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Today we present a video of some of the speech by Canada’s pro-life prisoner of conscience, Linda Gibbons, given in Toronto recently. It is well worth watching. Linda tells it like it is. Refreshing.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is getting quite scary. He certainly seems to view his role as that of a dictator. And the guy is a Catholic in good standing who regularly goes to Church and presumably receives communion. Not one bishop has publicly called him to account for his years of anti-life, anti-family actions.

Today’s newsbytes will give you a good idea of why such things have been allowed to go on in both the US and Canada for so many destructive years. There are a lot of items in the three newsbytes reports, but a quick scan of them and watching one or more of the videos should be highly instructive.

Today’s LifeSiteNews blog posts:

Has the slumbering giant of the Episcopacy been awakened by the gay ‘marriage’ issue? - Dr. Gerard M. Nadal
Reflecting on Independence Day - Fr. Frank Pavone

Oregon Governor signs into law bill outlawing sale of ‘suicide kits’ - Alex Schadenberg

Obama’s controversial, pro-gay ‘Safe Schools Czar’ resigns, department demoted

Rebecca Millette Mon Jul 04 14:48 EST Homosexuality

In a tremendous victory for pro-family activists, the “Safe Schools” office in the U.S. Department of Education has had its funding cut and status demoted.

Pilots refuse to fly Independence Day atheist banners

John Jalsevac Mon Jul 04 18:01 EST Faith

Only 17 of the advertizing company’s 85 pilots agreed to participate in the atheist campaign.

The American Creed: ‘We hold these truths…’

The Editors Mon Jul 04 11:39 EST Opinion

Today is the great American holiday: The Fourth of July. But do we Americans truly understand what we are celebrating, and why it so important?

Linda Gibbons: ‘The end of abortion is Armageddon’

John-Henry Westen Mon Jul 04 17:33 EST Abortion

“We may not always win, but we always fight," Gibbons told attendees at the Toronto Pro-Life forum on June 25.

Ontario Premier: Catholic schools have no choice but to accept gay clubs

Patrick B. Craine Mon Jul 04 14:32 EST Faith

Premier McGuinty also signaled that his government is aiming at changing “attitudes” on homosexuality, a process he says “should begin in the home.”

Dublin Rally for Life a smash success

Thaddeus Baklinski Mon Jul 04 16:40 EST Abortion

Organizers estimated a turnout of more than 7,000 - more than double the attendance at the last Dublin rally in 2009.


Polish MPs give moving testimony before voting for total abortion ban

Patrick B. Craine Mon Jul 04 13:49 EST Abortion

Over 40 Polish parliamentarians from numerous parties take to the floor to support the measure, giving powerful, and often extremely personal statements.


Swiss initiative to defund abortion gains 111,000 signatures

Thaddeus Baklinski Mon Jul 04 13:19 EST Abortion

Financing abortions through compulsory national health insurance premiums "makes us co-responsible for an act that we condemn," said committee co-chair Valerie Kasteler.