Saturday, July 12, 2008

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 12, 2008


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ESPECIALLY NOTABLE ARTICLES

We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest - By Richard John Neuhaus
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1117

China's coercive one-child policy has resulted in sex-selection abortions of some 40 million baby girls and leads to about 70,000 children being sold every year
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69207

Abortionist: I cancel human souls before they become babies - Former Clinton OB-GYN makes admission in e-mail
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69054

Paul Weyrich - There is no significant man-made global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future."
http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080709.aspx

US POLITICS

Obama walks the abortion minefield
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11654.html

Conservatives for Obama?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/07/08/conservatives_for_obama

Politico Notes Consternation Among Pro-choicers On Obama
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/07/10/politico-notes-consternation-among-pro-choicers-obama

Backlash: 2 million angry Democrats reject Obama?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69294

Political lethargy in the church -- will American Christians awake before November 2008
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/bresciani/080709

The 2008 presidential election is "foremost about the United States Supreme Court," the president of the National Right to Life Committee said
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=7913

Religious Intensity Predicts Support for McCain - Hispanic Catholics and black Protestants provide notable exceptions
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108688/Religious-Intensity-Predicts-Support-McCain.aspx

Would Pro-Life Republicans Revolt Over Ridge?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/07/09/would-conservatives-reject-ridge-even-if-hes-price-victory

What You Don't Know About Cindy McCain Will Surprise You
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FloydandMaryBethBrown/2008/07/10/what_you_dont_know_about_cindy_mccain_will_surprise_you

A Tribute to Jesse Helms By Paul M. Weyrich
http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080707A.aspx


ABORTION

YouTube re-posts CNA videos removed after pressure from abortion supporters
http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13151

Charity Commission In Britain would like to penalize Catholic and other groups that help parents who want to protect their children from being given contraceptive drugs and devices or abortions without parental knowledge or consent.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4038&Itemid=48

Margaret Sanger's Dirty Little Secret - Planned Parenthood = the American Eugenics Society
http://www.thestrategy.org.au/?module=displaystory&story_id=701&format=html

Planned Parenthood clinic builders meet protesters
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=170322

Black Churches Gather to Promote 'Reproductive Choice'
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32158

What I Learned From Henry Morgentaler | Carl E. Olson
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2008/colson_morgentaler_july08.asp

The Legacy of Jerome Lejeune and the Resurgence of Down Syndrome Research
http://ncregister.com/site/article/15354/



RELIGION

Interview with an Exorcist
http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=17559ca1-b65d-4744-9ddd-a660b75715bf

Time Mag Latches Onto 'Controversial Relic' to Question Christian Orthodoxy
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/07/07/time-mag-latches-controversial-relic-question-christian-orthodoxy

Spanish bishop reacts to law granting rights to chimps and apes
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13153

Pope Benedict XVI has a mysterious but very genuine appeal for Gen Y. A woman who is one of Australia's leading theologians explains why. 
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/unlikely_centre_of_attraction/

"It's time for Christians to `just say no' to the big `O'" - "Oprah's Strange New Gospel.'"
http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/oprahs_unorthodox_gospel_comes_under_scrutiny1/

From Baby Killers to Barnyard Mayhem: My Turn to Atheism, Part One By Mary Eberstadt
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nzc3MTU3YTRkMjlmN2ZkNDVlOGZlM2I5YjkxMGExNWM=

ACLU thwarted in Alaska case - Religious schools in Alaska will continue to receive a property tax exemption for housing they provide to their teachers.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=170272

Real Social Justice
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4052&Itemid=48



HOMOSEXUALTIY

At least two counties in California have begun reviewing a plan to uphold the state's laws regarding marriage as being between one man and one woman and disregard a state Supreme Court opinion that has yet to be implemented by the Legislature.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69044

Massachusetts Governor degrades self and insults state, marching in depraved homosexual parade.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08b/pride_parade/part1/index.html

Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects Gay 'Divorce' Case
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000007788.cfm

An adult adoption involving lesbian partners and a claim to a share of one of America's premier business fortunes has been annulled
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/07/07/apnewsbreak_lesbian_adoption_annulled_in_maine/

Family 'diversity' unpacked - To pretend that all families are equal denies the truth of the child's experience
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/family_diversity_unpacked/


MISCELLANEOUS

Britain okays human-pig embryo
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=170410

Legalised prostitution: a failed experiment
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/legalised_prostitution_a_failed_experiment/

The New Civil Rights Movement - the abstinence education movement the new civil rights movement
http://ncregister.com/site/article/15393/

"CBS Evening News" - Uniquely Reports Serious Concerns about Gardasil
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kristen-fyfe/2008/07/09/evening-news-uniquely-reports-serious-concerns-about-gardasil

Women are giving birth on a virtual conveyor belt in the UK because maternity wards are so overcrowded and understaffed, a damning report has revealed.
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/07/nhs-meltdown-converyor-belt-childbirths.html

Women in UK having more children than at any point since 1970s
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2281883/Women-having-more-children-than-at-any-point-since-1970s.html?DCMP=EMC-new_11072008

Changes in Canadian Prime Minister's staff, future strategy captivate politicos
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/july/7/hillclimbers/&c=2

The Giving Society; In Europe, many leave philanthropy to the state. For Americans, the personal element—in giving, volunteering, and philanthropy—form an indispensable principle of democracy - By Michael Novak
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1114

Vista Compatibility Center up and running
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9988980-56.html?hhTest=1&tag=nefd.top

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