Catholic school funding questioned in aftermath After facing months of protests by pro-family and religious groups, the McGuinty government rammed Bill 13, the so-called Accepting Schools Act, through committee for a final vote on June 5. Bill 13 passed 65-36. Although the Accepting Schools Act was presented as a broad-based anti-bullying initiative, its focus is on promoting homosexual rights in schools, including [...]
You knew it would happen, I knew it would happen, we all knew it would happen. In a sordid and cynical attempt to deflect from various scandals and mismanagement, the Liberal government of Ontario has told the Roman Catholic school system that it has to do what it’s told, not be Catholic, and embrace the lie that gay kids are perennial victims [...]
Mark Donnelly’s rendition of the national anthem at the launch of The New Abortion Caravan drew criticism from a Yahoo! Sports columnist. Donnelly is a Vancouver opera singer who is well-known for singing the anthem at NHL hockey games for the Vancouver Canucks. While acknowledging that Donnelly is a practicing Catholic and his brother is a priest, Harrison Mooney, the Yahoo! [...]
Jim Goad at Taki Magazine: I started to notice that it was nearly impossible to endorse abortion without in some way supporting basic eugenic precepts. It’s difficult to argue that all living humans are equal if you also support snuffing the unborn in the womb because they’re “unwanted.” Goad says plenty of other politically incorrect things about the South, cousin-marriage, and race, [...]
From Live Action: @LiveActionFilms: Scratch a U.N. women's conference, and you'll find a whole lot of people agitating for #abortion worldwide http://ow.ly/cbS0j It's notable that the Commission on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women doesn't care about gendercide in South and East Asia and that the Women's Commissar is insulting to pro-life women.
The United Nations has declared July 11 World Population Day. But according to the UN Population Fund, it is not a day to celebrate. Rather, it is a time to plan for fewer people. Or as the UNFPA euphemistically puts it, their campaigns seek to convince the world of the "essential part that reproductive health plays in creating a just and equitable world." Over at ProWomanProLife, [...]
Fantastic video of Kathy Shaidle (AKA Five Feet of Fury) and David Menzies talking about a preacher who was harassed by police at the Pride Parade in Toronto while actual laws are broken literally behind the backs of cops. Shaidle says police will have to change their motto from "Our cops are tops" to "Our cops are bottoms."
The New Abortion Caravan completed its cross country trip (Vancouver to Ottawa). Here's The Interim's coverage from the July issue of the paper. We will have more in a forthcoming edition of the paper.
Abortion proponents deny that abortion is used as a form of birth control, but Andrea Mrozek has found proof -- from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Erin Gloria Ryan writes at the feminist Jezebel website: "Until mass abstinence is feasible or permanent pregnancy is desired, sustainable, or safe, though, the best options women have to control their reproductive health are contraception and abortion."
A group of young pro-lifers are using a defining campaign of the old pro-abortion movement to spread the message that abortion kills unborn babies across Canada. In 1970, a group of pro-abortion feminists from the Vancouver Women’s Caucus met in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery to begin a journey across Canada in a caravan. Using images of coffins and coat [...]
Walk. Pray. Eat. Sleep. Yes sleep is the last thing you think about and have time for on Crossroads. Crossroads is a pro-life group that organizes walks across the U.S., Canada, and Ireland. Its mission is to share the gospel of life in the streets like the first apostles. Crossroads started as a response to John Paul II’s call to the [...]
The argument of the Independent Women's Forum against Washington's involvement in distributing contraception has been summarized by Reason. Three key points: contraception is widely available, with various price-points so it is affordable to all, and the only job the federal government has is ensure safety and protect patents. It could be argued that the Food and Drug Administration does not do enough to warn [...]
The American Spectator's Daniel J. Flynn doesn't like the Library of Congress's "Books That Shaped America." That exhibit has 88 books and none are "explicitly conservative" although there is plenty of liberal fare (Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique, Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On). Many of these left-wing books have been influential, but as Flynn points out, the inclusion of Margaret Sanger is [...]
The American Spectator's Daniel Allott notes that Georgetown Magazine, Georgetown University's alumni magazine, reports former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, a Georgetown grad chair of the university's borad of directors, has given $5 million for a variety of programs. Georgetown Magazine reports: The Tagliabues’ $5 million gift will be divided equally among five areas: need-based undergraduate scholarships, scholarships for student-athletes in both men’s and women’s [...]
Ed Whelan looks at the 20th anniversary of Planned Parenthood v. Casey and says: By a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court bungles an opportunity to dismantle the regime of Roe v. Wade and to restore abortion policy to the democratic processes. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter combine to produce a joint opinion so breathtaking in [...]