Articles for Month: November 2013

Book specifically instructs teacher to "avoid" discussing the idea that homosexual inclinations can be changed

Homosexual Activists Consider Targeting Private Christian Schools for “Homophobia” by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, February 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario private schools are coming increasingly under the lens of homosexual activist groups for “homophobic” teaching stemming from the schools’ primarily religious foundations, a report in Ottawa’s homosexual news media indicated earlier this week. In an article warning about the increasing trend toward private and religious schools in the province, Ottawa’s Capital Xtra objected to religious schools that teach children “only their own values.” The article quotes Tony Lovink, a homosexual Christian teacher in the Ottawa public school system, […]

President Bush Approves Over the Counter Early Abortion Pill, Pro-Life Base Decries Move by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, August 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For his pro-life supporter base, President George W. Bush stepped into one of the biggest political landmines of his Presidential career today with his approval of over the counter status for the abortion-causing morning after pill Plan B. A press release by Human Life International underscored the seriousness of the move as it was titled, “President Bush Files for Divorce with Catholic Base.” Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International commented, “President Bush’s implied […]

Durex Markets Condoms Designed for 13-16 Year Olds by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith LONDON, July 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A condom manufacturer has set its sights on British youth, intending to market condoms designed for young teenagers in the United Kingdom as soon as 2007, provoking outrage from parents and pro-family organizations, according to the Sun, a British newspaper. Durex, the condom manufacturer, intends to market a smaller, 49 mm condom to Britain’s youth, which it introduced in Germany just last week. The company claims the condom is also easier to put on for those who are inexperienced. “It […]

Gay Activists Ask Canada to Lower Age of Consent for Anal Sex, National Post Agrees by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, February 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists have long sought to distance themselves from pedophiles, however Canada’s most prominent homosexual activist group has now demanded the lowering the age of consent for anal sex to 16 from 18. Surprisingly, Canada’s National Post, regarded by some as a ‘conservative’ paper has come out in favour of the proposal. Reacting to the Conservative Government’s plan to raise the age of consent forÂnormal sex from 14 to 16, EGALE (Equality for Gays […]

Invasive Tests Cause Two Healthy Children to Die by Miscarriage for Every Three Down Children Detect by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, September 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The invasive procedures used to detect Down syndrome in unborn children result in the miscarriages of two healthy children for every three Down babies detected, a British study has found. The study’s researchers, from the charity Down Syndrome Education International (DSEI), estimate that in the process of detecting and aborting 660 Down babies annually, screening leads to the deaths of 400 babies who do not have the disorder in England and Wales alone. […]

Study also questions fraternal birth order effect

Commentary: The Significance of that Case of the Man Trapped in a “Coma” for 23 Years by LifeSiteNews.com By Alex Schadenberg, Chairman, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition November 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many people will have read the story of Rom Houben, the Belgium man who was diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years, but who in fact had a condition known as Locked-in Syndrome. A person in locked-in syndrome is fully aware of all of their surroundings and they hear and remember the conversations that take place around them, but due to their cognitive disability they […]

Dominican Cardinal asks Mexican church for information

The group of Christians, Jews, and Muslims said they are “deeply alarmed…as citizens relying on philosophical arguments, and as believers inheriting our respective religious traditions.”

Ten Arguments Against Harry Potter – By Woman Who Corresponded with Cardinal Ratzinger by LifeSiteNews.com 1. Harry Potter is a global long term project to change the culture. In the young generation inhibitions against magic and the occult are being destroyed. Thus, forces re-enter society which Christianity had overcome. 2. Hogwarts, the school of magic and witchcraft, is a closed world of violence and horror, of cursing and bewitching, of racist ideology, of blood sacrifice, disgust and obsession. There is an atmosphere of continuous threat, which the young reader cannot escape. 3. While Harry Potter appears in the beginning to […]

