A number of conservative pundits and bloggers are outraged about the story of a Massachusetts boy being sent home and ordered to have a psychological evaluation after drawing a picture of Jesus' crucifixion. If the story was true, it would indeed be outrageous, but it appears to be a bit more complicated than early reports would indicate. As Kathy Shaidle reports in [...]
Operation Rescue gave slain pro-life activist James Pouillon its 2009 Person of the Year Malachi Award posthumously. Pouillon was murdered in September by a person who didn't like his pro-life signs. Many pro-lifers sacrifice to witness to the injustice of abortion but few pay the ultimate price with their life. Pro-abortion violence, however, is not as rare as the media silence would indicate. Unlike when [...]
I don't get race-based promotion of "reproductive health" by so-called leaders among the various ethnic communities. It sounds all so eugenic to me. Writing at CNN.com, Silvia Henriquez, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, says, "With Democrats in the White House and both houses of Congress, [Latina women] believed that we could stop playing defense and actually advance [...]
Our lead December editorial is on Christmas. Here is an excerpt: Today, we not only hear of wars and rumors of wars (Mt 24:6), but of a planet beset by other impending disasters. Today, we are menaced, not by the “population bomb” predicted by so-called experts a generation ago, but by a population implosion – the collapse of a sustainable birthrate in [...]
That's the headline on a Politico story. We should certainly hope it's true, but the health care issue is a zombie that will come back to life. The Democrats need it to hammer Republicans as uncaring right-wing zealots. The question for Democrats and policy wonks will be whether future health care reform proposals, perhaps even as soon as mid 2010, will be as [...]
Big Blue Wave has an excellent post on the latest news peg for her observation that abortion is a shady business: a $1.9 million settlement for a botched abortion. As BBW says, "There's a pattern with abortion clinics. They're always dirty and unhygienic." One of the stories that I got the most feedback (read: complaints) about was a December 2001 article by columnist [...]
Associated Press reports that a Texas couple was arrested after putting a seven-month aborted fetus in a gift box under a Christmas tree. LifeSiteNews.com reports that 700 people took part in the annual March for Life in the Netherlands -- the largest such protest in Dutch history. Carolyn Moynihan at MercatorNet: "A report about families from Britain says forget about marriage; another [...]
Gerry Nicholls, formerly of the National Citizen's Coalition, recently gave a speech on gag laws at the Canadian Center for Policy Studies. The speech can be read at Libertas Post. Here are the money 'graphs: The reason I want to discuss this legal tiff this morning is that illustrates why gag laws are wrong, why gag laws are dangerous and why all Canadians who [...]
Last week I wrote about the normalization of infidelity. The Toronto Star today has a story on a bipartisan effort in New Hampshire to eliminate penalties for infidelity. The legislature has already replaced the original punishment of standing on the gallows for an hour with a noose around the neck, up to a year in jail, or 39 lashes, with a mere $1,200 fine. Democratic state [...]
Brian Lilley defends Sarah Palin against unfounded charges that she is helping Canadian hospitals raise money that will in part pay for abortion. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition says that Dignity in Death is wrong when it says that voluntary euthanasia is legal in Canada. Janice Shaw Crouse says the "Manhattan Declaration Reveals Mainstream Values." Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for [...]
We invited regular contributors to, and friends of The Interim to suggest a book or books that would make a great Christmas gift. Oswald Clark If you like Sarah Palin, you'll love her memoir Going Rogue: An American Life (HarperCollins, 2009). Even if you aren't a fan, everyone should open their hearts and read the sections on her Down Syndrome son, Trig. [...]
More on the story we covered yesterday about a manger display in Toronto and the controversy surrounding it after its sponsor was forced to take down a plaque that acknowledged the support of a pro-life group. In its coverage of the brouhaha yesterday, the National Post reported: "Pro-life groups represent a very tiny but active group of Canadians who would use Advent and Christmas, [...]
The Toronto Transit Commission is considering whether they will accept ads from the Ashley Madison Agency which is described by the National Post as "an online dating site that promotes adultery." Ashley Madison -- how sophisticated-sounding -- does not merely promote adultery, the company facilitates it. The Post reports: "This ad came to us and we took a look at it and we said it's [...]
The U.S. State Department has released its International Religious Freedom Report 2009. While Canada has more respect for religious freedom than many countries (Red China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc...), it is far from perfect. There is much to digest and comment upon, but it is worth pointing out that the State Department's religious freedom report takes special note of the activities of the Canadian human rights commission industry: In August [...]
Samantha Singson of C-Fam writes about about a new World Economic Forum report that shows permissive abortion laws may be hazardous to mother's health. Jill Stanek urges pro-lifers to "Remain calm about Nelson." Dakota Voice has a post entitled, "Chinese Climate Delegate: Population Control Essential to Save the Planet." Italy has approved the abortion drug RU-486. The Register reports "'Friends with Benefits' [...]