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Woman Jailed
for Abortion Counseling in Toronto
Acquitted, Set Free
By John Jalsevac
July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Mary Wagner, the young woman who was jailed earlier this year
for entering an abortion clinic and counseling women and abortion
workers, has been acquitted of all charges and freed from jail.
[More]
UVic
anti-abortion group gets funding back
Postmedia
News July 20, 2010
The
University of Victoria has restored its funding to
an anti-abortion group after members filed a
lawsuit. [More]
Pro-life Bishop
Assassinated and Pro-life Offices
Bombed in Apparent Attempt to Promote Baby-Killing laws in Kenya
[Note
the apparent thinly-veiled threat of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden
to withhold funding if abortion is not allowed.]
Human Life International, E-Mail
July 8, 2010
A battle is raging in Kenya over the
inclusion of abortion in the new draft of the constitution, which
will be voted on August 4, 2010. If the draft is ratified,
abortion will be allowed by a loophole in the new constitution's
wording. [More]
New Link: to
the Hman Life Alliance Website
Please note a new
link we have provided in the column to the far right. It
links to the website of the Human Life Alliance: a valuabe
source of informatin on life issues.
Harper
Credited for Keeping Abortion
Out of G8 Maternal Health Plan
By Patrick B. Craine
HUNTSVILLE, Ontario, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- At the G8 meetings in Muskoka on June 25-26, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper seems to have held true to his commitment to not
fund abortion as part of his "signature initiative" on
maternal and child health, but at the same time he endorsed a plan
that includes funds for "family planning."
[More]
News
Release:
University
of Calgary Students' Union Withdraws Complaint Against Campus
Pro-Life
Date: Thu, Jun 24,
2010 at 7:20 AM
Subject: For Immediate Release: U of C Students' Union Withdraws Complaint
Againstnd Campus Pro-Life
JUNE 24th, 2010: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOTES
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY STUDENTS’ UNION WITHDRAWS COMPLAINT AGAINST CAMPUS
PRO-LIFE
CALGARY – The University of Calgary Students’ Union Review Board has
formally withdrawn its complaint against the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group
in relation to a pro-life display held on campus each semester. On February 10,
2009, the Students’ Union Clubs Committee resolved that Campus Pro-Life lose
its status as a sanctioned club.
“From the start, we always questioned which policy or bylaw we broke and never
received an answer,” stated new CPL president Alanna Campbell. “Through this
decision, the current executive of the Students’ Union has finally
demonstrated a commitment to quality and intellectual freedom.” [More]
New
Grassroots Group Calls Quebecers to Action against Euthanasia
June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– A new grassroots group in Quebec is urging Quebecers to
join the campaign to stop euthanasia and assisted suicide from
being “smuggled” into the public health care system under the
guise of medical treatment.
[More]
[Note: A link to the website of this organization has been
posted in the right-hand margin of this BCPTL website's pages.]
Quebec
Jesuit school wins right
to teach ethics from religious perspective
Judge rules Quebec was
‘totalitarian’ in trying to impose secular approach to Roman
Catholic ethics instruction; Charest says government will appeal
[More]
C-FAM,
June 24, 2010:
US Administration
Launches All-Out International Homosexual “Rights” Offensive
By Terrence
McKeegan, J.D.
WASHINGTON DC, June 24th
(C-FAM) United States (US) Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton addressed a reception at the State Department, proclaiming
that “human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human
rights, once and for all.” The reception celebrated
“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month,” as was
officially proclaimed
by President Barack Obama for the month of June, and follows a
recent incident at the United Nations (UN) where U.S.
representatives made loud demands for immediate action on
accrediting a homosexual “rights” group to the Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC). [More]
Obama Inserts Gay Dads
into Father’s Day Proclamation
By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– In his fathers’
day proclamation President Barack Obama made what pro-family
leaders have said were a number of praiseworthy statements about
fatherhood and the importance of fathers in the lives of their
children. At the same time, the president drew sharp criticism for
using the proclamation as an opportunity to show his support for
homosexual parenting.
“An active, committed father makes a lasting difference in
the life of a child. When fathers are not present, their
children and families cope with an absence government cannot
fill,” stated Obama, whose own father was conspicuously absent
for most of his childhood.
However, the president then made his plug for homosexual
families as normative.
“Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be
raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a
step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian,” he said.
The carefully downplayed, but unprecedented remark drew sharp
criticism from pro-family leaders. [More]
LaBarbera: Obama 'Gays
Down' Father's Day by Extolling 'Two Fathers' as a Nurturing Family
News Release
Americans For Truth About
Homosexuality
June 21, 2010
. . .
CAROL STREAM, Illinois — Americans For Truth About
Homosexuality (AFTAH) President Peter LaBarbera today condemned President
Barack Obama for “gaying down” the noble institution
of fatherhood by extolling “nurturing families” with “two
fathers” in his Father’s Day proclamation yesterday.
. . ..
“If an adult man chooses to embrace homosexuality, that’s one
thing. But two men imposing their homosexual lifestyle on an
innocent, impressionable child — thus intentionally denying that
child a mother — is something quite different. Shame on Obama
for ‘gaying down’ the noble institution of fatherhood to
appease his homosexual activist supporters.”
ng
Child
President Obama Proclaims
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
We in Canada may have largely
missed the import of the proclamation by President Obama of June,
2010, as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride
Month" in the United States. The proclamation is a very
open declaration of Obama's plans to further the goals of
activists in those communities. [More]
ren Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual
Behav
Young
Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual
Behaviour"
"
By Hilary White
LONDON, June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- A U.K. government report has described as "worrying"
the discovery that children in the youngest grades of primary
school are being removed from class for "inappropriate sexual
behaviour." According to the Office for Standards in
Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), 14 out of the
69 schools surveyed had related problems with children as young as
four acting out. [More]
Sharp Rise in Repeat
Abortions in England and Wales:
Values-Free Sex Ed Blamed
By Hilary White, June 14, 2010
LONDON, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– New figures showing a rise in the number of multiple abortions
among younger women have prompted criticisms of government sex
education policies.
A Christian doctor’s group called the statistics
“profoundly depressing,” and blamed the government’s
longstanding “values-free” sex education. [More]
Sharp
Growth in Dutch Euthanasia Deaths
Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Chairman, Euthanasia Prevention
Coalition
June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The Netherlands' 2009 euthanasia statistics were reported
today in the Dutch media. The number of euthanasia deaths in the
Netherlands has been significantly increasing on a yearly
basis. The most recent report suggests that there were 2636
reported euthanasia deaths, a 13% increase over the 2008
statistics. [More]
Closing
Arguments in Historic Marriage Challenge Begin [in California]
CitizenLink, June 16, 2010
by Catherine Snow, managing editor
After a five-month hiatus, closing arguments in
Perry v. Schwarzenegger – the challenge to California's
Proposition 8 marriage amendment – began today in U.S. District
Court in San Francisco.
In 2008, the California Supreme Court ordered same-sex
marriage. In November of that year, more than seven million
Californians cast their votes in favor of Prop 8 to defend
marriage. The outcome was immediately challenged in federal
court.
[Read
more.]
Tuesday
June 15, 2010
GOP House Leader Asks
Obama: ‘What Happened to that Abortion Executive Order?’
By John Jalsevac
June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– In a meeting with President Obama last week, House Republican
Leader John Boehner asked for an update about the implementation
of the president’s Executive Order (EO), which purports to block
abortion funding in the federal health care bill.
The EO was offered by Obama during 11th hour negotiations prior
to the final vote on ObamaCare. It proved to be the carrot that
convinced Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak and his cadre of pro-life
Democrats to cast their crucial votes in favor of the
controversial legislation.
But
as Boehner staffer Kevin Boland explained on Boehner’s official
blog last week: “Abortion opponents widely viewed the EO as a
disingenuous maneuver made by the Administration in the final
hours of the health care fight to buy off ‘pro-life’ Democrats
instead of passing the anti-abortion Stupak amendment, which would
have prevented federal subsidies for abortion under ObamaCare.”
In fact, the EO was almost universally condemned as woefully
inadequate by pro-life groups. These sentiments were confirmed
when Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards issued a
statement celebrating the passage of the health care bill and
illustrating the abortion-related executive order as a merely "symbolic
gesture."
Now there are concerns that whatever meaningful provisions the
order does contain may not be implemented in a timely fashion, or
at all. [More]
Williams Lake
school district restricts anti-homophobia events
The president of the Williams Lake Gay Straight Alliance says
she’ll risk suspension later this week in protest of School
District 27 canceling an anti-homophobia event planned for this
week at Columneetza Secondary School.
Lexi Saffel says she will participate in a gender bender day
Friday, where students had been invited to dress as a member of
the opposite sex. . . . . [More]
Factfinder
to Examine BC College of Teachers
Janet
Steffenhagen in "Report Card," Vancouver Sun, May
18, 2010
Education Minister
Margaret MacDiarmid has appointed lawyer Don
Avison as a fact finder to investigate complaints about
the BC College of Teachers.
She
really had no choice, given the number of organizations that have
lined up behind the 11 college councillors calling for an
investigation. . . . [More]
An
Open Letter to the Attorney General of Ontario from Gordon
Truscott [Regarding
Linda Gibbons]
[by
Gordon Truscott]
.
. . .
Linda Gibbons has saved over 100 human lives from
Canada's unborn baby slaughterhouse, many of these children of
course, totally unaware of their debt to her. She simply spoke
one-on-one with their mothers, explaining that if the mother would
consent to give birth that she would not have to bear the guilt
that Linda does. She tells women what their doctors have usually
not told them -- about the complications they might experience
after their abortion -- but only to those women willing to give
Linda the time to speak. Linda's crime, for which she is in
prison, is telling the known and scientifically documented
emotional, mental and physical truth of abortion complications.
. . . .
When
I published my book in 2000, a police officer stated that Linda
had already spent more time in prison for her peaceful witness
than a person who uses a gun to hold up a variety store. Linda,
who has never so much as frowned at a woman contemplating an
abortion, let alone blocked her way, has now spent more than seven
years in maximum security prisons. [Read
the whole letter.]
How motherhood
stopped being a motherhood issue
Father Raymond J. de Souza, National
Post Published: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Motherhood issues are not what they used to
be. When Stephen Harper selected maternal and infant health as
Canada's signature issue for next month's G8 and G20 meetings,
he likely thought it about as controversial as maple syrup.
After all, who could be against providing basic hygiene and
health care to pregnant women and their babies? For lack of
basic medicines and primary health care, women in many poor
countries suffer needlessly, as do their infant children.
Maternal deaths in childbirth and reductions in infant mortality
are among the easiest developmental issues to tackle; a
relatively small investment yields significant reductions in
lives lost.
