthodox line of the homosexual political agenda, making a presentation to Parliament opposing changing the definition of marriage. Somerville supports the recognition of homosexual partnerings in a legally equivalent “civil union.” The CBC reported this morning that the university administration said they would have reconsidered granting Somerville the award had they known of […]

Part III in a series

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, June 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union, in a surprise move today, has approved full funding for embryonic stem cell research until 2013. Despite a contentious debate and years of wrangling with dissenting countries, the vote, held in Brussels yesterday, was a majority in favour. The European supporters of embryo research employed the well-proven strategy of including the contentious research in an omnibus proposal for funding, a move that effectively bypassed debate over the nature of the embryo. MEP’s could not vote against embryo research without rejecting all other funding for scientific research. “Though the […]

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, June 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Paul Belien predicted in May of this yearÂthat he would be under a legal assault from the extreme left Belgian ruling party. Now Belien is indeedÂbeing prosecuted by the Belgian government, for the “crime” of homeschooling his children.   His wife, Alexandra Colen writing in Brussels Journal said her husband was questioned by Brussels police on Wednesday. He was told that his offence was homeschooling his five children, four of whom are now in university.   Colen said her husband was told that, as a homeschooler, Belien has “not adequately educated […]

By Gudrun Schultz BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, June 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion clinic under investigation for allegations of severe misconduct has voluntarily surrendered its license, after unqualified clinic staff gave a woman in advanced pregnancy an early-term abortion drug. The Summit Medical Center had its license suspended on May 17 by the Alabama Department of Health, with a hearing pending on June 20. The state would have attempted to revoke the center’s license at the hearing, the AP reported yesterday. Allegations against the clinic include statements that a nurse practitioner, not a doctor, gave an ultrasound to a woman in […]

By John Jalsevac LEXINGTON, MA, June 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following yesterday’s revelation that pro-family activist David Parker’s seven-year-old son was attacked by his fellow classmates on the two-year anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the superintendent of the school said he was not aware of the incident and would inquire about it. LifeSiteNews.com readers may recall that David Parker was arrested last year for “trespassing” on school property, after refusing to leave until school officials assured him that they would notify him when discussions pertaining to homosexuality and other sexual issues arose in his son Jacob’s […]

By Gudrun Schultz PROVO, Utah, June 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A philosophy professor at Brigham Young University has been told he will not be re-hired, after he openly supported homosexual marriage in an article published by a local newspaper June 4. “I believe opposing gay marriage and seeking a constitutional amendment against it is immoral,” adjunct professor Jeffrey Nielsen wrote in the Salt Lake Tribune. “I believe that…legalizing gay marriage reinforces the importance of committed relationships and would strengthen the institution of marriage.” Brigham Young University receives much of its funding through its affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ […]

WASHINGTON, JuneÂ15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)—At a standing room only hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, June 14,Âexpert witnesses and lawmakers promised to “turn up the heat” on the thugs and pimps that profit off the horrific $9 billion international trafficking in persons industry. “The traffickers who use and abuse human beings as commodities to be bought and sold must be tracked down, their nefarious operations crushed, and the individuals who commit these heinous crimes sent to jail for a long, long time,” said Chairman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) who is the author of America’s landmark anti- trafficking laws that have created new penalties […]

ROME, June 15, 2006 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo is unabashed by the heated controversy that has greeted a new Vatican document on human procreation. The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family told the Italian daily La Repubblica that the public uproar is “positive.” Family and Human Procreation, a 60-page statement released by the Pontifical Council for the Family on June 6, raised some cries of protest because of its vigorous defense of Church teachings on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, contraception, and assisted procreation. But Cardinal Lopez Trujillo noted that the response has included strong […]

By John-Henry Westen and John Jalsevac LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 17—the two-year anniversary of same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts—the first-grade son of a prominent pro-family advocate was dragged and beaten behind the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington during recess, receiving multiple blows to the chest, stomach, and genital area. Jacob Parker, the 7-year-old who was attacked, is the son of David Parker. LifeSiteNews.com readers will recall that David Parker objected to homosexual curriculum in his son’s kindergarten class. At a meeting with the principal of the school last year Parker requested that the school inform him […]

Sidewalk Counselor Helped an Abortionist Find a New Path https://www.sdnewsnotes.com/ed/articles/2006/0606rk.htm Priests persecuted for revealing abuse by confreres: A growing problem in UShttps://catholiccitizens.org/press/pressview.asp?c=33823 Feminized ‘Schools are letting boys down’https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/13/uboys.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/13/ixnews.html Belgian bishops oppose assisted-procreation lawhttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=44725 Morning-after pill spreading out of control in Spanish schoolshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=6935 President-elect of Peru pledges “devotion to the Church and service to the people”https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=6937 Drive to give ‘human’ rights to apes leaves Spanish dividedhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/10/wapes10.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/10/ixnews.html Western Standard Publisher Ezra Levant advocates Scrapping Hate Crimes Lawhttps://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra/2006/06/12/1626504.html Gov. Bush signs bill allowing stillborn children birth certificates https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-bushbill060906,0,4374979.story?coll=orl-home-headlines Corpse-harvesting case drips horror https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/story/5806637p-5186049c.html The New York Times calls the Polish Government “Bigoted” and […]

