Dr Paul Allen

 In a first for  Canada , a group of volunteers has set up a fund to help defray the legal costs of parents who, fed up with government and scho Image via Wikipedia ol board policies aimed at eradicating all traces of  Judeo-Christian  morality from the education system, are willing to launch  lawsuits  to defend their  parental rights  to be the primary moral educators of their children. “Recognizing that average families don’t have $100,000 sitting around to pay for lawsuits, we’ve started this defense fund to provide financial assistance to families whose parental rights have been violated,” Lou Iacobelli, member of the board of directors and spokesperson for The Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund (PREDF), told LifeSiteNews. “To succeed though, we need people of faith to do their part by donating what they can to make this strategy a reality.” The Fund was created to help parents fight back, in the courts, against what its founders call...

Image via Wikipedia A town council in rural Ontario has been ordered by the court to cease opening meetings with the Lord’s Prayer after complaints from secularists, reports Bancroft This Week . The council of the Municipality of Hastings Highlands had replaced the Christian prayer in April with a more generic one, comparable to that used in Ottawa’s Parliament, after a secularist in the community threatened a lawsuit. Dagmar Gontard, a member of a group called Quinte Humanist, had  made  an appeal to the council in early 2011, arguing that the prayer is not inclusive and represents an intrusion of the Church into the affairs of the state. While at that time the council unanimously agreed to continue saying the Lord’s Prayer, allowing attendees the option of not participating, they backed down in April after the complainant issued a legal threat. The council received the court order on May 31st, despite having already ceased offering the Lord’s Prayer. The pressure on the...

Image via Wikipedia A town council in rural Ontario has been ordered by the court to cease opening meetings with the Lord’s Prayer after complaints from secularists, reports Bancroft This Week . The council of the Municipality of Hastings Highlands had replaced the Christian prayer in April with a more generic one, comparable to that used in Ottawa’s Parliament, after a secularist in the community threatened a lawsuit. Dagmar Gontard, a member of a group called Quinte Humanist, had  made  an appeal to the council in early 2011, arguing that the prayer is not inclusive and represents an intrusion of the Church into the affairs of the state. While at that time the council unanimously agreed to continue saying the Lord’s Prayer, allowing attendees the option of not participating, they backed down in April after the complainant issued a legal threat. The council received the court order on May 31st, despite having already ceased offering the Lord’s Prayer. The pressure on the...