So how did such an apparent motherhood issue
become mixed up in abortion politics? After all, abortion does
not figure to make much of a contribution to maternal and infant
health. Abortion is never in the health interest of the infant,
after all; and whatever the position taken on abortion, it
clearly is not a fruitful path to motherhood. So to fund
abortion as a part of a maternal and infant health package is
rather like funding smoking as part of a cancer prevention
initiative -- the two just don't go together. [More]
Religion
in the public square
Freedom
of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion—we should hear
all voices on issues that shape society's values
By Margaret Somerville, the Ottawa
Citizen, May 15, 2010
If
you've paid any attention to the media over the last week -- for
instance, regarding whether the G8 "maternal and infant
health initiative" should include abortion, or The Current's
and The National's programs on CBC that focused on Marci
McDonald's new book, The Armageddon Factor, that raises alarm
about the rise in political power and influence of the
"Canadian religious right" -- you'll find this
secularist truism espoused both front, centre and behind the
scenes: Religion and religious voices and views have no valid role
to play in the public square. Indeed, many secularists are openly
hostile to any such participation. But are they correct? [More]
British
Columbia March for Life 2010
Victoria
March for Life 2010 draws estimated thousands.
Organizers estimate
that at least 2500 people came out to take part in the 3rd annual
BC March for Life in Victoria on May 13, 2010.
Marchers of many ages and ethnic groups streamed down Government
Street to the Legislative Buildings on a brilliant afternoon,
attracting stares from pedestrians, cat calls from anti-life
onlookers, and thumbs-up from supporters. [More]
[adapted from a Kelowna Right to Life article]
Pictures
of the 2010 March for Life and Rally Taken for BC Parents and
Teachers for Life
Calgary
U Finds Pro-Life Students Guilty over Display
CALGARY, Alberta, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eight
members of the University of Calgary's pro-life club, Campus
Pro-Life (CPL), have been found guilty after closed-door hearings
late last month over their presentation of a pro-life display on
campus, says the group.
U of C's Acting Associate Vice-Provost Meghan Houghton told the
students that she was issuing “a formal written warning” that
if the students “fail to comply with directives of Campus
Security staff in the future” it will “result in more severe
sanctions.” Houghton conducted the hearings, at which the
students were denied legal representation, and was the sole
decision-maker in the guilty verdict. [More]
Black hole
By Bishop Fred Henry, Calgary Herald,
May 13, 2010
. . . Would someone associated with the U of C officially
explain the reasoning as to how and/or why censoring the
peaceful expression of opinion on campus is one of the duties of
campus security? . . . . [More]
Regional
Marches for Life Set to Go Across Canada
- Complete List
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- More and larger Marches for Life are taking place in cities
across Canada this year to coincide with the annual National March
for Life in Ottawa on May 13.
Intended for those who want to make a pro-life statement but do
not have the time or resources to make the trek to Ottawa, these
regional marches take place in nearly every province and, like the
National March for Life, have seen an increase in participation
every year. [More -- the
complete list]
British
Columbia--Details of March from Pro-Life Calendar:
WESTERN
CANADA MARCH FOR LIFE in Victoria. Mass at St. Andrew’s
Cathedral 12:00 p.m., followed at 2:00 p.m. by March from
Centennial Square to Legislature. Speakers will include Most
Reverend J. Michael Miller, Archbishop of Vancouver, Jose Ruba,
co-founder of the Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Minerva
Macapagal, president of Capilano University pro-life club
“Heartbeat”, Rev. Dr. Robert Fitterer, author and pastor of
Emmanuel Baptist Church in Victoria, and others.
A Letter
of Concern Regarding the Proposal to Redesign the Teacher
Educdation Program
(from a University of British Columbia Professor Emeritus)
[April, 2010]
". . . I wish to express my
concerns regarding the UBC Faculty of Education proposal to
significantly redesign the Teacher Education Program to ensure
that in every class, “Social Justice and Diversity Issues”
will be discussed. On the surface, “Social Justice” would
appear to be a concept which would have the support of all well
meaning people. At the same time, we are all too familiar with the
insidiousness of words which can be abused to gain approval of the
general population, clouding the true intentions of the abusers.
Can we precisely define “social justice”? I think not.
Different people have different views of what is right and what is
wrong and therefore what constitutes social justice. Which
interpretations of social justice will serve as the foundation of
the new teacher education proposal, “CREATE” (Community to
Re-Imagine Educational Alternatives for Teacher Education)? Will
teacher educators be forced to promote conceptions of social
justice as defined and dictated by administrators whose
interpretations of social justice may be contrary to perceptions
of social justice of classroom educators?" [More]
Lorne Gunter
on Hedy Fry: Willing to debate anyone who agrees with her on
abortion
My friend and colleague, David Frum, once wrote that liberals
all claim to be in favour of lively debate and free speech, then
are constantly surprised when anyone takes these claims at face
value. So convinced are liberals of the wisdom of their own
positions, they cannot conceive how other intelligent people would
disagree with them, thus their belief that the major topics of the
day are all "settled."
They're in favour of free speech and vigorous debate because
they're sure they will never be challenged. Case in point:
Vancouver Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry. [More]
[See
also: a press release and
an open letter to Hedy Fry challenging her to a debate--from
Stephanie Gray.]
The
truth about abortion polling
[April 6, 2010].
Brian Lilley
. . . . So if we put all four polls together
what we find is that Canadians likely find abortion to be morally
wrong, something they think should be restricted at some point
before birth, something that should receive limited public
financing, something that should remain legal and a true hot
button issue as to whether Canada should fund abortions overseas.
What we currently have in Canada or have had is a policy that is
completely different. Abortion is legal right up until the point
that the baby takes its own breath, independent of the mother . .
. . [More]
REAL
Women of Canada Alert Re G-8 Summit to be Held in Ontario June
25th & 26th, 2010
May
4, 2010
A L E R T
G-8 Summit
Huntsville, Ontario
June 25-26, 2010
Maternal Health Care Proposal
REAL
Women would be grateful if you could be of assistance in regard to
the upcoming G-8 Summit which is to be held in Huntsville, Ontario
on June 25th and June 26th, 2010. [More--See
how to help.]
A
Press Release on a Freedom of Information Request
(press release received
May 3, 2010)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BC
Abortion Hospitals seek to de-rail FOI inquiry
Two BC hospital, Vancouver
General and Kelowna General, have applied to stop a freedom of
information inquiry. These two public bodies have applied for a
Section 56 exemption to FOI rules.
After the hospitals
refused their request last year, citing Bill 21, John Hof and his
colleague Ted Gerk initiated applications for access to the
information through the BC Office of Information and Privacy
Commissioner. They are using a 'public interest override' clause
in the privacy legislation, arguing that the release of the
information is in the public interest and should not be withheld.
[More]
Quebec
Parents to Take Mandatory Relativistic Ethics Course
to Supreme Court
MONTREAL,
Quebec, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The Drummondville couple who requested that their children be
exempted from Quebec's new program in relativism, Ethics and
Religious Culture (ERC), have decided to take their case to the
Supreme Court of Canada following the February decision of the
Quebec Court of Appeal to
deny their appeal.
The
parents are being supported in this effort by the Coalition for
Freedom in Education (CLE), who praised the family Wednesday for
their “principled and courageous” fight for the authentic
education of children. Sylvain Lamontagne, CLE's president,
declared that "as far as the parents are concerned, this
curriculum trivializes their religion and moral values and
treat[s] them as no more important or true as any other.”
[More]
Apr.
28, 2010
James
Keller, THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER, B.C. - British Columbia's
education minister says she is looking into allegations by a
Vancouver teacher who claims she was sent home from her job at a
Catholic school because of her sexual orientation.
Lisa Reimer alleges the principal at Little
Flower Academy told her to stay home for the remainder of the
school year, when her current contract expires, after parents
complained about the fact that her lesbian partner recently had
a baby. [More]
Music teacher, Lisa Reimer, says she was fired from the
Little Flower
Academy because she is a lesbian parent. She held a
press conference
at the BC Teacher's Federation offices accompanied by
Glen Hansman
of the Vancouver Elementary School Teacher's Assoc. here
in
Vancouver, B.C. on April 28, 2010.
Photo Credit: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun
B.C. trustees
ask province to "redirect" private school funding to
public education
School trustees from across the province are calling on the
B.C. Liberal government to take the funding it gives to private
schools and put it into the public school system.
Today (April 24), at the B.C. School Trustees Association's
annual general meeting in Victoria, trustees voted
to "request the Ministry of Education to redirect to the
public education system the public money spent on independent
schools, other than band schools".
[More]
Cornelia Naylor, The Chilliwack Times
April 23, 2010
These captions on bright posters featuring images of gay,
lesbian and bisexual couples are sure to raise a few eyebrows at
Sardis secondary next week. . . . [More]
BC
Hospitals Refuse to Release Abortion Data
By Patrick B. Craine
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Two BC hospitals have refused to divulge information about
abortions conducted at their facilities, following a freedom of
information request from a major pro-life group.
“If abortion statistics are going to be hidden in British
Columbia, they will be hidden everywhere,” said John Hof, head
of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) BC, which requested abortion
information from Vancouver General Hospital and Kelowna General
Hospital over a year ago. “What better way to win an
argument – 'Oh, how can you prove that? There's no counting of
those numbers'.”
CLC has fought for years to gain access to abortion statistics
in British Columbia, following the enactment of Bill 21 in 2001,
which amended the province's Freedom of Information Act to
specifically exclude access to information about abortion.
[More]
Western Catholic Reporter online, April 26, 2010:
MP
launches effort to protect women from forced abortions
 |
Rod Bruinooge
|
DEBORAH GYAPONG
CANADIAN CATHOLIC NEWS
OTTAWA - The Harper government will not
support Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge's bill to prevent women from
being coerced into having abortions. That means the new private
member's bill stands little chance of passing.
The Winnipeg South MP, who chairs the all-party parliamentary
pro-life caucus, introduced Bill C-510 into the House of Commons
April 14.
The Conservative backbencher told journalists the next day he
had support from members of other parties as well as from within
Tory ranks. [More]
April
& May E-Bulletins Posted
The April and March
issues of the British Columbia Parents and
Teachers for Life E-Mail Bulletin are now posted
on the "BCPTL
Bulletin" page of this website. On
the same page are instructions for subscribing to
this free e-mail bulletion for pro-life, pro-family
people.
Canadian
Parliament Rejects Legalized Assisted
Suicide.
[April
21, 2010]
The
Canadian Paliame . . . overwhelmingly voted down
MP Francine Lalonde's 3rd attempt at legalizing
assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada. The final
vote tally was 228-59, with a good number of NDPers,
including leader Jack Layton who was recently
diagnosed with cancer, and Liberals joining
Conservative MP's in bringing the bill down.
Kelowna/Lake Country MP Ronald Cannon voted against
the motion, as did MPs Colin Hayes and Stockwell
Day. The debate over Bill C-384 has been going on
for a few months, revealing that although a majority
of Canadians seem to support the idea, substantial
confusion and concern over euthanasia and assisted
suicide in Canadian society persists. Several
letters in the April 21 edition of the
National Post responding to Lalonde's final plea
for support expressed both support and opposition
for the bill and touched on key points in the
debate.
