Two conferences on child care Edited by Phyllis Schlafly eagle forum & legal defense fund, 1989 Until quite recently the accepted wisdom was that it was best for children to be raised in a family of loving parents (one of each gender was assumed) who knew their responsibilities and accepted the personal sacrifices required of them. Now, of course, that understanding of [...]
The three-year-long struggle of Toronto Constable David Packer to keep his job ended on February 15, 1990, with his reduction in rank from Constable first class to fourth class. The next day officer Packer resigned. The decision of the Ontario Police Commission overruled the January 1988 decision of the Toronto Metro Police Tribunal to fire Constable Packer for having refused to patrol [...]
In Lumen Gentium, one of the key documents of Vatican II, we are told that “They are fully incorporated into the society of the Church who, possessing the spirit of Christ, accept her entire system.” It is therefore somewhat disquieting to find that, while accepting “her entire system,” and presumably being fully incorporated into the universal Church, one can nevertheless be relegated [...]
Even though it in based on a Ph.D. thesis is sociology, and is praised on its back cover by an apostate priest (Gregory Baum), this is an important book. On the basis of 111 interviews which he conducted in the Toronto area in 1985-86, together with other research, Cuneo concludes that Canadian protesters against abortion are not reducible to a single social [...]
“What qualifies as progressive liberalism is not at every point clear, and the ecumenical consensus is therefore a product of ongoing reality negotiation. Thus, the major churches have unanimously opposed the legalization of Sunday shopping ostensibly on the ground that workers deserve a guaranteed weekly respite, not, at least explicitly, because they wanted to salvage a traditional religious meaning for Sunday as [...]
AIDS in the Work Place, a school lesson produced by Health and Welfare, Canada for senior students, teaches fifteen erroneous statements in a twenty-minute lesson. B.C. teens who tested positive for the AIDS virus totaled 88 in 1989, nearly double the 45 found in 1988. Deputy health minister Stan Dubas stated, “B.C. teenagers think they’re immune to AIDS.” B.C. teens think that [...]
Members of the Parent/Teacher Association for St. Barbara’s Catholic School in Scarborough, Ontario, meeting in early December 1989, expressed serious misgivings about a sexual abuse prevention program introduced by the Metro (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB). The MSSB’s Preventive Education Program (PEP) aims to teach children, as young as possible, what sexual abuse is and how to deal with it. But a [...]
Pro-life posters have been shipped to 192 Roman Catholic elementary schools in Metro for use in the classroom. The 8,000 posters donated by Campaign Life Coalition have been distributed with the whole-hearted endorsement of the Metro Separate School Board (MSSB). Each poster features a large color picture of Mother Teresa holding a child. Underneath is a short biography of Mother Teresa and [...]
The following is reprinted from the magazine Washington Watch, Dec. 1989. While post-election media attention focused on East Coast contests, something potentially momentous happened out West. The gay rights movement, supposedly an unstoppable force that would redefine the meaning of the family, was stopped by the voters in three California cities. In Irvine, voters turned down the idea of including “sexual orientation” [...]
Again and again we have been told that homosexuals are simply decent people who want the same rights as anyone else – the right not to be discriminated against in the search for a job or for an apartment, the right not to be subjected to verbal abuse, and so on. It may well be that on average they are no more [...]
The following is extracted from a new pamphlet entitled God. He/She? Inclusive language and its consequences by Donald DeMarco. The Interim brings it to our readers’ attention in our business of tracing the influence of radical feminism on Christian teachings and on the spiritual and moral nature of the family. The recent insistence on inclusive language is an obvious development from earlier [...]
On December 26, 1989 the Toronto Globe and Mail gave a detailed account of a dispute which has arisen in Ontario law schools. Michael Reilly, a student at Osgoode Hall, York University, wrote a letter in November to the student newspaper complaining about the unrelieved feminist content in one of his courses. Students and professors took sides; the next issue of the [...]
According to Michael Cuneo in Catholics Against the Church (reviewed in the new Insight supplement), all “Revivalist” Catholics he interviewed were against feminism. “All regardless of age and social standing view the Women’s Movement with undisguised loathing, and link it to the breakdown of family, community, and traditional morality in Western society,” he writes. So what’s new, you may say and hastily [...]
As pro-lifers we are used to having the slings and arrows of outraged opinion hurled at us via the media. Considering that substantive arguments against our case are about as rare as snow in July, journalists – for the most part, overwhelmingly pro-abortion in outlook – favour the tactic of ignoring our arguments and stereotyping us as close-minded, mean-spirited fanatics. Not only [...]
Though it appears the New Age Movement appeals to many people, experts cannot agree as to how pervasive it really is. Some, however, claim that it is present in every form of mass communication – even in children’s cartoons with their emphasis on magic and “spirit guides.” The following is the first of two articles explaining the movement and its fundamental incompatibility [...]