Response to Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex 'marriage' referencePeter Stock The Interim Pro-family leaders received a Christmas surprise from the Supreme Court again this past year in the form of answers to the federal government's reference questions on marriage. In recent years, the courts have taken to releasing controversial decisions before major Christian holidays in a cynical attempt to stifle public debate [...]
Canada 1. Bill C-6 passes The government's reproductive and experimental technologies bill will lead to the deaths of untold millions of tiny human beings through destructive embryonic stem cell research and opens to the door to human cloning through poor definitions and loop-holes. 2. Social conservatism and the Canadian election Prime Minister Paul Martin and his media accomplices inject the topic of [...]
Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada's New Social Experiment by Daniel Cere and Douglas Farrow, editors. Foreword by Maggie Gallagher (McGill-Queen's University Press, $17.47, paperback, 193 pages) Review by Rev. Royal Hamel The Interim In the midst of much confusion and lack of basic information, Daniel Cere and Douglas Farrow have done a great service by providing a trenchant analysis of [...]
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's three proposed amendments to the government's legislation on same-sex "marriage" left social conservatives less than impressed and represents typical Tory thinking on how to reach out to the political centre by alienating its base. Harper wants to amend the legislation so that it, "Recognizes the traditional definition of marriage; i.e., one man and one woman." So far, so [...]
Our centrespread feature has a list of things every pro-lifer can do to help protect the unborn, the disabled and elderly, as well as all those vulnerable to the culture of death. Certainly, there will be a number of activities in this list that you can commit yourself to doing in the next 12 months. Some take little time or money; others [...]
Pray for an end to abortion Ask others to pray Write your federal elected officials and urge them to provide protection for the unborn Inform your pastor about pro-life events Visit shut-ins and those in nursing homes Organize pro-life events and speakers at your school or in your community group Refer abortion-minded women to local crisis-pregnancy counselling centres (CPCs) Write your provincial [...]