In October of last year, Sam contracted pneumonia but overcame the illness through treatment at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg. Due to his weakened condition, Sam was not able to return to his home. He is being fed intravenously and getting periodic breathing help via a respirator.

In November, doctors at Grace Hospital decided that they shouldn't have to continue treating Sam, citing as their reasons, his age, his diminished capacity, and the need for the bed and other resources that he is using.

Sam's children refused to give consent to any stoppage of treatment. In the Province of Manitoba, however, the governing policy gives the doctors the last word in matters of life and death. In this case the doctors chose to ignore the wishes and instructions of Sam's family and withdrew treatment. Since the treatment essentially is the provision of food, and occasional help with breathing, this would cause starvation and possibly asphyxiation.

On November 30, Sam's family sought and obtained a temporary court order prohibiting the hospital from stopping Sam's treatment. The hospital is fighting to get the court order overturned, at taxpayer expense, while Sam's family continues to run up expensive legal fees.

The irony surrounding all of this is the fact that Grace Hospital is operated by the Salvation Army.

They demanded that the family's 11 year old son, who had hurt his head in an accidental fall, accompany them to the hospital. This was on the order of the Garfield County Magistrate. The invasion was allegedly instigated by a paramedic who was upset with the family because they wanted to care for the boy themselves.

Details are available in this WorldNetDaily.com article

Jennifer Morales herself has a domestic partner who is an MPS employee--a woman she "married" in Canada. As a result, she has a personal interest in the passage of this resolution.

On November 20, the MPS Board Finance Committee voted 4-1 to recommend that the full board support what was defined as "eaual provision of employment benefits regardless of an employee's sexual orientation or family status."

The resolution is scheduled to go to the entire school board at their next meeting, Thursday, November 29, at 6:30pm, and passage is considered to be likely. MPS estimates that adding benefits for domestic partners could cost millions of additional tax dollars.

Unless the public--and especially Milwaukee taxpayers--act now to give MPS their opinions on this issue, Milwaukee will become the first public school district in Southeast Wisconsin to offer benefits to domestic partners of employees.

The amendment, sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), would expand hate crime law to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, or disability of victims. White House spokesman Tim Goeglein says it is "the height of irresponsibility" for senators to tie the hate crimes legislation to an important Pentagon spending bill.

The bill is also called the "Matthew Shepard Act", after a homosexual killed in Wyoming in 1998. Ironically, his killers have admitted that Shepard's "sexual orientation" had nothing to do with the crime, as they were just after money for drugs.

Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues at Concerned Women for America (CWA), explains that the legislation creates a two-tiered justice system that elevates one class of citizens based on their chosen sexual behavior. "That is, on its face, a violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the laws," he notes.

Secondly, he believes, the amendment "creates a situation where Americans' [right to] free speech and freedom of religious expression is in harm's way."

Concerned Women for America's Robert Knight summarizes ENDA as follows:

ENDA would prohibit discrimination based on “sexual orientation,” thus opening businesses with 15 or more employees to harassment by homosexual activist lawyers.

ENDA is billed as an expansion of equality, but it is really a “gay” power grab that would severely curb constitutionally guaranteed “unalienable” rights that Americans hold dear, including the freedoms of speech, religion and association.

Current national policy is committed to upholding and supporting marriage and family. ENDA would initiate an inevitable assault on marriage as “discriminatory” and further weaken efforts to restore marriage to its societal primacy.

ENDA puts the federal government in an adversarial role against the basic sexual morality of the major faiths in America. It is so sweeping that it threatens the freedoms of speech, religion and association.

ENDA will inspire lawsuits by homosexual activists, who will cry “homophobia” when an employer cleaves to policies that favor marriage, family and traditional sexual moral.

ENDA proponents point to the religious exemption in the legislation. But the exemption narrowly applies only to church-related organizations. Anyone else is unprotected. The bill utterly ignores freedom of conscience for individuals. And the question must be asked: If there is a presumption that it would be immoral to impose ENDA on religious bodies, why is it moral to impose it on everyone else?

No Democrat has chosen to participate, so apparently there will be no Democrat Values Voter Debate.

Many Republican hopefuls have accepted the invitation, choosing this debate over a proposed U-Tube debate to be sponsored by CNN on the same day, causing CNN to cancel their plans.

Several expected candidates have yet to say they will come.

Bills have been introduced on both houses of the Oregon state legislature. Known as S.B. 2 and H.B. 3526, these bills are identified as "Relating to sexual orientation discrimination."

As discussed on the Crosstalk program April 9, Restore America is alerting us to what these bills actually do. Much of the information below has come from their website at

http://www.restoreamerica.org/

In addition, WorldNetDaily has covered this issue with a story at

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55084

Among other things, this bill would...

1. Violate the Law of Conscience.

The bill will suppress the Right of the people to make moral distinctions and to speak freely on those conscientiously held opinions and convictions.

The bill will force churches and Christians to make a choice between unlawful human laws and the eternal moral laws of God, a choice that government should not impose and has never been authorized to impose.