Interview: Former Gay Youth Leader Re-Emerges to Tell His Dramatic Conversion Story by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two years ago Michael Glatze sent shockwaves through the homosexualist establishment when he declared publicly that he had left his life as a prominent homosexual activist, become Christian, and embraced “normal human sexuality.” However, after being subjected to intense criticism and ridicule following his conversion, Glatze decided to “go inside,” “be silent,” and “process” for a time, but now says he feels compelled to share his story anew. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), Glatze said that, […]

Mexico City Official Admits that Decriminalization has Increased the Number of Abortions by LifeSiteNews.com MEXICO CITY, April 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico City’s Secretary of Health, Manuel Mondragón, admits that the legalization of abortion in the city “has tended to increase” the abortion rate, but in his opinion, “not in a disproportionate way”, according to the French Press Agency. The admission by a pro-abortion politician that legalizing abortion increases its frequency is rare. Since Mexico City passed the Law of Legal Interruption of Pregnancy a little over a year ago, approximately 7,820 abortions have been carried out by city medical […]

Lawsuit: Young Pro-lifers Jailed, Shackled, Strip Searched for Peacefully Sharing Message by LifeSiteNews.com BALTIMORE, September 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alliance Defense Fund and allied attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Harford County, the town of Bel Air, and seven police officials on behalf of three young, pro-life women. At least a dozen police officers arrived in more than seven marked vehicles and then arrested, jailed, shackled, and/or strip searched 18 pro-life advocates, including the three women, after they held signs and shared their message along a public street. “The state shouldn’t persecute Christians for expressing their beliefs on important social […]

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Levi’s Places Pro-Homosexual “Marriage” Ribbon on New Jeans by LifeSiteNews.com SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Levi Strauss & Co., the jeans manufacturer that has long been a leader in corporate support for the homosexual activist movement, has come out with a new marketing scheme that may dupe consumers who buy their products into displaying support for same-sex “marriage.” Company owned stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco will be displaying their summer line-up of jeans and shirts adorned with “White Knots for Equality,” a symbol that denotes support for homosexual “marriage.” The symbol, a white […]

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Toronto Archbishop advises correction to erroneous D&P report

Canadian Conference of Bishops Says Two Bishops Will Lead Investigation into D&P Mexican Partners by LifeSiteNews.com April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following is a press release issued today by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the reports initiated by LifeSiteNews.com that Development and Peace, the official development arm of the bishops’ conference, has been funding pro-abortion groups in Mexico. While the original LifeSiteNews.com report mentioned only groups in Mexico, later reports have found evidence for D&P funding of pro-abortion and pro-contraception groups throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The text of the press release is as follows: The […]

Canadian Bishop Warns State Must Proscribe or Curtail Homosexuality, Adultery, Prostitution and Porn by LifeSiteNews.com CALGARY, January 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what is likely to be the most effective, and strongest letter ever issued by a Canadian Bishop in defence of traditional marriage, Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry is to release a pastoral letter this weekend which cuts to the heart of the debate. Bishop Henry, who recently courageously stood up to threats by Revenue Canada agents over his pre-election comments about the Prime Minister’s moral incoherence on abortion and same-sex unions, writes: “Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography undermine […]

Motherless Russia – Muslims and Chinese Vie For Huge Assets of Dying Nation by LifeSiteNews.com By Joseph A. D’Agostino FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, December 21, 2006 (pop.org) –”In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in a letter to a friend. Now, Russia suffers from a destructive poverty of a sort that she has not in a long time, of people, while she continues to groan under an increasing surfeit of social and domestic problems. Previous would-be conquerors of Russia such as Napoleon and Hitler […]

Many Priests, Laity and Some Bishops Misled by Development and Peace Misinformation by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen and Steve Jalsevac (with files from Patrick Craine) TORONTO, August 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The fallout from the tactics used by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) to ward off criticism of their funding of groups involved in abortion advocacy has misled many laity, priests and even some bishops in Canada. Even though the LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) reports have been taken seriously by bishops in Ontario, BC and elsewhere, several prominent clergy, believing the misinformation put out by D&P, have continued […]

