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Poll Reveals More than Two-thirds of Massachusetts Voters Want Vote on Marriage

NEWTON, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a new Zogby International poll, 69% of likely voters in Massachusetts want to vote on a constitutional amendment to keep Massachusetts a traditional marriage state, the Coalition for Marriage announced today. These findings indicate a trend in favour of one man, one woman marriage since the United State Supreme Court’s July decision legalizing sodomy, and since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision on November 18 redefining marriage. The poll, conducted between December 16-18, found that 52% vs. 42% agreed that only marriage between one man and one woman should be legal and […]
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Homosexual Activists Sue Catholic Cardinal in Spain over Sermon

MADRID, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish homosexual activist group Popular Gay Platform has launched a lawsuit against Spanish Catholic Primate Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela for a sermon he gave in the Madrid Cathedral on the Sunday after Christmas – the feast of the Holy Family. In his sermon the Cardinal explained that to provide the benefits of marriage to “all types of unions, including those by nature unable to have children, will result in the systematic destruction of the social security system.” He said social security is best served by “the fecund love of the Christian family.”  […]
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School Sex-Ed Policy to “Promote Abstinence Until Marriage as the Expected Standard”

WAKE COUNTY, NC, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Wake county school board members voted Tuesday to revise the current sex-education policy there.  “Comprehensive” sex-ed electives were dropped from the curriculum of high schools in the district, in favour of a revised “abstinence until marriage” message.  The revision is a mandatory requirement for all teachers to “promote abstinence until marriage as the expected standard for all students.”  Supporters of the new policy say that the new message is about more than just saying no to sex.  It also educates students about sexually transmitted diseases and the “effectiveness and failure rates of […]
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Court Rules Fired HP Employee not Victim of Religious Discrimination

SAN FRANCISCO, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Hewlett-Packard acted within its rights when firing an employee who posted bible quotes in his cubicle that referred to homosexuality.  The employee, Richard Peterson, who worked in the customer support division in Boise, Idaho, posted the verses as a statement in protest of the company policy on homosexuality. HP implemented a diversity policy in 2000 by using posters that compare homosexual lifestyles with ethnicity in its effort to promote the homosexual lifestyle as an expression of “diversity” in the workplace.  One such poster was located near […]
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Sixteenth Annual “Year’s Worst Reporting” Awards Now Out

WASHINGTON, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Media Research Centre has released it’s sixteenth annual “year’s worst reporting” awards for 2003 – a compilation of the year’s most outrageous and/or humorous stories.  A panel of 46 columnists, radio talk show hosts, magazine editors and writers selected their top three choices for a range of five to eight quotes in each category.  The 46 panelists also chose a “quote of the year” from among all the choices offered.  Some samplings of the categories and awards: 1st runner up in the “Damn Those Conservatives Award” went to CBS’s Vince Gonzales who wrote […]
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Campaign Life Coalition Toronto Announces Catholic Clergy Luncheons

TORONTO, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition Toronto will be hosting two luncheons for Catholic clergy this month. Fr. Ted Colleton has sent a letter inviting Toronto and area clergy to attend either or both of the events: 1. Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 1:00 PM at St. Lawrence the Martyr Church    Speaker will be Tom Wappel, M.P. (Liberal -Scarborough South West)  (2210 Lawrence Ave. East in Scarborough west of Kennedy)   2. Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 1:00 PM at St. Clements Church Speaker will be Paul Szabo, M.P. (Liberal – Mississauga South)  (409 Markland Drive […]
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Washington Cardinal Ends Catholic University’s Use of Aborted Fetal Cell Lines

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life victory was realized in the last few weeks of the year when Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick wrote a pro-life group December 15 to assure them that a “problem” at a Catholic University “has been resolved.”  Children of God for Life Director Debra Vinnedge told LifeSiteNews.com that last fall she wrote the Cardinal asking him to stop Georgetown University – a Catholic institution – from using aborted fetal cell lines.  Children of God for Life, which concentrates on the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccines, discovered that Georgetown University’s Medical Research […]
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‘Theology of the Body’ Reveals Why Sex is Central to the Culture War

OTTAWA, January 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famous modern philosopher Peter Kreeft has often brought to awareness that much of the culture wars centre around sex. Abortion, contraception, pornography, prostitution, divorce, homosexuality, promiscuity, adultery, sex education, and more of the most common fronts in the culture war revolve around sex.  Christopher West, a professor of sexual ethics in the St. John Vianney Seminary in Chicago and visiting professor of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Australia campus, has presented a compelling explanation for the attack on God-given sex.  West is a world-renowned expert on the “Theology […]
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Nine Hungarian Hospitals Agree to Halt Abortions on National Holidays

BUDAPEST, January 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life efforts in Hungary have led directors and ob/gyn departments at nine hospitals to agree to not to perform abortions on three new national holidays: March, 25th (Day of the Unborn Child), June, 1st (International Day of Life by UN) and on December, 28th (Feast of Holy Innocents).  The concession comes after the largest pro-life group in the country, Alpha Alliance for Protecting Unborn, Newborn Babies, Children and Families in cooperation with the U.S.-based Helpers of God’s Precious Infants and 18 other pro-life organizations held a 400-strong pro-life procession and prayer vigil in Budapest […]
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Priests for Life announces “National Christian Voter Registration Sundays” for 2004

NEW YORK, January 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Priests for Life has announced “National Christian Voter Registration Sundays” for 2004. The effort to register voters at Catholic parishes nationwide is one part of the organization’s overall strategy for the election year.  The dates for Voter Registration Sundays are Jan. 18, March 7, May 2, July 4, and Sept. 5. The exact process is described on Priests for Life's website. Other Christian organizations are joining in the effort as well, and Priests for Life is urging that drives be conducted on a statewide and diocesan level, as was recently done in a […]
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