[Marlon Bartrom of Kelowna
Pro-Life]
From an April 21st
Message from ARPA Canada:
Just a few minutes ago, the House of Commons defeated Bill
C-384, a bill which proposed to legalize euthanasia and
assisted suicide in Canada, by a vote of 59 for and 228 opposed. Thank
you very much to many of you who took action in recent
days, months, and even years through prayers, emails to your MP, ads
in your newspapers, and special events in your community on
this matter. . . . . A special thanks goes to Alex Schadenberg,
from the Euthanasia
Prevention Coalition, who worked tirelessly against this bill.
National
Post editorial board: Explicit sex education program planned for
Ontario
Ontario is poised to inaugurate a new and explicit sex
education curriculum in September. According to a detailed outline
posted on the Ministry of Education’s website in January,
children in Grade 3 will for the first time learn about
“invisible differences” between people, including those of
gender identity and sexual orientation, while Grade 6 and 7
students will receive information about “vaginal lubrication”
and “anal intercourse.” [More]
Angry
parents plan sex-ed protest
Will
Rally in Toronto May 10
From TheSpec.com
April 20, 2010
Carmelina
Prete
Leaders
of self-described "family-focused" groups are planning a
protest in Toronto on May 10 to oppose the province’s new sex
education curriculum.
But Premier Dalton McGuinty stands by the new curriculum . .
.
Ontario
elementary schoolchildren will learn more detailed sex education
in earlier grades under a new province-wide curriculum that begins
this September.
The revised curriculum, to be taught in all school boards in
Ontario, also means for the first time, children will learn about
"invisible differences" such as sexual orientation and
gender identity in Grade 3. [More]
Day of Silence,
Day of Truth Make Bid to Influence the Nation's Youth [in
the U.S.A.]
[From CitizenLink, April
12, 2010]
[The "Day of Silence" is promoted in British
Columbia by the BC Teachers' Federation. We have no
knowledge of the "Day of Truth" being promoted in this
province.]
by Kim Trobee, editor
'It's time for an honest conversation about the
biblical truth for sexuality.'
One of the nation's largest gay-activist groups, the Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), is promoting its
annual Day of Silence on Friday.
Daryl Presgraves, public relations manager for GLSEN, said
the event encourages kids to take a vow of silence for the day
to highlight what the group calls "safer" schools. . .
.
But a closer look at the materials being distributed to
educators and students shows there is more than an anti-bullying
message being pushed.
For example, GLSEN's data sheet for kids called "How to
Get What You Want—With an Ask!" encourages students to
use the Day of Silence to get a "queer-friendly prom,"
as well as homosexual-themed books and teacher trainings in
their schools.
. . . .
Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family,
said the event turns kids into political lobbyists for GLSEN's
adult-driven agenda.
"We agree that every student should be protected from
bullying and harassment," she said, "and that no
student should be hurt or ridiculed, no matter who they are or
what they believe. But parents need to be aware that the
Day of Silence unnecessarily politicizes and sexualizes the
school environment, paving the way for classroom lessons that
advocate and normalize things like same-sex marriage and
cross-dressing."
One alternative would be to allow kids to participate in the
Day of Truth . . . . [More]
Saskatchewan
Human Rights Commission Seeks Supreme Court
Case against Catholic Activist
By Patrick B. Craine
REGINA, Saskatchewan, April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has announced
their intention to take their case against Bill Whatc, a
Christian fighting the encroachment of homosexualism, to the
Supreme Court of Canada. [More]
Parents
pull kids from public schools over gender teaching
. . .
From MountainNews.com
By Gord
Bowes, News Staff
.
. . Mar 04, 2010
Tricia Cooper says she removed her two children from the public
school system because she could see increasing infringement on her
parental rights.
As a family with strong religious beliefs, Cooper wanted to
take her daughters out of an environment she feels teaches her
something contrary to what she believes.
“My child should not be taught in junior kindergarten that a
woman can love a woman or a woman can be a man,” the Hamilton
resident told the Mountain News.
“It’s really up to me in my home to provide that kind of
information.” [More]
Homosexual
Activist Appeals Exoneration of Canadian Pastor Boissoin
By Patrick B. Craine
CALGARY, Alberta, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The homosexual activist who has pursued Alberta Pastor Stephen
Boissoin on a complaint of discrimination since 2002 has
re-launched his campaign after a December court defeat, taking his
case to the Alberta Court of Appeal. [More]
School
board rallies gay activists [in Vancouver, B. C.]
The Vancouver Courier
Published: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Ever wondered what a gay activist boot camp for kids looks like?
If so, hurry over to Queen Mary elementary in West Point Grey. It's a
beautiful old brick building on Trimble Street, home to the purple
and gold Royals--and today until 3 p.m--the Dare To Stand Out
conference. Billed as a "youth leadership conference for
LGBTQ youth and allies," the event welcomes roughly 120 high
school students, Grade 8 to 12, from around the province. [More]
Dare
to Stand Out Conference a Success--According to Pro-Homosexuality
Activist Magazine
The
"Dare to Stand Out Conference" was a success, according to the
pro-homosexuality activist magazine Xtra (Vancouver section,
online, March 26, 2020 edition).
The
article, "Dare to Stand Out Conference a success" reveals that
besides the Vancouver School Board, four other organizations (Day
of Pink, Jer's Vision, Out in Schopols, and Qmunity Gab
Youth) sponsored the conference. It also reveals that
"Ten districts and four independent schools sent more than
200 students and teachers" to the conference, according to
the Vancouver School Board's "anti-homophobia and
diversity" consultant.
The
According to Xtra, "Attendees
had their choice of one of seven workshops: advocating for change;
ethnicity, religion and sexuality; BC's queer history; challenging
anti-queer bias; starting a gay-straight alliance; and games,
dialogue and interactive theatre to challenge bias."
A
Grade Eight Student who attended is quoted as saying:
"I'm going to stop people from ignoring us and I'm going to
shove it in their faces and throw it in the air until we have
pride flags on every street corner.
"I've never seen so many queer people all in the same area,
all out there showing their colours. I'm going to try to work on
our GSA because there aren't a lot of members. And our events like
pink T-shirt day and Day of Silence aren't very well publicized.
So I'm going to work on that."
[The
article immediately above is also posted on our page entitled
"Opposing the Pro-Homosexuality Agenda."]
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"Ugandan
Social Workers Back Anti-Gay Bill; Exodus Opposed"
By Erin Roach
March 30, 2010
"Exodus continues to urge Uganda's parliament to
reject this hurtful legislation; we also ask the country's
evangelical churches to take the lead in offering hope and
healing to all people, regardless of their particular
struggles." [More]
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Seattle Mom: School Sent My
Daughter for Secret Abortion without Telling Me
[Note from editor of this website: In British Columbia,
too, this could happen, according to a provision in the
Infants Act which BCPTL has repeatedly protested.]
Mar. 24, 2010
By Patrick B. Craine
SEATTLE, Washington, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– A Seattle mother is furioussuchg after learning that her 15-year-old
daughter was sent by her school's health center for a secret abortion,
reports ABC-affiliate KOMO.
The mother, identified only as “Jill,” says her daughter was
given a pregnancy test at Ballard High School's Teen Health Center,
which came back positive. Rather than informing the parents, she
said, the center gave the girl a pass and put her in a taxi for the
abortuary, all during school hours. [More]
Hillary
Clinton stirs the pot on Afghanistan, Abortion and the Arctic
[from thestar.com, Mar. 30, 2010]
Bruce Campion-Smith Ottawa
Bureau chief
OTTAWA – Hillary Clinton was openly critical of Canada’s
organization of an Arctic meeting, skipped a news conference on
the topic with Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and then
went on national television to appeal to Canadians to stay in
Afghanistan.
After all that, Canadian officials might have been excused if
they woke up Tuesday wondering what the U.S. Secretary of State
might do for an encore on the second day of her Canadian visit.
Turns out she had one more pot to stir, telling a Gatineau
meeting of G8 foreign ministers that any initiative to improve
maternal health – Ottawa’s signature global project this
year – must include abortions, an option the Conservative
government has tried to avoid.w [sic]
“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive
health and reproductive health includes contraception and family
planning and access to legal, safe abortions,” Clinton said
Tuesday. . .
[from an
article on thestar.com website]
[The above selection is also found on our
"News and Views" page.]
Liberal
motion defeated; no clarity on abortion
March
23, 2010, from thestar.com
OTTAWA
– A divisive parliamentary vote designed to smoke out the Harper
government's attitude to funding foreign abortions came and went
Tuesday with voters none the wiser on Conservative policy — or
that of the Liberal Opposition, for that matter.
Liberal MP Bob Rae's motion concerning a maternal health
initiative at this summer's G8 summit was nominally supported by
all three opposition parties in the Commons, but was defeated
144-138 when a number of Liberal MPs failed to show up for the
vote.
Three staunchly pro-life Liberals also voted with the Tories.
Conservatives had called the motion "a transparent attempt to
reopen the abortion debate," while steadfastly refusing to
clarify the government's position on the matter. [More]
Obama's
Historic Health Care Bill Also A Political
Gamble
Jim Malone | Washington
22 March 2010, Voice of America online
President Barack Obama won a major political
victory this week with congressional passage of his health care
reform plan. Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats made
history with the reform legislation, but politically the bill is a
major gamble and opposition Republicans have vowed to exact
revenge in congressional midterm elections this November.
Unlike many of his predecessors, President Obama scored a
political success on health care. But it remains to be seen
whether it is a political blessing or a curse.
[Click
here to go to the whole article on Voice of America
online.]
[The above is also on our "News and
Views" Page.]
Liberals
to push Harper on G8 abortion
Mar. 19 2010 5:38:27 PM
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA
— Liberals are hoping to pin down Prime Minister Stephen
Harper over where he stands on abortion in his G8
maternal-health initiative for the Third World.
The Opposition is to introduce a motion in the House of
Commons on Tuesday demanding that the plan cover a "full
range" of family-planning options, which would include
contraception and abortion. [More]
Pro-Aborts
at University of BC Censor Pro-Life Display
By Patrick B. Craine
VANCOUVER, B.C., March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Dozens of pro-abortion protesters at the University of British
Columbia (UBC) disrupted a pro-life demonstration last Tuesday, which
was being sponsored by the University's pro-life club, Lifeline.
[More]
A discrimination complaint against the Abbotsford
school district over its handling of a new social
justice course, which included information about sexual
orientation and gender identity, is headed for a full
inquiry by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
In a decision released this week, the tribunal
rejected a bid by the district to have the complaint
quashed after it agreed in 2009 to allow students to
take Social Justice 12, despite a community controversy
over the subject matter. That was a reversal from
September 2008, when it ordered W.J. Mouat secondary
school to cancel the provincial course and offer a local
substitute to the 90 students who had registered.