San Francisco Castro District residents seek vengeance for vote on Proposition 8

Ben & Jerry’s Renames Ice Cream to Support Homosexual “Marriage” in Vermont by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BURLINGTON, Vermont, September 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has temporarily renamed their popular “Chubby Hubby” ice cream to “Hubby Hubby” to show the company’s support for the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in the state. On September 1 same-sex “marriages” began to be performed in Vermont after the state legally redefined marriage to include homosexuals last April. The repackaged ice cream tub features a caricature of two men getting “married” and will be available only in Vermont […]

Two Canadian Women Die from Use of Contraceptive Patch; Sixteen More Suffer Blood Clots by LifeSiteNews.com By John Connolly TORONTO, January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Canadian women have died and sixteen more have reported serious blood clotting in connection with the use of Evra, a hormonal contraceptive patch that releases estrogen directly into the bloodstream through the skin. Health Canada released safety information for the drug in late 2006, but the warnings about increased possibility of blood clots in the legs and lungs have not been enough to prevent women from using the patch. Two Canadian women who used […]

Ugandan Catholic Bishops Object to Punitive Emphasis in Controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine KAMPALA, Uganda, January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Bishops of Uganda have spoken out about the highly controversial anti-homosexuality bill that is currently before the nation’s Parliament. On behalf of the Uganda Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Cyprian K. Lwanga of Kampala writes that they support the government in its effort to uphold the natural family and traditional values, but they oppose certain of the harsher provisions in the bill, and believe that the current law against homosexuality is adequate. “The Catholic Church is […]

Socialist Sweden Moves to Ban Homeschooling for Religious or Philosophical Reasons by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White STOCKHOLM, August 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swedish Association for Home Education (ROHUS) is asking for support from the international community to stop an attempt by the Swedish government to outlaw homeschooling. The new legislation argues that because a child’s education should be “comprehensive and objective” it must be “designed so that all pupils can participate, regardless of what religious or philosophical” views of parents or children. The government’s explanation of the draft law says, “there is no need for the law to offer […]

Britain’s “Culture of Promiscuity” sees nearly 400,000 new STD Cases by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, England, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A “culture of promiscuity” has led to 397,990 new cases of sexually transmitted diseases in Britain, the highest number since record-keeping began thirty years ago, the Daily Mail reports. The Health Protection Agency that compiled the statistics noted that for most British young people, promiscuous sexual behaviour has become just “part of the territory” in day to day life. In their report released July 2, the HPA found that half the cases of infection could be found in […]

Toronto to Host 2014 Homosexual “World Pride” Event by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, October 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers of the homosexual festival known as World Pride announced yesterday that Toronto was chosen over Stockholm to host the 2014 event. “We are delighted to have been awarded this opportunity to bring the world to Toronto,” said Mark Singh, chair of the Toronto World Pride committee. “The advent of a festival like this is an opportunity to highlight the acceptance of the queer community by Canadians.” A delegation made up of officials of Tourism Toronto, the Toronto police, Toronto […]

Baby Faith Dies at 93 Days – Doctors Had Pressured Mother to Abort Anencephalic Daughter by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White MONCTON, May 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Myah Walker has described the time from her daughter’s birth up until this past Saturday, May 23, as the “best 93 days of my life.” Faith Hope Walker, the baby about whom LifeSiteNews had previously reported, passed away peacefully this weekend in the arms of her mother, a 23 year-old student living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Myah, who maintained a weblog of her daughter’s life, wrote on Saturday, “She looked up at me and […]

Sebelius Caught Underreporting Campaign Contributions from Notorious Abortionist: HHS Nomination May by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Washington career of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius may be in danger after it was revealed that the Health nominee reported only a fraction of her campaign contributions from Kansas’ late-term abortionist George Tiller. At least one GOP senator reportedly said the issue has raised doubts among Republican senators about the governor, a well-known champion of abortion that Obama picked to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). After the full senate confirmation vote […]

