The referendum on the same sex marriage is approaching quickly, the folks in the government are seriously concerned about those citizens who actually say "yes" but will vote "no" when nobody looks, the leaflets are being delivered by both sides, and so on. In another words the campaign is full blown by now.
As the marriage is ultimately about children, as in virtually any culture, including our European, it is such a big thing not because two people love each other, but because of the potential of starting a family and raising children, I decided to find out how it is to be raised by two dads or two moms. I came across few testimonies of people raised by same sex couples but none of them was as in-depth as the one of Heather Barwick, former supporter of gay marriages and families.
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This time of the year is a double anniversary.
The first one commemorates so called Katyń Massacre, a series of mass executions of Polish POWs, policemen and intelligentia, carried out by Soviet secret police, NKVD in April and May 1940. About 22 thousands of Polish citizens, captured after Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 were executed by shot in the back of the head or neck. 50 years later Soviet Union officially acknowledged and condemned the atrocity and subsequent cover-up although they refused to classify it as a war crime or a genocide. It took another 20 years that Russian Duma (parliament) issued a declaration blaming Soviet officials with Stalin first and foremost.
The first official memorial service in Katyń took place in 1988 during which the families of the victims visited ...
Lifesitenews.com reports that internationally known Canadian pro-life activist Mary Wagner appeared on postal stamps released by Polish Postal Service and designed by Jacek Kotula.
It was year 1200 or so. United armies of Kingdoms of Castile, Aragon and Navarre already liberated about a half of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rulers. In France, the University of Paris, called la Sorbonne, received its charters from king Phillip II of France. In Italian city-states preparations for the Fourth Crusade begun. In Far East Temüjin, after receiving the title of Genghis Khan just started building his empire.
Meanwhile, in a village called Portell in Catalonia a local knight's wife died during labour. She was then prepared for funeral, her body was washed and dressed in her most beautiful dresses. After that she was laid down to wait for her burial surrounded by praying mourners, candles and incense. Suddenly the door opened and Raymond Count of Cardona, the cousin of the...
According to Irish Society of Homeopaths website “Homeopathy is a gentle, yet highly effective system of medicine. It uses naturally occurring substances in the form of remedies to stimulate the body's own healing power. The results, although gentle, can be powerful and long lasting. It is suitable for everyone, even sensitive patients, from pregnancy, childhood and adolescence to adulthood and older age.”
It's pretty generic a definition of a medicine system matching many kinds of treatments, medicine branches and so on. Yet, homeopathy is entirely different from all of them.
Very interesting clip on Youtube, “How the family is attacked”. English with Polish subtitles.
Mathias von Gersdorff is an activist in German pro-life Action SOS Leben and a chairman of German Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP - Deutschland). He also coordinated activities of Kinder in Gefahr campain against pornography, blasphemy and violence in media. Author of numerous books about family and media.
Today is the 65th anniversaty of death of rotmistrz (cavalry captain) Witold Pilecki, Polish underground soldier during German occupation of Poland, best known of his “Witold Report”, the first intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp, which he wrote after deliberately allowing to being caught during street roundup in Warsaw along with 2000 innocent people and transported to the camp from where he eventually escaped.Arrested by the Ministry of Public Security in 1947, he was repeatedly tortured by the most brutal communistic officers but revealed no sensitive information. He then underwent a show trial and was sentenced to death. At 9.30pm, on 25th of May 1948, he was executed by a shot in the back of the head. His grave was never found.
Today is the 65th anniversaty of death of rotmistrz (cavalry captain) Witold Pilecki, Polish underground soldier during German occupation of Poland, best known of his “Witold Report”, the first intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp, which he wrote after deliberately allowing to being caught during street roundup in Warsaw along with 2000 innocent people and transported to the camp from where he eventually escaped.Arrested by the Ministry of Public Security in 1947, he was repeatedly tortured by the most brutal communistic officers but revealed no sensitive information. He then underwent a show trial and was sentenced to death. At 9.30pm, on 25th of May 1948, he was executed by a shot in the back of the head. His grave was never found.
