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"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Group's Pact With Putin Friends Raises Eyebrows
By NATHANIEL POPPER and MARC PERELMAN
March 4, 2005
The American Jewish Congress, a group known for its historic role at the cutting edge of liberal Jewish activism, signed a strategic agreement this week with a Russian Jewish organization that has close ties to the Kremlin and that is dominated by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
The agreement, pledging to fight "religious and ethnic bigotry," was signed Tuesday at a ceremony in Moscow by the chairman of the American Jewish Congress's Council on World Jewry, Jack Rosen, and by the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the former Soviet Union, billionaire diamond dealer Lev Leviev.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2775
More than thirty Heads of State and Ministers to attend inauguration of new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem
11/03/2005
More than thirty (30) Heads of State and Ministers from around the world will attend the historic inauguration of Yad Vashem's new Holocaust History Museum on March 15, 2005. The inaugural event will take place over two days, on March 15 - 16th 2005 at Yad Vashem under the patronage of the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katzav and in the presence of world leaders.
According to Chairman of Yad Vashem Avner Shalev, the impressive array of high level foreign delegations attending the inauguration “illustrates the importance world leaders place on Holocaust remembrance, and highlights the vital role Yad Vashem plays in achieving the common goal of remembering the past, and shaping the future - by helping fight antisemitism and standing up for the values of human rights and democracy.”
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/printerfriendly.asp?id=36068
The Paper That Rewrote Catholic-Jewish Relations
By David Rosen
March 18, 2005
Forty years ago, the Catholic Church revolutionized attitudes within the Christian world toward Jews and Judaism with the declaration known as Nostra Aetate, a document that emerged from the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.
Prior to this document, the perception that had prevailed within the Christian world over the centuries was that Jews had been rejected by God not only for their failure to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the true messiah, but also for complicity in his execution. As a result, the Jewish people's Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and Jews were expelled from their land and condemned to wander the world as a despised and rejected people.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2842
Less Gory 'Passion' Still Raises Hackles
By Eric J. Greenberg
March 18, 2005
In an effort to make his bloody blockbuster about the death of Jesus more palatable, Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson has edited about six minutes of violent footage from his 2004 hit, "The Passion of the Christ."
The film, which some scholarly critics say ahistorically blames Jews for Jesus' death while promoting ancient anti-Jewish stereotypes, reopened in hundreds of theaters around the country this week.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2831
The Jews' Pope
By Micah Halpern
The Micah Report April 6, 2005
Some called him the "Jews' Pope" a title bestowed upon a much respected and admired religious leader.
On his visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall the Pope, as tradition dictates, placed a note between the centuries old stones of the Wall. The text of the note was later made public. This is what he wrote, please note that it was addressed to "God."
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17620
In the March 13-14 night , some people set fire to the Synagogue in Lugano, and to a shop owned by a Jewish family.
Below, the entry about the 2 demos of solidarity with the Jewish community, tomorrow night and on Saturday, I posted at the ADISI blog .
Elio Bollag, the chief of the Jewish community says he is shocked but also astonished as there is no antisemitism in Ticino. Maybe there's some wishful thinking in this statement. When we arrived here in 89, our daughter didn't dare say her dad was a Jew: the bus shelter near her school was full of swastikas and other nazi insigna. I remember conversations with so called educated people (some actually were teachers) who rehashed old cliches about Jewish plutocracy, ending up with the hallowed formula: "Some of my best friends are Jews". Xenophobia was rife in the vocational schools where I've taught.
OK, it's the first arson of a Synagogue here. Let's hope it will be the last. Let's hope it will mark the end of "party chat" and grafiti antisemitism and xenophobia.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=2646
Israel Unveils New Shoah Museum To a World Still Bent on Destruction
By Limor Livnat
March 18, 2005
World leaders and delegations from more than 30 nations arrived in Jerusalem Tuesday for the inauguration of the new museum at Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial. Rather than further focus on the documentary aspects of the Nazi genocide, the new Holocaust center, which is four times as large as the existing museum, will explore the unprecedented tragedy by stressing the personal stories of the murdered victims and eradicated communities.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=livnat200503161105
Rudy Giuliani to be honoured by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies
TORONTO, March 21 /CNW/ - Rudolph W. Giuliani will visit Toronto onThursday, May 26, 2005, as the keynote speaker at "The Spirit of HopeBenefit", presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies.The fundraiser, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, will honour theformer New York Mayor for his extraordinary efforts to promote peace andtolerance.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/21/c6988.html
The Kuropas Affair: Further Discussion
I was very disappointed to read Marco Levytsky's editorial "Dr. Kuropas Victimized by Hatchet Job" which was first published in Edmonton’s “Ukrainian News” and then distributed on March 7 in a private e-mail list.