2. Ignore and violate the natural right of parents to protect their children.

3. Ignore and disregard the entire body of research regarding the well being of children.

4. Demonstrate a preference for proven, dangerous, and unhealthy behavior.

5. Violate the right of parents to determine what their children will be taught in public schools.

6. Demonstrate disregard for parental moral values and convictions.

7. Suppress the right of the people to freedom of speech and association, the very things our Forefathers fought to preserve, and for which millions have died.

FOUR 'TAKE ACTION' STEPS MUST HAPPEN STARTING NOW, THROUGH WEDNESDAY, THIS WEEK!

1. PRAY DILIGENTLY, WITH ALL HUMILITY, that Our LORD POURS OUT HIS SPIRIT ON HIS PEOPLE TO ACT, AND CONVICTS OUR LEGISLATORS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF THIS BILL.
2. PHONE CALLS must be made to every member of the Rules Committee ON MONDAY, and to every member of the House of Representatives if the bill is passed out of committee to the House floor - TONS OF THEM! (See numbers below)
3. SIGN the Petition http://www.restoreamerica.org/petition.aspx, and ask others to do the same.

Representative Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

RULES COMMITTEE:

1. Diane Rosenbaum - rep.dianerosenbaum@state.or.us
2. Dave Hunt - rep.davehunt@state.or.us
3. Arnie Roblan - rep.arnieroblan@state.or.us
4. Vicki Berger - rep.vickiberger@state.or.us
5. Sal Esquivel - rep.salesquivel@state.or.us
6. Kim Thatcher - rep.kimthatcher@state.or.us
7. Peter Buckley - rep.peterbuckley@state.or.us

Oregon residents can call the toll free 1-800-332-2313 line to the Legislature and ask for one of the above. The operator will then connect you. Repeat the process to each legislator.

Outside Oregon, call the representatives at their direct office numbers:

Rep. Sal Esquivel-- (ES-quivell) 503-986-1403

Rep. Peter Buckley - 503-986-1405

Rep. Vicki Berger - 503-986-1420

Rep. Dave Hunt, Majority Leader - Professes to be a Christian - Democrat
503-986-1900

Rep. Diane Rosenbaum - Chair of the Rules Committee - (Extremely liberal)
503-986-1442

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has already indicated he wants to sign this bill when it reaches his desk, so a veto is extremely unlikely.

Thank you for moving quickly to contact these people as the bill is already in the process of hearings and voting in committee, and could be voted on by the full Oregon House by Thursday!

The original release as located at

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07032901.html

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Youth Welfare Officer Lies to German Television about Homeschooler Taken Away from Family
Second family worried police may storm their home and carry off their children as they did to the Busekros family
By Peter J. Smith

NUREMBURG, March 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An officer of the German Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt) yesterday told a German television station that homeschooler Melissa Busekros is happy in state custody away from her family, despite evidence to the contrary. A Jugendamt officer brusquely ended a meeting between Melissa and her family, after her father showed her the mendacious video on his laptop.

For over two months, 15 year-old homeschooled Melissa Busekros has been in the custody of Germany's Jugendamt, an organization created by National Socialist (Nazi) chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1939 to supervise and control families politically after he banned homeschooling in 1938 as subversive to indoctrinating German youth in the Nazi ideology. The Jugendamt ordered Melissa to undergo psychiatric treatment for "school phobia," and has placed her in a foster home and location unknown to her parents who are allowed to see their daughter only once a week.

According to the International Human Rights Group (IHRG), an organization working closely with the Busekros' and other oppressed homeschooling families in Germany, a Jugendamt officer said on television that Melissa Busekros had never asked to go home, preferring state custody to her family.

"The father was showing the videotape to the daughter when another worker within the room for the visit came over and slammed the computer shut, called the police, and had him escorted off the property," Joel Thornton, president of IHRG told LifeSiteNews.com. "They're only allowed 1 hour visit a week, and they ended this visit and made him leave."

"The father was trying to give Melissa some insight about what the world outside was saying because she doesn't have any access to any form of media where she's being kept," Thornton said. "He wanted her to see what was being said, but particularly what this youth officer was saying about her not wanting to go home, even though she basically requests to everyone she talks to that she wants to go home."

Thornton also referenced that Melissa had written the IHRG a letter March 12, petitioning their help to return to her family. (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07031501.html ).

"I suspect the Youth Office is not happy with all the attention they're getting, and they're trying to put more pressure on the Busekros family."

The Busekros family has hired an attorney named Hildebrand from the Nuremburg area, and are filing a legal action on Monday against the government officials that raided their home.

"It's no monetary request, it's merely a request for the government to recognize it as illegal to go into their home to take the daughter," said Thornton, who said the family hopes this action will discourage the government from seizing their other children.

Although Hubert Busekros will be able to visit his daughter again, a representative of the Jugendamt will always supervise the family's visits at some facility other than the previous government clearinghouse.