Moscow Mayor Calls “Gay Pride” Parade “Satanic” by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MOSCOW, January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov says that “gay pride” parades are “satanic” and promises to continue prohibiting them, according to international news reports. “For years Moscow has been confronted with unprecedented pressure to have a gay parade, which can only be described as a satanic act,” Luzhkov reportedly said to the Interfax news agency yesterday. “We are not authorizing such a parade at all and we are not going to authorize it in the future. We shouldn’t waste time with all of […]

Nude Britney Spears Statue is Anything But Pro-Life by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by John-Henry Westen Editor LifeSiteNews.com ‘As provocative as possible,’ seems an apt moniker for Britney Spears and for the recently unveiled statue of the pop star giving birth in the nude. The sculpture by Daniel Edwards depicts Spears in the highly unlikely birthing – but highly sexually provocative – position of crouching on all fours. The rub is that Edwards called his work ‘Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston’. Edwards sounds sincere in his proclamation that the sculpture is pro-life.”Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the […]

“Embryo-Friendly” Stem Cell Technique Defended with Bogus Ethics by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White WORCHESTER, Massachusetts, January 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts based Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) has claimed to have created five batches of stem cells using a method it called “ethical” and has called on President Bush to endorse their method. ACT, however, has a history of making spurious claims of ethical embryo research; the new method itself has already been denounced by pro-life groups. Dr. Robert Lanza, ACT’s scientific director, told the news agency Reuters that the method provides a way to create embryonic stem cells in quantity […]

CHINA BOASTS OF HUMAN CLONING AND HUMAN-RABBIT EMBRYOS by LifeSiteNews.com CHANGSHA, China, March 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Chinese scientists are claiming to have successfully cloned human embryos for research purposes since 1999. Professor Lu Guangxiu of the Xiangya Medical College, acknowledged as one of China’s foremost experts in the field, says she and her team of researchers were successful at cloning human embryos two years prior to the U.S. company, Advanced Cell Technology, which claimed to be the first to clone human embryos last year. The Wall Street Journal reports that while her research has not been published in a […]

Promiscuity Linked to Disability, Premature Death by LifeSiteNews.com ATLANTA, September 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The continuing push for explicit sex-ed programs in the US and abroad and the consequent rise in promiscuous sexual activity among youth has concerned organizations re-emphasizing the dangers that result from this phenomenon. One study being emphasized is a US Centers for Disease study which warned that the prevalence of sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the US is having a serious impact on the rates of disability and premature death. In the year studied, 1998, approximately 30,000 deaths were attributable to STD infections, most prevalently HIV/AIDS, […]

Commentary : Storm within Catholic Church in Canada over CCODP LifeSiteNews Report by LifeSiteNews.com By Steve Jalsevac March 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Our report last Thursday on the Canadian bishops’ Development and Peace organization funding groups involved in pro-abortion advocacy has caused a storm within the church in Canada. We have received a flood of emails about the report (too many for us to respond to) and have corresponded with a number of bishops about it. Let’s make a few things clear about this. First, we have not advocated that, because of this situation, readers withhold their contributions to Share […]

Abortion Pushing UN Population Fund has Record Number of Donors by LifeSiteNews.com By Terry Vanderheyden UNITED NATIONS, January 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abortion-promoting United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has reported a record number of contributors and contributions for 2005 – 171 countries sent the organization $142 million last year compared to $131 million from 166 countries in 2004. The Population Research Institute revealed in 2001 that the UNFPA formally cooperates with the Chinese Communist regime in their depopulation scheme of forced abortion and sterilization. The UNFPA, “under a program begun in 1998, operates family planning programs in 32 counties, […]