By Hilary White  TORONTO, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pure materialistic Darwinism is a theory that “denies…important Christian teaching about man and his origins,” says Toronto priest, Fr. Martin Hilbert in the most recent edition of Touchstone magazine.   The problem in the debate over the origins of life, says Hilbert, is that barring a few who contend that their theory “does not banish God from the picture,” most adherents of the Darwinian theory are, “whether they know it or not, crass materialists.” Those who adhere religiously to the theory start out with an established prejudice against the possibility that […]

By Hilary White  TUCSON, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent op ed in the Arizona Star, the Catholic bishop of Tucson – billed without his title only as Gerald F. Kicanas – listed hunger in Malawi and rebuilding New Orleans and “deep-seated problems of poverty, disease and malnutrition,” in the list of works for which US foreign aid should be allotted.  The bishop specifically singled out Republican Congressman, Jim Kolbe, who, he said, “has been a good and faithful advocate of assistance to lift up the poorest of the poor.”  This “good and faithful” Congressional advocate of the […]

By Hilary White   BOGOTA, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a June 6th vote the Colombian Senate approved a law that would recognize same-sex partners. The vote was 11-2 to allow homosexual partners to claim access to social security and other rights normally reserved to married couples.  The legislation’s supporters argued that the social atmosphere of Colombia had altered to accept such a move.   Colombia has been a major target for the social re-engineering project to insert the values of the sexual revolution into largely Catholic Latin America. This particular effort ofÂthe revolution is under way through internationally […]

By Peter J. Smith WARSAW, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Minister of Education in Poland has sent clear messages in the past week that the Polish government will not tolerate the indoctrination ofÂstudentsÂwith the homosexual agenda in Polish schools. On June 9th, the Polish Minister of Education, Roman Giertych, officially dismissed the Director of Polish In-Service Teachers, Miroslaw Sielatycki, for publishing Compass: a manual on human rights education with young people, and is now considering banning its distribution and sale. “This Manual speaks about issues of the homosexual relations as being equal to the matrimonial relations between woman and […]

By Gudrun Schultz BEIJING, China, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police in Shandong province have admitted to the arrest of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, missing since March 11, reported AsiaNews on Monday. Chen Guangcheng, 35, has been a fearless worker in the fight against China’s brutal one-child policy, most recently exposing a campaign of forced abortions and sterilizations carried out by the Chinese authorities in Linyi, Shandong. Chen Guangcheng disappeared March 11 after protesting the police beating of his brother Chen Guangyu, according to his wife, Yuan Weijing. Chen Guangcheng was arrested along with his two brothers after they […]

  By Gudrun Schultz COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A constitutional marriage amendment is essential to protect traditional marriage, said Doctor James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, in an interview with Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes on June 9. “There is only one way to protect marriage, only one way, and that’s with a constitutional amendment. The institution of marriage is much broader than you and me, it has implications for the entire country and we simply must not turn our backs on it.” Dr. Dobson said the Senate’s rejection of the amendment […]

Legal experts say churches can speak out on abortion and homosexuality ballot questions, despite IRS warnings.

HOLLYWOOD, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On June 7, Scripps Howard ran a story about a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) awarding a PG rating to a new movie by Provident Films, “Facing the Giants.” The film, which opens September 29, received the PG rating because of its allegedly “religious” character. Over the past week, the Catholic League made several inquiries regarding the matter, and now its president, Bill Donohue, is asking MPAA chairman and CEO, Dan Glickman, to launch a probe. “The Scripps Howard story quoted Kris Fuhr, vice president for marketing of Provident Films […]

By Peter J. Smith June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –Â The real potential for adult stem cell research is being sacrificed by scientists more interested in the “possibilities” of embryonic stem cell research and human cloning, according to James Kelly, the Biotech writer of The Seoul Times. In the 4th part of his series entitled Stem Cells – A Changed Personal Course: From Embryonic Stem Cell Support to Its Opposition, Kelly documents in clear detail the scientific case for adult stem cell research, whichÂhas alreadyÂshownÂpractical clinical results, unlike the morally reprehensible procedures of embryonic research. The use of embryonic stem cells […]

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The summer newsletter of the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada has announced a partnership with former U.S. President and fervent abortion supporter Bill Clinton. Pro-life and family groups have reacted with shock that a Christian organization would partner with Clinton who is known—beyond his support for partial-birth abortion—for his philandering and mistruths. While the move has already lost the organization a long-time donor, the spokesman for the group defended the partnership in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com. The organization may have sensed a backlash when it entered the partnership, as the newsletter […]

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For five years, the radically pro-abortion lobby group, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), has been petitioning the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the abortifacient morning after pill, Plan B, to be dispensed as an over-the-counter drug without a doctor’s prescription or supervision. Now the FDA has announced that the petition has been rejected. The announcement came June 9th and the CRR is now demanding a deposition from former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Mark B. McClellan, to explain why the petition has been denied. The Center, an organization working […]

by Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –Â The American Enterprise Online features an interview with Leon Kass, appointed by George Bush to head the President’s Council on Bioethics in 2001 and a leading opponent of embryonic stem cell research. Kass was interviewed by Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Adam Wolfson, who asked about the development of his thought from his socialistic upbringing to his current position as one of the US’s most prominent conservative thinkers. Kass is a medical doctor and a PhD in biochemistry who became interested in ethics as a serious study when at university […]

By Gudrun Schultz EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic adoption agencies will retain the right to turn away prospective parents, including homosexual couples, under the proposed Adoption and Children Bill, the Scottish Executive said this week. “Existing legislation does not prevent any adoption agency from setting its own criteria and the new bill will not change that,” an executive spokesman said. The statement came in response to requests by Catholic Church leaders and Catholic and other faith-based adoption agencies for permission to opt out of the legislation, should it become law. The Adoption and Children Bill would allow […]

