Gay Human Rights Complaint Against Calgary Bishop Dropped – Was All About Getting Media Attention

Gay Human Rights Complaint Against Calgary Bishop Dropped – Was All About Getting Media Attention by LifeSiteNews.com CALGARY, August (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norm Greenfield, who launched a human rights complaint against Calgary Bishop Fred Henry, has admitted to the media that his actions were done in order to attract media attention. Greenfield launched his complaint after Bishop Henry released a pastoral letter explaining Catholic teaching on the subject of homosexuality. (See the letter here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/050113a.html ) At a conciliation session at the Alberta Human Rights Commission headquarters yesterday, in a session mediated by a human rights commission lawyer, Greenfield met with […]
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Photos of Port Coquitlam, B.C. Knights of Columbus Hall Dispute Lesbians’ Claims

Photos of Port Coquitlam, B.C. Knights of Columbus Hall Dispute Lesbians’ Claims by LifeSiteNews.com PORT COQUITLAM, BC, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two lesbians awarded damages from a BC Human Rights Tribunal for being denied a Knights of Columbus hall rental for their same-sex “wedding” claimed they were completely unaware that the hall was affiliated with the Catholic Church. Pictures of the hall obtained by LifeSiteNews.com reveal its undeniableÂinclusion in a complex that included Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church and Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School. Not only do the pictures reveal that the hall isÂpart of […]
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Second Saskatchewan Marriage Commissioner Files Human Rights Complaint

Second Saskatchewan Marriage Commissioner Files Human Rights Complaint by LifeSiteNews.com REGINA, February 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A second Saskatchewan marriage commissioner has filed a complaint with the provincial Human Rights Commission after being told he must perform same-sex “weddings” or resign. Regina Marriage Commissioner Orville Nichols added his complaint today to that of Prince Albert commissioner Bruce Goertzen, who filed his complaint Friday. Nichols argues that, although marriage commissioners are technically self-employed, the province actually prescribes the fees set, the location and hours of work, so commissioners are in reality employees of the province. As such, commissioners are entitled to […]
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Reasoning Behind France’s Rejection of Same Sex Marriage Published in English

Reasoning Behind France’s Rejection of Same Sex Marriage Published in English by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, March 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In late January, a 30 member parliamentary commission of the French National Assembly published a 453 page Report on the Family and the rights of Children, which rejected same-sex marriage. (Original coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021601.html ) That report, available only in French has been carefully examined by Louis DeSerres the bilingual national co-ordinator of ‘Preserve Marriage – Protect Children’s Rights’ (www.preservemarriage.ca )Âwho has produced an English-language two page executive summary of the reasons behind the report’s rejection of homosexual ‘marriage’. […]
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Despite Lawsuits Bishop Henry Refusing to Back Down ‘One Iota’ on Homosexual “Marriage”

Despite Lawsuits Bishop Henry Refusing to Back Down ‘One Iota’ on Homosexual “Marriage” by LifeSiteNews.com CALGARY, March 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even in the face of two human rights complaints, Calgary Bishop Fred Henry is refusing to back down over his pastoral and public statements on same-sex marriage, in which he faithfully presented the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. “Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography undermine the foundations of the family, the basis of society, then the State must use its coercive power to proscribe or curtail them in the interests of the common good,” Bishop Henry said in a […]
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Ontario Supreme Court Imposes New Definition Of Marriage As Including Homosexuals

Ontario Supreme Court Imposes New Definition Of Marriage As Including Homosexuals by LifeSiteNews.com TORONTO, June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled this morning that homosexual ‘marriage’ is now a right guaranteed by the Charter of Rights, and thus re-wrote Canadian law on the matter. The court rendered invalid the existing definition of marriage to the extent that it refers to “one man and one woman” and reformulated the definition of marriage as “the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others”. The justices ordered their redefinition of marriage to have “immediate […]
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Decline in Number and Rate of U.S. Abortions Continues, New Analysis Shows

Decline in Number and Rate of U.S. Abortions Continues, New Analysis Shows by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new analysis from a pro-abortion group, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, shows that U.S. abortion rates continued to decline in 2001 and 2002, although the rate of decline has slowed since the early 1990s. The Institute estimates that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001—0.8% fewer than the 1,313,000 in 2000. In 2002, the number of abortions declined again, to 1,293,000, or another 0.8%. The rate of abortion also declined, from 21.3 procedures per 1,000 women […]
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Canada Abruptly Ends Special Visas for Exotic Dancers after Inquiries into Underage Strippers

