Articles for Month: November 2006

Post Election Analysis

Groups may decide to discontinue all prescription drug coverage in order to avoid violating principles

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal seeking to overturn a decision by the top Maine court upholding a ban on religious schools in a state tuition voucher program.   The program provides parents from regions without high schools with vouchers to cover tuition at schools of their choice. State school districts in 145 small towns with no high schools provide the vouchers to 17,000 students, who may use them at public or private schools, in-state or out-of-state.   Religious schools are no longer included, however, […]

By Hilary White   PRETORIA, November 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Vice President of South Africa has, in President Thabo Mbeki’s absence, signed the bill that makes that country one of only a handful around the world to abolish the legal definition of natural marriage in order to include homosexual partners.   The Civil Union Act changes the country’s definition of marriage from a union of one man and one woman, to a “voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized and registered by either a marriage or civil union.” The Act comes into effect today. “The act is […]

Also, "loser", Democrat Howard Dean, gives keynote address at Liberal Party Convention

Approve "the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights", "unsafe abortion" and "safe motherhood"

By John-Henry Westen ISTANBUL, November 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI signed a joint declaration today with the leader of Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Bartholomew I. In their declaration, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders commit to joint action to protect life. “We must all commit ourselves to the renewed service of humanity and the defense of human life, every human life,” says the declaration. The leaders note their willingness to carry on the work of their predecessors toward unity.  They express the necessity of their joint work in reforming the culture of death.  “Moreover, we cannot ignore the increase […]

Liberty Counsel, Centre For American Law and Justice ask Mayor Richard M. Daly to stop religious discrimination against film

Senator Obama is radical in his abortion support, going so far as to back partial-birth abortion

By Steve Jalsevac   TORONTO, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Interim newspaper is reminding youth that the Dec. 8 deadline for submissions to the Father Ted Scholarship Program is just slightly more than a week away.   Grade 11 or 12 students are eligible to win one of three $1,000 scholarships this year by submitting an original 800-1000 word length essay on the topic, “Is abortion the most important human rights issue of our day?”   For more contest information, the rules and to download the application form see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06092209.html