By John Jalsevac Arlington, VA, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day after Tim Bono and his company filed a suit against the Arlington County Human Rights Commission, the Commission dismissed the complaint filed by lesbian activist Lilli M. Vincenz, stating there was no valid claim that she had been discriminated against by Mr. Bono. Ms. Vincenz filed a complaint with the Commission under the county’s nondiscrimination ordinance, when Bono Film and Video refused to copy Gay and Proud and Second Largest Minority for Ms. Vincenz due to its content. Mr. Bono’s company does not duplicate material that is obscene, […]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)— The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled Friday that California healthcare professionals must be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit to defend their right to refuse to provide abortions and abortion referrals. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and the Christian Legal Society represent members of the Christian Medical Association, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Fellowship of Christian Physicians Assistants. “The choice of doctors to obey their conscience should not be a crime,” said Casey Mattox, litigation counsel with CLS’s Center for Law & Religious Freedom.“California wants […]

LOS ANGELES, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California federal trial judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by Michael Newdow challenging the constitutionality ofÂthe AmericanÂnational motto, “In God We Trust.” Newdow is the atheist who achieved national attention in his previous unsuccessful attempt to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools because it includes the words “one nation under God.” The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had filed a friend of the court brief seeking the dismissal of Newdow’s national motto lawsuit. Edward L. White III, the Thomas More […]

By John Jalsevac OTTAWA, ON, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members and representatives in the top rungs of the hierarchy of the federalÂpublic serviceÂunion that has refused an employee the right contained in the union’s constitution to divert her dues are refusing to clarify or apologize for offensive remarks they made about the employee in question. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has refused Treasury Board employee Susan Comstock the right contained in their constitution to redirect her dues based upon conscientious objection. Comstock, who is a Catholic, made the request initially in 2004, on the grounds that PSAC’s […]

By Gudrun Schultz CANBERRA, Australia, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Australian government has followed through on its pledge to quash a law recognizing same-sex unions in the Australian Capital Territory. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock drew on rarely used Commonwealth authority Tuesday, asking Governor-General Michael Jeffrey,ÂAustralia’s representativeÂof QueenÂElizabeth II, whoÂis Australia’s officialÂhead of state under the terms of the nation’s consitutional monarchy,Âto declare the law invalid. “The ACT civil relationships ordinance has been disallowed,” Mr Ruddock told reporters in Canberra. “Legislative amendments introduced to establish a civil arrangement for same-sex parties and others in the ACT will no longer be law.”  […]

Part II of special report from Kerala, India

by Hilary White ROME, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano has issued a strong condemnation of the initiative of the Tuscany region to publicly fund hormonal treatments for so-called “sex change” operations. The procedure, known to Catholic health professionals as a form of pharmaceutical and surgical self-mutilation, has been funded by the Italian public health system for some years The paper said that the move was “unbelievable” in the face of the long waitlists and lack of staff in the region—common problems in most socialized medical systems. L’Osservatore Romano also pointed to some of Tuscany’s […]

By Peter J. Smith LONDON, England, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Church of England has raised the alarm against new government proposals that will force churches, groups, and individuals to provide services to homosexuals, including blessing “marriages” or civil partnerships, or providing communion under pain of legal prosecution. The 2006 Sexual Orientation (Provision of Goods and Services) Regulations, which are due for adoption October 2006, prohibit the discrimination of services based on sexual orientation, in the same manner in which discrimination based on race or sex is illegal. The government’s consultation session on the law, which began March 2006 […]

DENIA Spain, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Spanish judge has turned away another homosexual “couple” for “marriage” in her jurisdiction and now faces possible prosecution from the Justice ministry.  At the end of May the Justice ministry asked the General Council for Judicial Power to study whether action could be taken against the recalcitrant judge.   Magistrate Laura Alabau heads the Civil Registry in Dénia. This is the third time she has defied the socialist government’s order to include homosexual partnerings in the country’s marriage statutes.  Judge Alabau has launched a suit against the legislation, arguing that it violates […]

by Hilary White  VALENCIA, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be staging a homosexual conference on the day before the expected arrival of Pope Benedict XVI. The pope is to arrive in Spain July 8-9 to attend the 5th meeting of the World Family Forum in order to explore ways to bolster the integrity of the family, which the pope has said is under assault across the world.  A consortium of homosexuals and leftist anti-Catholic groups, with the help of €17,000 from the Employment and Social Affairs ministry, and the University […]

By John Jalsevac THE PHILIPPINES, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An integrated sex-education program for high-school students is set to go ahead this year in the Philippines, despite strong opposition from the Church, reports the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) News service. The program will integrate teaching on sexual matters into six different subject areas. In the forward to the sex-education manual, the Department of Education Secretary Fe Hidalgo, wrote that “Information and services should be made available to adolescents to help them understand their sexuality and protect them from unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and subsequent risk […]

By Gudrun Schultz and John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, Quebec, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leger Marketing conducted a telephone poll of 1,508 Canadian adults between April 17 and April 23. The poll results, with a margin of error of ±2.6 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, have found that an alarming 11% of Canadians do not consider pedophilia immoral. The question was in no way slanted. Respondents were asked: “Do you consider the following behaviour as immoral?” and to “pedophilia” 81% responded ‘yes’, 11% ‘no’, and 8% did not know or refused to respond. Pedophilia did, however, rank as most […]