Thornton told LifeSiteNews.com that he was going to meet with 4 other homeschooling families in the Dresden area this weekend, and also with the Brause family, which lost legal custody of their children to the Jugendamt, and faces the uncertainty of whether police may storm their home and carry off their children like they did to the Busekros family. (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07032204.html)

Sources revealed to LifeSiteNews.com that the Busekros case may be resolved with the return of Melissa to her family in the next few weeks.

To contact the German embassies in Canada and the United States.

In Canada:

German Embassy
1 Waverley Street
Ottawa, ON, K2P 0T8
Tel.: 613-232-1101 Fax: 613-594-9330
Email: germanembassyottawa@on.aibn.com

In the US:

German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000
The embassy can be e-mailed from its website: http://www.globescope.biz/germany/reg/index.cfm

To express concerns to German authorities:

President of the Federal Republic of Germany
11010 Berlin
Germany
Telefon: +49 30 20 00-0
Fax: +49 030 20 00-19 99
E-Mail: Bundespraesident.Horst.Koehler@bpra.bund.de

Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1
10557 Berlin
Germany
Telefon: +49 180 272-0000
Fax: +49 1888 272-2555
E-Mail:InternetPost@bundesregierung.de

Politician Joachim Herrmann
Chief of the CSU Party, also knows the Busekros family personally
Joachim Herrmann
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 9 a
91052 Erlangen
Germany
Telefon: +49 9131- 53 45 38
Telefax: +49 9131- 61 18 40
E-Mail: joachim.herrmann@csu-bayern.de

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Crosstalk has received the following information from Eagle Forum. It demands immediate action.

Earlier this year, Democrats attempted to pad their majority by giving certain congressional voting rights to delegates from 5 non-state territories the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. AS Eagle Forum predicted, that was just the beginning. Now, they are taking the bold--and unconstitutional step of granting full voting rights to the DC delegate by voting on the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act ( H.R. 1433).

Sponsored by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), this bill, scheduled for a vote this Friday, would establish full House of Representatives voting rights for the District of Columbia and add an additional seat to Utah, the next state in line to pick up a Congressional seat in reapportionment. This is an attempt to silence critics of DC voting rights, buying them off with a "sure Republican" seat because they know the DC seat will be a solid Democrat. This type of trade-off proves this is a partisan move by Democrats wanting to add a permanent Democrat vote to their tallies.

Most importantly, allowing non-state delegates to vote is clearly unconstitutional. The Constitution says the House shall be composed of "Members chosen ... by the People of the several States," not delegates representing non-state territories. The District of Columbia is a federal city, not a state, with final governing authority resting with Congress.

Even some conservative Republicans, such as Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), are making the mistake of supporting this unconstitutional piece of legislation.

Congress will likely vote on the DC Voting Rights this Friday! So it is imperative that you let your Representative know about your concern over the DC Voting Rights (H.R. 1433)! If you agree with Eagle Forum that this is an unconstitutional attempt to expand the membership of the House of Representatives, please call today!

Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Ask for the office of your representative. If you do not know who your Representative is, give the operator your zip code which determines which office you need to reach.

Thanks again for taking time to be involved!

The Crosstalk Team

Thanks again for taking time to be involved!

While this is enough to cause parents concern, the school has also taken steps to ensure that the parents do not know about this meeting at all. They required that the 14-year-old freshmen attending this meeting also sign a "confidentiality agreement" promising not to tell anyone--including their parents--about the discussion.

The goal is obviously to bring these high school students on board as accepting homosexual behavior as "normal", contrary to what most may have learned home.

After word got out about the confidentiality agreement, the school backed down and said they would not require it in the future, promising to be more "above board and honest" with parents. But the goal had already been reached, as another generation of young people had been indoctrinated. And, despite the school's promises, parents who requested to see the materials used, or to sit in on the indoctrination meeting, were refused.

On the Crosstalk program on February 9, Chris Klicka, Senior Counsel with the Home School Legal Defense Association, detailed the following account of home school persecution in Germany:

Melissa Busekros is German girl who at age 15 was attending public school. She was doing well in most of her studies but having some trouble with two classes so her parents decided to home tutor her. The school didn't like the arrangement so they expelled Melissa. Her parents then made the decision to home school her on a full time basis.

At one point, Police officials and social workers took her forcibly away from her parents and transported her to a psychiatric ward where she was interrogated for four hours. She was then allowed to return home for a couple of days.

Then on February 1, , 15 police officers took custody of Melissa and checked her into the psychiatric ward again where she is being treated for "school phobia."

The federal government wants to take this to another level through the Real I.D. Act. This act would create a national I.D. system, or an internal passport of sorts for every individual.

Such efforts at I.D. collection are very easy to break or get around, so in the end, privacy could be compromised for law abiding citizens all in the name of information gathering.

To reach your federal legislators on the issue of a federal "Real" I.D., call:
202-224-3121
202-225-3121

As a result, the Senate version of the bill retains the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, and freedom to petition the government for redress.

The battle may not be over, however. As the bill moves to the House of Representatives, there are those who would try to re-introduce the "grassroots lobbying" language. Should it pass in that form, ultimately a conference committee would make the final decision as to whether it stays or goes.

Be on the alert for future reports as the Ethics Reform Bill moves through Congress.