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CANADIANS WANT TRADITIONAL FAMILIES: STUDY
If most Canadians had their way, they would live in traditional families, a new study has discovered.
In a national survey carried out last year by University of Lethbridge sociologist Reg Bibby, 58% of the 2,093 adults questioned said that for them, the "ideal" family arrangement remains a married man and woman with at least one child, the Globe and Mail reported. That conviction is also shared by many unmarried couples, both heterosexual and homosexual and with or without children. Even 90% of teenagers said they plan to get married, have children, and stay with the same partner for life.
Overall, 53% said they are currently part of a traditional family and 9% are married to a person of the opposite sex but have no children. Divorced or separated persons with at least one child, unmarried couples with children, and unmarried couples with no children make up approximately 5%.
"What Canadians want is a traditional marriage," Bibby told the Ottawa Citizen. "But they're not getting it." The study revealed that only half of all men and women can expect to marry before they turn 50, and more marriages are failing. But for all that, marriage and family continue, as the Citizen stated, "to be of paramount importance to Canadians, and our hopes and dreams are traditional."
Focus on the Family Canada's own research echoes this finding. "We have found that the majority of Canadians do value the conventional family structure of mom, dad, and kids," stated Research Analyst, Ami Dueck. "We strive every day to provide support and resources that empower Canadians to achieve what they desire for their families."
CANADA PUMPS MILLIONS MORE INTO U.N. POPULATION FUND
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which pays for abortions and other population-control measures around the world, is getting an added boost from Canada's taxpayers, the Toronto Star reported recently.
Last month, International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll announced a 40% increase in the government's annual contribution to the UNFPA, from $13.1 million to about $16.9 million a year. About $9 million of the $67.4 million committed by Canada over the next four years will go into a specific fund for "birth-control supplies" such as condoms. But most will be used to replace core financing lost due to the United States' boycott of the fund over the past three years. As if to get that point across, Carroll disclosed the government's decision during U.S. President George W. Bush's brief visit to Canada.
The Bush administration withdrew funding from UNFPA to protest the findings of an investigative team sent to China in 2002. It found, according to Secretary of State Colin Powell, that UNFPA's "support of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion." UNFPA denies that it has "knowingly" supported such practices.
According to the Star, Carroll has been invited to sit on a U.N. "leadership council" on women and AIDS.
DUTCH DOCTORS EUTHANIZE NEWBORNS
Amid signs that Canada's debate over euthanasia could be heating up again, a hospital in the Netherlands has revealed it is now putting to death terminally ill newborn babies, the Associated Press reported last month.
The Groningen Academic Hospital made the disclosure while recommending a medical protocol that would allow doctors to cause the death of infants deemed to be in great pain from an incurable disease such as severe spina bifida, extreme deformities, or brain damage. This so-called mercy killing would need the agreement of the baby's medical team along with other physicians that the pain could not be relieved and there was no real hope for improvement. The parents would also have to agree that under the circumstances, their baby would be better off dead.
The hospital says it carried out four such killings last year. Although technically illegal, neither the hospital nor the doctors involved have been prosecuted.
"The slippery slope in the Netherlands has descended already into a vertical cliff," said prominent California-based pro-life activist Wesley J. Smith, in an e-mail to AP. Medical ethicists have also widely condemned the idea of killing newborns.
Cotler, meanwhile, says now might be a good time for members of Parliament to undertake an "informed debate and discussion" of assisted suicide, the Globe and Mail reported. The type of forum Cotler seems to have in mind would be an evening dialogue among MPs with no vote being held.
But as CanWest News Services reported, Cotler also admits that reaching a national consensus on whether to change the law on assisted suicide would not be easy. "This is a serious question, but a difficult and complex one on a moral level, a philosophical level, and a legal and medical level," he told the Commons Justice Committee. "There are people who believe this is a matter of personal choice and the right to die in dignity, others who feel we've got to protect the rights of the disabled."
"I think we should leave the law as it is," said Margaret Somerville, professor of law and medicine at McGill University, according to the Globe and Mail. "We're not a product in a supermarket - as one politician who advocated euthanasia said - to be checked out as quickly, cheaply and efficiently as possible."
"It's extremely important that we keep the value of respect for life."
