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PAST ACTION ALERTS -
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Issued: July
15, 2004
Catholic Advocate Network (CAN)
As you may know, this week, after
having the matter brought to his attention by a letter
from Bishop Carlson (link below), the Governor made the
decision to pull the teen section of the State Library
Website due to the offensive links provided for youth to
access. Included were links to Planned Parenthood,
a website by another pro-abortion supporter, the Kaiser
Foundation, and a link to a website entitled ?Go Ask
Alice,? websites that, among other things, encourage the
use of condoms and birth control, and advise on how to
obtain it without parental knowledge. They have
sex games and interactive sex talk chat rooms, and go
into explicit explanation on how to carry out sexual
acts. There are discussions on sexual orientation
and gay and lesbian advocacy. Emergency
contraception, a drug that can abort a child, is pushed
as a virtue. Chastity and abstinence are not
advocated, and rarely mentioned in any detail.
A detailed article on this
matter will appear in the August edition of the
Bishop's Bulletin. You can also read the
Argus Leader coverage at the following links.
These articles have appeared on the front page, above
the fold, every day this week:
What the Argus
articles fail to cover is the struggle Marilyn
Mendenhall of Holy Trinity Parish in Huron, SD, and
Huron Middle School Librarian, went through to get to
this point, or any serious discussion about how harmful
the information on these websites is. Of all the
people objecting to the Governor's action, none have
come out and said that the information pulled is good
for our youth - or something that every teen (really
every child of any age) should have easy access to, only
that it is censorship and abuse of executive power on
the part of the Governor.
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Issued: July 6, 2004
FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT UP
FOR VOTE
Today the institution of marriage is
under grave attack. There is a movement to radically
alter the definition of marriage to include same sex “civil
unions” or “domestic partnerships.”
As faithful citizens, we are all
called to become involved in state and national efforts to
defend marriage as a sacramental union between one man and
one woman. Marriage is the cornerstone of the family
and of society. Even though civil and church laws
regulate marriage, it did not originate from either the
church or state, but from God. No church, state, or
nation can alter the basic meaning and structure of
marriage.
Sometime during the week beginning
July 12, 2004, our United States Senators will be voting on
whether to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment (S.J. Res.
30). This legislation is an amendment to the United
States Constitution defining marriage in our country to be
the union of one man and one woman.
Join Bishop Robert J. Carlson in
urging our Senators to follow the will of their constituents
and preserve marriage in our country! Click on
"National" in the menu above for contact information, or
simply
click here.
For more information on the Federal
Marriage Amendment or Church teachings on this issue, click
on any of the links below:
CAN Flyer on Federal Marriage Amendment (to hang up/hand
out)
Bishop Robert J. Carlson's Letters to Senators Daschle and
Johnson
Text of Federal Marriage Amendment
USCCB Documents:
Official
Church Statements About Marriage and Same-Sex Unions:
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From the full U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops (November 2003):
Between Man and Woman: Questions and Answers
about Marriage and Same-Sex Unions
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From the Administrative Committee
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
(September 2003):
Promote, Preserve, Protect Marriage
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From the Bishops’ Committee on
Marriage and Family and the Committee on Domestic
Policy (July 1996):
Statement on Same-Sex Marriage
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From the Vatican’s Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith (July 2003):
Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal
Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons
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From the Vatican’s Pontifical
Council for the Family (July 2000):
Family, Marriage and “De Facto” Unions
Additional Resources
and Links:
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The Catholic Bishops in
Massachusetts are leading a campaign in favor of an
amendment to the state constitution that would
define marriage as the union of one man and one
woman. Various statements and background documents
are available through the
Massachusetts
Catholic Conference.
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The Marriage
Law Project
at the Catholic University of America (Washington
DC) monitors the progress of state and federal
legislation regarding marriage and same-sex unions.
It provides updates and other resources.
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The Catholic Organization for
Life and Family (COLF), working with the Canadian
Catholic Bishops, has published a very helpful
question/answer leaflet about same-sex marriage
entitled
Marriage Matters.
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Following is an
email passed on to our office from Sam Brownback's prayer
warrior:
21 May 2004
Dear Praying Friends of Sam
Brownback,
Sam will introduce a bill today called the
"Unborn Child Pain Reduction
Act". This bill to be
submitted to both houses of congress requires
that after
20 weeks of pregnancy, the mother who is requesting an
abortion be informed of the fetal pain that will occur with
the
procedure and offer anesthesia for the fetus before
the baby is torn
apart by the abortion procedure.
This bill is gruesome in that it forces us to think about
the pain and
suffering that the fetus has to go through
before it is killed. It
brings a new sense of
reality to the whole abortion procedure. The
partial birth abortion trials have brought the reality of
the trauma of
this procedure to the fetus into the light.
This bill is an appropriate
next step in the fight
against abortion as a whole.
Pray that the media would pick up on this bill and give
a fair
presentation to the public.
26 Senators have signed on as cosponsors so far.
Pray that God would
move the hearts of many more senators
and congressman to sign on and
give support.
Ask
the Lord to use this as a step forward in helping people
grasp the
realities of the abortion procedure and to move
public opinion away from
it support for abortion.
Thanks for praying,
Lonnie
Click here to learn more about this new
bill.
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