Society & Culture
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:47 in
Editorials, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff
Many Canadians probably take for granted that medicine is one area where rational investigation and a commitment to tangible and verifiable data is a fundamental requirement. Careful observers of developments in the field are noticing challenges to this assumption on a number of fronts. One of the greatest threats appears to be from homosexualist radicals who take issue with anyone who characterizes AIDS as a homosexual disease.
This became an issue ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:47 in
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By Rob Goetze The Interim
Type the words "+gay +youth +help" into an Internet search engine, and you'll be given a list of 200 choices to explore. The vast majority link to gay-positive youth sites which affirm those who are gay or who think they're gay. Some link to explicit pornographic sites. Until recently, none offered any alternatives to simply accepting that one was gay.
In 1998, www.freetobe me.com was added to the list, offering hope ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:47 in
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READERS PLEASE NOTE:Readers will find parts of the following article upsetting. Parents are advised to use discretion in allowing young people to read it.
If there is one person in the battle for life and family who would be hard to define, it would be John McKellar.
On the one hand, pro-family activists may have difficulty relating to his ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:46 in
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Commentary by Rory Leishman
While the great majority of Canadians have been outraged by the declaration by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that sexual perverts have a constitutional right to possess child pornography, most judges and law professors hold that there is no principled basis for maintaining that the state should prevent people from reading or viewing pornography in the privacy of their own home.
David A. J. Richards subscribes to this view. He is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:46 in
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By Tim Bloedow
The Interim
Killings, displacements, and slave trading
show history is repeating itself
Ever since the 1994 Rwandan massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, critics of the United Nations have had added reasons to be skeptical about the competence and sincerity of the international body's humanitarian work in Africa. Sudan is another African nation that continues to suffer due to the irresponsibility and ignorance of UN workers and a number of humanitarian agencies, say some ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Jul, 1999 at 6:33 in
Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
By C. Gwendolyn Landolt The Interim
At the beginning of this century, Canada was mainly an agricultural society, safely cradled in the arms of the mother country, Britain. A call to arms to protect Britain's interests in the Boer War in South Africa (1899 - 1902) and the Great War (1914-1918) led to shiploads of Canadian troops gallantly crossing the ocean to her defense. (The province of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 1999 at 11:36 in
Marriage and Family, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
By Tim Bloedow
The Interim
Commons extends common-law status to gays in pension rules
MOTION TO RULE OUT HOMOSEXUAL 'MARRIAGE' IS APPROVED
M vs. H family law ruling leaves future uncertain
The federal Liberals have not yet introduced legislation authorizing the formation of a police force of sex inspectors or "conjugal cops," although government critics argue that such an initiative is necessary to help them implement Bill C-78.
The pension reform bill was passed by the government on May 25, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jun, 1999 at 12:41 in
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By Erin Broughton The Interim
A University of Manitoba anthropologist is suffering resentment on campus after the recent release of a self-produced pamphlet condemning homosexual behaviour.
Dr. Hymie Rubenstein's pamphlet, "What Gay/Lesbian Activists Won't Tell You or Your Children: Homosexual Myths and Realities," was distributed in late April at a public school trustee debate in Winnipeg regarding the benefits of sexuality and "homophobia" awareness programs.
Rubenstein distributed the literature to express his own ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 May, 1999 at 11:26 in
Activism, Society & Culture | Author:
Story by TONY GOSGNACH
Inside the Toronto hotel where HLI had its 1999 World Conference on Life, Love, and the Family, delegates heard a message of courage and hope... (see part 2 about protesters below)
In what may have been a blueprint for action by not only Catholics, but also Christians and others concerned about the social and moral decay of North America, the president of the influential U.S. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights told listeners at the banquet ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 1999 at 8:18 in
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By Charles Moore The Interim
A coalition of New Brunswick Christians wants the human rights legislation used to force Fredericton mayor Brad Woodside to declare a "gay pride weekend" amended or repealed.
Led by the Rev. Karl Csaszar, pastor of Fredericton's Skyline Acres Baptist Church, the group met on March 17 with Joan Kingston, the government minister responsible for New Brunswick's Human Rights Act, to request that she remove "sexual orientation" as a protected right, a categorization ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 1999 at 8:17 in
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By Tony Gosgnach
The Interim
Anarchists, Communists, feminists, and gay activists litter Toronto with hate propaganda
The war of words started well before Human Life International arrived in Toronto for its 18th World Conference on Love, Life and the Family April 7-11.
As for previous HLI conferences in other years in Ottawa and Montreal, an assortment of leftist- and liberal-oriented groups launched an array of verbal and written attacks on the pro-life organization, regurgitating oft-cited charges of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Mar, 1999 at 8:16 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
Study intended to gauge true status of Canadian families
The National Foundation for Family Research and Education has achieved something remarkably rare and refreshing: an honest and thorough examination of the economic, social, and psychological health of Canadian families.
The NFFRE recently published the Family Health Index, which examines family breakdown, teen pathologies such as drug use and suicide, health care, and poverty, and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Mar, 1999 at 7:52 in
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By Paul Tuns The Interim
Under Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario Liberal Party has moved firmly to the left on almost every social issue, to the point that it is now almost indistinguishable from the provincial NDP on life and family issues.
The most noticeable swing to the left took place in last fall's announcement in Kingston that McGuinty would change provincial law so that same-sex couples would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Mar, 1999 at 7:52 in
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Interim Staff
Radio therapist Dr. Laura would say they're "shacked up;" your grandparents might say they're "living in sin." Now, social science backs up what was until recently the common moral belief: living together before marriage is bad news.
David Popenoe, a Rutgers university sociologist and Barbara Defoe Whitehead, author of the book Divorce Culture, as co-authors of the report "Should We Live Together? What ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Feb, 1999 at 9:47 in
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By Iain Benson Special to The Interim
The recent decision of the B.C. Supreme Court which found that, despite a risk of harm, there was a "right" under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to possess child pornography, reveals a flawed approach to "freedom of expression" and the concept of "privacy." What is striking about the decision is that the notion of the person it shows is dangerously individualistic and, if ... (Continue reading)