By Gudrun Schultz TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Wiccan group has challenged Florida state tax-exemption on sales of religious articles and publications, after the organization lost its own tax-exemption status on items for sale. Tax exemption was withdrawn from the Wiccan Religious Cooperative because it did not own a place of worship, required by the Department of Revenue rules, reported the Orlando Sentinel on Friday. The group thenÂlaunched a lawsuit on Halloween 2000, claiming the law allowing tax-exemption on religious items is unconstitutional. Heather Morcroft, lawyer for the cooperative, said the exemption violates the First Amendment clause […]

By John Jalsevac BETHESDA, MD, June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a world where the rate of scientific discovery outpaces anything ever dreamed of in any other era of human history, the idea that “science disproves God” is perhaps one of the commonest arguments now invoked against the existence of an omnipotent Deity. But according to Francis Collins, who headed the team of scientists who cracked the human genome, the argument is a fallacious one. In the world-acclaimed scientist’s upcoming book, The Language of God, set to be published in September, he argues that science cannot possibly disprove the existence […]

By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, B.C., June 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond Roussin, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Vancouver, spoke out against Amnesty International last week, condemning the organization’s move to “endorse abortion as a so-called human right,” reported CanWest News Service on Friday. “If Amnesty International moves in such a direction, then the ultimate tragic irony results: a world-wide organization which has done such a good job at standing in solidarity with and helping to protect individual and human communities whose human rights are under attack is moving against those who are arguably the most innocent and defence-less […]

No alternative media or education programs, organizations to counter abortion, de-population propaganda

by Hilary White Cardinal Justin Rigali, writing in the Catholic Standard and Times, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, said that the modern media’s obsession with pornography is “one of the most pervasive and destructive problems in our society.”“Our society,” the Cardinal wrote, “is inundated with sex and sensuality largely from the media. Films, television programs, and advertisements are loaded with sexual reference as well as the promotion of sexual promiscuity.”  The all-pervasiveness of sexual imagery in the media has led to the vast proliferation of pornography on the internet where it is accessible to anyone who can use […]

by Hilary White TORONTO/OTTAWA, June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two items appearing in the Canadian mainstream press today show that advocates of homosexual ideologies can claim not the slightest deviation from their ideology. Margaret Somerville, an ethicist at McGill University who holds mildly pro-family views and has made presentations to Parliament in favour of same-sex civil unions, was targeted today when Ryerson University in Toronto announced she would be receiving an honorary award. Somerville holds that the issue is not about homosexuality, but about children who, she says, “have a right to a mother and father, and preferably their biological […]

By Hilary White LONDON, June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The TimesOnline reports that a prominent British medical ethicist has suggested it is time to “regulate” the already existing practice of “involuntary euthanasia”. Len Doyal, a professor of ethics at Queen Mary, University of London said that doctor-assisted deaths were already taking place in Britain on a “regular and recurring basis” and needed to be better regulated. Doyal argues that the practice of involuntary euthanasia, more commonly referred to in British law as “murder,” already happens so broadly that it must be legalized for the sake of protecting physicians from prosecution. […]

By John Jalsevac HALTON, ON, June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The verbal sparring match began on May 28, when Conservative MP Garth Turner appeared in a television interview, alongside pro-marriage/Christian political activist Charles McVety. The issue at hand was homosexual “marriage” in the RCMP. During what McVety—who is involved in or represents the views of groups including Defend Marriage Canada, the Canada Christian College, and the Canada Family Action Coalition—calls a “spirited” debate, it came to the fore that one of the goals of Christian political activists is to work to ensure that anti-marriage, anti-life, anti-Christian Conservative MPs are defeated […]

CHICAGO, June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I’m not surprised that NOW found a way to keep control of this case,” said Joseph M. Scheidler, national director of the Pro-Life Action League. “In the twenty years we’ve been fighting NOW v. Scheidler, it has been our experience that NOW’s attorneys are masters of the art of deception and misrepresentation.” As LifeSiteNews.com reported yesterday, ScheidlerÂwas expecting yesterday morning to watch Judge David Coar sign a Judgment in his favor as directed by the United States Supreme Court in their Opinion handed down on February 28. But once again NOW’s attorney Fay Clayton […]

By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican has condemned Germany’s promotion of prostitution during the World Cup and called for prosecution and heavy fines on those who profit from sex industry and human trafficking, Catholic News Service reported yesterday. “Prostitution, in fact, violates the dignity of the human person, reducing [her] to an object and instrument of sexual pleasure. Women have become market commodities, which can be bought. And they cost less than a ticket for a football match,” Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, said on Vatican Radio […]

By Gudrun Schultz WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Westchester County in New York State now recognizes gay marriages, after county executive Andrew Spano issued an order Wednesday, making the county the first in the state to do so. New York City and several other municipalities already extend recognition to homosexual marriages. Homosexual couples will receive the same county privileges as heterosexual couples, including the right to purchase family passes to county parks and the right to emergency family housing, reported the AP yesterday. “I don’t see why people, just because they’re the same sex, shouldn’t have the […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., June 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Newly released statistics on teenage sexual activity rates in the U.S. show a significant drop of 23 percent in the sexual activity of male teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19. The research brief, Trends and Recent Estimates: Sexual Activity Among U.S. Teens, is based on statistics compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. The results showed that sexual experience among teenagers of all age groups decreased slightly, but among teenage males 15 years and older the decrease was significant. […]

