June 01, 2007

Week in Review

Jim Schneider reviewed the following news stories from the past week:

-Dr. Jack Kervorkian released from prison after serving 8 years of a 10 to 20 year sentence for killing a patient.

-Muslim mosques are awarded homeland security grants.

-The super-secret Bilderberger group, an organization of powerful, international elites, is meeting this week somewhere in Turkey.

-A program known as "Health Windows" aims to provide Mexican immigrants with basic health information, cholesterol checks and other preventative tests.

-Republican Party donors are furious over Bush's stand to give legal status to illegal aliens.

-Haliburton's former engineering and construction subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in case of a national emergency.

-Transsexual loses out in bid to become City Manager in Sarasota, Florida.

-Mitt Romney believes that officials running for public office should not discuss personal beliefs about morality.

-Ontario conservative leader celebrated his participation in a Toronto gay and lesbian film and video festival.

-Britain's left-leaning university and college union calls for British law to be rewritten to prohibit teachers or schools from expressing any moral opposition to homosexuality or from promoting natural marriage in the classroom.

-Christian street preacher charges that the homosexual community in Chicago is guilty of hypocrisy for not granting him permission to March in a June 24th gay pride parade.

-The Philadelphia City Council votes to renege on a 1928 ordinance allowing the Boy Scouts to have their headquarters in a building on a parcel of land in perpetuity.

-Homosexual couples in New Hampshire can begin applying for many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage as early as January under a law signed yesterday by Governor John Lynch.

-The California State Senate passes SB 777 requiring school textbooks and instructional materials and school sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex change operations, homosexual marriage and other aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality.

-California's AB-102 allows for name change among domestic partners just as is done within heterosexual marriages.

-Pro-Life advocates are asking people to call on members of Congress urging them to oppose a bill that would force them to pay for embyonic stem cell research, and to vote against any attempt to override a presidential veto. You can contact your congressman at the number listed below.

-New Surgeon General nominee being courted by Planned Parenthood.

-Florida Supreme Court paves the way for two state ballot amendments over embryonic stem cell research.

-National Spelling Bee champion is a home schooler.

-Answers in Genesis Creation museum causes an uproar.

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