Articles for Month: July 2006

By Gudrun Schultz   SEATTLE, Washington, July 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Washington issued a long-awaited ruling today, upholding the state’s ban on homosexual “marriage,” Seattlepi.com reported this morning.   In a 5-4 decision, the Court upheld the state’s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as solely the union between one man and one woman.   DOMA was instituted to “promote procreation and to encourage stable families,” Justice Barbara Madsen wrote in the decision. “The legislature was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers the State’s legitimate interests in procreation and […]

Social-service workers threatened to take son away from parents and force chemotherapy on him

By Peter J. Smith BALASHIKHA, Russia, July 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The successful beginning of Russia’s first pro-life maternity hospital may hold the answer for saving Russia’s dying population from plummeting into a demographic catastrophe and finally reversing the culture of abortion in Russia, claims a story in Crisis Magazine.  According to Tom Murray, the author of the Crisis article, an experimental pro-life hospital in Balashikha, a city near the Moscow area, has won the support and encouragement of President Vladimir Putin’s government, which is facing the problem of Russia’s alarming decline in population. Russia’s low birthrate (1.28), staggeringly high […]

By Hilary White   July 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Scotsman reports that a Chinese matchmaking website is specializing in pairing up “asexuals.”   The phenomenon of “asexualism” has been getting press recently as the latest development in the sexual revolution.   The 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s brought us open marriage in which spouses have no intention of remaining faithful; widespread cohabitation in which couples have no intention of becoming spouses; andÂmost recentlyÂhomosexual “marriage” in which governments are lobbied to abolish marriage as a legal entity entirely.   In the midst of this sexual and legal chaos, according to news […]

National Union of Teachers a major engine in British homosexual lobby

By Hilary White  CINCINNATI, July 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cincinnati Post reports that most of the region’s major employers offer the same benefits package to co-habiting homosexual partners as to legally married couples.  While the federal government deliberates on a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex “marriage” and individual states are being turned into legal battlefields, businesses and service organizations across the country have been quietly rendering the struggle moot for years.   The Post reports that Procter & Gamble, Health Alliance, Toyota and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Ashland, Federated Department Stores, Delta Air Lines and E.W. Scripps all offer […]

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Luring children to websites containing sexual content by using child-friendly words may soon be a felony, under new legislation approved by the U.S. Senate Thursday, reported CNET News.com.   The Child Protection and Safety Act would see fines and imprisonment for up to 20 years handed to anyone convicted of deliberately misleading children to view potentially harmful web pages. “Whoever knowingly embeds words or digital images into the source code of a website with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material harmful to minors on the Internet […]

By Gudrun Schultz SEATTLE,  Washington, July 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Permitting same-sex “marriages” could lead to a serious loss of religious freedom, Seattle Archbishop Alexander Brunett warned Thursday in a legal brief filed in the ongoing battle over the state’s ban on homosexual “marriages.”   The court hearing the case, however, rejected the brief on account of the fact that it comes over a year too late; oral arguments were heard in the state Supreme Court in March 2005. The archbishop was finally convinced to file the brief after witnessing the legalization of homosexual “marriage” in other states and its […]

By Gudrun Schultz NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kenyan police arrested eight women and a staff member of a Nairobi clinic July 23, on suspicion that the women were there to obtain abortions, reported Nairobi’s The Nation yesterday.   Abortion is illegal in the country, unless the mother’s life is at risk. A woman found guilty of procuring an abortion is liable to imprisonment for seven years, and a person convicted of aiding or performing abortions can be sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.   Police said the women were found within the clinic, allegedly awaiting the completion of […]

Shakedown: How Catholics Are Getting Ripped Off in the Name of Justice  https://www.crisismagazine.com/may2006/feature1.htm   Our Enslavement to “Freedom”  https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/jhitchcock_enslavement_july06.asp   More and more young people are choosing to remain sexually pure until marriage  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041344.cfm   Paganism gaining popularity in US prison  https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060723/ap_on_re_us/pagans_in_prison;_ylt=AgePQ7ugiBhDk2ld1_V_J6sDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDJjOXUyBHNlYwNtdm5ld3M-   Rudy for president? by Robert D. Novak  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2006/07/08/rudy_for_president   John Dewey and the Decline of American Education:How Patron Saint Of   Schools Has Corrupted Teaching & Learning  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=327   NEA Keeps Tilting to the Left  https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16172   The National Education Association: What Kind Of Organization Is This   Which Sets The Agenda For Our Children In Public […]