06.06.06 | Is the End At Hand? | An Interview with Michael O’Brien by Valerie Schmalz https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/vschmalz_theend_jun06.asp Quebec scrambles to save its churches – Politicians call for funds to support the province’s religious heritagehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060608.wxchurches08/BNStory/National/home Movie Rated PG – for Christianity, Group Sayshttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200606/CUL20060609a.html Vocations to religious life and priesthood begin with parents https://www.sentinel.org/articles/2006-23/14761.html Playboy Magazine Issues Second Edition in Jarkarta Despite Protestshttps://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=bbae9a42-babf-4d2e-a6c1-e6da85b52695 Doctor Waits Until U.S. RU-486 Deaths Investigated to Prescribe Abortion Drughttps://www.theage.com.au/news/national/abortion-doctor-to-wait-over-ru486/2006/06/06/1149359745267.html Western “Sexual Libertinism” Inhibiting Fight on Aids: Cardinal Barraganhttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=44639

CHICAGO, June 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After exactly twenty years the NOW v. Scheidler RICO case is finally history. Today, Thursday, June 8, 2006, just one day short of the twentieth anniversary of the filing of the lawsuit, Judge David Coar will enter judgment for the defendants, Joseph M. Scheidler, Timothy Murphy and Andrew Scholberg and the Pro-Life Action League, negating all charges against them. “Judge Coar’s action tomorrow will be a great weight off of me,” Joseph Scheidler, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League, said yesterday. “It has taken all this time to vindicate the pro-life movement and […]

by Hilary White EDINBURGH June 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the nation’s national church, has approved the adoption of children by homosexuals, in a statement given before a Scottish Parliamentary committee. The Presbyterian Church of Scotland, commonly called the Kirk, told the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee that while married couples are ideal in adoption consideration, that in the face of the growing need for adoptive parents, “we can see some force in giving legal recognition to the realities of these situations.” The Scottish Parliament is currently considering a proposed Adoption and Children Bill. The Education Committee […]

Bush says new legislation "will make television and radio more family friendly."

By Gudrun Schultz PORTLAND, Oregon, June 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A sex abuse lawsuit that accuses the Vatican of shifting a known child-abuser from place to place will move forward in the courts, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The Vatican wanted the case dismissed, but U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman said the priest in question could be considered a Vatican employee under Oregon law, and therefore let the case stand, the AP reported today. The Holy See normally has immunity from the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act. A Seattle-area man filed the lawsuit in […]

CEBU CITY, The Philippines, June 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 500 physicians from 26 countries gathered June 1-2 for a conference at the Grand Convention Center, Cebu City, the Philippines, in which medical doctors from around the world presented scientific evidence of divine healing.   The theme of the unique gathering was “Spirituality and Medicine” and was held under the auspices of the World Christian Doctors Network (WCDN), founded by Dr. Jaerock Lee, senior pastor of Manmin Joong-ang Church, Seoul, Korea. “WCDN is an international Christian medical organization that addresses not only urgent questions facing the Christian medical community […]

By Gudrun Schultz BHOPAL, India, June 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –A group of Hindu activists raped two Christian women in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh as punishment for converting to Christianity, the Indian Catholic News reported yesterday. “We have received the reports that two tribal Christian women have been raped by some Bajrang Dal activists,” Indira Iyengar, a member of the Madhya Pradesh State Minority Commission told reporters on Monday. “This heinous crime has been inflicted on these poor women as punishment for changing their religion from Hinduism to Christianity.” “This is cruel and makes no sense. This is an […]

By John Jalsevac WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, June 7, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision affirming the dismissal of Title VII sex discrimination claims against Ursuline Academy of Wilmington, some of its former employees, the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, and Bishop Michael Saltarelli. The decision effectively brings to a conclusion the protracted court battle between Michele Curay-Cramer and the Catholic institution at which she formerly taught English and Religion. On the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in January 2003, Curay-Cramer signed onto a full-page ad in the Wilmington News Journal, praising the […]

By Hilary White TORONTO, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Globe and Mail reports that an Ontario Judge has ruled that Ontario birth registry must include both members of lesbian couples, or both “mothers”Âof children conceived through artificial insemination, and not the child’s natural parents.   Justice Paul Rivard of the Ontario Superior Court said that the requirement to list the natural parents causes lesbian couples unjustified “pain and hardship,” and would leave the impression that “there is something wrong or unnatural about their families.”  Lawyers representing the women in the case said that the ruling represents a last frontier […]

By Gudrun Schultz BOSTON, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at Harvard University announced today that they have begun efforts to clone human embryos, Bloomberg reported.   The goal of the research is to produce a line of stem cells genetically matched to a living person by first creating a cloned embryo using the person’s genetic material, and then killing the embryo to extract the cellular material. If researchers succeed in cloning embryos, they will allow the tiny human beings to grow for a few days before destroying them in order to extract their cells.   Religious leaders worldwide have […]

Scholars argue "the case for marriage can be made and won at the level of reason"

