In the September 1989 issue, The Interim reported on a program originating from the radio station at Ottawa’s Carleton University. It featured the views of a pederastic group, the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). A spokesman for the U.S. group stated that the rights of children are being abused when they are not allowed to express their “sexuality” and “explore relationships [...]
How do we reply to the argument that, in a democracy, issues such as abortion and euthanasia should be decided by public opinion? J.S., Toronto, Ontario The democratic legal system aims at justice for all people. Unfortunately, as history shows as in Nazi Germany and the oppression of black people in the U.S.A., public opinion can run counter to democracy. A basic [...]
About 100 outraged parents demonstrated outside the St. Albert Separate School board office March 14 to protest the installment of condom machines in the system’s two high schools. St. Albert is one of the few places in Western Canada where the separate school is not for Catholics but for Protestants. According to Peter Heaton, a spokesman for PAVE (Parents Advocating Values Education), [...]
On January 30 the Ontario Court of Appeal declared that “mandatory religious education in the province’s public elementary schools [is] unconstitutional.” It struck down the portion of the law that requires religious instruction in the regular curriculum of public elementary schools. This judgment was viewed as a cause for celebration by the Canadian Jewish News and the three principal newspapers. These papers [...]
Family Forum, an information an analysis organization, hosted its first conference in Hamilton on February 17. The group’s motto – “God, Family and Country” – was supported by speakers at the one-day event, held at bethel Gospel Tabernacle. Over thirty delegates, representing the interests of pro-life and pro-family groups, were welcomed by Family Forum president Lynne Scime. Mrs. Scime emphasized the educational [...]
On January 22, the 17th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the pro-life people of Arizona – like tens of thousands of others across the U.S. – marched to the state Capitol. On that Sunday, the priest at a large R.C. church in Scottsdale spoke clearly about the sin of abortion. He encouraged all present to fight the evil, to attend [...]
The latest in the series of pamphlets published by the Life Ethics Centre is Donald DeMarco’s He/She? Inclusive Language and its Consequences. It is obtainable from the Life Ethics Centre, 53 Dundas St. East, Toronto, Ontario. (See advertisement on page 24), at 70c a copy, or 10 for $7.00. Feminists argue that sexist language is noxious language. “Avoiding he,” they say, “is [...]
On February 22, as part of his effort to reduce federal spending and he burgeoning debt, Finance Minister Michael Wilson included a few budget cutbacks for women’s centres, programs and publications, amounting to $1.6 million. The Secretary of Stat’s Department, for example, eliminated financing for three feminist magazines – Resources for Feminist Research, Canadian Women’s Studies Journal and Health Sharing. It also [...]
Mr. Justice George Walsh declined February 13 to stop Mississauga, Ontario resident Samantha Allison, 20, from getting an abortion. Allison’s boyfriend, Terrence Banting, was seeking an injunction against the abortion in the Supreme Court of Ontario. Having heard lawyer Angela Costigan argue in Banting’s favour, Justice Walsh curtly dismissed the application for standing, saying Mr. Banting has no right to intervene. “I [...]
The curtain is rising on the “gay” 90s. How different is our decade from the last Gay 90s – a century ago. They may have been decadent, but they were civilized compared to our own era, when “gay” has become a euphemism for a militant campaign to reconstruct perversion into something acceptable, even desirable to society. Bill 7 As we have noted [...]
Condoms were distributed in classrooms at Lawrence Park Collegiate in North Toronto February 6 to all grade 11, 12 and OAC-level students who were instructed on how to put them on two fingers by “health educators.” Coasters were also distributed to all grades with the message “Play it Safe: Join the Condom Crowd.” How safe? Five million dollar product liability insurance coverage [...]
At a conference in Montreal at the end of November 1989, Dr. James Chin of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that there is a marked increase in the number of reported cases of AIDS in all major regions of the world. George Wells of the Centre for Disease Control in Ottawa said that in Canada 2,168 cases had been reported to [...]
Guest column – Some pro-lifers believe that if we could just establish the humanity of the unborn child we could settle the abortion debate. It is true that some are ignorant about the facts of the unborn child. And many women cry that they would not have aborted if they had known their baby was a “real baby and not just a [...]
The so-called New Age movement should be of concern to our readers as any widespread spiritualism or superstition should be. Its principal error is that it is fundamentally at odds with what God has told us about Himself in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and therefore presents a radically different interpretation of the meaning of life. Transcendence and immanence The Christian faith teaches that [...]
Heritage of Violence is a report on wife abuse published last fall by the Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops (AEQ). The 60-page consciousness-raising document was prepared under the auspices of the AEQ’s social affairs committee by a working committee of four women and two men, including Auxiliary Bishop Pierre Morissette of Quebec City. The report sheds little light on the pastoral needs [...]