[More]
Questions
That Need to be Answered
by the British Columbia Ministry of Education
Nearly
four years after the signing of the Corren Agreement, after ample
evidence of the effect of the agreement so far, questions remain
about the future results of that agreement and just what
organizations are influencing the changes that have been brought
about under its mandate. On behalf of parents and of
other organizations, British Columbia Parents and Teachers for
Life has sent a letter of inquiry to the current Minister of
Education for the Province. The text of the letter is as
follows:
February 24, 2010
Honourable
Margaret MacDiarmid
P.O. Box 9045 Stn. Provincial Government
Victoria
, B.C.
V8W 9E2
Dear
Dr.
MacDairmid:
On behalf of the executive of British Columbia Parents and
Teachers for Life, I would appreciate your addressing the
following concerns regarding the Corren Agreement:
(1) Does the agreement remain in force following the death of
Peter Corren and would it remain in force for the duration of
Murray Corren’s life and beyond?
(2) Have other individuals or groups not yet named publicly been
given the same status as the Correns?
(3) Which specific organizations and groups have been named by the
Correns as having expertise in “sexual orientation, homophobia,
and other issues of inclusion and diversity in the curriculum,”
and have, under the Corren Agreement, been granted input into
course revisions?
We hope to receive a timely and informative response to our
questions.
Yours truly,
[name] , Secretary
British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life
Baby Isaiah
Dies with Family on Parents' Terms
By Patrick B. Craine
EDMONTON, Alberta, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Baby Isaiah James May died yesterday afternoon in the arms of
his parents. After enduring a legal fight to keep doctors
from forcing death upon their child, the May family bade farewell
to their son on their own terms after becoming convinced that
there was no chance of his recovery. [More]
End
of an Era: James Dobson Departs Focus on the Family
By
Peter J. Smith
COLORADO
SPRINGS, Colorado, February 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 33
years at Focus on the Family, psychologist Dr. James Dobson bids
farewell on Friday to the Christian ministry he founded, and
brings his radio presence at the organization to an end. But
the famous Christian commentator is not finished with the
airwaves, as he has announced plans for a new, independent
radio ministry following his departure.
Focus on the Family CEO and President Jim Daly told listeners of
Focus on the Family’s radio program Wednesday that
"this week marks the completion of a transition period that
probably started more than 10 years ago."
Dobson
stated that his intention in stepping down was to give
responsibility to the younger generation, and ensure FOTF's future
success by not inadvertently leaving it leaderless. Focus on
the Family’s Citizenlink reports that Dobson, 73, will join
Daly on the radio program later in the week “to discuss
memories, his future and Focus on the Family's future.”
For
decades, friends and foes have known Dobson - a signer of the
recent Manhattan Declaration
- as an outspoken champion of the right to life for the unborn,
and tireless defender of the family and the institution of
marriage.
Dobson's
Focus on the Family radio program brought in an estimated 1.5
million listeners in the United States and over 220 million
followers across the globe. There, Dobson made his voice a clarion
call to pro-life and pro-family action through political
involvement no less than prayer and ministry.
“If
people of faith - the so-called values voters - don’t come out
and let their voices be heard, there are going to be some major
implications for this country,” Dobson warned his listeners in
October 2006.
Dobson
had no qualms about calling the recent federal “hate crimes”
legislation “utter evil” coming out of Congress, and warned
that normalizing same-sex unions was a necessary component of
homosexualists’ strategy to make homosexuality acceptable among
the youth.
On
Terri Schiavo, the Christian psychologist denounced her
court-ordered starvation and dehydration as "one of the
greatest miscarriages of justice in American history."
Dobson took particular aim at the "heady abuse of power that
is all too common among independent fiefdoms known as
judges," when a federal court struck down obscenity laws as
unconstitutional. He quoted as prescient Thomas Jefferson’s
warning that entrusting the arbitration of “all constitutional
questions” to judges was an idea that “would place us under
the despotism of an oligarchy."
Dobson was
also keenly aware of the need for a new generation of pro-life
Christian leaders, and challenged the youth to rise up and
courageously accept the mantle of his own generation of
leadership.
“Who will defend the unborn child in the years to come? Who will
plead for the Terri Schiavos of the world? Who's going to fight
for the institution of marriage, which is on the ropes
today?" Dobson questioned to the National Religious
Broadcasters conference in March 2008. . . . .
Free Speech Victory in
Whalcott v. Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal
[February 6th, 2010]
CALGARY:
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) today responded to the
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision in Whatcott v. Saskatchewan
Human Rights Tribunal, a case in which the CCF had intervened in
support of free expression.
In
a decision released February 25, the 3-member court ruled that
William Whatcott did not violate section 14(1)(b) of the
Saskatchewan Human Rights Code by distributing flyers to oppose
the teaching of homosexuality in Saskatoon’s public schools.
[More]
How
to Respond to Teachers Pushing Pro-Gay Curriculum: Family Group
Advises Parents
By Patrick B. Craine
February 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The B.C.-based pro-family group Parents for Democracy in
Education (PDE) have released a set
of answers that parents can provide to teachers who ignore
their complaints about the spread of homosexualist
“propaganda” through the curricula of Canada's schools.
The new document offers responses to a controversial new sheet
that has
been distributed to Canadian teachers, entitled “Objections
to Anti-Homophobia Curriculum in Schools?” The sheet offers
“quick responses” to common objections given by parents who
object to the treatment of homosexuality in their child’s school
curriculum. [More]
Latest
BCPTL E-Mail Bulletin Now Published on This Website
The
January, 2010, British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life Bulletin,
which was sent out to subscribers last month by e-mail, has now
been published on the Bulletins
page of this website. If you are not yet a subscriber to
this free bulletin, have a look at the two editions published on
the Bulletins page. Subscription is open to
pro-family, pro-life supporters, (See the Bulletin page for
instructions as to how to subscribe.) The bulletins as
posted on this website are sent out first to subscribers (usually
once a month), and are not always posted in full on the
website.
February 22, 2010
[From the Christianity Today "Her.meneutics"
article.]
Gay
Marriage Leads D.C. Archbishop to End Foster Care Program
Catholic Charities has given its caseload of 43 children, 35
foster families, and 7 staff members to a Maryland-based
family-care agency so as not to disrupt client care.
Julia Duin
The other shoe has dropped here in Washington, D.C.,
in a long conflict between the local Catholic diocese and
the District of Columbia.
After warning for months that the District's pending same-sex
marriage law — slated to go into effect March 2 — put its
80-year-old foster care program in jeopardy, the Archdiocese of
Washington formally
ended its program February 1. [More]
New
Link
In
the column to the far right of this page, we have posted a link to
the website of The "Canadian Constitution Foundation."
We have reason to think
that our readers will find many of the articles on the Canadian
Constitution Foundation's website to be significant. Links
are given for information purposes, and British Colummbia Parents
and Teachers for Life is, of copurse, not responsible for
the content of external websites.
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Private
and Public Schools Subject to [Proposed]
Transgendered Guidelines
By Staff of the Christian Civic League of Maine
Feb 19, 2010
[Public hearing scheduled for March 1, 2010]
|
The
Record wishes to share news of urgent importance to all Christians
in Maine. The Maine Human Rights Commission is preparing
educational guidelines which will apply to schools across Maine,
both private aneawd public. The guidelines will require schools to
allow transgendered students access to facilities of the opposite
sex, including bathrooms and locker rooms. The guidelines
will be discussed at a public hearing in Augusta on Monday, March
1st.
The guidelines are based on Maine's "Sexual Orientation
Law" passed in 2005.
[More]
President Obama
Plans to Increase Controversial “Safe Schools Czar’s” Budget
President Obama and his administration have continued to
ignore the loud outcry over the appointment of a radical
gay activist, Kevin Jennings, to head up the nation’s
“safe schools” office.
Not only have they remained deaf to these concerns, but now
they plan to give Jennings significantly more of our money to
spend! President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget would allocate
$410 million for programs overseen by Jennings. That’s an
increase of $45 million. [More]
Hold
the fort on 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'
[This is an abridged version of an article
on the Catholic Education Resource Centre website.]
ROBERT REILLEY
Military readiness is not the
objective of having openly gay soldiers in the US armed
services.
Thanks to recent statements by US Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mike Mullen, we must
acclimate ourselves to what now seems the inevitable rescission
of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward
homosexuals in the US military. [More]
Social justice and diversity issues would get
unprecedented attention in every course offered by the
University of B.C.’s education faculty if a major
program overhaul that began several years ago is
approved.
“It’s safe to say that every aspect of our
program is going to be changed,” associate education
dean Rita Irwin said in an interview. “We want to be
as responsive as possible to what’s happening in
schools. Right now, we’re doing our best to do that,
but we think there’s a need to reconfigure.”
It won’t simply be a matter of the university
following the lead of B.C. high schools and offering an
optional course similar to Social Justice 12. Rather,
social justice and diversity are expected to become
dominant themes in all education courses, Irwin said.
“If only one class deals with it, then teacher
candidates can kind of set it aside. What we’re trying
to say now is that you can’t set it aside. You have to
understand that it infuses everything you’re doing.”
[More]
Trinity
Western University protests "blacklisting"
by
university teachers
[By Janet
Steffenhagen 31 Jan., 2010 in The
Vancouver Sun online ]
Trinity Western University (TWU) has appealed to the Canadian Association
of University Teachers (CAUT) to reconsider a report
that says TWU places unwarranted and unacceptable
constraints on academic freedom by requiring a statement
of faith as a
condition of employment.
In a letter last month, TWU president Jonathan Raymond
. . . . said . . . [the CAUT] reached its harsh
conclusion about the university without fair and careful
due process.
[More]
Concerns
Expressed Regarding Government Control
of Early Childhood Education
One of the reasons for concern is a philosophy expressed
in some quarters that would deny the unique role of the
family in the upbringing of young chidren. An
example of the expression of this philosophy is
expressed in the following passage:
". . . . a
significant portion of the upbringing process
has now become a public concern and calls for:
• a redefinition of public (state) and private
(family) relationships concerning
children’s affairs;
• the recognition of the child’s right to be cared
for and socialized in a wider
social context than that of the family;
• the recognition of the family’s right to share the
care and education of the child
with society; . . . ." [More]
[from
"An
integrated approach to early childhood education and
care: A preliminary study" ]
For Your information (information
from the Association for Reformed Political Action):
[Please note: BCParents and
Teachers for Life has not taken a position for or
against full-day kindergarten, and ARPA has said
in its newsletter, ". . . ARPA Canada understands that
early-learning programs may be a good choice for some
families in some circumstances."]
Langley ARPA Event: BC plans for full day
kindergarten
Note: ARPA Canada hopes to broadcast this event across the country through the
ARPA Canada website. A similar event is also planned for
Smithers. Stay tuned to the ARPA site for details.
