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  • Telegraph: John Swinney vows to press ahead with state guardians despite former SNP leader's backlash warning
    June 8th, 2016

    John Swinney has vowed to press ahead with their controversial plan to appoint a state guardian for every child in Scotland despite a former SNP leader warning the party faces a public backlash if it refuses to stage a climbdown.

    The Deputy First Minister recognised there are concerns about Named Persons but argued the answer was a “refresh” of the guidance issued to parents and other groups about the scheme to address any “misunderstandings”.

    But Gordon Wilson, who led the SNP between 1979 and 1990, called for the legislation to be repealed and warned the party that “stubborn refusal” to do so amid mounting public fury would result in "long-term political grief".

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  • Mail: Finally, the church admits it was wrong on Thatcher
    June 8th, 2016

    Bishops yesterday admitted that the Church of England was wrong about Margaret Thatcher.

    In a paper that amounted to a sweeping U-turn in the Church's longstanding Left-wing attitude to poverty and the welfare state, they declared that it 'failed to see the moral vision that informed Margaret Thatcher's administration'.

    Their acknowledgement that the late Tory prime minister was driven by 'moral purpose' contrasted strongly with the view taken by the bishops even last year, when before the General Election they were severely critical of her legacy.

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  • Guardian: Baby born to mother who had been brain-dead for four months
    June 8th, 2016

    A healthy baby was born in Portugal on Tuesday to a mother who had been brain-dead for nearly four months.

    "The baby boy, weighing 2.35kg (5lb 3oz), was born after 32 weeks without complications and by caesarean section," announced the Lisbon hospital that carried out the procedure.

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  • WORLD: Oklahoma adopts law designed to create 'an abortion-free society'
    June 7th, 2016

    This November, Oklahoma residents will start seeing state-sponsored, pro-life messages.

    Gov. Mary Fallin signed The Humanity of the Unborn Child Act on Monday, with the goal of moving the state toward “an abortion-free society,” according to the bill.

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  • Daily Caller: Abandoning Tenure To Save My Soul by Robert Oscar Lopez
    June 7th, 2016

    In May 2013, I received a letter from Provost Harry Hellenbrand, informing me that I had received tenure at California State University-Northridge. This was a joyous occasion. For most professors no watershed is as important as the moment one receives tenure.

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  • TIME: How many Americans are gay?
    June 7th, 2016

    It’s estimated that tens of thousands of people were arrested for crossing such lines before the turn of the 20th century, during which time some states allowed the sterilization of so-called perverts. It wasn’t until 1998, the year Google was invented, that the Supreme Court struck down any remaining bans on sex between men. The years since have brought a rapid social transformation, with LGBT Americans increasingly accepted throughout society and accorded many–though far from all–of its legal protections.

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  • Vice: Assisted Suicide Is Now Legal in Canada — And One Province Is Providing Free Drugs to Do It
    June 7th, 2016

    It's now legal for doctors and other healthcare providers in Canada to help patients die.

    The federal government missed its June 6 deadline to implement its assisted death legislation, Bill C-14, so provinces across Canada are taking things into their own hands when it comes to regulating how and when people can end their own lives.

    Canada joins other jurisdictions such as The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, all of which have their own rules around doctor-assisted suicide.

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  • Life Site: Mexican politicians begin to retreat on homosexual 'marriage' following nationwide protests
    June 7th, 2016

    Members of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s own party began to distance themselves last week from the president’s recently-announced initiative to amend the constitution to create homosexual “marriage,” following protests throughout Mexico and in numerous foreign countries on Wednesday by pro-family groups.

    Thousands of Mexicans in 26 states as well as the United States, Italy, Spain and even Russia, protested against Peña Nieto’s push to impose the gay agenda on the entire country through propaganda campaigns, homosexualist sex-ed programs in schools, and “marriage” for people of the same sex.

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  • Mail: Pre-school children should be warned about sex abuse to stop their PARENTS molesting them say experts
    June 7th, 2016

    Sex education should be given to pre-school children to stop their parents abusing them, MPs have been told.

    The Women and Equalities Committee heard children in nursery and reception class should be taught about sex to protect them from being molested ‘within the family unit’.

    Experts said if children were ‘old enough to be abused, they are old enough to be educated’ so that they could speak out about potential assaults.

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  • Life Site: Trudeau Liberals push to make national anthem 'gender neutral'
    June 7th, 2016

    The Conservatives’ calls for a national consultation on the lyrics of the Canada’s anthem couldn’t stop the Liberal government from pushing a gender neutral version of O Canada one step closer to becoming law this week.

    While the Conservatives complained that Bill C-210, an Act to Amend the National Anthem (gender), was another arbitrary change to Canadian tradition, like the government’s commitment to change the electoral system, being pushed without consulting Canadians, the Liberals justified the rush on the grounds that Mauril Belanger, the Liberal MP who sponsored Bill C-210, is dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

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