Public Policy Issues

View… All 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003     11 - 20 of 39 First Page < 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 > Last Page     2008 10/28/2008 Video Makes Case for Protecting Marriage New Jersey Knights, supported by the Supreme Council, produced a 12-minute video on same-sex marriage in conjunction with the New Jersey Catholic Conference. View the video Download Quicktime or Real Media Player Windows Media Player 10/22/2008 Parental Notification Initiative Leads 52% to 33% among Likely California Voters A newly released survey of California voters shows Proposition 4, a proposed law that would require a waiting period and parental notification before a girl under 18 was allowed to have an abortion - has a 19 percentage point lead among likely voters, 52% to 33%. The poll was conducted for the Knights of Columbus by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion between September 28 and October 5, 2008. 10/21/2008 Marriage Referendum Leads 52% to 43% Among Likely California Voters A new poll of California voters shows Proposition 8, a proposed constitutional amendment that would reserve marriage for opposite-sex couples, has a 9 percentage point lead among likely voters, 52% to 43%. The poll was conducted for the Knights of Columbus by the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion between September 28 and October 5, 2008. 10/14/2008 Nationwide Poll Provides Beneath-the-Surface Look at Catholic Voters A just-completed nationwide poll provides new insights into America’s Catholic voters, highlighting the ways in which they differ from the electorate as a whole. But the survey also examines in detail the ways in which the 65 percent of Catholics who practice their faith regularly differ from the 35 percent who do not. 10/14/2008 84% Back Restrictions on Abortion A nationwide poll shows that 35 years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade, public support for the court’s unrestricted access to abortion throughout an entire pregnancy stands at just 8 percent. The poll was conducted for the Knights of Columbus by the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion. 2/28/2008 Abortion Proponents Back Down on AIDS Legislation Faced with firm opposition from the Knights of Columbus, the U.S Bishops Conference, many other pro-life groups, and the White House, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has agreed to drop language that would have opened the door to using AIDS relief funds to pay for abortions in Africa. The committee’s action was taken during a meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 27. 2007 3/19/2007 Abortion Proposal in Mexico City Called Misguided A bill being debated in Mexico City – which would legalize abortion in that municipality – is misguided and dangerous said Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson. 2006 7/19/2006 Knights of Columbus Applauds Presidential Veto of Stem-Cell Bill Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson thanked President Bush for vetoing H.R. 810, the so-called “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act,” which would have, for the very first time, provided federal funds for research in which human embryos are destroyed. 6/7/2006 Knights to 'Redouble Efforts' for Marriage Protection Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson said June 7 that the U.S. Senate’s failure to approve the Marriage Protection Amendment is “deeply disappointing,” and noted the irony of the fact that the 49-48 vote “comes one day after Alabama became the 20th state to adopt a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage.” 6/6/2006 President Bush on the Marriage Protection Amendment Remarks by President Bush on the Marriage Protection Amendment made at the White House on June 5, 2006, together with May 28, 2006, radio address made to the nation on the same subject.