March 1st at 8:00pm in the Langley Canadian Reformed Church [Langley,
British Columbia].
Speakers:
Kent Dykstra - Principal of William of Orange
Elementary School - Ramifications for independent
schools
Helen Ward - Kids First Parent Association of
Canada - Ideological and political roots of all day
kindergarten
Rev. Rob Schouten - Pastor of Aldergrove
Canadian Reformed Church - Biblical perspective on early
education
Mark Penninga - Director of ARPA Canada - Update
on ARPA Canada's work and other action items
Tim
Tebow's Super Bowl commercial hits YouTube
[From
Christian TV Examiner]
After all the hoopla over Tim Tebow's Super Bowl commercial --
with news outlets suggesting that Tebow's mother would mention
the fact that some people wanted her to have an abortion, the
YouTube.com video list below seems both tame and powerful all at
once. . . . [More
Watch Tim Tebow's commercial. ]
Rally
Planned – “Let the Ad Run!”
Local
Pro-Lifers Organize Rally at Global TV
February
7, 2010, Kelowna, BC; A rally is being planned at the Global
Okanagan building at 342 Leon Avenue for Tuesday, February 9
beginning at 4:00 pm. Members of the local pro life community
are organizing the event in an attempt to respectfully but
firmly ask Global Okanagan to run the pro life ad, “Everyone
Against Abortion, Please Raise your Hand.” [More]
National
Post editorial board:
Planned propaganda
Stephen Harper’s government has been in power for more than
four years now, without having disturbed any of the social issues
that Liberals warned would be high on its (secret) agenda. Gay
marriage remains legal. Mr. Harper has kept social conservatives
within his caucus on a tight leash. Canada’s lack of a national
policy dealing with abortion has remained unaddressed.
But Michael Ignatieff isn’t one to let reality get in the
way. This week, the one-time Ivy League intellectual trolled for
votes by dragging out the abortion issue, apropos of … nothing.
Bizarrely, he declared that the right to abortion is too sacred to
become a political football — even though the only one suited up
for the gridiron is Mr. Ignatieff himself.
[More]
[See also: "PM's
women's health initiative must include abortion: Ignatieff"
]
More
on the Colbourne Testimony
[in the Paul and Zabeth Bayne Court Case, from
Dr. Ron Unruh, blogging at GPS]
[On
our "News and Views" page, read a follow-up
article to the one further down on this page entitled "A
Family in Need of Reunification."]
"Abortion clinics may take
charge [in Washington State]"
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 1/30/2010
The legislature in Washington state is considering a proposal
that would regulate pro-life pregnancy clinics that provide
services in problem pregnancies. on."
According
to Paula Cullen, executive director of Life
Services of Spokane, what is happening in the state is
part of a nationwide campaign pushed by abortion-advocacy groups
that seek to steer women in an unplanned pregnancy to abortion
providers instead of pregnancy centers. [More]
Hundreds of Thousands Join 37th
March for Life [in Washington, D.C.]
By John-Henry Westen
WASHINGTON, January 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Weather reports in the days leading up to Friday’s March for
Life warned of rain and snow; however, spirits were high and the
weather good on the day of the event, with no snow or rain falling
and temperatures remaining bearable. A sea of youth
dominated the massive crowd, one of the largest – if not the
largest - in the history of the 37 years of the annual March for
Life. [More]
[See
also the CitizenLink article "Thousands
March for Life in Washington, D.C."]
National Cancer
Institute Researcher Finally Admits Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk in
Study
______________
Press
Release . . . [Abortion Breast Cancer Press Release]
2nd
Breast Cancer Scandal: National Cancer Institute Researcher Louise
Brinton Reverses Position, Finally Admits Abortion Raises Breast
Cancer Risk in Study that Fingers Oral Contraceptives as a
Probable Cause of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
[More]
Calgary
church loses charitable status for its "non-partisan
political activities"
Charles Lewis, National Post
A Calgary church has lost its charitable status in part because it
spends too much of its time advocating on social issues such as
abortion and marriage. [More]
From The
Sunday Times
January 24, 2010
Martin
Amis calls for euthanasia booths on street corners
Maurice Chittenden
Amis: fears 'silver
tsunami'
THE novelist Martin Amis has called for euthanasia booths
on street corners, where elderly people can end their lives
with “a martini and a medal”. [More]
Ontario
Bishops Reject High School “Gender Studies” Course
By Patrick B. Craine
TORONTO, Ontario, January 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario have rejected a
“Gender Studies” course that is being promoted by the Ontario
Ministry of Education.
The grade 11 course aims to help students “understand the
meaning of gender identity and norms of femininity and
masculinity,” according to the draft document, which is available
on a Ministry website. [More]
January 14, 2010
Secretary Clinton
Announces 5-year Funding Push, Including Abortion
By Susan
Yoshihara, Ph.D.
(NEW YORK –
C-FAM) In Washington last week, United States (U.S.)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United
States would engage in a massive funding push over the next five
years to promote “reproductive health care and family
planning” as a “basic right” around the word. Clinton has
previously stated for the record that this includes abortion. The
plan includes potentially siphoning off funds currently directed
towards fighting HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and malaria. [More]
Friday,
January 15, 2010
What
scientists don't tell you about abortion
Lorne
Gunter, National Post
For the past month or so,
the pro-life community has been buzzing. It would appear that at
long last one of the leading breast-cancer researchers in the
world, Louise Brinton, chief of the hormonal and reproductive
epidemiology branch of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI),
has admitted a link between abortion and a higher risk of breast
cancer among women.
[More]
Prop. 8 Trial Begins Today:
"Roe v. Wade" of Marriage Battle
By James Tillman
SAN FRANCISCO, January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
-- This morning the highly-anticipated Perry v.
Schwarzenegger trial began, a case that some have said could be
the “Roe v. Wade” in the conflict between supporters of gay
marriage and of same-sex "marriage." [More]
See also:
Supreme Court Blocks Recording
of Prop. 8 Trial
By Peter J. Smith
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The Supreme Court has blocked a federal judge’s plans to
tape the trial on the California same-sex “marriage” ban for
public viewing. The Court will review the concerns of attorneys
defending the state constitutional amendment, who argue that the
standard policy of federal courts prohibiting cameras in the
courtroom should be retained in light of the potential for
harassment and intimidation of key witnesses.
[More]
Marriage
is Good for Men and Women [Research]
Married people are less likely to suffer from depression,
anxiety and substance abuse, according to researchers from the
University of Otago in New Zealand.
Researchers looked at 34,000 people in 15 countries and also
found mental health disorders increase when a marriage ends
through divorce, separation or even death.
. . . .
[From CitizenLink,
Dec. 22, 2009]
[also on the "Marriage" page of this
website]
Planned
Parenthood Doubles "Abortion Services" From 2007 to 2008
to Over 1 Million
. . . .
By Samantha Singson
NEW YORK, January 2, 2009 (C-FAM.org) - International Planned
Parenthood Federation (IPPF) recently released its annual
performance report for 2008-2009. Despite an economic downturn and
a slight decrease in annual income, the abortion industry giant
boasts of increased activity across all of its lines of work,
including condom distribution, advocacy and abortion
services. [More]
Baxter
v. Montana: Assisted-Suicide Lobby Group Does Not Get What it
Wanted
The Montana Supreme Court Denies Constitutional Right to
"Aid-in-Dying"
By Alex Schadenberg
(Executive director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition)
January 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Dec. 31, the Supreme
Court of Montana issued a split decision in which it denied
victory to Compassion & Choices on its quest for a right to
"aid in dying" based on the Montana State Constitution.
"Aid in dying" is more commonly known as
physician-assisted suicide. [More]
A
New Link
We have
an additional link in the list of "Useful Links . . ."
given on this website. It is the link for "Pro-Life
Corner," Adding this link is in keeping with our
long-standing practice of supplying our readers with a means of
referencing other websites dealing with some of the same issues as
ours does. We are pleased when those websites also include
links to our own.
A
Family In Need Of Reunification
By Raphael
Alexander
28 Dec 2009 Vancouver
Sun Community of Interest
A
Surrey family that had their three children seized by the
government of British Columbia in October of 2007 is
still desperately trying to get them back more than 26 months
later. Their children were taken by the province after Child
Services believed that the parents had shaken their then
two-month-old baby girl, Bethany, even though those allegations
now seem to be false, and government workers even advised their
boys be returned as early as November of 2007. . . .
A court
hearing on the alleged abuse will finally commence on January 10.
Before then, the parents are holding
a fund-raising concert entitled “For Love and for Justice”
at Richmond Peace Mennonite Church on January 3 between 6:30-8pm.
Those attending are encouraged to call the number 778-228-4717 to
reserve a place. You can also visit several Facebook
pages to learn more about their plight . . .
For Love and
for Justice: Facebook
Event
The Bayne Campaign for Justice: Facebook
Group
The Bayne Petition Site: Here
[Fuller version of
this article here]
German Government
Publication Promotes Incestuous Pedophilia as Healthy Sex Ed
Micheal O'Brien, author on crisis of culture in West, says
this "German state intervention in family life is a new level
of auto-destruction"
By John-Henry Westen
BERLIN, July 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Booklets from a subsidiary of
the German government's Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to
sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. Two
40-page booklets entitled "Love, Body and Playing Doctor" by the
German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche
Aufklärung - BZgA) are aimed at parents - the first addressing children from
1-3 and the other children from 4-6 years of age. . . .
[More]
Religious
charities in limbo, court told
Rights tribunal ruling could force
groups 'out of business'
Charles Lewis, National Post Published: Wednesday, December 16,
2009
TORONTO - Religious charitable groups could be forced to
choose between abandoning their values or going out of
business if an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal decision is not
overturned, an Ontario Divisional Court was told yesterday.
[More]
New
Study Rips Into Quebec Relativism Course
By Patrick B. Craine
QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, December 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The
Sovereigntist Parti Quebecois, the opposition party for the
province, is calling for a major revision of Quebec's new Ethics
and Religious Culture program (ERC), following the release of a new
study lambasting the highly-controverted state-mandated
curriculum.
[More]
Half
of Urban Teen Girls Acquire STIs
within 2 Years of First Sexual Activity
INDIANAPOLIS, December 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Half of urban teenage girls may acquire at least
one of three common sexually transmitted infections
(STI) within two years of becoming sexually active,
according to an Indiana University School of
Medicine and Regenstrief Institute study. [More]
Prominent
Canadian Journalist Calls for
Imposed Planetary One-Child Policy
By John-Henry Westen
TORONTO, December 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- In a
column published yesterday in one of the major Canadian
national newspapers, Diane Francis, the Editor-at-Large of the
National Post, has called for a globally enforced one-child policy
taken after the example of China. "A planetary law,
such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the
disastrous global birthrate currently of one million births every
four days," writes Francis. [More]
Copenhagen:
China pushing Population Control as the Final Solution
By Hilary White
COPENHAGEN, December 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Population control has emerged as a key issue for "climate
change" talks in Copenhagen, after the issue was brought
forward by Chinese delegates. Zhao Baige, vice-minister of
National Population and Family Planning Commission of China
(NPFPC) said, "Population and climate change are intertwined,
but the population issue has remained a blind spot when countries
discuss ways to mitigate climate change and slow down global
warming." [More]
When
abortion isn't a choice
By
Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
One
of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is
that no one supports forced abortion.