Canada Abruptly Ends Special Visas for Exotic Dancers after Inquiries into Underage Strippers by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, December 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today in the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan announced an abrupt end to the Canadian scheme of arranging visas specifically for exotic dancers, or strippers, which are used to fill positions at strip clubs in Canada. Those clubs, it has been acknowledged even by club owners, are notorious for forced back-room prostitution work. Weeks of House of Commons questioning directed at Immigration Minister Judy Sgro for her issuance of an exotic dancer visa to one of […]
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Pope Benedict Opposes Harry Potter Novels

Pope Benedict Opposes Harry Potter Novels by LifeSiteNews.com RIMSTING, Germany, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the sixth issue of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – is about to be released, the news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prior to his elevation to the Pontificate, had denounced the wildly popular series has resurfaced. In 2003, a month after the English press throughout the world falsely proclaimed that Pope John Paul II approved of Harry Potter, the man who was to become his successor sent a letter to a Catholic German critic of Harry Potter […]
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Ontario government getting ugly over forcing GSAs and bishops trust the wrong people yet again

In Canada, the Ontario government’s fierce determination to force all Catholic and other schools to accept anti-Christian, homosexuality normalizing Gay Straight Alliances is now getting ugly. The Ontario bishops’ organization strategy of working quietly behind the scenes, rather than supporting the thousands of parents who have been valiantly fighting the government imposition and unsuccessfully pleading with the bishops’ to publicly join them, has been an entirely predictable failure. The bishops have been quietly assuring deeply concerned Catholics for the last few years that “it is being taken care of” and urging the parents’ groups to stop their public demonstrations. This […]
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Video: Personhood, the final civil rights movement

Pro-life Wisconsin has issued a video with a brief but straightforward message: in a world increasingly aware of human rights, can it be long before the battle is won for recognizing personhood for all human beings – born and unborn?
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Hey Joyce Arthur, keep your outdated views off my body and the bodies of preborn Canadians

Guest post by Cassie Farrell Joyce Arthur’s recent piece in the Huffington Post is one that is ripe with inconsistencies and misleading statements, and it’s no surprise given that she has had a slobbering love affair with the traditionally dishonest pro-abortion movement for years. As Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, Arthur bemoans what she believes was a recent attack on a woman’s “right” to abortion, and insists that pro-lifers are more concerned with controlling women rather than with defending the life and dignity of preborn human person. Despite the fact that Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 312 aims […]
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First Debate on Canada’s Coercive Abortion Bill Set for Monday

First Debate on Canada’s Coercive Abortion Bill Set for Monday by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”Roxanne’s Law,” the Canadian private members bill that seeks to criminalize the coercion of pregnant women into obtaining abortions, is slated for its first hour of debate this Monday, November 1st. The bill, proposed by Conservative Member of Parliament Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg South), is inspired by the case of Roxanne Fernando, a Manitoba woman whose boyfriend attempted to coerce her to have an abortion after she became pregnant in 2007. After refusing to have the unborn child killed, […]
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U.S. Young Adults More Pro-Life: Gallup

U.S. Young Adults More Pro-Life: Gallup by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The percentage of young adults in the U.S. favouring legalized abortion has undergone a significant drop, falling below all other age groups except seniors, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The poll results also indicate that young adults are now the group most likely (23%) to favor making abortion illegal in all circumstances. Michael Barnett, director of American Life League’s LiveCampus project, said the poll backs anecdotal evidence gathered on college campuses nationwide. “Abortion doesn’t make sense to a generation […]
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MP Ken Epp responds to the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada’s Claims about Unborn Victims of Crim

MP Ken Epp responds to the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada’s Claims about Unborn Victims of Crim by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, August 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park, Ken Epp, released today a report responding to claims made by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada in an article by ARCC Coordinator Joyce Arthur entitled “Bill C-484 Endangers Abortion Rights and Women’s Rights by Establishing Fetal Personhood.” Epp is the sponsor of Bill C-484, the so-called Unborn Victims of Crime bill, which would make it a separate crime to injure or kill an unborn child in a violent attack on […]
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Unprecedented: Five Kansas Supreme Court justices recuse themselves in Kline case

Read my previous post here. Only four days after former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed a blistering motion asking that two Kansas Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from deciding whether to suspend his law license, the Supremes announced yesterday that FIVE of the seven would be doing so. Their rationale, according to the The Topeka Capital-Journal: The five justices voluntarily stepped aside, citing the Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct rule that requires recusal when a judge “previously presided as a judge over the matter in another court.” Without ever mentioning Kline’s motion, the five stated it “would not be […]
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Vietnamese Abortion Rates Skyrocket; Doctors Anguished by the Killing

