Milton, Ont. – Renaissance Canada president Rev. Ken Campbell is heading up a campaign against the Halton Board of Education’s use of a book many parents consider pornographic. The book, Foxfire; Confessions of a Girl Gang, has been approved for use for Halton’s Grade 12 students. Rev. Campbell and supporters say the U.S. novel may corrupt youth morals. Campbell has distributed thousands [...]
A study published August 7, 1996 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that, in effect, a husband can take cancer home to his wife. The number of deaths from cancer of the cervix is 500,000 a year, world wide and the incidence of this caner is 40 per 100,000 women world-wide. (Human papilloma virus infection – HPV virus – [...]
The U.S. delegation to November’s United Nations world food summit is likely to promote “population stabilization” and “family planning” as a means of protecting world food security. According to a July 29 report from the CWN new service, the Clinton administration has circulated a position paper expressing support for population control measures. The U.S. position also calls on participating countries to adopt [...]
Chastity is a tough call of Quebec’s distinct society, say organizers of a national youth advocacy group that promises chastity as an alternative to premarital sex. Rebecca Morcos, 25, founder of Chastity Challenge, says her message of chastity as al Lifestyle is harder to promote to French-speaking youth in Quebec’ “It’s harder to get into schools. They hear the word ‘chastity’ and [...]
By: Charles Moore Every year the debate over displaying Christian symbols in schools and on public property at Christmas heats up a little more. Some members of non-Christian religions, especially the “religion” of secular humanism, believe that items like crèche dioramas somehow represent a violation of their civil rights. There’s something surreal about the assertion that Christ should not be acknowledged in [...]
The Interim Book Review: How Could You Do That? The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience By Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Harper Collins 270 Pages, $31.00 Laura Schlessinger is talk radio’s hottest hostess. Nearly one million Canadians listen daily to the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show. “Dr. Laura” as she is called, talks ethics without being academic and morals without being sanctimonious. If Geraldo’s [...]
The Interim The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s advisory committee for reproductive health drugs on June 28 unanimously approved the “safety and effectiveness” of emergency contraceptives, also known as morning- after pills (MAPs), but questions are being raised as to just how safe and effective they really are. Until the approval, the drugs used as MAPs had not been specifically authorized for [...]
John-Henry Westen The Interim With the sexual orientation legislation having passed in the Senate, it is now law. Of great concern during the debates in the House of Senate on the issue, was the absolute denial of any attempt to safeguard the rights of religious communities to defend their moral teaching on homosexuality. In the words of Senator Anne Cools, “Any critical [...]
Conference a major boost for family Fr. Ted Collection Along with about a thousand other people I attended the Second Pan-American Conference on Family Education. It was held at the Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto. The title for this Conference was: “Building the Civilization of Love.” I thought that the entire conference was an outstanding success and great credit is due to Paul [...]
The Interim Health minister David Dingwall announced June 5 that Canada is going to ban the sale of human sperm. The proposed bill, which will be tabled at the end of June, reads: “N person shall sell, purchase, barter or exchange sperm or offer to sell, purchase, barter or exchange sperm.” The measure will be a key part of the long awaited [...]
To the immense dismay of sex gurus and Planned Parenthood operators, a growing number of young Canadians are hearing why “yes” is the answer to these questions. Are you guys actors or are you for real?” one student in the assembly asks the teens on the school stage Dan Gillespie and Monique Bergeron, both 18, Juliet Labossiere 17 and Mitch Champagne 16, [...]
Warning: The following excerpts from a Vancouver Public Health department brochure contains graphic subject matter. The Vancouver Public Health department said in a brochure called Preventing Pregnancy that abstinence includes oral and anal sex. The 38-page brochure was distributed in Vancouver schools but after parental protest and media attention was withdrawn. “Abstinence is a decision made by both partners in a relationship. [...]
Sue Careless The Interim With reports from the Surrey/North Delta News Leader Planned Parenthood has been banned by the Surrey Board of Education as a resource for its sexuality program. The ban began January 25, when board vice-chair, Robert Pickering, submitted a motion to ban Planned Parenthood as a resource in the school district. The motion passed 3-1. Two trustees, Jim Chisholm [...]
“Educators have been fed misinformation from higher sources who have hidden agendas. These are the facts. This is the truth about the risks.” If you want ammunition to show the school board that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise, and chastity, not the condom, is the answer, you have it in Dr. Rosemarie Gilbert’s resource booklet, Adolescent Sexuality. “I want [...]
“There’s nothing funny about porn,” says artist and child therapist Anita Oliveira, but that didn’t stop her from creating Watch Out, a comic book to fight pornography. If you think only adult men are into porn wake up. The largest users of porn are boys 12 to 17 years old. To reach this group the comic format is ideal. “All my problems [...]