Yet,
coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are
commonplace in China, Beijing's protestations notwithstanding.
While the Chinese Communist Party insists that abortions are
voluntary under the nation's one-child policy, electronic
documentation recently smuggled out of the country tells a
different story.
[More]
From a December 16th, 2009, MassResistance Update
e-mail:
Resolution
introduced in Congress to remove "safe schools" czar
Kevin Jennings. MassResistance work cited.
MassResistance's research and activism exposing Obama's "safe
schools" czar Kevin Jennings and has again made it to
Congress. Back on October 15, 53 Congressmen signed a letter
demanding Jennings be fired. But as more horrible information has
surfaced, the pressure to remove Jennings is boiling over. . . . .
Dec. 11, Congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX) introduced a resolution
to Congress that Jennings be removed! The
resolution cites Jennings' involvement in the "Fistgate"
conference (which we uncovered in 2000) and his admiration of
NAMBLA supporter Harry Hay, which the MassResistance blog recently
helped bring to light.
[U.S.] Senate Votes to
Keep Abortion in Federal Programs
Battle is
far from over
By a vote of 54 to 45, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, December 8,
tabled (a.k.a. killed) an amendment to remove elective abortion
from a sweeping health care restructuring bill proposed by Senate
Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), the "Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act" (H.R. 3590). Both Senator Carl Levin
and Senator Debbie Stabenow voted to table the amendment which
would have kept federal funds from paying for elective abortions
in the Senate health care reform bill. [More]
[See also :
CitizenLink focusaction UPDATE, Dec. 10, 2009 video,
"Senate
Rejects Pro-Life Amendment to Health Care Reform"]
Reporter
Fired Over Gay Marriage E-Mail
11 Dec 2009 on MyFOXMaine.com
WATERVILLE - Larry Grard, a veteran newspaper reporter at The
Morning Sentinel in Waterville, says he was fired for
sending an angry e-mail to a pro-gay marriage group.
[More]
November 12,
2009: Encouraging News
from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
We appear to have won in New Hampshire. A committee of the New
Hampshire legislature rejected the bill to legalize assisted
suicide by a 14 to 3 vote. . . . .
The next victory will be in
Canada.
Bill C-384, the bill that would legalize euthanasia and
assisted suicide in Canada is scheduled to receive its second
hour of debate on Tuesday, December 1 at 5:30 pm with the vote
on
December 2.
You still have time to send a hand-written letter to members of
parliament opposing Bill C-384. Information and sample letters can
be found at: [this
location].
[More]
Free
Speech Clause in U.K. Gay Hate Crimes Bill Defeated in
House of Commons
By Hilary White
WESTMINSTER, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- MPs have voted down a proposal that would have ensured that
Christians in the UK retained the freedom to criticise homosexual
activity in the country under a proposed hate crimes bill. A free
speech amendment in the proposed hate crimes legislation was
rejected 342 votes to 145 by MPs on Monday night.
[More]
'Gay'
pedophilia and Obama['s Appointee]
Linda Harvey asks if senator agrees with
his GLBT supporters
[This article from October of 2008 has gained additional
significance since the appointment of Jennings to head up
"safe schoools" efforts for the U.S. federal Department
of Education.]
.
. . .The
problem starts with Jennings' own writings in books like "One
Teacher In 10." Jennings' dream world is one where openly
"gay" teachers serve as role models who influence
students' sexual conduct. . . . .
Does Obama believe children are "born
gay" and should be able to declare this identity in grade
school and join a "gay" club? Kevin Jennings does.
Does
Obama believe consensual relationships between 15-year-olds and
29-nine-year-olds are OK? Jennings thinks so. . . . .
[More]
Health
Care Bill--U.S.A.:
November
9, 2009:
Abortion an
obstacle to health-care bill
Some
Democrats vow to block final passage if amendment stays
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 9, 2009
President Obama and Senate Democrats sought on Sunday to
generate momentum from the House's passage of health-care
legislation, even as a new hurdle emerged: profound dismay among
abortion-rights supporters over antiabortion provisions inserted
into the House bill.
[More]
November
7, 2009 News Items Regarding the Passing of the U.S. Health Care
Reform Bill Preceded by
the Passing of an Amendment Prohibiting Coverage of Elective
Abortion by a Government Program
US
Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 220 to 215
By Steve Jalsevac
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2009 11:15 p.m. Eastern Time
(LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. House passed the historic health
care reform bill Saturday evening
by a very close 220 to 215 vote. The Democrats needed 218 votes to
pass the bill. One Republican voted for the bill.
The bill includes the Stupak Amendment which basically contains
the provisions of the long standing Hyde Amendment prohibiting any
coverage of elective abortion by
a government program.
The bill still requires approval by the Senate. [More]
Planned Parenthood Director
Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound
Monday, November 02, 2009 
Joseph Abrams
The
former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas
says she had a "change of heart" after watching an
abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life
group in praying outside the faciliy.
[More]
Maine voters
latest to turn down gay marriage
By Ros
Krasny
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Voters in Maine on Tuesday
overturned a law allowing same-sex couples to wed, dealing a fresh
setback to the U.S. gay marriage movement in a race that attracted
national attention. [More]
CitizenLink, Nov. 4, 2009
Election Results
Good for Conservatives
by Kim Trobee, editor, CitizenLink,
Nov. 4, 2009
The off-year elections were 'an unmistakable
rebuke of Democrats.'
Two big governor's races and a win for marriage headlined the
off-year election Tuesday. [More]
Saskatchewan
MP Trost launches petition against funding of planned parenthood
group
The Star-Phoenikx
(Saskatoon)
Wed Nov 4 2009
Page:
B7
Byline: Jenn Sharp
A
petition calling for a stop to federal funding of the
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has been
launched by Saskatoon-Humboldt MP Brad Trost.
Trost
presented the petition to the House of Commons Monday. [More]
Crown Stays
Charges Against Campus Pro-Life Advocates . . .
National Post
04 Nov 2009
Calgary Six members of an anti-abortion group that defied University of
Calgary officials by refusing to alter a campus billboard campaign
depicting dead fetuses will not go to trial on charges of trespassing. . .
. . [More]
Did Feminism Benefit Men
more than Women? Prominent US Feminist Asks
By Hilary White
October 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- In an Op
Ed in the New York Times, leading US feminist Maureen Dowd has
expressed her surprise that recent research continues to find that
women, who may have been economically "emancipated" by
the feminist revolution, are more unhappy now, forty years later,
than men. [More]
[Can
"Gay-Straight Alliance and Christian clubs can
co-exist in public schools"?]
Naoibh O'Connor, Vancouver Courier
Published: Friday, October 02, 2009
A teacher-librarian's failed human rights complaint alleging
religious discrimination at University Hill secondary raises
questions about whether Gay-Straight Alliance and Christian clubs
can co-exist in public schools.
The complaint by Po Chiang, sponsor of the Christian Fellowship
Club at UHill, was dismissed by B.C. Human Rights Tribunal earlier
this month, as reported in the Sept. 30 edition of the Courier.
[More]
Gay
Reversal Advocates Say School Libraries Banning Their 'Ex-Gay'
Books
Thursday,
October 22, 2009
By Diane Macedo
Visit most public school libraries and you'll find
an array of books that address the subject of homosexuality. Many
include sexually explicit content, and some even include graphic
images.
But if you're looking for a book that refers to the possibility that
homosexuality can be "reversed," a Chicago-based group
says your best bet is the banned books list. [More]
BCCLA demands equal
treatment for U Vic pro-life club
[a press release from the website of the B. C.
Civil Liberties Association--October 21, 2009]
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is taking up
the case of Youth Protecting Youth (YPY), a pro-life club at the
University of Victoria. Despite repeated appeals by YPY, the
UVic Student Society (UVSS) has consistently denied funding to the
group on the grounds that its pro-life advocacy is inconsistent
with the pro-choice position of both the Society and the Canadian
Federation of Students, and that it amounts to harassment of women
by creating an atmosphere of "ambient violence". The
BCCLA believes that the actions of the UVSS are an infringement of
the Charter freedoms of conscience and expression of the YPY
group. [More]
University
of Victoria Abortion Debate Overflows Capacity
By Patrick B. Craine
VICTORIA, British Columbia, October 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The University of Victoria`s (UVic) pro-life club, Youth
Protecting Youth, hosted a wildly popular debate on abortion at
the campus yesterday, which generated so much interest that the
presenters offered a second such event to accommodate those
students who were barred from the first due to fire regulations.
Stephanie Gray from the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform
(CCBR) debated against UVic philosophy professor and bioethicist
Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge. [More]
Obama's
"Safe Schools Czar" Funds Pornographic Display at
Harvard
By James Tillman
WASHINGTON, DC, October 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
-- Obama's controversial and embattled "safe schools
czar," Kevin Jennings, has helped fund a pornographic,
anti-Catholic and sado-masochistic art display currently being
shown at Harvard University, reports
massresistance.org.
The Harvard exhibition, entitled, ACT UP New York: Activism,
Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993, chronicles the efforts of the
homosexual civil disobedience group, Aids Coalition To Unleash
Power (ACT UP), through the graphic stickers, posters, and other
visual media used as propaganda in the early years of the
homosexualist movement.
[More]
Boycott
of California Schools in the Making
Charlie
Butts - OneNewsNow - Oct. 21, 2009
SaveCalifornia.com has
launched a new drive to protest a pro-homosexual bill recently
signed into law.
Randy
Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, tells OneNewsNow he is
calling for a boycott over a law designed to force students to
honor a deceased homosexual activist. . ..
"With
Harvey Milk Gay Day now the law for California government schools,
and a handful of sexual indoctrination laws already existing that
are in effect throughout the entire school year, parents have to
at least boycott Harvey Milk Day or days or week," Thomasson
urges. [More]
What Same-Sex
"Marriage" Has Done to Massachusetts
After the
law giving the governmental stamp of approval to same-sex
"marriages" was passed by the Canadian parliament,
some who had fought against the measure
thought it was time to move on. But the introduction of that
measure has profound consequences, particularly for the children
and youth of our land. MassReisistance.org has put out a
listing of consequences which they have seen for the American
state of Massachusetts. A number of these consequences have
already come to pass in British Columbia, either before or after
the introduction of same-sex marriage by federal law. Other
consequences are ones we may expect--ones the citizens of tis
province should be concerned about. Click
here to access the document referred to.