Canada's Christian Youth Lay "Siege" to the Nation
for God's Kingdom
From: http://flyhighministries.com/Newsletters/2005/Sept2005.htm
Canada's Christian Youth Lay "Siege" to the Nation
for God's Kingdom - "They
hold fast to the traditional view of family and marriage. They value life,
whether it's seniors or unborn babies and freedom of religion"by Melissa
Leong / Aimee Herd reporting : Sep 13, 2005 : Flying High Ministries
Breaking apart the stereotype view some people hold of
young people as
rebellious partiers, the Christian youth of Canada are rising up and "taking
the Kingdom by force" with godly morals and the Good News.
Siege founder; 30-year-old author, Faytene Kryskow, told the National Post,
that the common perception of youth departing from traditional values is
false. "We're here to say that's not true," said Kryskow. "They
hold fast to
the traditional view of family and marriage. They value life, whether it's
seniors or unborn babies and freedom of religion."
The nine-city tour known as "Siege: Storm the Hill"
began in Victoria, B.C. on
August 11th and traveled to Ontario, along the way; publicly declaring The
Josiah Covenant which reads:
We are gathered here today not as a protest before man or human government
nor for a prayer rally in the normal way. We are gathered here to declare
a
covenant before the Lord as a generation. We believe that God is looking for
a
voice. A voice of righteousness and justice that will speak forth a message
of
truth in love in public places of influence in our nation. Today we want to
commit as a generation to being that voice. We stand here today in this public
place to declare a personal commitment before our God.
In that spirit we declare together…
As a member of this generation in Canada I commit today to be a voice of
righteousness and justice in the nation. My covenant today is not before man
and is not before a human government but is before you and you alone Lord.
I
commit to lift my voice both in the spirit and in the natural for the glory
of
your name. I commit to lift my voice in the spirit, in intercession, bringing
fervent prayers and petitions before you for my leaders, my province and my
nation until we see the full manifestation of your Dominion come from sea
to
sea. I commit to lift my voice in the natural as well. I recognize today that
as a member of this generation I have an opportunity, and responsibility
before God, to make my voice heard for the sake of righteousness and justice.
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I covenant before you today to speak the truth to my local
leaders in love, I
commit to making my voice heard clothed not in a spirit of pride or rebellion
but in a spirit of honour, love and bold truth. As I commit to fervent action
in this way I know that I stand, ultimately, before you and you alone Lord
so
with this in mind I covenant to keep the fruit of the spirit in all things
without compromising holy zeal and truth. I commit to being one of those in
this generation that will, by the power of the Holy Spirit, stand in the place
of influence in society-be that politics, community, business, education,
law,
medicine, arts, media, sports or the like I commit to stand unashamedly as
a
light in this generation. I commit to being one of those that will, by the
power of the Holy Spirit, impart righteousness in the spheres of influence
in
Canada and to being one of those that will re-establish the righteous
foundations laid up by our righteous forefathers.
Father we ask for your forgiveness on behalf of ourselves, our generation
and
our nation where we have allowed unrighteousness to prevail in the land-where
we have "winked" at sin. Lord we repent for a spirit of apathy and
selfishness
where we have idolized our comfort, possessions and our reputation-we ask
for
your forgiveness when we have put these things above you and the glory of
your
name in the land. We ask for your forgiveness where we have overtly gone
against your laws and your righteousness or for when we have stood back and
allowed others to implement ungodly standards in the land.
Today we pray that you would cleanse our land of the guilt of unrighteousness
and injustice and that you would set us free, give us the power by the Holy
Spirit and the grace to build righteous foundations for the generations to
come. Father forgive us for our shortcomings in the past and we ask you would
baptize us today with a holy wisdom, favour, authority, power that confirms
your work, zeal and fire that will consume us until we see your Dominion come
in the nation. Today we commit to being a righteous force in the land. We
stand today in this place of influence in our nation and we say it is you,
and
you alone we honour and lay down our lives before. For you and you alone we
stand-as a generation.
Finally, Lord we pray that you would raise up a radical and righteous army
in
Canada that will carry your name with bold truth, love and Dominion from sea
to sea. We ask that you would now dispatch the angelic armies of heaven
against the works of darkness in our nation to execute your dominion. We ask
that you would restore every thing the enemy has stolen in life, destiny and
fullness from our generation and our land. We love you Jesus. Amen.
LOCAL MINISTRIES & ORGANIZATIONS
BRITISH COLUMBIA PARENTS & TEACHERS FOR LIFE - Surrey, BC
B.C. Parents & Teachers
for Life
2397 King George Highway
Box 45531 Sunnyside P.O.
Surrey, B.C.
Canada V4A 9N3
Phone/Fax 604-512-9594
E-mail: executive@bcptl.org
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