Members of the US Congress are considering withholding money from the United Nations in response to the decision to kick the United States off the human rights commission while leaving Sudan on the panel. A planned amendment to State Department legislation, backed by Republican Representative Henry Hyde and Democratic Representative Tom Lantos, would protect a $582 million UN dues payment but withhold a final $244 million payment until the United States regains the Human Rights Commission seat it lost last week. https://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=71358
Fox News reports that laws against sodomy have been repealed in Arizona. https://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24289,00.html
The Omaha World Tribune reports that Nebraska taxpayers are going to pick up the legal tab for Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s Supreme Court challenge which struck down the ban on partial birth abortion. https://new.omaha.com/index.php?u_div=3&u_hdg=0&u_sid=98314
Four pro-abortion Congressmen have turned to Secretary of State Colin Powell for help in their effort to reverse President Bush’s Mexico City Policy barring US funds to overseas agencies that lobby for abortion. https://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/0,1068,500558961-500798664-504295080-0,00.html
Catholic News Service reports that at their June national meeting the U.S. Catholic bishops consider a liturgical proposal which would make each Jan. 22, the anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court abortion decisions, “a particular day of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person.” A Mass for Peace and Justice would be celebrated throughout the country that day, and if Jan. 22 is a Sunday, the liturgical observance would move to Jan. 23. The bishops will meet June 14-16 in Atlanta.