MercatorNet runs an excerpt from Rocco Buttiglione's latest book, Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Discourse, under the headline "The banality of tolerance." The first half of the excerpt is about freedom and the second half on the relationship between tolerance and freedom. Well worth reading and the bottom line is that tolerance without truth is incompatible with [...]
Brian Lilley has a great introduction on his blog before getting to his column on C-389, Bill Siksay's private member's bill granting special human rights protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual by adding gender identity and gender expression to Canada's human rights laws. Lilley says: Later today MPs will vote on a number of bills, most of which are technical [...]
We report in the February issue about the Halton Catholic school board's capitulation to pressure from gay activists to abandon its Catholic approach to sexual morality in their schools. Makes you wonder why we bother with Catholic schools at all; that's not a proposal, just frustration speaking.
On Jan. 18, the Halton Catholic District School Board caved to pressure from gay activists and rescinded its Equity and Inclusive Education Policy II-45, following a media storm over the board’s policy banning gay-straight alliances. Over the past year, public and separate school boards in Ontario have been required to implement policies in line with the province’s Ministry of Education equity and [...]
A pregnant Colorado woman was mistakenly given an abortion pill by her pharmacist rather than an antibiotic. Fate of the unborn child is unknown. Pharmacy says sorry. Sure mistakes happen, but as Andrea Mrozek says, tragedies like this one wouldn't occur if health care practitioners followed the Hippocratic Oath.
The final vote on C-389, which adds transgender and transexual to the list of specially protected classes of people under Canada's human rights laws, will be Wednesday. Catholic Insight has reproduced our lead editorial from the February issue with slight amendments to the last paragraph because at the time we went to press, it appeared that the vote would be later this month [...]
There is more news from the House of Horrors story: another woman suspects Kermit Gosnell caused an infection that seriously harmed her. CNN reports: On a recent Sunday, LaToya Ransome sits near a space heater in her grandmother's living room in north Philadelphia. "I still deal with it all the time," she says, glancing at the TV and grazing two fingers over [...]
C-510,or Roxanne’s Law and C-389 providing special rights to transgendered persons Click HERE to view the voting record for these two bills.
For some reason, apparently coincidental, I'm on Behind the Story on CTS on Super Bowl weekend. The show used to broadcast Sunday nights at 7pm -- the Super Bowl starts at 6:30 pm -- so even I would miss it. This year, BTS moved to Saturday nights and you can watch the broadcast next week online. This week we are talking a lot [...]
Here's our February cover story: "House of Horrors: Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns." I posted most of this story before, but it has a new conclusion quoting Rev. Johnny Hunter of LEARN, in which he condemns Kermit Gosnell for betraying his fellow blacks.
Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns A Philadelphia abortionist has been arrested in connection to the murders of a pregnant woman and seven newborn babies in a case that has garnered international attention. On Jan. 19, Kermit Gosnell, 69, wife Pearl, and eight other employee-accomplices were arrested in connection with the death of 41-year-old refugee, [...]
Josh Brahm has a good guest post at the Life Training Institute blog about the pro-life reaction to stories such as the House of Horrors abortuary in Philadelphia and Live Action's exposing Planned Parenthood's cooperation with someone they thought were pimps for underage sex workers. Brahms says of the latest scandals: As atrocious as Gosnell's barbaric acts were, and as bad as covering up sex trafficking [...]
Great video helps show how large the crowd was for the March for Life in Washington DC. Time Lapse March for Life
Live Action exposes Planned Parenthood as a bunch of low lifes. This time, Live Action shows PP's cooperation with people who are running an underage sex ring. My problem is shared by Big Blue Wave: Live Action gets their information from PP by posing as people they are not. In other words, they are lying. This might be fine for 60 Minutes but pro-lifers [...]
On Nov. 29, child murderer Robert Latimer was granted full parole. Latimer, 58, was convicted in 1997 for second-degree murder after the 1993 gassing death of his daughter Tracy, then 12 and who had cerebral palsy. Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer, was granted day parole in March 2008, but last year the parole board refused to grant him full parole. He [...]