Legal Swingers Clubs Fuel Growth in Canadian Group Sex Activity by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, May 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More people are trying out group sex and partner swapping, said a report by the Canadian Press on Sunday, after last year’s Supreme Court decision to legalize swingers clubs in Canada. Operators of private clubs offering group sexual activity said they have seen a significant increase in participation over the five months since the Supreme Court said such activity was not indecent and did not constitute public harm. Aurora Ben Zion, who runs Toronto’s largest swingers club, claiming […]

Luxembourg Legalizes Euthanasia by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LUXEMBOURG, March 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Luxembourg has enacted legislation to legalise euthanasia, thereby becoming the third European country, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to permit the intentional killing of dying or otherwise vulnerable people. The Palliative Care/Euthanasia bill was published in the Official Journal on Tuesday and provides that doctors who carry out euthanasia and assisted suicides will not face “penal sanctions” or civil lawsuits. “This bill is not a permit to kill,” said Socialist lawmaker Lydie Err, who helped draft it. “It’s not a law for the parents or […]

Baby Named Faith Defies Doctor’s Predictions for Anencephaly and Thrives 6 Weeks after Birth by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White MONCTON, Canada, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 23 year-old single mother named Myah Walker has created a blog to record the first weeks of the life of her newborn daughter. Faith Hope Walker was born a little over six weeks ago and her mother’s blog features photos and videos of the child whom doctors predicted would not live more than a few minutes or hours after birth. Myah, a single mother and student living in Moncton, New Brunswick, writes that […]

Liberal Belgian Archbishop Likely to be Replaced by Orthodox “Conservative” by LifeSiteNews.com Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, January 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The notoriously liberal archbishop of Brussels, Godfried Danneels, has announced his retirement and rumors are circulating widely that his replacement will be a man known in the press as an “ultra-conservative” who strongly defends pro-family values and holds to the concept of a “non-negotiable” moral law. Danneels was well known as one of Europe’s leading figures in the Catholic Church’s post-1960s social and cultural revolution and was outspoken in his opposition to many Catholic teachings, highlighted most recently […]

Former Prime Minister Trudeau’s Son Praises Fidel Castro as “Something of a Superman” by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac Canada, August 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – To celebrate communist dictator Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday, this past Sunday the Star newspaper printed a lengthy piece by Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau, in which the young man lovingly describes the Cuban dictator as a benevolent disciplinarian father figure, calling him “something of a superman.” Castro, writes Trudeau, is “more in the vein of a great adventurer or a great scientific mind.””He lives to learn and to put his knowledge in the service of the revolution.” He […]

Dr. Mike Mahon hopes the university will change its policy, so pro-life students "do not expose individuals to images they do not wish to see."

“We are exercising our right to freedom of speech as set out in the Charter. For this city councillor to try to put limits on our expression would be to violate our Charter rights,” said Stephanie Gray, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR).

World Health Organization Classifies Contraceptives as Highly Carcinogenic by LifeSiteNews.com GENEVA, Switzerland, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A press release issued on July 29th of this year by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the little publicized classification of combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (OCs) as carcinogenic. The IARC placed the contraceptives into their Group 1 classification, the highest classification of carcinogenicity, used only “when there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans.” (emphasis theirs) Combined estrogen-progestogen OCs are the most commonly prescribed forms of contraceptives. According to the IARC […]

Judge in Case of Arrested Notre Dame Pro-Lifers is Married to Pro-Abortion ND Professor by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The attorney representing the pro-lifers arrested while protesting Obama at Notre Dame today repeated his request that the judge in the case, who is married to a pro-abortion Notre Dame professor, be removed from the case. Attorney Tom Dixon’s motion provides detailed support for his assertion in a previous recusal motion that there exists sufficient actual and perceived bias that Judge Jenny Pitts Manier, the judge assigned to the “ND 88” case, is […]

Spanish Magistrate Refuses to Perform Another Gay Marriage by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz DÉNIA, Spain, March 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish judge who refused to “marry” a homosexual couple this past summer has turned away another gay partnership. Magistrate Laura Alabau, who heads the Civil Registry in Dénia, lodged an appeal against Spain’s new gay ‘marriage’ law with the Constitutional Court last July, after refusing to accept a marriage application from a homosexual couple. The Constitutional Court rejected Alabau’s appeal in a ruling late last year, on the basis that the heads of Civil Registries performed an administrative function […]

