Articles for Month: October 2006

By Gudrun Schultz LOS ANGELES, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Court of Appeal reversed a lower court ruling from 2005 yesterday that would have redefined the state’s legal definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, in what has been called a victory for marriage advocates across the country. A 2005 ruling by Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer said the state’s marriage laws were unconstitutional. The decision found “no rational purpose” to “limit” marriage to the union of one man and one woman. The pro-family Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of lawyers working to protect religious freedom in the […]

The practice takes human life and exploits women

By Hilary White ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, United Press International reported that Dignity Twin Cities, a homosexual organization that lobbies the Catholic Church to change its teachings on sexual purity, would be sponsoring “National Coming Out Day” with a Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. The report said that the event is being co-sponsored with Dignity Twin Cities and the notoriously pro-homosexual parish of St. Joan of Arc, with the festivities to be presided over by St. Mary’s pastor, Fr. Michael O’Connell. LifeSiteNews.com contacted St. Mary’s Basilica and spoke […]

Paper: Clergy but Not Faithful Should be Allowed to Express Opposition to Homosexuality

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stand True Ministries is gearing up for the third annual Students’ Day of Silent Solidarity on Tuesday, October 24. On this date, students from over 1,000 campuses in the United States, Canada and several other countries will take a vow of silence to express their contempt for the murderous act of abortion that has claimed one-third of their generation and continues to take the lives of over 4,000 babies per day in the United States alone. “Thousands of American babies are permanently silenced every day by the violent act of abortion,” said Bryan […]

Abortion Myth?https://acuf.org/issues/issue68/commentsmyth.asp In Pennsylvania, Who’s More Pro-Life?https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17282 Pro-life groups say pro-abortion petition misleadinghttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7766 On Thinking About Abortion with Those Who Won’thttps://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=19-07-023-v Campaigns Combating Pornography to Begin in Octoberhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/52006f.asp InterVarsity Sues for Right to Require Leaders Be Christianhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/42006c.asp Florida Elementary’s Christmas Play Canned https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042204.cfm Detroit Suburb Considers Ousting City Hall Nativity Scenehttps://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217970,00.html Scientists to create ‘frankenbunny’ in big research leaphttps://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23369688-details/Scientists+to+create+‘frankenbunny’+in+big+research+leap/article.do Who Knew Mark Foley was a Closeted Democrat?https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24770 California Court Upholds ‘Gay Marriage’ Banhttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/5/175428.shtml?s=ic Seems all but certain South Korean candidate for U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has clinched council’s recommendation.https://www.terradaily.com/reports/World_To_Get_New_Leader_By_Next_Week_999.html Religion, madness and secular paranoia By Michael Medvedhttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2006/10/04/religion,_madness_and_secular_paranoia Five non-religious arguments […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Education Association has announced a review of three abstinence programs that encourage teens to wait until marriage for sex and which are meant to provide “an excellent portrait” of the types of abstinence programs funded by the federal government. However, NEA, an aggressive promoter of sex-education and condom instruction for children, says that the abstinence curricula “are riddled with messages of fear and shame, gender stereotypes, and medical misinformation that put young people at risk.” According to an NEA, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. […]

By Gudrun Schultz DUBLIN, Ireland, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian couple attempting to force the Irish government to recognize their Canadian “marriage” filed suit Oct. 4, after a hearing before the Irish High Court in a pivotal case threatening the country’s traditional marriage law. The two women, Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone, are seeking the same legal rights and tax exemptions as heterosexual married couples. The couple were “married” in British Columbia on Sept.13, 2003, under Canada’s new legislation permitting same-sex couples to legally wed. Dr. Zappone is a public policy research consultant and member of the […]

Court stuck down democratically passed law still supported by majority of Nova Scotians in referendum

By John-Henry Westen CORNWALL, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the annual Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Oct. 16-18, retired Washington, D.C. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will give an address on Catholic involvement in political life. McCarrick was the chair of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference task force on the issue. While the Vatican has been clear in its insistence that Catholic politicians who are obstinate in supporting abortion by their political activities “must” be denied communion. Most North American bishops have refused to follow the direction. Pope Benedict XVI, in 2004, prior to his […]