As the editor of a major Ukrainian-Canadian newspaper and the head of the Ukrainian Ps & Bs in Edmonton, he is an influential person in our community. He should be encouraging divergent viewpoints, not trying to stifle them. Max Pyziur and others, I included, think that Dr. Myron Kuropas should give up his fixation with Jews and that his anti-Jewish writings continue to give our community a bad name.
http://www.brama.com/news/press/2005/03/050323himka-kuropas.html
Watchdogs: Zionist Charity Shortchanging Programs
By NATHANIEL POPPER
March 25, 2005
Philanthropy watchdogs are criticizing the percentage of funds that a venerable tree-planting charity is spending on its programs.
In the late 1990s, the American branch of the Israel-based Jewish National Fund was wracked by scandal over the small share of its revenue that was reaching the parent charity in Israel for land and water development programs. In 1997, a committee was established to help reform the American organization. It issued a report calling for 70% of JNF America's "gross receipts" to be "transmitted to Israel" by 2001, according to a copy of the report, shared with the Forward.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2883
Qatari Religious Scholar Calls for A Moderate and Modern Islam
In a two-part interview with the Qatari daily Al-Raya, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari [1], former dean of the Faculty of Shari'a and Law at the University of Qatar, expressed his unconventional views on a variety of religious topics. The interview is unique since Dr. Al-Ansari's point of departure in his call for change in Islam isreligious and not secularist.
Dr. Al-Ansari attempts to "remove the concept of sanctity" from Islamic history and from the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad so that Islamic history can be open to criticism and the Companions can be seen as fallible human beings. He attempts to find the golden means between Islam and modernity.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP88505
What Are Islamic Schools Teaching?
By Daniel Pipes (03/29/05)
“Shocked” is how Aisha Sherazi, principal of the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa, described the reaction of the school’s administration and board on learning last week that two of its teachers had incited hatred of Jews.
And “shocked” was how Mumtaz Akhtar, president of the Muslim-Community Council of Ottawa-Gatineau, described his own reaction to the front-page news about the Abraar school.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/7287
News Media Invitation - "Digital Terrorism and Hate 2005" CD-ROM to be released in Ottawa
OTTAWA, March 30 /CNW/ -WHO: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Los Angeles-based SimonWiesenthal Center, visits Ottawa, Tuesday April 5/05 to reviewDigital Terrorism and Hate 2005, a new CD-ROM Report of Internetterrorism and hate-related sites.Rabbi Cooper and Leo Adler, Director of National Affairs forToronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies will describe the CD-ROM.Tom Copeland, Chair, Canadian Association of Internet Providers(CAIP)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/30/c9852.html
Europe honors war dead on VE Day
President Bush: "Freedom is the birthright of all mankind"
Ceremonies have been held across Europe to mark the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
More than 40 million people had lost their lives by the time World War II ended in Europe on 8 May 1945.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4526351.stm
We should not forget the things that brought us together, that united us
Russian President Vladimir Putin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4526351.stm
Bush flies in to Russia tensions
As the US and Russian presidents prepare to stand shoulder to shoulder in Moscow to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, underlying tension over Russia's post-war legacy remains.
President George W Bush flew in to Moscow on Sunday for a private dinner with President Vladimir Putin ahead of the ceremony on Monday.
In front of the cameras, the two presidents seemed extremely relaxed.
But the talks were expected to be tense particularly following Mr Bush's comments in Latvia on Saturday that the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was "one of the greatest wrongs of history".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527727.stm
Thaw in Russia-Ukraine relations
Mr Yushchenko (left) wants to open a new chapter with Russia
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine have agreed in Moscow to set up a joint commission to examine sensitive issues between their countries.
Russian-Ukrainian ties were strained during Ukraine's December "orange revolution," which saw pro-western liberal Viktor Yushchenko triumph.