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ALL President on Kennedy Funeral: “Beyond Anything I have Witnessed in 65 Years” by LifeSiteNews.com By Judie Brown, President, American Life League (ALL) September 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Each of us who believe in the justice and mercy of God are called, as an act of charity, to pray for the repose of the soul of the deceased. However, there are some rubrics of decorum that should – at the very least – have been respected over this past weekend. I speak, of course, of the grandiose funeral ceremonies, particularly the Catholic funeral Mass, for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The […]

Another UK Couple Rejected for Fostering Children over Religious Beliefs on Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White OAKWOOD, Derby, UK, February 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In November 2007, LifeSiteNews.com reported that a Christian couple in Somerset, UK, was being forced to retire from fostering needy children on conscientious grounds after the local council imposed rules requiring them to discuss homosexuality with the children. Now a similar case is reported in Derby, in which the local council is being sued after rejecting an application from a Christian couple to assist foster children under ten years old. The Telegraph reports that Eunice […]

How do Homosexual Couples Compare to Heterosexual? An Analysis by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Family Research Council has compiled a comparison of a typical homosexual couple’s lifestyle with that of heterosexual. The findings contradict much of mainstream media’s claim that same-sex couples do not differ in most respects from heterosexual couples. Author Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D., reveals that “‘committed’ homosexual relationships are radically different from married couples in several key respects: the duration of the relationship; monogamy v. promiscuity; relationship commitment; number of children being raised; health risks; and the rates of intimate partner violence.” Specifically, […]

Nov. 4, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) – After years of anti-abortion activists going undercover into the abortion business, it seems that pro-choicers wanted their turn at playing detective. Madeline Burrows, an actor and pro-abortion activist, spent a year of her life going undercover as a pro-life activist at a variety of right-to-life rallies and fundraisers, crisis pregnancy centers, and even the Students for Life of America Conference. When her year as a pro-lifer was up, Burrows set to work to create her play, MOM BABY GOD. Her intentions were to spark what she calls “much needed conversations” about the so-called attack on so-called reproductive rights. […]

McCain has disturbed pro-lifers by expressing his willingness to pick a pro-abortion running mate

BISHOP CHALLENGES ABORTION STANCE OF ‘CATHOLIC’ VP HOPEFUL RIDGE by LifeSiteNews.com ERIE, PA, July 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-abortion stance of Governor Tom Ridge, a likely candidate for US Vice President on the Bush ticket, is being challenged by his bishop, Bishop Donald Trautman. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bishop Trautman quoted a 1998 US Catholic Bishop’s document admonishing elected Catholics “to reflect on the grave contradiction of assuming public roles and presenting themselves as credible Catholics when their actions on fundamental issues of human life are not in agreement with Church teaching.” The paper reports that […]

Rome Forces Homosexual Activist Bishop Gumbleton to Resign by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz DETROIT, Michigan, January 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who is known as an activist for homosexuality in the Church, has handed in his resignation to the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to announce the resignation today. Bishop Gumbleton resisted mandatory retirement last year when he reached the age of 75, asking to continue on as Auxiliary Bishop to Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida. His request, given to the head of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Giovanni Re, was denied. “Some time ago he indicated […]

Growing opposition and flat sales trigger Gardasil manufacturer Merck stock sell-off

Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, and Other Ex-Presidents Slam Christian Churches for Not Ordaining Women by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen and Patrick B. Craine July 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A grouping of twelve ex-world leaders convened by billionaire Richard Branson and Nelson Mandela who refer to themselves as “The Elders” has attacked the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention and any other religious tradition that refuses to permit women to become ministers, priests, or bishops. In the media campaign for the new initiative, former US President Jimmy Carter notes that he left the Southern Baptists because women are “prohibited from serving […]

