Articles for Month: May 2008

Pro-Lifers Asked to Email Justices to Urge them to Vote to Protect the Rights of the Unborn

By Tim Waggoner ALBURY, Australia, May 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ongoing criminal investigations into the works of artist Bill Henson have resulted in more of his photographs being removed from an Australian art gallery.  Police have since said that they intend to use these photographs to press charges against the artist.  Public complaints made to the police regarding “inappropriate” artwork resulted in three of the controversial artist’s photographs being taken down from the Albury Art Gallery.  The photographs featured images of a young woman in the nude and one such image was used on the front cover of invitation cards […]

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, May 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peter Baklinski is a graduate of California’s Thomas Aquinas College and has recently been accepted into the PhD program at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family in Melbourne, Australia.  He has written an insightful essay detailing the difference in viewing nakedness in art and in pornography.  In his paper Baklinski approaches the debate by asking, “Is the difference simply a matter of preference or taste, or is there something more profound that makes one entirely different from the other?” To begin to answer this highly contested issue, Baklinski […]

Finds Americans Still Divided on Abortion

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.    A Vice President for Abortion, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, By Robert D. Novak  https://ktkz.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2008/05/26/a_vice_president_for_abortion   Why I’m Afraid of a President Barack Obama By Sandy Rios  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2008/05/22/why_im_afraid_of_a_president_barack_obama   Oprah Winfrey’s daytime audience has declined, to about 7.3 million this year from 7.8 million a year ago and a peak of nearly 9 million in the 2004-2005 season.  https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26oprah.html?_r=3&ei=5065&oref=slogin&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin   McCain Disagrees with Obama and Clinton on Defense of Marriage  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200805/POL20080527a.html […]

By Tim Waggoner ANN ARBOR, MI, May 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Crystal Dixon, an African American and high ranking administrator of the University of Toledo, summarily fired because she wrote an editorial expressing her Christian views against homosexuality and objecting to the comparison of so-called “gay rights” with the civil rights struggles of African Americans, has retained the Thomas More Law Center to represent her.  The Law Center will be assisted by local Toledo attorney, Tom Sobecki. Dixon was fired by the University’s President because she responded to an opinion article written by the editor-in-chief of the Toledo Free Press […]

Said to be "dangerous and confusing" and "There seems to be a 'death at all costs' mentality behind this scheme"

By Peter J. Smith   MANCHESTER, UK, May 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK Muslim pharmacist is under attack for refusing to dispense an abortifacient emergency contraceptive to a British couple on the grounds that he would be violating his Islamic faith.   The pharmacist of a Sainsbury chemist (drugstore) in Manchester told Chris Mellett, 29, and Kaye Walsh, 36, that it was against his Islamic beliefs to provide the couple the abortifacient drugs which they had requested. Mellett and Walsh had earlier discovered that their contraception method failed, and were looking for the abortifacient “morning-after” pill, which works by suppressing […]

By Peter J. Smith   SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has blasted a proposal that would allow San Diego county clerks to decline to perform same-sex “marriages” on conscience grounds saying he is both “shocked” and “outraged” according to Reuters news service.    Newsom was responding to an idea tabled on Wednesday by San Diego County to exempt clerks who had moral or religious objections to gay “marriage” from officiating at those civil ceremonies.“I was pretty shocked about all that, candidly, and pretty outraged,” said Newsom in a Reuters interview. “This is a […]

700,000 copies, mostly for high schools, also address homosexuality and contraception