Mr Yushchenko's presidential rival Viktor Yanukovych was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527515.stm
Antisemitism Report Hailed
By Ori Nir
January 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -In a first-of-its-kind report on the global rise in antisemitism, the Bush administration is recommending several legislative and law-enforcement steps to countries in which the problem is rampant.
The report, issued this week by the State Department, describes the efforts of 61 governments to fight antisemitism. It concludes that although many governments - particularly in Europe - are increasingly speaking out against the threat of antisemitism, "most law enforcement officials are not specifically trained to deal with hate crimes, particularly anti-Semitic hate crimes."
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2509
Focus on antisemitism
Europe
The Board of Deputies has called on the European Union to allocate the task of combating antisemitism to a 'single focus' agency.
In a response to a proposal by the EU to create a single European body to address all forms of racism and discrimination, the Board expressed concern that such a panoramic mandate may result in a 'lowest common denominator' approach. By grouping all forms of racism and discrimination together, it risked neglecting individual problems specific to antisemitism.
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1308_focus_on_antisemitis.htm
Antisemitism in state schools on the rise
By Stacey Dresner
Dec 17, 2004 - Sharon Citrin, coordinator of the "Confronting Anti-Semitism" program for the Connecticut regional office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), tells the story of a middle-school-aged boy whose family recently contacted the ADL about troubling incidents at his school.
The boy, who comes from a Jewishly observant home and who had gone to a Jewish day school through elementary school, had begun tucking his Magen David necklace into his shirt when he headed for school. And on the first night of Chanukah, he refused to light the menorah. When his parents asked why, he said, "It's just too hard to be Jewish." After some prodding from his parents, the boy shared that a fellow student at his school had been calling him, "a stupid Jew." He had tried to stand up to the other child, but his attempts to stop the behavior didn't work. The morning after hearing their child's story, the parents called the ADL looking for a way to deal with the situation. Unfortunately, this family's experience is not isolated. According to the ADL, the number of antisemitic incidents in schools around Connecticut is growing.
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/15/news/news02.txt
YEAR IN REVIEW 5764 EUROPE: For European Jewry, year of expansion brings new challenges
By: RUTH ELLEN GRUBER Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom places wreath at bombing site in Istanbul. (PHOTO/BP IMAGES/JTA). Inset, Bloody tallit in Istanbul synagogue shortly after terrorist bombing. (PHOTO/YIGAL SCHLEIFER/JTA).
For European Jews, the impact of EU expansion - as well as the impact of continuing external threats such as terrorism and antisemitism - were constant and compelling issues throughout the Jewish year 5764.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2004/12/09/news/world/qayeare0924.txt
2004 in Contrast and Contradiction
By Jordy Cummings
2004 was a year in which just about everyone had to make intellectual compromises with evil.
Like 1939 and the Hitler/Stalin pact, we have seen many Third World countries conned into acting in America’s service, and the genuine notion that Lula may have been overthrown if he didn’t send his army to Haiti, Qadaffi had to accept responsibility for something in which he didn’t commit, Syria did the serious interrogations and torture, under threat of regime change and the Palestinian struggle was reduced to facile electioneering, as counterproductive as killing civilians—and Israeli arrests of progressive nonviolent candidates like Mustafa Barghouti.
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/cummings01042005/
Abbas and Hamas
Matthias Kuntzel
How can a group determined to destroy Israel be a partner in the peace process?
Seldom have the chances of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East been greater than today. Expectantly - with bated breath, one might even say - the world is hoping to see the end of the conflict which has engendered the cult of suicide bombing and spread it across the globe.
At the same time, the desire to see an end to this conflict may foster self-deception. In a climate of impetuous hope, it is all too easy to sweep aside anything which might dampen the good mood.
http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=10&Param_Red=2063
The New York Times
You have to love the guy. Putin is not caught up in 'Politics as usual' to satisfy opinion. He is strongly standing where no world leader has gone in a huge way to stop terrorism and prevent demise of a planet. He IS literally the Humanitarian of the 21st Century. Governments, according to President Putin, define their governments in Human Rights, Safety and Science that protects life. He opposed to Bush is seeking solutions on a short course to success whereby Bush is seeking war at every turn with complete disregard to the well being of the very planet we all live on. Putin is not in denial of any issue whereby Bush is seeking 'popular approval' through the propaganda of control and denial. Bush has failed on all counts to be a stateman whereby Putin has grasped it with vigor and returned Russia to function if not popular, it is protective on all counts.