ACLU Demands Catholic Human Trafficking Rescue Efforts be De-Funded for not Administering Contracept by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, January 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the U.S. government for funding the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) initiative against human trafficking, because their services do not extend to contraception and abortion. The lawsuit, filed in a Boston court, claims that the USCCB is imposing its beliefs on taxpayers and victims of human trafficking by not using federal grant money to fund subcontractors providing condoms, the abortifacient morning-after pill, or abortions, all of which […]

Boulder Catholic Parish Attacked by Late-Term Abortionist for Burying Remains by LifeSiteNews.com BOULDER, January 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic parish in Boulder Co. has raised the fury of local abortionist, Dr. Warren Hern, for giving a Christian burial to the babies he aborts in his late-term abortion mill. The Church, Sacred Heart of Mary, has been burying the cremated remains of aborted babies since 1998. A local mortuary collects and cremates the remains and the Church buries them in front of a red granite Memorial Wall on which can be found notes from grieved mothers saying, “My beautiful baby, […]

Catholic University Presents “Sex-Tac-Toe” in Addition to Job Offers at Planned Parenthood by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen DETROIT, February 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) held an event for student Monday called “Sexapalooza”. The University which LifeSiteNews.com pointed out last week is directing its students to employment opportunities at the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, invited all students to join in “the 2nd annual Sexapalooza” billing it as “a free festival promoting abstinence and safe sex.” An advertisement for the event was posted prior to the event on the University website which read: “Come […]

Catholic University of Detroit Proposing Abortion Agencies as Career Opportunities for Students by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen DETROIT, Michigan, February 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Detroit Mercy claims it is a Catholic institution. Their web page says, “The University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), a Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions . . . seeks to integrate the intellectual, spiritual, ethical and social development of our students.” (https://www.udmercy.edu/mission/index.htm ) Nevertheless, the same “Catholic” University is encouraging its student’s to work with abortion agencies such as Planned Parenthood. Their career suggestions have not gone unnoticed and a local […]

"Just say NO to sex with pro-lifers" posted on professor's door

Pelosi Spin on Meeting With Pope Dramatically Different From Vatican Statement by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, February 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican Press Office released a note this morning detailing part of the conversation which Pope Benedict XVI had with Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Pelosi also released a statement on the meeting, which ignored the one and only crucial issue mentioned in the Vatican note. While Pelosi presented the meeting as a fully positive encounter, the Vatican indicated the Pope reminded her of the requirement of Catholic politicians to defend life. Also, […]

Doctor Says about “Brain Dead” Man Saved from Organ Harvesting – “Brain Death is Never Really Death” by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac OKLAHOMA, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 21-year-old Zack Dunlap, a man who was diagnosed as “brain dead” and who was mere minutes away from having his organs harvested, now says, four months after the accident that brought him to the brink of death, that he feels “pretty good.” Dunlap’s story was told in an NBC piece aired earlier this week, in which the young man himself was interviewed. While Zack’s case is being touted in the media as […]

Cuba’s New Leadership Opens Doors to Sodomy, “Sex Changes”, and Consumerism by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman HAVANA, March 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under Raul Casto, Cuba’s new socialist dictator, the country has recently permitted ordinary Cubans to own cell phones and other consumer electronics previously restricted to privileged groups and foreigners. Now it also appears to be rolling back its restrictions against aberrant sexual behavior as well. The impetus for the changes in Cuba’s policy towards homosexuals seems to be coming primarily from Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela Castro, who is the head of the National Center for Sex Education […]

ROMANIA SCAPS LAW AGAINST SODOMY AFTER PRESSURE FROM EUROPEAN UNION by LifeSiteNews.com BUCHAREST, January 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Romania has scrapped a law banning sodomy after the European Union made the removal of the law a condition of joining the EU. While the vast majority of the population was against the move, the government complied with the EU dictates. The Romanian Orthodox Church reacted negatively to the change in law noting that laws are needed to halt homosexual propaganda which is damaging to the family. The law also saw state funded counseling provided for those affected by the disorder. Bishop […]

