Articles for Month: May 2008

Columnist Rovert Novak calls her "the national pro-choice poster girl."

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SÃO PAULO, May 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Brazil’s annual “Gay Parade”, which boasts the largest turnout of any such event worldwide, was again marred by violent crime and substance abuse. Numerous robberies and thefts, mostly of cameras, cell phones, and wallets, were reported by marchers at the event, which was held last Sunday.  Drug abuse was “explicit” according to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, particularly the use of the aphrodisiac drug “ecstasy”. “This year the violence was worse than previous years,” marcher Marina Goncalves, 25, told Folha de Sao Paulo.  “They stole my cell phone […]

By Hilary White WORTHING, UK, May 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent UK charity has been implicated in the production and distribution of a sexually explicit “educational” pamphlet aimed at children as young as seven. The booklet has been removed from one school in West Surrey after complaints from parents, but the charity responsible, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), has defended the material, saying the sexual material is already covered by the national sex education curriculum. The charity, ChildLine, a branch of the NSPCC, produced a 20-page illustrated booklet in order to help children […]

Keith Cardinal O'Brien condemns government's sex education programmes for throwing fuel on the fire

By Peter J. Smith CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo, May 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There are three wooden crosses by the right side of Peacekeeper’s Chapel, but where they will end up after the US Army removes them from a Kosovo base, Heaven only knows. According to a report by WorldNetDaily, high-ranking US Army personnel have secretly discussed and approved plans to remove, and possibly destroy, the three crosses standing on the exterior grounds of Peacekeeper’s Chapel, which serves US soldiers stationed at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. The crosses will be removed within the next few weeks, and there were no indications […]

By Michael Baggot BERLIN, Germany, May 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Berlin unveiled a monument yesterday to honor homosexuals as victims of Nazi persecution, despite a growing body of research suggesting that many prominent Nazi authorities, including Adolph Hitler, were themselves actively homosexual. A report yesterday from the Associated Press on the new Berlin concrete monument, which features a video of two men kissing, claimed that up to 15,000 active homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration camps. “This is symptomatic for a society… that did not abolish unjust verdicts, but partially continued to implement them; a society which did not acknowledge […]

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By Peter J. Smith   MEXICO CITY, May 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists in Mexico are celebrating the latest bizarre rendition of homosexual “marriage” in Mexico – this time between a transsexual man and a transsexual woman! Homosexual activists are calling it a triumph for their agenda, while the government says they just performed a heterosexual marriage – albeit an odd one – in the latest blow for traditional marriage in the predominantly Catholic nation. “Mario” del Socorro and “Diana” Guerrero were “married” in a civil ceremony at a Mexico City community center by Judge Gustavo Lugo on May […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   MEXICO, May 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets last Sunday to demonstrate in favor of human life and against legislation passed last year in Mexico City that decriminalizes abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.   The protests were called by the nation’s Catholic bishops in response to the newest round of hearings before the Mexican Supreme Court, which began last Friday.  The hearings are scheduled to continue until the end of 2008.   The crowds chanted and carried banners with statements such as “Rape demands justice, not murder!”, “If […]

"It is my intention . . . to have similar pastoral dialogues with other Catholics in elective office who support legalized abortion"