LifeSiteNews.com Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party has won support for a bid to hold a national referendum on abortion. In the February election, the Socialist party ran on a platform that included a promise to conduct a national referendum to overturn the country’s official prohibition on abortion. Socialists hold 121 of the 230 seats in parliament. The proposal seeks to make abortion on [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Spain’s parliament has approved a bill as a first step towards the full legalization of same-sex “marriage” for the predominantly Catholic country. The measure, a proposal of the country’s ruling Socialist party, passed 183-136. Before becoming law, the measure requires Senate approval – a likelihood, according to media reports. The new measure proposes that same-sex couples be allowed the same legal [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Ken Dryden, the Liberal minister for social development, has been spearheading the Liberal party’s push to impose universal, publicly funded daycare, but his insistence on the intervention of the state in child-rearing has been a recent development. Dryden, in a speech in Saskatchewan in March 2002, sang a different tune. He said that the needs of children are met when they [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim At least 15,000 Canadians attended the March for Marriage on Parliament Hill April 9 to let politicians and the public know that the definition of marriage is not to be tinkered with. Some estimates put the number as high as 20,000. Despite some media reports that just 4,000 people took part in the march, the CBC surprisingly reported [...]
Interim staff In March, The Interim reported that Canadian Tire financially supported the making of a gay television program that would propagandize for same-sex “marriage.” After being inundated with calls, faxes and e-mails from patrons and local franchise owners, the company clarified its position in terms of corporate support for an up-coming Global television special, My Fabulous Gay Wedding. Susan Rogers, senior [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Garry Breitkreuz, M. for Yorkton-Melville, Sask. has thrown his support behind the vast majority of his constituents by calling on the government to stop public funding of all abortions that aren’t medically necessary. “The demands are pouring into my office and I want everyone to know that I share their concerns and frustration,” he said. “My years of research clearly show [...]
LifeSiteNews.com A Conservative amendment to the Liberal bill to redefine marriage, which would have stopped bill C-38 in its tracks, has been defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 132-164. Fully 34 Liberal MPs voted with the opposition Conservatives against the Liberal government’s bill, along with 95 of the 99 Conservative MPs and three Bloc Quebecois MPs. The vote [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim As Paul Martin’s Liberals are pilloried over Adscam, and Ottawa is redolent with rumours of a spring election, social conservatives are working hard at the local level to support candidates who are willing to publicly defend life and marriage. Pro-life and pro-family organizations are mobilizing across the nation, riding by riding, to help like-minded candidates get elected as [...]
Rory Leishman The Interim In a banner story on the death of Pope John Paul II, Christianity Today noted that while some of the most strident criticism of the Pope’s legacy was coming from liberal Catholics, most evangelical Protestants were “unreserved” in their praise of this Catholic leader “on political, social and even theological matters.” The Rev. Billy Graham led the way, [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim When George Weigel was writing the definitive (thus far) biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, he posted a note on his computer that said simply: “It’s the theology, stupid.” It was easy to get caught up in John Paul’s celebrity status, his globe-trotting and the history-changing role he played in geopolitical affairs. Indeed, this is [...]
The Whole Parent: Book One: 12 Steps to Serenity for Unwed Parents, a Practical Life Guide By Margot Sheahan (VCA Publishing, 115 pages, $12.95 U.S.) Review by Marie Dooley The Interim This book is well written, and although a short book such as this can never solve all the problems of single parenthood, it manages to give some practical guidelines, with testimonies [...]
Sex Education: How to Guide Your Child Through the Minefield by Jan Bracken (Essence Publishing, 244 pages, $19.95) Alex Schadenberg Sex education in the public schools has caused many Christian parents to become concerned with what and how their children are being taught about sex. Many horror stories have been heard about teachers who have taught their students inappropriate information in the [...]
Delegates support traditional marriage, but ‘wimp-out’ on abortion In the beginning The founding convention of the Conservative Party of Canada marked the beginning of a new phase in the pro-life movement’s - specifically Campaign Life Coalition’s - political efforts on behalf of the unborn. It also most definitely ended another era. In the years immediately following the 1988 Supreme Court of Canada [...]
Grace Petrasek The Interim When Robert Hinchey first decided to carry a sign as a witness for life behind a Morgentaler abortuary in the 1980s, he thought: “Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, I could talk to a woman and help save her baby from abortion?” He need not have worried. Since then, he’s talked to hundreds of women and helped [...]
MP David Kilgour (Edmonton Southeast) has quit the Liberal Party and announced that he will not run again ... Liberal MP Pat O’Brien (London-Fanshawe) flirts with quitting the Liberal caucus. But he pledges to stay when Prime Minister Paul Martin promises to ask a legislative committee to hold public hearings on the issue of same-sex “marriage,” instead of closed hearings that would [...]