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ABORTION
Opposition to Morgentaler’s Order is wide and deep and intense – National Post Politics Editor
https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/07/03/kelly-mcparland-opposition-to-morgentaler-s-order-is-wide-and-deep-and-intense.aspx
Court affirms law calling unborn ‘living human beings’ – Ruling lifts Planned Parenthood injunction against South Dakota’s abortion statute
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68387
Woman gets year in jail for forging girl’s abortion parental notice
https://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jul08/Art_Jul08_12.html
A federal appeals court ruled that South Dakota can begin enforcing a law requiring doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life.
https://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/27/america/NA-GEN-US-Abortion-Lawsuit.php
Inconvenient Truth for MSM: Black Ministers March Against Planned Parenthood
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/06/30/inconvenient-truth-msm-black-ministers-march-against-planned-parenthoo
Improving neighborhoods by aborting children? Really?
https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2008/07/improving-neigh.html
Time Now Says Pregnancy Pact Really Anti-Abortion Pact
https://bostonist.com/2008/07/01/time_says_pregnancy_pact_really_ant.php
National Education Association Members to Speak Out on Union’s Pro-Abortion Policies
https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-01-2008/0004842566&EDATE=
One woman’s journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic
https://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10904
The advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn’t work very well – cohabiting teenagers using the Pill have a failure rate of almost 50%
https://www.townhall.com/columnists/JenniferRobackMorse/2008/06/30/now_you_tell_us
Wal-Mart Drops Planned Parenthood Promotion
https://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007731.cfm
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Has the world’s leading science journal abandoned the ideal of human dignity? Embyro experimentation ok’d
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/dignified_arguments/
French archbishop criticizes ‘rent-a-womb’ practice
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13105
Britain and Canada are well ahead in the race to make fatherhood completely redundant.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/the_new_improved_disposable_father/
ASSISTED SUICIDE
California attempt to institute backdoor assisted suicide via “palliative sedation” gets chopped up in committee
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/06/gutted-ab-2747-gets-chopped-up-in.html
Assisted Suicide Advocate Shows Ugly Truth of the Movement’s Ideology
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/07/assisted-suicide-adcocate-shows-ugly.html
U.S. POLITICS
The Wars of Religion Return by Patrick J. Buchanan
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27282#continueA
James Dobson and Obama’s Theory of Abortion Relativity
https://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/james_dobson_and_obamas_theory.html
CNN’s Costello Omits Part of the Story About Obama’s Radical Abortion Votes
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/07/01/cnn-s-costello-omits-part-story-about-obama-s-radical-abortion-votes
Infanticide is becoming a touchy subject for Barack Obama – by Deal W. Hudson
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3989&Itemid=48
Obama’s Global Tax Bill Coming Soon
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/obamas_global_tax_bill_coming.html
Mrs. Obama Reaffirms Husband’s Support to Gay Community
https://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/mrs-obama-reaff.html
Obama rejects proposed California gay marriage ban
https://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1051404.html
Barack Obama rejecting our values 100% of the time
https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68394
Obama’s biggest lie about supporting infanticide
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68556
If conservative politicians in the United States wish to connect their politics with conservative religion (and why shouldn’t they?), they should at least take the trouble to become religiously informed.
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3987&Itemid=48
Can gay marriage save the GOP again? By GARY L. BAUER
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11450.html
Conservatives may not be enamored of John McCain, but on a subject that is near and dear to their hearts—legal philosophy and judicial appointments—they are finding a lot to like about the Arizona senator.
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11413.html
FAMILY LIFE
Instead of supporting the family, many governments are usurping its prerogatives
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/who_needs_a_family_when_youve_got_a_government/
Teenagers aren’t ready to be parents. Their parents would tell them this — if the government would let them.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDkyN2JmZDI5MjQzNTFlOWEzOTI0ZWFjN2I5ZDk4Zjk=
An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party. The boy’s school says he has violated the children’s rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7479758.stm
RELIGION
Power in the Pulpit halls of the Capitol were lined with clergy leaders who held up signs thanking Senators for supporting traditional marriage.
