Politics

Bill Targets Insurers Reselling Totaled Cars after Katrina

by Timothy Wheeler December 12, 2006

Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi says he is "steamed" at some US insurance companies for putting automobiles that were totaled in Hurricane Katrina back on the market, even though they are not fit for the road.
Lott has introduced a…

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Religion Essential to True Democracy

by Timothy Wheeler December 11, 2006

Genuine democracy allows religious believers room to operate in public and political spheres, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM, said in an address to the Orange County Catholic Prayer Breakfast this week, speaking out against the growing exclusion of faith communities…

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Marriage Debate: Catholic MP Reminds MPs’ Tenure Short — Eternity Long

by Timothy Wheeler December 8, 2006

Pierre Lemieux, Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, told a nearly empty House of Commons last night that the recognition of natural marriage is an imperative for Canadian society. He warned that the previous government's determination to abolish…

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Clamor over Use of Koran in Rep’s Oath of Office

by Timothy Wheeler December 6, 2006

A pro-Islam group in Washington, DC, says a Jewish columnist's "bigoted and divisive" views should warrant his removal from a panel that oversees a Holocaust museum located in the nation's capital. The controversy centers around recent comments made by the…

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University Student Association Slanders Pro-life Group

by Timothy Wheeler December 5, 2006

The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) threatened to sue the Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA) last Thursday because of slander. CUSA's president Shawn Menard was quoted on CFRA radio in Ottawa on November 29 as saying, "The Genocide Awareness…

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Supreme Court Asked to Take Aircraft Banner Case

by Timothy Wheeler December 4, 2006

Imagine yourself on one of Honolulu's famously pristine beaches. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you haven't a care in the world. You place a towel down in the sand and then gaze up at the cloudless…

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Pro-life Groups Back Lawsuit in Frozen Embryo Wrongful Death Case

by Timothy Wheeler December 2, 2006

A coalition of pro-life organizations is supporting two Illinois parents in a lawsuit against a Chicago fertility clinic that mistakenly killed the couple's frozen embryos.
Alison Miller and Todd Parrish filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Center for Human…

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Case about Lesbian Partnership and Visitation Rights

by Timothy Wheeler December 1, 2006

A Virginian woman has failed in her bid to deny a former lesbian partner visitation rights with a child she conceived during their now-ended relationship, after a Virginia appeals court ruling, the International Herald Tribune reported.
The Court of Appeals…

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Entire Fifth Circuit to Rehear Bible Display Case

by Timothy Wheeler November 30, 2006

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced on Monday that all fifteen active judges on the court will rehear a case involving the decades-old public display of a Bible on government property. A previous three-judge panel of…

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British Laws to Force Political Morality on Catholic Church

by Timothy Wheeler November 29, 2006

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham Vincent Nichols has issued a strong warning to the Government over new pro-homosexual legislation, saying the Catholic Church will no longer cooperate with the government on schools, charity programs and adoption agencies if the government…

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