NORTH IRELAND FERTILITY RATE AT LOWEST EVER – 1.74 FOR YEAR 2000 https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2050000/2050270.stm LESBIAN ACTIVIST TENNIS STAR MARTINA NAVRATILOVA WANTS TO ADOPT A CHILD https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/18/wmart18.xml PORN SCANDAL AT CATHOLIC CHILDREN’S AID TORONTO The Catholic Children’s Aid Society fired five staff, four of them women, and disciplined 32 others, for exchanging online pornography. Most were support staff not directly engaged in serving area youth and their families – but six supervisors and seven child-protection workers were implicated. https://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1022100185558&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News “CATHOLIC” UK SUPERMARKET BOSS SILENT ON MORNING-AFTER PILL SALES The chief executive of Tesco, a major British supermarket chain, has refused comment on the provision of abortifacient morning-after pills from Tesco supermarkets. A spokesman for Sir Terry Leahy, who is a Catholic, said that he had no plans either to make a statement or to take any action on the subject. Meanwhile, a community of Franciscan friars in Woodford Green, Essex, have sold their investment of £50,000 in Tesco shares in protest the supermarket chain’s involvement in dispensing abortion-inducing drugs. https://www.totalcatholic.com/News.asp?Action=View&ID=8EF4A13CCEAD49D4A9764167F8278B53&GroupID=FB5C0F4DAE0C41EF9A7AD5C0B69108C8
LIBERAL COLUMNIST SAYS “NEUTRALITY” MEANS INCLUDING RELIGION Andy Lamey, a liberal National Post columnist, says including homosexual books but not religious books is not a “neutral” position, as some claim. In fact, the logic of liberalism requires that if pro-homosexual material is to be used in schools over parents’ objections, then religious material construed as anti-homosexual must also be allowed. One option, he says, is “allowing religion a greater role in public schools than we do now,” in order to avoid a growing exodus toward home-schooling as in the United States—a phenomenon that defeats the purpose of public liberal education. https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id={B20B094C-3B27-4D5F-B1F9-EB960608CCFE}