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CANADIAN SUPREME COURT JUDGES BLAST CHRISTIANITY

OTTAWA, Nov 13 (LSN.ca) - In a court case that could lead to overt legal discrimination against Christians in Canada, two Supreme Court Justices blasted Christianity as discriminatory and intolerant. On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Trinity Western case. The case concerns the refusal by the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) to approve the teacher education program at Trinity Western University because the Christian school's code of conduct requires students and teachers to refrain from homosexual sex as well other sinful actions. Two lower court decisions have ordered the BCCT to accredit the university's program, but the Supreme Court suspended those decisions by granting a hearing.

During the hearing, feminist-activist Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dube was quoted in the National Post as saying, "'We have all this love stuff,' but if Trinity's code stated that blacks were inferior to whites, or that Jews should be killed, would its teachers still be fit for public schools?" And when the universities defenders said evidence of discrimination must be found among teachers who have graduated from the program, Judge Dube said, "Evidence [of discrimination] is in the [Trinity] program. What kind of other evidence do you want?" Dube is a known homosexual activist, having spoken at homosexual conferences in favour of legal recognition of homosexuals living together. "In failing to recognize and support partnerships, traditional and otherwise, are we not doing violence to the fabric of our community?" asked L'Heureux-Dube in her keynote talk given October 20 last year.

The Post also quotes Justice Ian Binnie as saying, "It's all very well to say, 'love the sinner but hate the sin,' But is that not a contradiction in terms? While the religious may preach tolerance, religion is often an engine of intolerance." Reacting to the comments, Bishop J. Edward Troy of Saint John, Rothesay, N.B. wrote, "If the learned Justice is unable to comprehend this elementary familiar distinction, what is he doing on the highest court in our land?"

For the evidence of bias on Justice Dube see:
http://lifesite.net/interim/1999/may/11real.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/april/990409b.html

For the Post's coverage of the quotes in court see:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/200...

For Bishop's Troy's comments see:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/200...

For background on the TWU case see:
http://lsn.ca/ldn/1999/jan/990105.html#1
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/dec/99121004.html

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US ELECTION QUAGMIRE - ELECTION FRAUD

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (LSN.ca) - While major media, mostly staunch supporters of Al Gore, spin the news around the US election quagmire, many are being misled regarding the facts in question. The coverage is so biased observers wonder whether many are aware of important facts surrounding the debate. Clearing up some of the confusion, the Family Research Council noted this weekend that:

* Unofficial results of the Florida recount reported by the Associated Press show that George W. Bush has a thin lead in the race for Florida's crucial electoral votes. (The shrinkage of the Bush lead is statistically improbable. The Las Vegas Sun reported that University of Nevada at Las Vegas economics professor Tom Carroll told the paper that the probability of being struck by lightning is about one in a million. The same person would have to be hit by lightning 30 times to compare with what we've seen in this recount."
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/11/11/10...)

* An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 overseas absentee ballots remain uncounted and have until next Friday to arrive. In 1996, there were 2,300 of these ballots in Florida, and (Republican) Bob Dole won 54 percent of them, a higher percentage than he received from other Florida voters (43 percent). (Other reports indicate that tens of thousands of U.S. Military personnel around the world were unable to cast ballots for the first time in US History because their Military Absentee ballots "got lost in the mail." In past elections, the Military voted 9:1 in favor of Republicans.)

* The elections supervisor for Palm Beach County is Theresa LePore, an elected Democrat. She configured the contested "butterfly" ballot. Before the election, pursuant to law, sample ballots were sent to every voter in the county and one was published in the newspaper. The sample ballot asked voters to return their ballot for a new one upon making any mistakes. The "butterfly" ballot has been used before in Palm Beach County and in Cook County, Illinois, where Bill Daley, Gore's campaign chairman, is from.

* Palm Beach County disqualified 19,000 ballots because voters marked two candidates for the same office. In 1996, 14,872 ballots were tossed out for the same reason. In both elections the number of disqualified ballots was about 4 percent of the total votes cast.

* Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes from Palm Beach County. Democrats say that the number is inordinate, but in 1996, Buchanan received 8,788 votes in the county. Furthermore, this year, 16,695 Palm Beach County voters were registered as independents, Reform Party, or American Reform Party voters.

(* Hand recounts are dangerously open to manipulation as crinkling of ballots may loosen other chads thus eliminating ballots
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20001113_xex_how...)

(* Although Constitutionally banned, Democrats are openly speaking about extending President Clinton's term past January 20 if the election quagmire is unresolved.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20001110_x...)

For the FRC report see:
http://www.frc.org/up/index.cfm#1

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QUESTIONABLE LIBERAL CONTROLS OVER CANADIAN ELECTION

OTTAWA, Nov 13 (LSN.ca) - Liberal controls over the election process in Canada are leading to a situation that may in some ways mimic the U.S. election fiasco. Liberal appointed returning officers have disqualified some candidates in all major political parties except for the ruling Liberals. As well, the Liberal nominated Supreme Court Justices have surprisingly upheld election-spending laws even though lower courts had suspended them.

Elections Canada said 17 candidates from the three major opposition parties were disqualified from registering. Four Canadian Alliance candidates, three NDP candidates and 10 Conservatives, were disqualified, meaning that for the first time in recent history only one party, the Liberals, will field a full slate of candidates in Canada's 301 ridings. The paper reports that the Alliance and the Conservative party lay part of the blame on Prime Minister Jean Chretien's decision to call a snap election, which forced the other parties to scramble for candidates and make last-minute campaign preparations. Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley unsuccessfully pressed for independently appointed returning officers.

The Globe and Mail reported Friday that the "Gag Law", which set federal spending limits on third-party advertising during election campaigns, has been reinstated by the Supreme Court. It had been placed on temporary hold by an Alberta judge after a Charter challenge by the National Citizens' Coalition. The law concerns pro-life groups since it would have limited third-party expenditures on advocacy advertising, nationally and in any given constituency, during the course of a campaign. It would have required bureaucratic reporting of spending and lists of donors who gave over $500 specifically for third party election spending that exceeded $3000 per riding or $150,000 nationally.

See the Ottawa Citizen coverage at:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/election/001110/4846627.html

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CANADIAN RESEARCHERS FIND ETHICAL STEM CELLS

MONTREAL, Nov 13 (LSN.ca) - Canadian scientists at McGill University Health Centre have successfully grown heart muscles in rats from stem cells taken from the rats' bone marrow. The discovery proposes an ethical source for stem cells which avoids the use and destruction of human embryos. Moreover, the procedure is superior to the use of other stem cells since these stem cells coming from the body of the patient do not require the use of expensive and lifelong needed anti-rejection drugs required with stem cells from sources other than the patient.

For more see the Globe and Mail at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/National/20001113/UHARTN....

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

SPUC reported that Switzerland's federal social security department announced on Wednesday that private health insurers will have to cover the RU-486 abortion drug starting next month. RU-486 was authorized for use in Switzerland in October 1999. 2,300 women have used it since then. There is no Swiss state-run health service and so all citizens must take out private health insurance.
http://www.newsre.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=7956

Homosexual marriage has passed the lower House of parliament in Germany. "The bill gives privileges to homosexual relationships and thus represents the active sponsorship by the state of what is in the Church's view immoral behavior," said the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, in a column in the mass-market Bild Zeitung.
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html...
001110/world/afp/Germany_offers_limited_marriage_rights_to_gays.html

The UK has funded the UNFPA's population control efforts in the developing world with at #25m donation to supply male and female condoms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1017000/10172...

The investigation into the harvesting without consent of organs from dead babies in Britain has reached new levels with the discovery of some 400 fetuses at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. The BBC reports the bodies come mostly from abortions and miscarriages.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1020000/10205...

Despite media bias, the Canadian political leaders debate has produced a shift in favour of the Canadian Alliance. A new Ipsos-Reid poll shows that following the debate the Alliance went from 26 to 28% and the Liberals dropped from 44 to 40%. The Bloc Quebecois was unchanged at 11 per cent, the Conservatives were up one point at nine and the NDP down one point at nine.
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSElection2000News/1113_poll-cp.html

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