(The article
immediately above is also found on the Opposing the
Pro-Homosexuality Agenda"
page of
this website.)
President Obama Speaks at Gay-Activist Event
[
From CitizenLink at: http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000011196.cfm
--Oct. 12, 2009 ]
by
Steve Jordahl, senior correspondent
Address
renews the administration's vow to promote homosexual agenda.
President Barack
Obama spoke Saturday at the annual fundraiser for the gay-activist
Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
. . . .
The president told the crowd he supports the gay activist agenda.
"When you
look back on these years," he said, "you will see a time
in which we as a nation finally recognized relationships between
two men or two women as just as real and admirable as
relationships between a man and a woman. [More]
Obama
Criticizes People with "Old Attitudes" in Keynote Speech
at Homosexualist Dinner
. . . .
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- In his
speech to the homosexualist Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
Saturday evening, President Obama again professed loyalty to the
homosexual agenda and criticized people who hold to "old
attitudes" about homosexuality. The President also vowed to
repeal the "so-called Defense of Marriage Act" and
praised the U.S. House's approval of homosexual hate crimes
legislation on Thursday. [More]
Read Obama's complete speech here.
Bayne Family in British
Columbia Still Without Their Three Children after Government Takes Them in
Controversial Seizure.
CASJAFVA Holds Eighth Rally in Support of the Parents
October 3, 2009
The Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values
Association (CASJAFVA) , a group mainly based in the Chinese-Canadian ethnic
commuinity in Vancouver, British Columbia, held anotbher rally October 3rd on
behalf of the Bayne family. It was the eighth rally put on by the group
on behalf ot the Baynes. The children of Paul and Zabeth Bayne have
been separated from their parents for two years now as a result of a
controversial
move by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.
The story of the Bayne family, can be seen on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj9Infbts30&feature=related
. The video includes a clip from earlier CBC coverage of the issue.
[More]
Click
here for a summary by Paul and Zabeth giving their side of the case.
New:
Ron Unrah has written a series of blog entries on the plight of
the Baynes. His narration of their story and comments
on it is in five parts. Click here for "Part
One." The links to the other five parts are in the
column to the right of Part One in that blog.
Focus Action Update, Oct. 21, 2009:
. . . Petitions
Delivered to Congress
About 150,000 people have signed the Focus Action petition
asking the U.S. Congress to exclude funding for abortion from any
health-care reform proposal. On Wednesday, pro-life lawmakers
spoke at a Focus Action news conference on Capitol Hill announcing
the delivery of the petitions. The Focus Action Update
offers you a front row seat.
[Click
to reach the source of the item immediately above.]
Our thanks to Mission America for sending us the
following regarding a New York Times article:
Coming Out in
Middle School
NY Times Features Casual Article about Child
Corruption
Here's how the horrific article in the September 27 NY
Times magazine, written by an openly-gay author, starts:
"Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last
spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs,
Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star
athlete at another middle school... But his boyfriend couldn’t find
anyone to give him a ride nor, Austin explained, could his
boyfriend ask his father for one. 'His dad would give him up for adoption
if he knew he was gay,' Austin told me. 'I’m serious. He has the
strictest, scariest dad ever'..."
The article ends with a dad taking his middle school son to a 'gay' pride
parade, where the son ogles men in Speedos. This is the New York Times'
version of enlightened journalism.
ARTICLE continues Here
[Nmes New York Times article]
[The above message from Mission America is also
found on the "Combatting the Pro-Homosexuality Agenda"
page of this BCPTL website.]
[The pro-choice author does
not want her case to be used in the abortion debate, yet it raises
serious qustions about the issue of abortion on demand and the
story, even though it is about an extreme example, surely
has lessons about the pro-abortion mentality and about the
pressures from partners that help drive some women to have
abortions.]
Friday, October 2, 2009
Woman 'addicted to abortion' releases memoir
Mary Vallis, National Post
Fifty one rejection letters -- that is the number Irene Vilar
received before she finally found someone to publish a tale so
extreme it would surely be fiction if it wasn't her personal
story: A woman who says she had 15 abortions and describes it as
an addiction.
The book, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion
Addict -- a graphic and disturbing tale of one woman's abortions
and her personal quest to understand her actions -- is bound to
provoke a fury when it is released next week. [More]
White House
Noncommittal on Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
The Obama administration remains noncommittal on the issue of
taxpayer-funded abortion within health-care reform. That's
according to Chairmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans
United for Life Action (AUL), who met with White House officials
on the issue Thursday. [More]
From CitizenLink, October 5, 2009:
Firestorm Erupts
over Obama's Education Appointee
by Kim Trobee, editor
'Parents should be most concerned about the
harmful and radical policies he could enact today that would
negatively impact public schoolchildren.'
Yet another controversial presidential appointee is in the
national spotlight. Safe Schools czar Kevin Jennings has
been accused of inappropriate statements and actions, including
the failure to report evidence of sexual activity between a
teenager and an adult.
[More]
Meet
the real Jack Kevorkian
Susan
Martinuk, CalgaFriday, September 18,
2009
The infamous Dr. Death is back. After eight-and-a-half
years in prison and a parole period of relative silence (except
for a ridiculous attempt to run for Congress that, not
surprisingly, went nowhere fast), Jack Kevorkian is speaking
out. [More]
Anti-gay
letter is free speech, lawyer argues
CBC online,
September 16, 2009
A Calgary judge heard Wednesday that a letter to the editor
that called homosexuals immoral is free speech, not a violation
of human rights.
In 2002, Reverend Stephen Boissoin sent a letter to the Red
Deer Advocate which claimed that "homosexual rights
activists and those who defend them are just as immoral as
pedophiles, drug dealers, and pimps who plague our
communities."
The letter continued to criticize school programs that
promote positive images of the gay community, calling them
"wicked." [More]
Parental
consent for Social Justice 12 discriminatory:
teachers union
EDUCATION / About 50 schools across province offering
SJ 12 this year
XtraWest,Natasha Barsotti / Vancouver / Thursday,
September 10, 2009
Requiring Grade 12 students to seek parental consent to take a
gay-friendly elective course contravenes the BC Human Rights Code,
the Abbotsford teachers union contends.
The union recently filed a grievance with the Abbotsford school
board challenging the parental consent requirement to take Social
Justice 12. [More]
European Parliament Raps
Lithuania for “Protection of Minors” Law Curbing Homosexual
Advocacy
[title altered]
By
Piero
A. Tozzi, J.D.
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The European Parliament voted 349 to
218 today to condemn Lithuania for its "law on the protection
of minors" which prohibits promotion of "homosexual,
bisexual or polygamous relations" among children under 18 in
the Baltic nation. Conservative critics contend that the measure,
crafted in reaction to the domestic legislation of a sovereign
member state pertaining to the family, oversteps the Parliament's
authority.
The resolution directs the Agency for
Fundamental Rights to opine on whether the law contravenes
European anti-discrimination standards. Any such opinion would be
non-binding, though activists would likely use it to press for
greater recognition of rights based on "sexual
orientation." [More]
Good News:
Science Awards Go to Adult-Cell Researchers
Dr. John Gurdon, a developmental biologist from Oxford
University, and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a physician and researcher
at Kyoto University, have been chosen to receive the prestigious
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. In 2007, Yamanaka
discovered Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells.
iPS cells are embryonic-like cells that can become specialized
cell types without destroying a human embryo. .[More]
Public
Memorial Service for Slain Pro-Life Hero to be Held at Football
Stadium Wednesday
By John Jalsevac
OWOSSO, Mich., Sept. 15 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Hundreds of friends and family of Jim Pouillon are expected to
gather to pray and remember the life and work of the slain
pro-life activist on Wednesday. A public memorial service for
Pouillon is scheduled to be held at Willman Football Stadium in
Owosso, Michigan, beginning at 1:00 p,m. [More]
Well-Known
Local Pro-Life Activist Gunned Down in Michigan
By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac
OWOSSO, Michigan, September 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- An elderly pro-life activist was shot multiple times and
killed this morning in front of Owosso High School in Michigan
while he was peacefully protesting abortion with a sign depicting
a baby and the word "Life," according to local police
cited in the Flint Journal newspaper.
[More]
Sex
Ed Gone Wild: Canadian Mag Covers Trend toward
"Pleasure-Based" Sex Ed in Schools
Countered with physician's warning that "There are life and
death infections involved here"
By Patrick B. Craine
Warning: The nature of this article required the inclusion
of sexually explicit language that some may find offensive.
TORONTO, Ontario, September 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Lianne George of Maclean's magazine has penned a
piece published this week on a new trend in schools'
sexual education offerings to focus on the pleasure of sex. Her
article highlights the work of Toronto's Carlyle Jansen, the owner
of a 'sex shop' for women, Good For Her, who has launched a new
not-for-profit organization devoted to offering free,
"pleasure-based" sex workshops to schools and other
groups in the area. [More]
Abortion:
Which Side Is Fabricating?
[From Factcheck.org]
Despite what Obama said, the House bill would allow abortions
to be covered by a federal plan and by federally subsidized
private plans.
August 21, 2009
Updated: August 25, 2009
Summary
Will health care legislation mean "government funding of
abortion"?
President Obama said Wednesday that’s "not true"
and among several "fabrications" being spread by
"people who are bearing false witness." But abortion
foes say it’s the president who’s making a false claim.
"President Obama today brazenly misrepresented the
abortion-related component" of health care legislation, said
Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to
Life Committee. So which side is right?
The truth is that bills now before Congress don’t require
federal money to be used for supporting abortion coverage. So the
president is right to that limited extent. But it’s equally true
that House and Senate legislation would allow a new
"public" insurance plan to cover abortions, despite
language added to the House bill that technically forbids using
public funds to pay for them. Obama has said in the past that
"reproductive services" would be covered by his public
plan, so it’s likely that any new federal insurance plan would
cover abortion unless Congress expressly prohibits that. Low- and
moderate-income persons who would choose the "public
plan" would qualify for federal subsidies to purchase it.
Private plans that cover abortion also could be purchased with the
help of federal subsidies. Therefore, we judge that the president
goes too far when he calls the statements that government would be
funding abortions "fabrications." [More]
John
Holdren: Not Even Born Babies Are Human Yet
John
Holdren, President Obama's Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, has written two books outlining a host of
options to deal with what he sees as a global crisis of
"human overpopulation."
First
Things quotes Holren as follows:
“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly
before birth, and given the essential early socializing
experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial
early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human
being,” John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in “Human Ecology:
Problems and Solutions.”
[The
above item is also posted on our web page "News and
Views."]
Catholics
launch anti-euthanasia campaign [in Edmonton]
By ANDREW
HANON, Sun Media
Last
Updated: 4th September 2009
Local Catholics are
inundating their MP’s with emails and letters opposing a
proposal to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.
The campaign was launched
by Archbishop Richard Smith, who warned parishioners that Bill
C-384 is “morally unacceptable and unworthy of our country.”
