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Health Central, 2000-06-08
A Georgia clergyman says parishioners who are happily married have been drawn to pornographic Web sites
where they've seen abominations and foul, debasing language that has threatened their households. Reverend
Jim Peasboro claims that demons are able to possess anything with a brain, from a chicken to a human being
and if you have a computer built after 1985, it probably has sufficient memory to be a home for the devil.
Globe and Mail — Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000-06
Cabinet considers plan to help pay massive cost of residential-schools litigation; churches would be asked to open their books.
A proposal before the federal cabinet would offer a partial bailout for church organizations that may face hundreds of millions of dollars in legal costs and liability claims arising from past abuses at aboriginal residential schools.
...the proposal, if accepted, would commit the government to paying the churches' legal costs for the lawsuits, but not necessarily any final settlements.
Globe and Mail — Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000-06
Why, pray tell, should my government use my tax money to bail out one of the wealthiest organizations in the world for crimes committed by its members
CBC Radio, 2000-06
Canada's justice minister, Anne McLellan, says she's committed to finding a way, outside of the courts, to resolve thousands of outstanding lawsuits from former students at Indian residential schools. More than 100-thousand Indian children were forced to attend the schools, which were operated jointly by the federal government and various Christian churches until the 1970's. Thousands of former students are now suing the government and the churches for the physical, sexual and cultural abuse they say they suffered at the schools.
Maclean's Magazine, 2000-06-26
Canada's largest churches are reeling under litigation costs arising from their days running native residential schools.
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