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First Lady Michelle Obama told two audiences at Democratic fundraising events on Tuesday that the justices her husband appointed to the Supreme Court will protect the right to “love whomever we choose.” She also said these justices would protect “privacy”—presumably a reference to the “right to privacy” the court invoked in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. “Let’s not forget what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices,

It appears some homosexuals have great hate for any law that restricts their desired sexual behaviors. Even the raising of age of consent. EDITORIAL New justice minister has got to go Paul Gallant / Xtra Thursday, February 16, 2006 Now that Stephen Harper has adopted former PM J! ean Chrétién as his role model -- we all worried Harper would be a socially conservative ideologue when it turns out he'd rather be a Machiavellian powermonger -- let's look more closely at Canada's new Justice Minister Vic Toews. Toews' political life has been so focussed on sex, you have to wonder...

Unfortunatelly, as I predicted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476254/posts #28 the stupid white fat man is going to make a movie about New Orleans tragedy. If you have any sources in english with further details please provide them here.

Christian right sets up shop ANALYSIS / Welcome to post-SSM trench warfare Gareth Kirkby / Capital Xtra / Thursday, July 14, 2005 Something changed in Canada during the national debate over same-sex marriage. We now live in a new period of religious anger. Of extremist rhetoric. Of evangelical absolutism. Our community needs to get ready for US-style trench warfare as a new generation of religious Canadians start to flex their still weak, but growing, muscles in the public square. A sleeping giant has been awoken by Canada's debate about same-sex civil marriage rights: the Christian right. Their engagement in the...

Christians capturing Tory party Fri Jun 3 2005 FRANCES RUSSELL CHRISTIAN. Jew. Muslim. Hindu. Buddhist. Agnostic. Atheist. Under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, all have equal right to sit at the table of political power. But only if they respect democratic pluralism and the rights of others to hold different beliefs and values. What worries a clear majority of Canadians is a peculiarly American strain of Christianity that clamours for its own religious freedom and rights, but squelches them for others. It seeks political power for the express purpose of remaking the nation in its own rigid and authoritarian...

ANTHONY WESTELL: We need separation of church and politics CBC News Viewpoint | June 15, 2005 | More from Anthony Westell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Westell was Globe and Mail bureau chief in Ottawa, 1964-69, and later a national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does the public profession of religious faith have a role to play in democratic politics? The question becomes more relevant by the week as avowed Christian evangelists capture Conservative nominations across the country. Such candidates have long been familiar in the so-called Bible Belt areas of Alberta and B.C., where fundamentalist churches are well established. Now...

(CNSNews.com) - A religious watchdog group is blasting the Bush administration for re-submitting the nominations of judges the group has urged the Senate to defeat. On Monday, Bush re-nominated 20 failed judicial nominees, some of which have been denounced by liberals as "right-wing extremists." Americans United for Separation of Church and State Tuesday criticized the Bush administration's "stubbornness" for re-submitting William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown for nomination to the federal bench. "This administration is bent on radically re-making the federal bench," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, in a press release. "No one can take...