Articles for Month: October 2006

By Meg Jalsevac San Angelo, TEXAS, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vickie Dawn Jackson, a former nurse in the 38-bed hospital in Nocona General Hospital in northern Texas, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, October 5, 2006 for the killing of 10 patients under her care at the end of 2000 and the beginning months of 2001. Because Jackson plead ‘no contest’ to the charges she avoided a trial by jury, eliminating the possibility that family members would have to testify for or against her. Because of her ‘no contest’ plea, life in prison was the maximum sentence […]

ÂOrange County, CA, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Unites States Supreme Court today issued an Order declining to hear a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The case is Smelt v. Orange County, and it is one of the last remaining challenges to DOMA. Liberty Counsel intervened in this case on behalf of Campaign for Children and Families in 2004 in order to protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman and to defend DOMA. The federal DOMA allows states to reject same-sex marriages from other states. The challenge to DOMA in this […]

7th grade course material stated, "From the beginning, you and your classmates will become Muslims"

Public servants fund campaign to save taxpayer funding for program to force government to change laws

By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, B.C., October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Secrecy and selective access have marked ongoing debates on the content of a controversial high school course promoting homosexuality, a parents’ organization has charged, after they were refused access to a two-day conference on the course attended by multiple special interest groups. The Concerned Parents of B.C. were not admitted to a closed, invitation-only meeting hosted by the B.C. Ministry of Education and attended by 25 organizations deemed to have interest in the material, the Vancouver Courier reported last week. Invitations to the two-day conference included the Gay and Lesbian […]

Much HIV/AIDS prevention, maternal health, economic development money actually for population control

Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks over Foley Situationhttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042242.cfm Philadelphia schools promote ‘gay’ agenda – District threatens truancy charges against parents who keep kids homehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52289 Stem cell scientists ought to follow their ethical arguments to a logical conclusion.https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=379 Court Ruling: Wisconsin Program Cannot Exclude Religious Charitieshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/52006a.asp Christian leaders facing Soros-funded ‘witch hunt’ https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52318 China launches execution buses, harvests organshttps://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0%2C%2C31200-p21983_waghorn%2C00.html Christian-Muslim dialogue impossible if persecution of non-Muslims continueshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7773 Bankrupt Reveals Flawed Liberal Ideologyhttps://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0042222.cfm Mark Steyn on the Foley madness sweeping Washingtonhttps://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?ContentGuid=f0289284-410c-4643-a677-8c7329527c32&RadioShowId=5 Mark Foley’s Oprah defensehttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2006/10/06/mark_foleys_oprah_defense Defence of the foetus deserves a prizehttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380 Liberal Cartoonist Delights CNN Anchor by Claiming ‘80 Percent’ of […]

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, October 6, 2006 ( C-FAM.org ) – Away from the media scrutiny surrounding the opening of the General Assembly in New York, the new UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is wrapping up its second session in Geneva today after three weeks of deliberation. Established earlier this year as part of a UN reform process aimed at increasing UN transparency and legitimacy, the HRC is facing many of the same problems that plagued its discredited predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). This week a coalition of NGOs presented a report entitled, “Building the UN Human […]

By Gudrun Schultz VALLETTA, Malta, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Maltese Archbishop Mgr. Joseph Mercieca triggered an outpouring of criticism with his recent address calling for greater support and praise of mothers who remain home to care for their small children. The Archbishop called on the state to do everything in its power to help parents give their children the upbringing children deserve, stating that if young parents cannot raise their children together properly because both are “constrained” to work out of the home, that would be “sowing harm” in the lives of the children. Further, Archbishop Mercieca condemned […]

Groups filing amicus brief attacking parent's right to sue schools ignoring state parental notification law