News Roundup for May 5, 2009

Buckets at Bouquets of Gray points out that new demographic assessments by the Wilson Centre establish that the West is not poised on the brink of “Islamification,” after all (h/t Creative Revolution)

StageLeft takes on social conservative Kathy Shaidle’s recent remarks regarding Canada’s human rights commissions

Another figure on the religious right, John Pacheco - along with [...]

The Development and Peace “Scandal”: The Catholic Church and Women’s Rights

In late March, several religious right organizations - including Priests for Life Canada, LifeSiteNews, and Social Conservatives United - broke the story that the official international aid agency of the Canadian Catholic church, Development and Peace, was funding NGOs in developing countries which were, among other things, pro-choice. The resulting outcry was enough that the [...]