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/15441/FIELD/family/index.htm
Neopaganism growing quickly
https://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_9695062?source=commented-news
Most Catholic bishops “hate confrontation.” This goes a long way toward explaining their reluctance to discipline predatory priests
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=0608-notes-hammer
‘Religion in private’ OK, declares ACLU – New limits on Christians leave family groups reeling
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68060
“The Pope Does Not Put On Prada, But Christ”
https://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/205488?eng=y
After decades of repression and marginalization, Christianity rises rapidly in China
https://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/world/story/16b2d416da587c328625747700062b60?OpenDocument
Expanding the Evangelical Tent: Revisiting the Evangelical Manifesto
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/15439/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm
More than 1,300 clergy have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying they will defect from the Church of England if women are consecrated as bishops.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030577/1-300-clergy-threaten-defect-women-bishops-row.html
San Diego minister seeks to unite churches in prayer and fasting as part of marriage amendment campaign, but so far few Catholic parishes have signed up to “Largest grass-roots campaign in California history”
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=41652424-92e6-44ea-b3b7-3c1080fdb60e
India’s Moderate Muslims See Peril In Growth of Stricter Form of Islam
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062801101.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
GLOBAL WARMING, POPULATION CONTROL, RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
State frees teachers to criticize evolution – Global warming, origins of life, cloning also may be scrutinized
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68149
Hansen is out of control. NASA employees aren’t supposed to call for tax hikes, endorse candidates, or attack businessmen
he’s a single, scientific outlier, terrorizing the American people.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjQ2YTllODZiOTA0N2E2MTIzODQwNjUzMjQwYjI2MDI=&w=MQ==
Global Warming as Mass Neurosis – Take just about any other discredited leftist nostrum of yore – population control, higher taxes, a vast new regulatory regime, global economic redistribution, an enhanced role for the United Nations – and global warming provides a justification.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB121486841811817591.html?mod=todays_columnists
Human Sacrifice on the Altar of Gaia – When the leaders of the Culture of Death look at us, they see a plague of alien creatures infesting an imagined divinity. Hitler was a vegetarian for whom animals had intrinsic value, so much so that he wanted to send to concentration camps anyone who mistreated them. Population growth is the “root of our problem.”
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/reviews.jsp?did=0608-gardiner
It Pays to be a Eugenicist – Wesley Smith
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/07/it-pays-to-be-eugenicist.html
It isn’t about science, it is about ideology and the destruction of Judeo/Christian moral philosophy. And it must be stopped. More “Anti-Science” McCarthyism by Wesley Smith
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/06/more-anti-science-mccarthyism.html
A Dying Breed? As the birthrate in European countries drops well below the “replacement rate” the declining population will first be felt in the playgrounds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?_r=1&ex=1372&oref=slogin
“Ape Rights:” Not Taking it Seriously is Precisely the Wrong Approach – Wesley Smith
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/06/ape-rights-not-taking-it-seriously-is.html
A huge point about what is wrong with animal rights in general and the GAP in specific is that once you grant animals rights, it destroys human rights Wesley Smith
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/07/saletan-on-gap.html
HOMOSEXUALITY
A Weakened Pro-Family Movement. The homosexual community has an agenda. It plans to hit the ground running. The pro-family community is mostly on the defensive. The homosexual community at this stage very much reminds me of the emerging pro-family community in 1980 – By Paul M. Weyrich
https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080701.aspx
Bush’s Embattled AIDS Bill – Serious Concerns Raised Over Use of Funds
https://www.zenit.org/article-23057?l=english
Pro-Homosexual Researchers Conceal Findings Relevant to Same-Sex Marriage Debate: Openly Homosexual Parents Influence Sexuality of Children
https://christiannewswire.com/news/61467050.html
A special graveyard has been opened for Danish homosexuals in Copenhagen
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0608-news
New EU report says tougher laws needed to fight homophobia, urges equal treatment for gays
https://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/01/europe/EU-Europe-Homophobia.php
MISCELLANEOUS
Growing modesty movement shows teens they can be stylish without revealing too much
https://www.kansascity.com/433/story/685421.html
Media Silent on Far-Left Anti-Abstinence Alliance – The ACLU and Planned Parenthood are teaming up to take down federally funded abstinence education.
https://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2008/20080630171526.aspx
Canadian Health Care System Also a Mess – Wesley Smith
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/06/canadian-health-care-system-also-mess.html
The Girl Scouts’ new radicalism
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=160368
Yorktown University – an internet university which would teach traditional economic and cultural ideas. This is a dream come true for many By Paul M. Weyrich
https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080626.aspx
AP Supreme Court Reporter Shamefully Suggests Child Rapist Was Innocent
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/jason-aslinger/2008/06/26/ap-supreme-court-reporter-shamefully-suggests-child-rapist-was-innoc
Democratic Politician Promises to ‘Rip Apart’ Child Rape Victims; Mainstream Media Silent
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/06/26/democratic-politician-promises-rip-apart-child-rape-victims-msm-sil