French Government Seeks “Universal Decriminalization” of Sodomy by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman May 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The French government plans to use its upcoming presidency of the European Union to push for the universal decriminalization of sodomy, according to news reports. It has also announced its endorsement of the “International Day Against Homophobia” (IDAHO), a day that commemorates the World Health Organization’s decision to declassify homosexual orientation as a mental disorder in 1990. Controversy about the decision continues to exist among mental health professionals and others. According to the homosexualist website UK Gay News, the French government headed […]

Gallup: Majority of Americans say Abortion, Sodomy Morally Unacceptable by LifeSiteNews.com PRINCETON, NJ, June 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Gallup poll asking Americans their views on moral issues such as abortion, homosexuality, divorce, and premarital sex has revealed that a majority still believe sodomy and abortion to be morally unacceptable. Of the 1,000 adults polled, 54 percent said homosexual activity is immoral versus 42 percent who said it was okay, while 50 percent believe abortion is unacceptable, versus only 40 percent who believe it is a morally acceptable option. On other issues, 91 percent of Americans felt that extramarital affairs […]

Spanish Homosexuals File Criminal Charges Against Bishop for Condemning Sodomy by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman TENIRIFE, SPAIN, Janauary 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGT) has filed a criminal complaint against the Catholic bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez, for making statements against homosexual behavior and comparing it to child sexual abuse. Since making the statements in late December, Bishop Álvarez has been widely criticized throughout the mainstream Spanish media for reiterating the Catholic Church’s consistent teaching on the subject. After being asked “what is your opinion of homosexuality,” by the Spanish […]

United Nations Urges India to Legalize Sodomy by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman NEW DELHI, November 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A representative of the United Nations Organization is openly urging India to legalize sodomy in the midst of a trial over the constitutionality of its law prohibiting unnatural sexual behavior. Jeffrey O’Malley, director of the United Nation’s Development Program HIV/AIDS Group, claims that legalizing sodomy would “achieve better results regarding protection against AIDS” according to the French Press Agency (AFP). “Until we acknowledge these behaviors and work with people involved with these behaviors, we are not going to halt and […]

Judicial activism used to overturn legislation in yet another international jurisdiction

International organization, Human Rights Watch, has history of opposing human life and family legislation

German Cardinal Who Opposed Pope over Abortion Counselling Slammed by Colleague for Fostering Dissen by LifeSiteNews.com COLOGNE, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Breaking with the custom of diplomacy, a German cardinal has made some blunt accusations in a public forum against another leading German prelate. Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, known for his “conservative” views, has accused his colleague, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the Archbishop of Mainz of promoting a leftist, liberalized view of the Catholic faith according to England’s Catholic magazine, The Tablet. The article says, Cardinal Meisner, who will host the Pope and the youth of the world […]

Coalition of Catholic Groups Calls for Massive Reform of U.S. Bishops’ Social Justice Arm by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., October 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new coalition of Catholic pro-life organizations is calling for a massive reform of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) and urging Catholics to boycott the upcoming November collection. The CCHD is the domestic social justice arm of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and focuses on supporting groups that work in community organizing. They have been accused over many years of supporting radical left-wing groups who advocate a distorted […]

Obama Selecting the Most Anti-Life, Anti-Family Radicals He Can Find for Administration by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In light of further actual and rumored appointments, Obama’s future presidential administration is steadily emerging as a regime ominously packed with Obama insiders who promise to help roll out the carpet for the President-elect’s radical anti-life and anti-family agenda. Media outlets recently named Arizona governor Janet Napolitano as Obama’s probable choice for secretary of Homeland Security. An early Obama supporter and campaigner, Napolitano firmly established herself as an extreme abortion supporter by vetoing the partial birth […]

Announcement follows controversial decision to admit homosexuals into armed forces