SUMMARY: What senators said during (marriage) debate Monday https://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=23400 Coulter: Abortion is Dems’ Version of ‘Virgin Sacrifice’https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200606/SPE20060606a.html President Bush: “Our policies should aim to strengthen families, not undermine them. And changing the definition of marriage would undermine the family structure.”https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060605-2.html Cincinnati pro-life walk attracts 1,000 https://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060605/NEWS01/606050380 The Media War on Traditional Values https://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4615_0_2_0_C/ Bishop Warns Same-Sex Unions Carry Eternal Cost https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200606/CUL20060605a.html Divorce, Single Parenting and Kids’ Well-being – Studies Show Importance of Stable Family Structurehttps://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=90279 Retranslating the Theology of the Body Interview With Michael Waldstein https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=90272 Human Embryos Not Objects, Say Europe’s Bishopshttps://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=90277  

by Hilary White   BRUSSELS, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is urging its supporters in Britain, Ireland and the rest of the European Union to ask their MEPs to reject EU funding of cloning and embryo research.   For at least four years, the European Union has been seeking to fund the creation of cloned human embryos and their use to obtain human stem cells. The practice is allowed in some member states such as Britain, but in Germany and in Catholic countries such as Poland there is still strong public […]

by Hilary White  WASHINGTON, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Senate today rejected the proposed constitutional amendment that would have prohibited homosexual “marriage.” The motion to close debate and vote on the amendment failed 49-48, 11 short of the 60 required votes to bring the amendment to a vote and move it on to the next stage.  Constitutional amendments require an involved process and mustÂwin the supportÂof two-thirds of each house of the U.S. Congress and three-quarters of state legislatures before taking effect.  Concerned Women for America (CWA) said in a statement that their organization supports a federal marriage […]

Senate May Delay or Tamper with Childcare Portion

By Gudrun Schultz  AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada is about to get a new member at the Dutch consulate in Montreal, after Holland’s homosexual ambassador to Estonia found Estonian society “is far from ready to accept two men [as a couple].” Hans Glaubitz requested a transfer to Canada after complaining of “discrimination and racism” directed against his same-sex partner, a black Cuban national, on the streets of the Estonian capital Tallinn. Foreign Ministry spokesman Herman van Gelderen said Tuesday that Mr. Glaubitz will receive the requested transfer and join the Dutch consulate in Montreal, reported the […]

By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Young people must be taught that Christianity is “a big ‘yes’ to love and to life,” Pope Benedict XVI said Monday in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, during the inauguration of the diocesan ecclesial congress. Young people and adolescents, he said, “must be disabused of the widespread prejudice that Christianity, with its commandments and its prohibitions, places too many obstacles to the joy of love, and in particular that it prevents the full enjoyment of the happiness that man and woman find in their mutual love.” “The […]

  Arlington, VA, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)Â- Today, Liberty Counsel filed suit in Arlington Circuit Court on behalf of Tim Bono and Bono Film and Video Inc., against the Arlington County Human Rights Commission, Arlington County Board, and Arlington County, Virginia. The suit seeks Declaratory Judgment, Preliminary and Permanent Injunctive Relief, and Damages, and challenges the authority of the Commission to order Bono Film to duplicate two pro-homosexual videos provided by lesbian activist Lilli M. Vincenz. Tim Bono was contacted by Lilli Vincenz via e-mail to reproduce two documentaries entitled Gay and Proud and Second Largest Minority. Mr. Bono informed […]

By John Jalsevac WARSAW, Poland, June 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â Poland’s first March for Life and FamilyÂtook place in Warsaw on June 4, 2006. According to oganizers over 2,000 people, mostly youth and families,Âtook part in the event, including Janusz Korwin-Mikke, the right wing-politician who entered the election for President of Poland last year. Pro-life activists were ledÂthrough the streets of Warsaw by a marching band, andÂcarried signs, some reading “stop abortion”, “Right to life for everyone,” and “Hey, hey, hey, the family is ok!”   The organizing committeeÂis planning on making the March for Life and Family an annual […]

CWA applauds Large Margin of Victory

by Hilary White LOUISVILLE, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since 1983, the US Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) has officially endorsed abortion as a “moral choice” for mothers, but has been slowly groping its way forward to a more pro-life position. A recent proposal from Presbyterians in Pennsylvania suggests that the next General Assembly adopt as policy: “In cases where problems of life or health of the mother arise in a pregnancy, the church supports efforts to protect the life and health of both the mother and the baby. When late term pregnancies must be terminated, we urge decisions intended to deliver […]

  By Gudrun Schultz CANBARRA, Australia, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his government will overrule new laws passed by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) allowing same-sex unions, reported Reuters. Current laws in Australia define marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, but the ACT bypassed that restriction by giving same-sex couples the same legal rights as married couples but withholding the term “marriage.” Instead, same-sex couples enter into “civil unions.” Prime Minister Howard said Tuesday that the move was an attempt to undermine the 2004 Federal Marriage Act that formally defined […]

By Hilary White MADISON, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian pharmacist fired by K-Mart for refusing to dispense abortifacient drugs has had his lawsuit dismissed by a Wisconsin judge. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz ruled that K-Mart was right to fire Neil Noesen who brought a suit of religious discrimination against his former employer and against Medical Staffing Network, which had placed him temporarily with K-Mart. Noesen refused to accept a settlement fine of US $250 and brought a suit against K-Mart who, he said, was violating his religious principles by insisting that he dispense birth control pills or refer […]

Attorney General Scuttles Effort with Shock Last Minute Letter Claiming Unconstitutionality

Case Remanded Back to U.S. District Court for Further Review

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the recent release of the U.S. Department of State’s annual Trafficking in Person’s (TIP) Report, a number of experts in global human trafficking have decried the gross inadequacy of portions of the report, saying that it soft-pedals on serious problem-areas across the globe. Donna M. Hughes, a professor in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Rhode Island, and a leading international researcher on the trafficking of women and children, has drafted a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice protesting a number of the most glaring weaknesses of this […]

