Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Ark. on Feb. 18, 1922. After attending Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College, she held 17 different secretarial positions in Los Angeles. In 1959, she married movie producer David Brown. At this point in her life, there was nothing to indicate that she was on the road to success, or that [...]
Gay activists pledge churches have nothing to worry about, but pro-family leaders are leery Religious and pro-family organizations are defending traditional marriage before the House of Commons Justice Committee, which is acting on Justice Minister Martin Cauchon's request to consider options in adressing how the federal government should recognize same-sex relationships. The committee has been forced to examine the issue after the [...]
On Dec. 20, 2002, my wife Susan and I shared in God's gift of life by having our sixth child, Thomas. There is always excitement and interest shown by family, friends, and people in general upon the birth of a child, but now that Susan and I have experienced years worth of reactions from people toward our babies, I now consider myself [...]
Ethicist Dr. Christopher Levan recently told an audience of 19 people at St. Andrew's United Church in Sudbury, Ont., that the Bible doesn't condemn homosexuality. Interim contributor and Osprey Media reporter Eli Schuster noted in the Sudbury Star that Levan said that while the Bible denounces homosexual acts, it is silent on homosexuality as a sexual preference. Levan claimed that, "Personal choice [...]
I am fortunate in receiving a very large amount of correspondence from readers. A common question is, "What are the beliefs that lead you to write as you do?" Okay, here it goes. A street corner on one of those deliciously hot summer evenings. To my left is a restaurant and outside of it, a large pile of garbage bags awaiting the [...]
Last October, Statistics Canada published a study about the societies of Canada and Quebec. We find in that study troubling figures about the distinctiveness of Quebec, the highest rate of children born out of wedlock, the highest rate of cohabitations, the highest rate of divorce. Is moral decadence the new distinctiveness of Quebec society? The rate of cohabitations is particularly bad: 29.5 [...]
Full, frontal attacks on freedoms of speech and religion in Canada continue unabated. On Nov. 8, Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, a Toronto homosexual couple who sued the Ontario government seeking legal approval of same-sex marriage, spoke to an audience of Dalhousie University law students in Halifax about their legal battle. They also exploited this platform as an opportunity to attack popular [...]
In 1991, in his Apostolic Constitution on the Catholic University, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Pope John Paul II declared that it is his "deep conviction that a Catholic University is without any doubt one of the best instruments that the Church offers to our age, which is searching for certainty and wisdom." These are hardly surprising words, considering that universities are one of [...]
A Toronto-area woman is putting into effect a different kind of pro-life work - assisting poor children in Pakistan through the foundation of a home and school. Josephine Lal-Din started Fatima House in Sialkot, north Pakistan in 1983. Initially serving 45 children, the facility has grown to the point where it now assists 562 children, and plans are in place to establish [...]
Anything but sticking up for traditional marriage is on the table Courts in Ontario and Quebec have recently ruled that the exclusive man-woman definition of marriage discriminates against homosexuals. Homosexual activists brought suits in three provinces, each arguing a different aspect of constitutional law on the subject. Prior to the Ontario and Quebec rulings, a court in British Columbia upheld marriage as [...]
In a statement that marked one of the defining moments of the Liberals' 2000 campaign against the Canadian Alliance, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said the country is enjoying "social peace" on the abortion issue. Holding forth from a similar pro-choice podium, Health Minister Anne McLellan threatened last month to withhold transfer payments to New Brunswick unless the province funded abortions performed in [...]
The National television news program has reported that Paladin Labs, the manufacturer of the "morning-after" pill Plan B, is lobbying Health Canada to have the drug made more easily available to women. Paladin would like Plan B sold "over-the-counter," without a doctor's prescription. It is being joined in its efforts by the Society for Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Canadian Pharmacists' Association, [...]
Former TV talk show host Rosie O'Donnell's magazine Rosie is closing its doors. O'Donnell claims it is because of loss of control of the enterprise, but as Kelly Boggs says in the Baptist Press, it is more likely because the middle America moms to whom Rosie is marketed stopped buying it when O'Donnell announced she was a lesbian. The drop from as [...]
Torontonians who disapprove of lewd conduct and public nudity should steer clear of the city's annual "gay pride" parade, because the authorities are reluctant to enforce their own laws. In September, the Crown decided not to prosecute seven nude men arrested in the June parade on the grounds there was "no reasonable prospect for conviction." According to lawyer and Totally Naked Toronto [...]
A certain mythology surrounds Simone de Beauvoir, one that presents her to the world as an independent thinker, a spokesperson for women and an advocate of freedom. In truth, she is none of these. The core of her philosophy is derived from the existentialist, Jean-Paul Sartre; she does not, by any means, speak for all women; and the range of freedom she [...]