LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 22, 2008
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U.S. POLITICS
McCain To Meet With Jindal
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/07/mccain_to_meet_with_jindal.html
Obama: I'll Be President For 'The Next 8 to 10 Years'?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/07/20/obama-ill-be-president-next-8-10-years
McCain's Lead Among Evangelicals Smaller than Bush's in '04
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=322
Dr. Dobson Re-Evaluates Sen. McCain
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000007859.cfm
LIFE ISSUES
Fighting for parental consent to abortion
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=184060
Truth Truck 'Held Hostage' at St. Louis Planned Parenthood
http://christiannewswire.com/news/611897237.html
Father: 'System' killing my disabled daughter. 'If they had treated a dog this way, they would be doing jail time'
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70004
Cardinal Rigali defends conscience protections for pro-life health workers
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13320
China Syndrome: parents flying their children to main land China for umbilical cord stem cell (CSC) infusions by Judie Brown
http://www.catholicexchange.com/2008/07/21/113231/
Special Report: Embryonic Stem Cell Research
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=315
To say that commercial manipulation of human reproduction is dangerous, or even unethical, would mean restricting the sacred right of scientists to do research. So Nature sits on the fence.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/does_sex_have_a_future/
Contraception and Cultural Chaos — Part 1 of 6 by Christopher West
http://www.catholicexchange.com/2008/07/21/113184/
Does Contraception Foster Love? — Part 2 of 6 by Christopher West
http://www.catholicexchange.com/2008/07/22/113185/
RELIGION
Academia to high schools: No God allowed. California rejects Christian education as valid for university admissions
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69997
WYD, the biggest youth event in history, was an anti-Woodstock, a repudiation of the materialism and secularism of the baby-boomers.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/catholic_and_cool_in_sydney/
Pope meets victims of sexual abuse before leaving Sydney
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13312
An Open Letter to the Bishops of the Anglican Church: Your pathetic situation is entirely of your own making By Human Life International -Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer
http://catholiccitizens.org/press/contentview.asp?c=47221
A group of Catholic dissenters says it plans to publish an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI in a major U.S. and a major Italian newspaper criticizing Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae on the 40th anniversary of its promulgation, July 25.
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=031119e2-ad19-446f-bfe4-4adf5cab7448
HOMOSEXUALITY
How Corporate America fell in love with gays and lesbians. It's a movement. gay marriage - an idea that has been banned by all but one of 27 states that have voted on it - has become a fact of life inside many big companies
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/11/8395465/index.htm
Gay marriage opponents got a surprise boost from San Diego mayor's change of heart
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaymarriage21-2008jul21,0,1639777,full.story
"I Don't Know, But I've Been Told" Gays to Serve in the U.S. Military?
http://www.cwalac.org/article_722.shtml
Freedom, Democracy and Homosexual Intolerance
http://www.cwalac.org/article_721.shtml
Supporters of traditional marriage rally for San Diego hotel owner targeted by backers of same-sex unions for donating to Prop 8
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=0b2238b5-1bdb-41fa-863d-184fc01c6973
MISCELLANEOUS
Record Number of Babies Born Last Year in USA
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32712
Human Interest story - Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
http://www.cmu.edu/uls/journeys/randy-pausch/index.html
Guy Giorno, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new chief of staff, who has been busy shaking up the Prime Minister's Office in an effort to give the Conservatives a "fresh new team," and greater flexibility as a federal election approaches, has started to shake up some Cabinet ministers' offices as well.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/july/21/giorno/&c=2
Kathy Shaidle and Kate McMillan file their defence against serial Human Rights complainant Richard Warman
http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/kathy-shaidle-and-kate-mcmilla.html
