World Family Policy Center News
3/25/02
Volume
1, Issue 2
The following excerpts are highlights of current events and do not
necessarily represent the views of the World Family Policy Center or Brigham
Young University.
IN THE NEWS
WILL A
NEW U.N. RISE FROM THE ASHES? (click
to read the full article)
"During an address to the German parliament in Berlin on Feb. 28, Annan
expressed frustration at the way U.N. peacekeeping has evolved. He said that
through experience, the United Nations has found peacekeeping operations work
best as part of an interconnected effort involving humanitarian, military,
political, social and economic agencies. But he said the United Nations has
rarely been given the resources to mount such an operation.
… [A] senior official on U.N. affairs at the U.S. State Department, Bill Wood,
tells MSNBC that Washington is wary about supporting U.N. peacekeeping missions
in areas of ongoing conflict. He says there needs to be a demonstrated
commitment by combatants to a cease-fire and a negotiating process before an
international force can be sent in under a U.N. shield."
FRC ENTERS CASE AIMED
AT PROTECTING KIDS ON THE INTERNET
(click
to read the full article)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A recent child pornography bust by the Justice
Department exposed a large ring of online child predators. Despite this growing
problem, the ACLU is set to argue on Monday that a law which seeks to protect
kids from online obscene material in schools and public libraries is
unconstitutional.
The ACLU and the American Library Association have filed suit challenging that
section of CIPA which applies to libraries. A trial will begin March 25 in
Philadelphia, Pa., and is expected to last nine days.
"CIPA is both common sense and constitutional," said Jan LaRue [Family
Research Council's senior director of Legal Studies] "Congress
acted within its authority and responsibility to prevent federal monies from
being used to provide access to illegal pornography in public schools and
libraries.
"With today's effective filtering technology, there is no excuse for
schools and libraries to become a virtual dirty peep-show open to kids and
funded by taxpayers," LaRue added.
SUMMIT URGES WAR ON POVERTY
(click to read full article)
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Speaking to presidents and prime ministers
from six continents, world leaders called on rich nations Thursday to increase
aid to the world's poorest, saying the developing world would become a breeding
ground for terrorism without more help.
IN REVIEW
SHOULD GAY PRIEST ADOPT? (click
to read the full article)
By Ann Coulter
Townhall.com
Despite the growing media consensus that
Catholicism causes sodomy, an alternative view – adopted by the Boy Scouts – is
that sodomites cause sodomy.
It is a fact that the vast majority of the abuser
priests - more than 90 percent - are accused of molesting teen-age boys.
Since liberals categorically reject the notion that homosexual conduct is often
correlated with homosexuality, they have responded to the gay sex-abuse crisis
in the priesthood by blaming Catholicism. In particular, liberals have
identified the church's celibacy requirement as the root of the problem.
Blaming celibacy is not only contrary to various liberal dogmas, but contrary
to all known evidence about any vice. Total avoidance, not limited temptation,
is the only hope for controlling weakness. Alcoholics cannot have a drop of
alcohol. Former smokers cannot have just one cigarette. Problem gamblers must
avoid the racetrack.
BROKEN
HEARTS: Family decline and the consequences for society
(click to read the press release or to order a copy of Kirby's paper)
by
Jill Kirby
Centre
for Policy Studies, U.K.
The family is the heart of society. If the family fails, society breaks
up. Yet family stability has been in remorseless decline over the last 30
years. At the beginning of National Marriage Week, Jill Kirby presents the
evidence of child neglect and social disintegration in Broken Hearts - Family
decline and the consequences for society, published tby the Centre for Policy
Studies.
AT THE UN
WORLD LEADERS AT THE UN DEVELOPE FORUM ADOPT ACTION PLAN TO
FIGHT POVERTY
More than 50 heads of State, along with other senior government
officials from across the world, adopted the so-called Monterrey Consensus at
the International Conference on Financing for Development.
In endorsing the Consensus, States resolved to address the challenges of
unlocking resources for development around the world, particularly in
developing countries, with the goal of eradicating poverty, achieving sustained
economic growth and promoting development.
UPCOMING NEW YORK CONFERENCES
March 27 -31
Commission on Population and Development, thirty-third session
May 8-10
Special Session on Children
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