Vietnamese Abortion Rates Skyrocket; Doctors Anguished by the Killing by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski HANOI, Vietnam, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rising abortion rates, especially among unmarried teens, and widespread sex-selective abortions, are causing psychological trauma to many Vietnamese doctors, according to VietNamNet report. Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Minh, director of the Central Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Hanoi, said she more and more frequently has to confront her “worst fears, having to abort unborn babies that are 20-22 weeks old, when their bodies are fully formed,” as the number of mothers seeking abortion steadily increases. Minh said her […]
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Inspiring, energetic youth at Ottawa March For Life; My speech on Parliament Hill

We put out a lot of coverage of Canada’s National March for Life in Ottawa, but I have to admit it is impossible to convey all the great things that occurred from Wednesday evening through to Friday afternoon. It was the most energizing March for Life that most of us had ever experienced. What was prominent throughout was the overwhelming presence of very enthusiastic youth who added high, positive energy to all the events. Many of them were inspired by the events and they in turn inspired each other and all others who participated or viewed the march activities. For […]
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I thought I was pro-life but God told me I had the ‘spirit of abortion’

PUEBLO, Colorado, May 18, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sarah Nelson, 22, was going through a challenging chapter in her faith journey in 2001 as she served in leadership at a successful megachurch in Denver, Colorado. She and her fiancee Brandon loved their church and the fellowship it provided, but Sarah could not shake off the feeling there was something missing. At her Christian church, one thing that was impressed upon her was that abortion was wrong. For as long as she can remember, Sarah had always considered herself “very pro-life and absolutely against abortion.” One day, while praying for an end […]
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Inside Congressional caucus briefing on how to blunt pro-life gains in black community

On May 10 the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus were honorary co-hosts of a wordy briefing entitled, “African Americans’ Attitudes on Abortion, Contraception, and Reproductive, Justice: From Public Opinion to Policymaking,” held at the U.S. Capitol. On the agenda: – “numerous challenges to accessing quality, affordable reproductive health care… exacerbated by campaigns targeting the African American community” – “research on the latest attitudes and concerns of African Americans relating to reproductive justice” – “key messaging as a response to attacks and threats to reproductive rights” Organizers were obviously alarmed by the inroads pro-lifers have made into the black […]
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Helping people commit suicide. Who are the Final Exit Network?

Members of the Final Exit Network (FEN) have been on trial in Arizona, Georgia and now Minnesota, but for most concerned people the question is – who are the Final Exit Network? The first place to look for information about FEN is from Stephen Drake, the research analyst for the disability rights group Not Dead Yet. Drake has been following FEN for many years and is an expert on FEN. Many people know about the Hemlock Society that was co-founded by Derek Humphry, who co-wrote the book Jean’s Way (a story of how he helped to kill his first wife) […]
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USAID LEAVES $137 MILLION UNACCOUNTED FOR IN POPULATION CONTROL REPORT

USAID LEAVES $137 MILLION UNACCOUNTED FOR IN POPULATION CONTROL REPORT by LifeSiteNews.com Taxpayers ask: ‘Who received our $137 million in population control funds?’ WASHINGTON, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – “The United States Agency for International Development cannot determine to whom it gave $137 million for population control in fiscal year 2000,” said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, a division of American Life League. “That’s our tax money. Any private company that had such pathetic accounting practices would be out of business.” The USAID report, “Overview of USAID Population Assistance FY 2000,” states that of its $353 million in […]
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‘Family Planning’ Groups Spreading AIDS in Africa with Depo Provera, New Study Warns

‘Family Planning’ Groups Spreading AIDS in Africa with Depo Provera, New Study Warns by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With its insistence on the use of injected contraceptives, health organizations pushing Depo Provera have been spreading AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in the developing world. A new study by the National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found that the use of injected hormonal contraceptives increases the risk of STD’s. Charles Morrison of Family Health International in Research Triangle Park, N.C., who led the study, said that it […]
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Bishop Encourages All Priests to Imitate Him by Spending One Hour in Front of Abortion Facility

Bishop Encourages All Priests to Imitate Him by Spending One Hour in Front of Abortion Facility by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman FARGO, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Samuel J. Aquila, the Catholic bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, is strongly encouraging his priests to imitate him by praying for an hour in front of an abortion facility during this year’s national “Forty Days for Life”. The “Forty Days for Life”, which is scheduled to take place from September 26th to November 4th of this year, is a program of pro-life activism modeled on the biblically significant number of forty days, […]
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US Sexuality Survey Shows Gays 107% More Likely To Engage In Criminal Activities

