Indian capital legalizes gay sex NEW DELHI – Justice S. Muralidhar of New Delhi’s High Court decriminalized consensual gay sex between adults in a controversial decision on July 2. The law only applies within city limits, but sets a legal precedent that may be invoked by courts across India. While India’s gays celebrated the victory, spiritual leaders in the religiously diverse country strongly voiced their disapproval. “Islam is totally against it. Islam does not allow any unnatural act,” said ... (Continue reading)
A few thing that caught my eye. This editor’s desk column will be, as it often is, less a column delving into an issue than mentioning a couple items that came across my desk, but for which there wasn’t room in the paper. The leftwing website AlterNet.org had a story by Byard Duncan who wrote about “Maggie,” her university friend in Indiana, who at the age of 22 found herself pregnant. Duncan wrote that the question when Maggie shared this information ... (Continue reading)
Planned Parenthood releases report OTTAWA – The International Planned Parenthood Federation launched its newest report, “Contraception at a Crossroads,” on April 24 in Ottawa. Approximately 30 people attended the gathering held on Parliament Hill, co-sponsored by the IPPF, Action Canada for Population and Development and the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health. Senator Lucie Pépin was to welcome the attendees, but could not attend because of illness. Dr. Gill Greer, president of the IPPF, addressed the attendees and provided them with a ... (Continue reading)
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N.B. appeals Morgentaler standing FREDERICTON ? The New Brunswick government is appealing a court ruling giving abortionist Henry Morgentaler standing in a case that will test the province?s ability to restrict taxpayer funding for abortions to government-run hospitals. Justice Paulette Gannett of the Court of Queen?s Bench decided on Aug. 1 that Morgentaler could have standing, because he represented the public interest in giving voice to ... (Continue reading)
Lawyers were in court recently as preliminary details regarding the proposed injunction against pro-life activity in Ontario were settled. The Provincial Attorney General Marion Boyd has presented eight volumes of evidence which she plans to use against the 18 pro-lifers named in the lawsuit. The province is launching a lawsuit for $500,000 against the 18, and is applying for an injunction at 23 locations. The injunction would restrict pro-life activity within 500 hundred feet of abortion centres, abortion-providing hospitals, and doctor’s ... (Continue reading)
The Sally Ann and abortion In the June 10 edition of its newspaper Warcry, the Salvation Army printed its stance on abortion. This position is highlighted by the first sentence which says that the Salvation Army believes in the sanctity of all human life. It further goes on to state that they “support measures necessary to prevent any crisis pregnancy but are opposed to abortion on demand or as a means of birth control.” However, the declaration does mention ... (Continue reading)
Ralph Klein, the flamboyant, ex-mayor of Calgary, has led his Conservative party to a majority in the Alberta provincial elections. Klein, who replaced Don Getty last December, led his Tories to 51 seats, while Liberal leader Laurence Decore took 32. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the incredible beating which the New Democrats suffered. The party failed to win one seat and its leader, Ray Martin, resigned in disgrace. Observers blame the loss on the poor performance of the Ontario and British Columbia ... (Continue reading)
Calgary – A decision by the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench has many lobbying organizations, including the pro-life movement, heaving a huge sigh of relief. The court ruled that the recently passes Bill C-114, more commonly known as the gag law, was unconstitutional. The Bill threatened imprisonment to citizens who independently spent more than $1,000 to support or oppose political parties or candidates during federal elections. Judge Donald MacLeod ruled that the legislation violated the freedom of speech, association and the right ... (Continue reading)
Not a good month It has been a brutal month for North American radical homosexual lobby groups. First came President Clinton’s waffling on allowing homosexuals in the military. Next came the crushing findings of an Allan Guttmacher (Planned Parenthood) survey which revealed that only 2% of North American men have ever engaged in homosexual conduct and that just over 1% considered themselves exclusively homosexual. These findings correspond closely to similar surveys done in the past few years in Britain, France ... (Continue reading)
Cheryl Eckstein senior, chief executive officer of the newly founded Compassionate Healthcare Network (CHN), has just learned how difficult it is to get out a pro-life message in the face of media opposition. During a presentation on euthanasia to a parliamentary sub-committee in Ottawa last November, Mrs. Eckstein showed a brief clip from a CBC Fifth Estate programme. Her video clip was a portion of the German pre-war propaganda movie, I accuse, which she chose because of its direct application to ... (Continue reading)
‘Gay’ rights flower in Connecticut. The state legislature has passed a sweeping homosexual rights statute. It criminalizes “discrimination” against homosexuals professional associations, landlords and business people; it gives extensive new powers to a state commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, including the power to subpoena defendants’ “books and papers” (Sec. 22); and it bans any “advertisement” that “ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the sexual orientation of such person or class of persons…” ... (Continue reading)
The problem of giving witness counter to one’s beliefs is as old as mankind. Each generation has to choose between expediency and principle according to the circumstances in which it finds itself. History seems to show that most people incline towards expediency and compromise, leaving the defence of principle to the few. Yet unless the few manage to garner enough support at one time or another to re-assess the validity of basic principles, society would disintegrate. The fact that somehow, throughout ... (Continue reading)
Ottawa – Mother Teresa will speak at a pro-life rally September 17 on Parliament Hill. Mother Teresa, renowned for her work with India’s poor, was asked to speak as a special guest, by Ian Speirs of Christians for Life the organizers of the rally. Others taking part in the day-long rally include Heather Stillwell, president of Alliance for Life and Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition. Ottawa – Borowski’s October 3, 1988, Supreme Court case has one more “intervenor,” a ... (Continue reading)
Vernon, B.C. On August 2, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney finally broke his (pro-abortion) silence when he told B.C. radio listeners that he opposes abortion on demand, but accepts it under certain circumstances. He refused to clarify what these circumstances might be. Ottawa. On August 4, John Turner repeated the classic “personally I am for life, but publicly I am for killing” evasion. Said the Liberal leader: “My duty as a legislator in a pluralistic society, despite my personal ... (Continue reading)
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