He’s trying to meet
with all Edmonton area federal politicians and is urging Catholics
to lobby their MP. [More]
Killing
Girls Is Bad, Killing Boys Is Okay
By Doug Bandow
[Sept., 2009]
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton is upset about abortion. Well, not abortion per se. But
some abortions. Of girls. Apparently killing boys is okay. [More]
Kelowna
Mayor's Office Proclaims "Protect Human Life Week"
September 26 - October 4, 2009
September
8, 2009 (news item received from REAL Women of B.C.)
The City of Kelowna, BC, Canada, has once again proclaimed Sept 26
— Oct 4, 2009 as “Protect Human Life Week” in Kelowna. It is
the second consecutive year that Mayor Sharon Shepherd has agreed
to sign the proclamation, which promotes dignity and respect for
all human beings from the moment of conception to the moment of
natural death. [More]
Back
to School: Abortion Pop Quiz
As Canadians, we need to talk intelligently about abortion and
debate it as we would any other issue.
by Faye Sonier
[from Christianity.ca]
Did you know that abortion is legal
in Canada up until birth? Did you know that women can have partial
birth abortions in this country? Did you know we have no laws
whatsoever regulating this important medical procedure? Did you
know that we are the only developed country in the world to have
no law at all?
. . . .
As Canadians, we need to talk intelligently
about abortion and debate it as we would any other issue. Why?
Because it’s healthy for us and it should be not only permitted,
but expected in a free and democratic country. [More]
Quebec Coalition Demands Respect for
Rights of Parents to Decide Education of Their Children
. . . .
By Patrick B. Craine
September 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Quebec's Coalition pour la Liberté en Education (CLE) has expressed
their shock over the Monday court
ruling in Drummondville that shut down parents' attempts to
have their children exempted from the province's recently imposed school
program in relativism, 'Ethics and Religious Culture' (ERC). [More]
A
"Safe" Place for Kids to Learn Homosexual Sex
[from
missionamerica.com--downloaded Sept. 6, 2009--title slightly
changed]
The real story about community ‘GLBT’ youth centers
By Linda Harvey
***There's no required parental notification or consent, but
kids are assured of “confidentiality.”***
---------------------------
It’s Friday at 5:00 p.m. Do you know where your kids are?
Your sixth grader, Nick, stayed after school with his new
buddy, Joel. They’ll be home soon on their bikes, because they
had a last-minute homework assignment in the library. Or so they
told you.
There’s one place in the neighborhood most parents might
never think their kids would end up. It’s the local community
center for homosexual kids. [More]
Lawmakers:
Schoolkids must study 'sexual predator'
.
. . .
September 04, 2009
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
Lawmakers in California have voted to pressure all
schoolchildren in the state to study and "honor" the
life and values of homosexual activist Harvey Milk, whose
biography tells of sexual escapades, including relationships with
young boys. [More]
Canadian Listing of Pregnancy Care Centres
We have added (in the
column to the extreme right of this page) a linnk to an extensive
and easily accessible listing of Canadian
Pregnancy Care Centres. This link is to a list supplied
by Today's Family News.
Euthanasia and
Assisted Suicide in Canada
[from Today's Family News July
28, 2009]
Written by Derek Miedema, a researcher at the Institute
of Marriage and Family Canada
Member of Parliament Francine
Lalonde is currently engaged in her third attempt to
legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. Her private
member’s bill, Bill
C-384, would see doctors fulfilling requests to die
for those over age 18 who “appear lucid.” [More]
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"On Religion and Political Discourse"
posted on the Essays . . . page of this
website
What is the role of
people of faith in the political discourse of a nation?
Should non-believers listen to them, or should their views be
discounted because they spring from religious insights. An
essay form of a talk given which examined this qauestion has
been posted on the web-page entitled "Essays,
Speeches, and Other Compositions."
B.
C. Parents and Teachers for Life
on Facebook
The British Columbia
Parents and Teachers for Life is now on Facebook. If you are
on Facebook yourself, you can visit the page using the Facebook
search and the name "B. C. Parents and Teachers for
Life" and become a "fan.|" You may then leave a comment there.
(We previously made a false start, listing BCPTL in the way
intended for individuals rather than for organizations.)
The
"Socialconservatives.ca" site also has a spot for issues
brought up on this website.
From the ARPA
Canada Website:
Petition
to Stop Funding Planned Parenthood
Click
on the attached petition (below) to open and print off this worthy
call to the government of Canada to stop
using our tax dollars to fund abortions internationally.
The petition states "WHEREAS:
Planned Parenthood is known for promoting destruction of innocent
pre-born life and attacking family values; activities that a
significant portion of Canadians oppose. Therefore: We, the
undersigned
residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to stop
all funding of Planned ParenthTheood by CIDA (Canadian International
Development Agency). Click
here to learn about Planned Parenthood International,
their gigantic budget, and their
58,000 facilities worldwide. You can send your
petitions to your MP or Brad Trost (contact information on the
petition).
Webb
Competition Has Challenging Questions
[Information on the 2009
Patrick Webb Essay Competition for high-school students in Grades
9 to 12]
The first topic for grade 11-12 students to choose in this
year’s Patrick Webb Essay Competition focuses on the recent
spate of censorship rulings by student societies against the
presence of pro-life groups on college and university campuses.
The question asks students to decide if this sort of censorship is
compatible with the mission of post-secondary institutions in
fostering a climate of free
expression of opinion and argument. As usual, the winners of both
the A (grades 11-12) and B (grades 9-10) competitions will receive
$300 with the runner up receiving $200. A second topic asks
students to consider statistics which suggest that repeat
abortions on teenagers are four times as high as for older women.
Students are invited to consider why this might be the case and to
consider how this situation might best be remedied.
The first optional topic in the B competition points out
that
Canada
is unique among Western countries in having no law governing
abortion. Students are than asked to estimate what the dangers are
for a country that has such a legal vacuum. A second topic invites
students to discuss what euthanasia is and to estimate what the
risks would be in legalizing euthanasia.
The deadline for the submission of entries is December 15,
2009 with the winners being announced in March, 2010. The essays
will be marked by experienced educators. For entry
forms call 604-984-9094, e-mail harstann@telus.net
or write the Patrick Webb Essay Competition,
P.O. Box 37521
,
North Vancouver
, B.C. V7M 2H0.
[The above
article on the Webb contest is also published on the"Events" page of this website.]
[The following excerpts from
an article in the mainstgream press tell only part of the story of the
effect of reactions to the $400,000 Canadian federal government's
contribution to "Toronto Pride.]
Backlash
against Pride funding worked
[From The ChronicleHerald.ca]
STEPHEN MAHER LETTER FROM OTTAWA
Sat. Jul 25 - 4:46 AM
ON JUNE 15, Diane Ablonczy, the federal minister of state for
tourism, was photographed with a group of drag queens as she presented
$400,000 to Toronto Pride, a gay and lesbian festival . . . .
This angered evangelist preacher and activist Charles McVety, a
longtime crusader against same-sex marriage, abortion and homosexuality.
Mr. McVety launched a campaign on the Institute for Canadian Values
website, under the headline Conservatives Announce New Program to Fund
Sex Parades. . .
The campaign worked.
On July 6, Saskatchewan Tory MP Brad Trost told lifesitenews.com that
Ms. Ablonczy had lost control of the tourism program after Conservative
MPs objected to the grant to the Pride parade.
"The pro-life and the pro-family community should know and
understand that the tourism funding money that went to the gay pride
parade in Toronto was not government policy, was not supported by — I
think it’s safe to say by a large majority — of the MPs. This was a
very isolated decision."
[The above excerpts from "Backlash" are also
published on our pagve entitled "Opposing the Pro-Homosexuality
Agemda."]
Many
Homosexual (and Similar) Events Reported
as Funded by the Canadian Conservative Government
David Akin: The
Harper Government's
long history of funding gay and lesbian activities
[From National Post online, July 09, 2009, 10:45 AM
by NP Editor]
. . . . a little birdie helpfully provides the
following list of gay and lesbian (and bisexual, etc.) events funded
by the Harper government [Click to read
more.]
Roadkill
Radio:
Archived Shows Highlight Interviews with Some Significant Commentators
Although
we have not listened to each show, we have been
Fortunately,
"Roadkill Radio" shows are available in archived
form. Use
this link to go to a page that lists and enables you to access
the archived shows.
.
Euthanasia
bill passes first step
Next
up, MPs to debate measure in Commons
By
HUGH ANDERSON, Freelance - Montreat Gazette & Vancouver
Sun - July 10, 2009
Wrapped
in euphemisms and double-talk, another long step toward making it legal
in
Canada
for doctors to deliberately end the life of patients in certain
circumstances has been taken.
Bloc
Québécois Francine Lalonde's private member's bill to accomplish that
has received first reading in the House of Commons. [More]
‘Death
with Dignity’: What Do We Advise Our
Clients?
[The following is an excerpt from an article by Margaret
Dore that was published on the website of the Washington State Bar
Association.. Margaret Dore is a lawyer in Washington State.]
July 2009
Death with Dignity
What Do We Tell Our Clients?
. . . .
by Margaret Dore
A client wants to know about the new Death with Dignity Act,
which legalizes physician-assisted suicide in Washington state.
Do you take the politically correct path and agree that it's the
best thing since sliced bread? Or, do you do your job as a
lawyer and tell him that the Act has problems and that he may
want to take steps to protect himself? I would hope the latter.
[More]
REAL
Women of Canada Sends a Strong Protest Against $400,000 Federal
Government Donation to Gay Pride Parade
On
July 13 (2009), REAL Women sent a letter to both Prime Minister Harper
and Minister of Business and Tourism, Diane Ablonczy, expressing its
strong objections to the $400,000 grant given in June to support the
Toronto Gay Pride parade and related activities. The
letter said in part:
"REAL Women of Canada is deeply offended that your government has given
$400,000 of the taxpayers’ money to support the Toronto Gay Pride
Parade in June 2009. According
to newspaper reports, part of this funding was to be directed towards
marketing and programming of the 10-day activity which, according to
CTV.ca will “make sure that these events continue to be competitive
on the world stage”. Why
does your government regard this as significant?
"The Gay Pride Parade is well known for its full nudity,
open engagement in public sexual acts and its deliberate disregard of
behaviour acceptable to most sectors of Canadian society. The parade
is about hedonistic exhibitionism and narcissism, promoting a deadly
form of sexuality. The
parade is designed to shock and titillate and the week-long “celebration”
has become an excuse for partying, drug use and promiscuity . .
.
[Click here to read the whole letterl.]
German
Government Levels Crippling Fines, Threatens to Seize Custody of Son
from Homeschooling Family
By
Peter J. Smith
BERLIN
, July 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Another legal battle is brewing in
Germany
as yet another German family faces ruinous fines and the loss of custody
of their son, because they have committed the crime of
homeschooling. [More]
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