Putin, Bush at His Side, Celebrates War's End and New Russian Pride
MOSCOW, May 9 - President Vladimir V. Putin, joined by President Bush and dozens of other leaders, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on Monday with a resplendent military parade in Red Square that was steeped in Soviet symbols and new Russian pride.
Standing in front of Lenin's Tomb, not on it as Soviet leaders once did, Mr. Putin expressed no contrition for the Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe that followed the end of World War II, as some leaders from that region had hoped he would. Instead, he said the war's legacy demonstrated the need for unity with Russia against new threats.
"The lessons of the war send us the warning that indifference, temporizing and playing accomplice to violence inevitably lead to terrible tragedies on a planetary scale," he said. "Faced with the real threat of terrorism today, we must therefore remain faithful to the memory of our fathers. It is our duty to defend a world order based on security and justice and on a new culture of relations among nations that will not allow a repeat of any war - neither cold nor hot."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/europe/10russia.html
DOES A WEEK in the USA go by anymore without still another death of at least one GIRL? And how tragic is Precious Doe? Bigotry can be so blinding it allows the masked killing of children with a police chase that ends at blind identity. I congratulate the community of Precious Doe to stop the insane allowance of murder of Black Children without resolve.
2 Girls Found Stabbed to Death in Illinois Park
By GRETCHEN RUETHLING and JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 10, 2005
ZION, Ill., May 9 -Two second-grade girls who spent Sunday riding bikes around this working-class town on the edge of Lake Michigan were found dead of stab wounds in a densely forested park early Monday, in a crime the authorities described as "heinous" and "heart-rending."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10girls.html
DOES Bush and his Favorite Saudi Prince pass the 'sniff test?'
Gay Men Are Found to Have Different Scent of Attraction
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: May 10, 2005
Using a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.
The new research may open the way to studying human pheromones, as well as the biological basis of sexual preference. Pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to evoke some behavior in another of the same species, are known to govern sexual activity in animals, but experts differ as to what role, if any, they play in making humans sexually attractive to one another.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/10smell.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=7e3443c31329c099&ei=5094&partner=homepage
100 Rebels Killed in U.S. Offensive in Western Iraq
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: May 10, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 9 - A Marine task force swept through a wide area of western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing 100 insurgents and raiding desert outposts and city safe houses belonging to insurgents who have used the area to import cars, money, weapons, and foreigners to fight United States and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities, American military officials said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/middleeast/10iraq.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=447e9e177e1df44d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
THE DYSFUNCTIONAL USA MILITARY. Where ordinary people otherwise not employable gather to be American's Finest. Right.
Behind Failed Abu Ghraib Plea, a Tale of Breakups and Betrayal
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: May 10, 2005
In a military courtroom in Texas last week was a spectacle worthy of "As the World Turns": Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the defendant, holding her 7-month-old baby; the imprisoned father, Pvt. Charles A. Graner Jr., giving testimony that ruined what lawyers said was her best shot at leniency; and waiting outside, another defendant from the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Megan M. Ambuhl, who had recently wed Private Graner - a marriage Private England learned about only days before.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10graner.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=3219fed0e3bb81c9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Challenging PROVEN Theorum in the Courts is like asking, "Do People Breath?" Darwin and Wallace are positive PROOF. There is no challenge to good science and proof that stands on it's own to be repeated in trial after trail. "The Origin of Species" has yet to be DISPROVEN. It was these exact religious under currents to society that kept Darwin's Proof at bay for years until Wallace came forward with a study that was a carbon copy of Darwin's when they both presented to the academy of sciences at the time. Even these 'religious' types cannot DISPROVE Darwin and Wallace. What their focus is stems from DENIAL and not proof that Darwin and Wallace was wrong. They are stating to the courts 'no such' science exists. But, it does, even though they would RATHER it didn't. Go ahead, knock yourselves out !!
In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More
By JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 6, 2005
TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 - Six years after Kansas ignited a national debate over the teaching of evolution, the state is poised to push through new science standards this summer requiring that Darwin's theory be challenged in the classroom.
...Darwin's defenders are refusing to testify at the hearings, which were called by the State Board of Education's conservative majority. But their lawyer forcefully cross-examined the other side's experts, pushing them to acknowledge that nothing in the current standards prevented discussion of challenges to evolution, and peppering them with queries both profound and personal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/education/06evolution.html
HELLLLOOOOOoooo………..