New Vatican Document Warns We Are Entering a "Post-Human World"

Diocese Refuses to Press Charges Against Offender

By Gudrun Schultz SWITZERLAND, June 6, 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A program aimed to decrease abortions in Switzerland offers health insurance discounts to women who refuse abortions, in vitro fertilization and prenatal diagnosis, Zenit News Service reported yesterday. The policy is an initiative of the pro-life organization Swiss Aid for Mother and Child, according to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation. At least five health insurance companies have agreed to participate in the program, offering rate discounts of 10% to 40% to eligible women. The service is well used—Zenit reported that thousands of women have signed on to the deal. Citizens of Switzerland […]

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Senate will vote this week on the Marriage Protection Amendment, a bill which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was quoted today as saying, “A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple.” Kennedy, who claims to be Catholic while opposing the Church on every major tenet of morality, was blasted by Catholic League president Bill Donohue. “A vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment is a vote to maintain the traditional understanding of marriage as it has been accepted for […]

by Hilary White   WARSAW, June 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – City officials in Warsaw announced last Thursday that they will allow a “Gay Pride” parade to go ahead Saturday June 10.ÂThis news comes afterÂpresident Lech Kaczynski, banned the demonstrationsÂtwo years in a row, in 2004 and 2005, while serving as mayor of Warsaw, . In March, Poland’s Constitutional Court ruled that homosexual demonstrators need only inform city officials that a public demonstration would be taking place. Gay Pride activists subsequently announced that the parade would be going ahead.ÂAt the same time, the League of Polish Families party announced that they […]

By John-Henry Westen June 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study released last week by the British Medical Journal’s subsidiary, the Journal of Medical Ethics, seemed more designed for attacking the Catholic Church than for scientific rigour. If that was the goal of L. Bovens’ “The rhythm method and embryonic death”, then the mainstream media fell for the ploy head-over-heels. “How Vatican roulette kills embryos,” screamed Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald; “Rhythm method linked to massive embryonic death,” was the headline of India’s New Kerala, and Canada’s Vancouver Sun styled it “‘Rhythm’ method a killer of embryos.” Physicians and medical ethicists, however,Âhave […]

by Hilary White SYDNEY, June 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an optional teachers’ manual, educators in Victoria, Australia are being urged to drop the terms “mother” and “father” in favour of “parent” or “carer” in order to downgrade the meaning of marriage and family life to include homosexual partnerings. The manual, “Learn to Include” has been developed by homosexual political activists and funded by the Australian government. Its imposition into the curriculum of a day care in Sydney raised protests from family and parliamentarians last week. Morris Iemma, the premier of New South Wales – Australia’s most populous state -Âsaid […]

By John Jalsevac LONDON, ENGLAND, June, 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to a conference of science teachers in Alberta in 1997, Ian Wilmut, world-famous creator of “Dolly” the sheep, strongly warned his listeners about the dangers of genetic manipulation and similar technologies. “To let us [scientists] rip with this present technology… is akin to letting a high school kid loose not just with a sports car, but a jet airplane,” he said. At the time Wilmut also prophetically urged the teachers to “remember there are people who are already thinking of [cloning humans].’’ With the publication of his new book, […]

By Gudrun Schultz BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, June 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A state appeals court has ruled that a woman can sue a Birmingham abortion provider for damages over injuries suffered by her child during a failed abortion attempt. A lower court ruling had refused the woman’s lawsuit, with Circuit Judge Robert Vance Jr. saying the mother could not sue on her own behalf. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals agreed, but reversed the ruling saying the woman, known by her initials as L.K.D.H, could sue Planned Parenthood of Alabama on behalf of her child, reported the Associated Press today. The […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his weekly radio address to the nation this past Saturday, President George W. Bush stated his support for the Constitutional amendment protecting traditional marriage that will be considered by the Senate this week. “Marriage is the most enduring and important human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith,” President Bush said. “Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Marriage […]

Bush to publicly endorse the MPA in White House ceremony

By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, Canada, June 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists from outside North America are using Canada’s new same-sex marriage law for leverage to force the issue in their home countries. Two British women who “married” each other in Canada in 2003, under the new legislation granting legal recognition to same-sex couples, are now trying to persuade the U.K. High Court that their marriage should be recognized in the United Kingdom. At a hearing beginning this week lawyers for Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger will argue that failure to recognize the marriage would be a breach of their […]

By Hilary White   ZURICH, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swiss Cabinet sees no need to tighten restrictions on assisted suicide, despite the fact that the country has become a favourite destination for “death tourism”, and that Switzerland’s leading euthanasia doctor has pledged to open a chain of for-profit killing facilities. Swiss Justice Minister Christoph Blocher announced Wednesday, that “the cabinet had come to the conclusion that [new legislation] was not necessary.” Switzerland’s legal situation is similar to that of the Netherlands, before the laws were liberalized. Switzerland officially prohibits euthanasia but looks the other way on assisted suicide. […]

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By Hilary White June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a majority vote by the Canadian branch at their Winnipeg meeting last week to adopt abortion as a ‘human right,’ Amnesty International will move forward with its consideration of supporting decriminalization of abortion in Portugal this summer and then on to abortion on demand the following year.  The US Bishops’ Catholic News Service (CNS) reports that Amnesty’s Canadian delegation will present their position supporting decriminalization of abortion at an International Executive Committee meeting in July 2006 in Portugal. Britain and New Zealand have also voted to support abortion.  CNS reports that […]

