Articles for Month: August 2010

Pro-Life 101: “How Dare You Call me Pro-Abortion?! I’m Pro-Choice!”

Friday August 6, 2010 Pro-Life 101: “How Dare You Call me Pro-Abortion?! I’m Pro-Choice!” Commentary by Hilary White ROME, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Perhaps I am just obsessive, but something happened in Rome a year or so ago that has been bothering me and won’t leave me alone. In June last year, when the Vatican was gearing up for a state visit from the new president of the US, the editor-in-chief of the Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, made the extraordinary statement that Barack Obama’s long, flawless pro-abortion voting record, policies and personal opinions do not make him “a […]
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Episcopalians Sanctioned by Anglicans over Lesbian Bishop

Friday June 11, 2010 Episcopalians Sanctioned by Anglicans over Lesbian Bishop By Patrick B. Craine LONG BEACH, California, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Episcopalian Church has been sanctioned by the Anglican Communion following their ordination last month of an openly lesbian bishop. Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Communion, wrote to the Episcopalians June 7 informing them that their memberships in the Communion’s ecumenical dialogues had been suspended. The Episcopalians ordained Mary D. Glasspool, who has lived with her same-sex partner since 1988, as a suffragan bishop for the Los Angeles diocese on May 15th. The ordination […]
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Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4 WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 5-4 majority ruling filed today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the continued display of a lone cross in California’s Mojave Desert memorializing veterans of World War I. In Salazar v. Buono, the ACLU filed suit to remove the 8-foot cross. Following the lower court ruling, the cross was covered with a cloth and now is boxed in with plywood so it looks like a blank sign. It remained that way pending this final decision. The […]
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D.C. Archdiocesan Blog: Let the Man Head the Household

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It's a concept largely discarded as an antiquated view of gender roles, even in most Christian circles: the notion that a husband leading the home is the best way to keep a family running smoothly. Yet Monsignor Charles Pope, a blogger for the Archdiocese of Washington, pointed out in a post earlier this month that rejecting this model is at the root of “one of the biggest problems today in marriage.” This Bible-based tradition, he says, is vital for couples hoping to dodge the destructive “power struggle” of the modern […]
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Not Talking: Planned Parenthood Tightlipped after Revoking PP Name from Affiliate

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood (PP) Federation of America is not divulging the details behind its decision to revoke its trademark from a San Francisco area affiliate. The decision to distance itself from one of its own affiliates is a step that is rarely taken by PP: even those clinics caught violating the law by pro-life undercover reporter Lila Rose in recent years have retained full enjoyment of the PP name. Planned Parenthood of the Golden Gate (PPGG), which was implicated in the 2003 RU-486 death of Holly Patterson, operates eight […]
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Parents Must Unite to Scrap Ontario Equity Strategy, Says Pro-Family Group

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy is “a program of child indoctrination” that “represents a frontal assault on the moral & religious values of a majority of parents, and a trampling of their parental rights,” argues the political pro-life and pro-family group Campaign Life Coalition (CLC).  The group is calling for the strategy to be scrapped and is urging concerned individuals to join their campaign. Premier Dalton McGuinty is “getting ready to reprogram your children’s moral values,” says CLC national president Jim Hughes in a video message […]
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Chaos and Ideology Reign at UN Conference on Youth in Leon, Mexico

Friday August 27, 2010 Chaos and Ideology Reign at UN Conference on Youth in Leon, Mexico By Samantha Singson, Austin Ruse, Terrence McKeegan, J.D. LEÓN, MEXICO, August 27, 2010 (C-FAM https://www.c-fam.org/) – Early reports from participants at the World Youth Conference that commenced this week in León, Mexico are that the conference is the scene of ideological rigidity and yet almost total chaos. There seem to be four conferences going on at once, one for youth, one for governments, one for parliamentarians, and one called the Global Interactive Forum. A measure of the chaos at the governmental forum is that […]
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Ottawa Parish Group Promoting Gay Pride

Wednesday August 25, 2010 Ottawa Parish Group Promoting Gay Pride By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The young adult group at a Catholic parish in Ottawa is promoting the city’s homosexual Pride parade this weekend. The young adult faith community at St. Joseph’s Parish has advertised on their blog that the “Gay Catholics, Christians and Allies” group at the University of Ottawa is rallying supporters to march as a group at the Capital Pride march this Sunday, August 29. The ad notes that the group “wants gay persons to be welcomed by the official Christian […]
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Full Interview with Dr. Walter Schumm

Wednesday August 18, 2010 Full Interview with Dr. Walter Schumm August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Judge Walker built his decision overturning Proposition 8 on many “findings of fact,” which to a great extent came from experts supplied by the opponents of Proposition 8. But according Dr. Walter Schumm, professor of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University, many of these so-called facts are either false or doubtful. In the following interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), Dr. Schumm explains that homosexual parents are more likely to raise homosexual children; that scholars are often biased in favor of research friendly to […]
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UN Campaigns for Homosexual Adoption in Mexico

Friday August 27, 2010 UN Campaigns for Homosexual Adoption in Mexico By Amanda Pawloski, co-authored by Dianelle Martinez NEW YORK, August 26, 2010 (C-FAM) – In the midst of a controversial judicial consideration of homosexual adoption earlier this month, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ran an ad campaign that appeared to support the effort to overturn Mexico City’s law against homosexual adoption. According the website of the Office of High Commission, an estimated 5 million people a day carried subway tickets with the message, “Embrace diversity; End discrimination.” The purpose of the campaign was […]
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