US Sexuality Survey Shows Gays 107% More Likely To Engage In Criminal Activities by LifeSiteNews.com COLORADO SPRINGS, CO., June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A forty-eight page study to be published two weeks from now in the peer-reviewed journal, Psychological Reports, compares extensive and newly released Center for Disease Control (CDC) data, concluding that homosexuals are far more likely to engage in illegal and socially dangerous behaviour than heterosexuals. In fact, according to the study, homosexuals are over 107% more likely to have been booked for illegal activity than heterosexuals. Dr.ÂPaul Cameron of the Family Research Institute led and penned the […]
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French Catholics Force Homosexualist “Kiss-In” Away from Notre Dame

French Catholics Force Homosexualist “Kiss-In” Away from Notre Dame by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman PARIS, FRANCE, February 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—French homosexualist demonstrators had planned to have a “kiss in” in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris this Valentine’s day. But in response to the protests of a group of young French Catholics and patriots, it was moved away from the church of Our Lady. The kiss-in was ostensibly meant to combat “homophobia.” The organizer of the kiss-in, Arthur Vauthier, had nevertheless said that it was a “way to challenge the Church, to question the Church on the question of […]
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Abortion and Euthanasia Bringing about the Demise of Catholic Health Care: Prominent Catholic Obstet

Abortion and Euthanasia Bringing about the Demise of Catholic Health Care: Prominent Catholic Obstet by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, November 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Believing Catholics are being pushed out of the medical professions, especially in areas like obstetrics, by the insistence of secularised medical services on “abortion rights,” contraception and, now, increasingly physician-assisted euthanasia, claims a prominent Catholic obstetrician. Dr. Walley, a Catholic obstetrician, emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and founder of Matercare International, made these remarks during an interview with LifeSiteNews at the 5th conference of Catholic Obstetricians and […]
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Twilight Breakdown: ‘Girl Porn’ and the Books of Mormon

Twilight Breakdown: ‘Girl Porn’ and the Books of Mormon by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Kathleen Gilbert edited 7.26.10 FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the latest Twilight film once more beckons an adoring gaggle of girls of all ages, onlookers watching their daughters, wives, and sisters flood the franchise with their hard-earned money are forced again to ask: just what is so intoxicating about Twilight, and is it ultimately for good or for ill? The answer may not be immediately clear – at least, among those who reject Twilight’s standing as quality literature. Some consider its appeal to […]
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‘Thank you for showing me the truth’: graphic images work

Today I want to share with you the following e-mail I received from a pro-abortion person who visited the Priests for Life web site and saw the pictures of aborted babies. She wrote: “I thought that you would like to know that you have changed the mind of at least one person with your web site, me.  Although I have never had an abortion myself, I have always thought that it should be a woman’s right to do what she wanted to her body.  Today I stand corrected.  Thank you for showing me the truth.  I will pray for success […]
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ND Prez Jenkins Has “No Interest” in Asking for Leniency for ND Protesters Despite Calls for “Dialog

ND Prez Jenkins Has “No Interest” in Asking for Leniency for ND Protesters Despite Calls for “Dialog by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the University of Notre Dame has “no interest” in interfering with the fates of over 80 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested on campus while protesting President Obama’s May 17 commencement speech, says the pro-lifers’ attorney. One of the arrestees, Lambs of Christ founder Fr. Norman Weslin, issued a statement Monday calling on University president Fr. John Jenkins to heed the arrested group’s requests to meet, which Weslin says […]
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The eugenic philosophy is alive in our culture

The Vatican’s newspaper has published an article by historian Lucetta Scaraffia concerning the translation into Italian for the first time of the 1920 book by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, titled, Allowing the destruction of life unworthy of life. The article, “If Life is ‘unworthy of being lived” (see below) offers an historical evaluation of the importance of the book and then it concludes that the basic ideology of the book – i.e. eugenics, or in other words, the elimination of people who are genetically “inferior” or mentally ill – is alive and well in this culture. Many people wrongly […]
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Frozen Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Cure Toddler’s Cancer

Frozen Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Cure Toddler’s Cancer by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White BRISTOL, UK, February 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A two year old girl from Suffolk has been cured of a rare form of cancer using genetically matched adult stem cells from a Japanese donor. Last week, news reports around the world revealed Sorrel Mason, a toddler from Great Wratting in Suffolk suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia, received a transplant of donated cells from a frozen umbilical cord from Tokyo. Sorrel’s mother, Samantha Mason, told media, “Sorrel would be dead now if she had been left untreated.” The little […]
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