* From the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, found via Broadsides. This is really well said:
It is religious faith, not scientific reasoning, that asserts the “ensoulment” of a fetus at the moment of conception. As the Catholic Encyclopedia says: “In virtue of the one eternal act of the Will of the Creator, Who is of course ever present at ( Read more... )

Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry in Ontario.

"the Ontario Court of Appeal rewrote the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, saying denying gays and lesbians the ability to marry offends their dignity, discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation and violates their equality rights under the Charter of Rights and ( Read more... )

"For yesterday
is but a dream
and tomorrow
is only a vision
but today
well lived
makes yesterday
a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow
a vision of hope."