The Interim's Sue Careless recently visited L'Arche Stratford, one of the many communities worldwide inspired by Canadian Jean Vanier's love for those most often overlooked.What is most remarkable about Maranatha House at L'Arche Stratford is that at four on a Wednesday afternoon no one is home except two staff members. Gradually, the adults with developmental disabilities arrive, many of whom were institutionalized [...]
An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Today's Youth, by Don Schmierer (Nashville: Word, 1998) To some people in our culture, the title of this book is absurd and offensive. How dare anyone suggest that homosexuality is something that should be prevented! From the developmental perspective which its author Don Schmierer takes, however, it makes good sense to help young [...]
I would like to express my appreciation to Jean Hedley for caring enough to write a letter to the editor on M vs H, the Supreme Court decision granting "spousal" status to homosexual couples (Interim, August 1999). She is correct in stating that justice and democracy is not well served when unelected judges change the law to allow same-sex marriages and adoption. [...]
A massive slab of ice the size of the Yukon Territory breaks off of the Antarctic continent and melts, raising the sea level and flooding coastal cities around the world. A four-month-long heat wave strikes the Canadian wheat belt, desiccates the soil, sets crop yields to zero, and sends the global economy into chaos. The Saharan desert takes over two-thirds of Africa, [...]
Attempts to restore morality in law will fail if they are not founded on the supremacy of God How can you say to your brother, let me remove the speck from your eye, while ignoring the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck [...]
The Toronto Department of Public Health starts off each year with a campaign aimed at youth to promote what they call healthy living. Advertisements are strategically placed in subways and bus shelters, often outside of secondary schools. Past years have heavily encouraged condom use and the "emergency contraceptive pill," otherwise known as the morning-after pill. In early 2000, the department will be [...]
Many Canadians probably take for granted that medicine is one area where rational investigation and a commitment to tangible and verifiable data is a fundamental requirement. Careful observers of developments in the field are noticing challenges to this assumption on a number of fronts. One of the greatest threats appears to be from homosexualist radicals who take issue with anyone who characterizes [...]
Type the words "+gay +youth +help" into an Internet search engine, and you'll be given a list of 200 choices to explore. The vast majority link to gay-positive youth sites which affirm those who are gay or who think they're gay. Some link to explicit pornographic sites. Until recently, none offered any alternatives to simply accepting that one was gay. In 1998, [...]
READERS PLEASE NOTE:Readers will find parts of the following article upsetting. Parents are advised to use discretion in allowing young people to read it. If there is one person in the battle for life and family who would be hard to define, it would be John McKellar. On the one hand, pro-family activists may have difficulty relating to his methodology, as he [...]
While the great majority of Canadians have been outraged by the declaration by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that sexual perverts have a constitutional right to possess child pornography, most judges and law professors hold that there is no principled basis for maintaining that the state should prevent people from reading or viewing pornography in the privacy of their own home. [...]
Killings, displacements, and slave trading show history is repeating itself Ever since the 1994 Rwandan massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, critics of the United Nations have had added reasons to be skeptical about the competence and sincerity of the international body's humanitarian work in Africa. Sudan is another African nation that continues to suffer due to the irresponsibility and ignorance of UN workers [...]
At the beginning of this century, Canada was mainly an agricultural society, safely cradled in the arms of the mother country, Britain. A call to arms to protect Britain's interests in the Boer War in South Africa (1899 - 1902) and the Great War (1914-1918) led to shiploads of Canadian troops gallantly crossing the ocean to her defense. (The province of Québec, [...]
Commons extends common-law status to gays in pension rules MOTION TO RULE OUT HOMOSEXUAL 'MARRIAGE' IS APPROVED M vs. H family law ruling leaves future uncertain The federal Liberals have not yet introduced legislation authorizing the formation of a police force of sex inspectors or "conjugal cops," although government critics argue that such an initiative is necessary to help them implement Bill [...]
A University of Manitoba anthropologist is suffering resentment on campus after the recent release of a self-produced pamphlet condemning homosexual behaviour. Dr. Hymie Rubenstein's pamphlet, "What Gay/Lesbian Activists Won't Tell You or Your Children: Homosexual Myths and Realities," was distributed in late April at a public school trustee debate in Winnipeg regarding the benefits of sexuality and "homophobia" awareness programs. Rubenstein distributed [...]
Inside the Toronto hotel where HLI had its 1999 World Conference on Life, Love, and the Family, delegates heard a message of courage and hope... (see part 2 about protesters below) In what may have been a blueprint for action by not only Catholics, but also Christians and others concerned about the social and moral decay of North America, the president of [...]