By John Jalsevac   WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new website launched by pro-abortion and pro-homosexual rights groups ranks each of the United States according to a number of criteria including abortion and contraceptive access, and laws pertaining to homosexuality. The website, called Mapping Our Rights, ranks New Mexico and New York as tied for first place as the two most socially liberal states in the union, while South Dakota and Ohio are tied for last place. The site has been hailed as a valuable source of easily accessible information for pro-life activists, and as a cause […]

By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –Pope Benedict XVI’s general prayer intention for the month of June continues with last month’s theme of respect for human life at all stages of development. The Holy Father’s June prayer intention requests the Church to pray for Christian families, asking: “That Christian families may lovingly welcome every child who comes into existence and surround the sick and the aged, who need care and assistance, with affection.” During the month of May the Holy Father asked the Church to concentrate on praying for legal protection for life from conception till natural […]

In LifeSiteNews.com Interview Bishop Contrasts Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul

By Gudrun Schultz HAVANA, Cuba, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion is frequently used as method of birth control in Cuba, and many women say they actually prefer to abort an unwanted child than to use some other method of birth control, a new study reports. IPS News reported yesterday on research by biostatistics expert Miriam Gran, entitled “Voluntary termination of pregnancy and contraception: two methods of fertility control.” Her research was supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which works to promote abortion access in developing countries. Ms. Gran interviewed more than 4,000 women across the country for […]

  By Gudrun Schultz GREAT BRITAIN, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faith-based schools in the UK are facing efforts by a homosexual activist group to ensure the schools’ acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles for their students.   Schools Out has called on the government to ensure the new Equality Act, which will prohibit any discrimination based on sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services, including education, will be fully enforced in the faith schools. The organisation is also calling for changes to the education system that would emphasize the “culture and history” of LGBT people […]

OTTAWA, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he will hold a free vote on re-opening the marriage debate in Canada this Fall.ÂÂCarolyn Stewart-Olson, spokesman for Prime Minister Harper,ÂtoldÂLifeSiteNews.com that when she made the announcement the Prime-Minister noted that this was a campaign promise. Pro-family groups were seeking a delay, at least till the Fall, on the vote to have time to shore up support for the measure to reopen the debate, but homosexual activists were pressing for a vote as soon as possible. Parliamentary sources told LifeSiteNews.com that opposition parties were going to introduce a […]

By Gudrun Schultz NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has said she intends to sign a bill, approved by the Louisiana House and Senate, that would ban almost all abortions in the state. The measure, which contains no exceptions for rape or incest, would only permit an abortion if the life of the mother were at risk or if childbirth would permanently damage her health. “I anticipate signing that bill. It’s got a safety measure for extreme situations for the life of the mother and some other health issues,” Gov. Blanco told the Associated […]

By Hilary White OTTAWA, June 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Documents obtained by Sun Media under access to information show that polygamous marriages had been recognized “for limited purposes” by the former Canadian Liberal Government. According to the Ottawa Sun, as reported June 1, “multiple-wife marriages have been legally recognized in Canada to award spousal support and inheritance payments.” The documents, however, including departmental background papers and ministerial briefing notes, also confirm once again that the official Liberal party policy consistently and hypocritically denied the plethora of consequences that would likely follow on abolishing the traditional Judeo-Christian definition of marriage, including […]

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, June 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s Conservative government has tabled a change to the proposed age of consent bill, which was to raise the age of consent for sex from 14 to 16. The new change adds to the billÂa close-in-age exemption of five years. The exception means that a 14-year-old could still legally have sex with a partner who is up to 19 years of age, or a 15-year-old with someone who is 20. Justice Minister Vic Toews, who promised action on the proposal sometime this spring, explained, “we don’t want to criminalize consenting sexual […]

By Gudrun Schultz EAST ANGLIA, England, June 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Evans, a 30-year member of Amnesty International (AI) and author of last year’s Amnesty Prayer, has condemned the organization’s move to promote abortion as a fundamental human right, saying he will be forced to withdraw his membership if the agency continues with the proposal. In a statement published on Bishop Evans’ website, he stated, “t would be very difficult for Catholics and many others to continue as formal members of an organisation which explicitly excluded some of the most vulnerable of all—the ‘unborn human’—from its […]

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Barring a Concerted Pro-Life Effort in the UN

By Gudrun Schultz RAPID CITY, South Dakota, June 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The tribal council of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has voted to completelyÂban abortion on the reserve, ending efforts by council president Cecelia Fire Thunder to establish an abortion clinic within tribal territory. The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council also voted to suspend council president Fire Thunder, saying she solicited donations for an abortion clinic without the permission of the council, Keloland news reported Wednesday. Tribal council representative Will Peters, who made the motion to suspend Fire Thunder for 20 days until an impeachment hearing takes place, saidÂthe president’sÂactions […]

By Terry Vanderheyden and John-Henry Westen VANCOUVER, June 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual teacher and his same-sex partner who launched a human rights complaint with the British Columbia government have settled with the Government of British Columbia. According to the homosexual activist who launched a human rights suit, homosexual issues will soon be a mandatory part of school curricula taught in classrooms throughout the province, without the ability of students or parents to opt out.   BC’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of the Attorney-General agreed to review the province’s curricula to ensure that the issue of homosexuality is […]