Case in point. Bad Bush Science is Bad Bush Science. They seek not to disprove anything so much as undermine it into denial. Bush is a fraud.
Climate Research Faulted Over Missing Components
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 22, 2005
The Bush administration's program to study climate change lacks a major component required by law, according to Congressional investigators. The program fails to include periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment.
The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, conclude in a report to be released today that none of the 21 studies of climate change that the administration plans to publish by September 2007 explicitly address the potential effects in eight areas specified by a 1990 law, the Global Change Research Act. The areas include agriculture, energy, water resources and biological diversity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/science/22warm.html?ex=1115870400&en=59032c2708c7b590&ei=5070
Cameroon vs. South Africa in the Battle of the Gorillas
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: May 10, 2005
PRETORIA, May 4 - Where does a 600-pound gorilla sleep?
Cameroon's government says South Africa's government knows the right answer. But for two years, South Africa seemed not to have heard the question. Since acknowledging it last December, South Africa's Science Ministry has offered one reply and its Environment Ministry another, and each contradicts the other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/africa/10gorilla.html
The Jerusalem Post
PM says Israel will pull out even if Hamas leads PA vote
By HERB KEINON AND JPOST STAFF
Anti-disengagement grafitti near Neve Dekalim (AP)
The disengagement plan will be implemented regardless of Hamas's showing in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council elections, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday, shortly before his foreign minister questioned the wisdom of withdrawing from Gaza if Hamas wins those elections.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519113272
Gaza farmers compensation okayed
Gaza farmers can get from 40 to 80 dunams depending on where they choose to live and work, based on an agricultural program approved Sunday by the cabinet.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519113278
Settlers fail to meet Nitzan deadline
A minority petition drive among Gush Katif settlers has not come close to collecting the 5,000 signatures requested by the government and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni by May 10 to start planning for the construction of four new communities in the area of Nitzan and north Ashkelon.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605170932
US Christians go from Auschwitz to J'lem
After visiting concentration camps in Poland and joining the March of the Living there last week, the two dozen Christian members of the ADL mission from the Atlanta, Georgia, area found the guided tour of Jerusalem's Old City on Monday a bit overwhelming.
"This," said Georgia State Attorney-General Thurbert Baker after stops at the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, "is something I will never forget."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605170961
Earthquake off Sumatra; causalities reported
A magnitude 6.4 quake shook the seabed southwest of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage.
The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred just after 8 a.m. local time, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coastline at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles).
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115691525558&p=1078397702269
Russia, EU to unveil partnership accord Tuesday
Russia and the European Union were expected to unveil a broad partnership accord at a summit that represents an attempt to reinvigorate relations after a troubled year.
As the EU swelled last year with 10 new members, most of them from the former Soviet bloc, the EU's policy has been seen as becoming more assertive toward Russia.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605172502&p=1078397702269
Unwanted Pregnancy
Abortion bills get whittled down
By KIT WAGAR and TIM HOOVER
The Kansas City Star
JEFFERSON CITY — Leaders of Missouri Right to Life learned last week that, in the words of Mick Jagger, you can't always get what you want.
Despite an anti-abortion governor and overwhelming majorities opposed to abortion in both the House and Senate, two of Right to Life's pet bills are going nowhere this legislative session, and a third is being significantly watered down.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11591561.htm
Loyola University Under Fire for Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 7, 2005
New Orleans, LA (LifeNews.com) -- Loyola University is coming under fire for offering an honorary degree to a pair of pro-abortion politicians.
The New Orleans university is bestowing a collective honorary doctorate on the Landrieu family, which includes pro-abortion U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and her brother Mitch, who is Louisiana's lieutenant governor and who also does not oppose legal abortion.
http://www.lifenews.com/state1027.html
Comment: Liam Fay: Let’s not hand abortion debate to Mrs Mertons
Let’s have a heated debate! Sounding uncannily like the spoof chat show host Mrs Merton, Dr Berry Kiely has invited the nation to indulge in yet another impassioned public discussion about abortion, culminating, she hopes, in yet another constitutional referendum.
The medical adviser to the self-styled pro-life campaign was careful to add that the debate must be conducted in a “calm and respectful” manner. At this point in the Mrs Merton Show, the audience would have erupted in laughter.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1602558,00.html
concluding...
