LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Canadian lawyers with expertise in human rights and constitutional law are urging members of Parliament to vote against the Liberal government’s anti-constitutional Bill C-38. In a letter sent to all MPs and senators April 29, and printed in part in the National Post, the lawyers cited a legal opinion provided by constitutional law experts at the law [...]
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim John Pacheco, principal organizer of the largest rally in the country in defence of traditional marriage in Ottawa on April 9, has been rejected as a possible Conservative candidate for the Ottawa West riding. The stunning development has left social conservatives within the party scratching their heads. Pacheco, working with life, faith and family groups, drew [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim Two key votes in May kept Bill C-38, the government’s proposed legislation redefining marriage, alive. On May 4, C-38 passed in Parliament 164-137. But despite the 27-vote margin, pro-family groups were optimistic that the bill would still be defeated, because of the political turmoil that looked likely to sink Paul Martin’s government. The CBC reported that at least [...]
Jacob Birth Special to The Interim Hey, I’m not a redneck or a fascist! I don’t live in the 1950s or suffer from homophobia or casually deny others their rights! I have gay friends, wore pink to my Grade 8 graduation, but still don’t get Queer Eye. I believe marriage is religious, not civil. I believe the law came to regulate marriage [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim He’s known as the “blue-eyed prince of soul” – a leading performer on the Toronto music scene for four decades, who has played with numerous musical legends, including Canadian music hall of famer (and Guess Who guitarist) Dominic Troiano. He has also recorded at the famous Chess studios in Chicago and has even had one of his albums [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, unlike his predecessor John Paul II prior to his election, comes to lead the Catholic church after spending the last 24 years in the public eye as the head of the most important office in that church – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. As such, his teachings on [...]
With all the publicity on marriage in recent times, I felt an inclination to write an article on the Catholic teaching regarding the sacrament of marriage, but I did not feel that I had the ability to adequately express it. So I did some research on recent pamphlets and came across an excellent article in a pamphlet entitled, “True Marriage a Lifelong [...]
In kicking off the debate on the government’s civil marriage act, Prime Minister Paul Martin declared: “I stand before members here today and before the people of our country to say that I believe in and I will fight for the Charter of Rights.” That’s typical of Martin. Instead of advancing any reasonable explanation for his newfound determination to enact same-sex “marriage” [...]