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posted by Steve | 6/14/2006 07:03:00 AM
I’m not into conspiracy theories, but where Satan is involved; it’s very easy to see a conspiracy in everything he lays his hands to. I believe that the sexual obsession this nation, and for the most part, the world has, is the human race playing right into Satan’s hands.
One cannot randomly turn on the television, pick up a magazine or listen to the radio without seeing or hearing some kind of sexually suggestive article, advertisement or commentary.
We are inundated with sex 24 hours a day, seven days a week. From the way the teen “stars” dress on Disney to the lowering of the movie and Television rating system, sex is prevalent in almost all aspects of life. Even in most churches, parents no longer require their young people to dress conservatively. The word “cute” now means clothes that are virtually “painted” on with bare midriff and peek-a-boo belly button. Add to that some suggestive verbiage printed on the bottom of the pants.
This “sex crazed” society of ours is even getting to the point where adult books are not only available in the public library, but are being made into required reading for school. These books are separated from pornography only by the fact that they are written by someone professing to have a PhD.
Many of these “learned” people have decided that our teens and youth are going to have sex anyway, so why don’t we teach them how to do it “right”. Forget the fact that teens and youth are totally unprepared emotionally to deal with sex, let’s just run right out and graphically teach them how to do something they shouldn’t be doing anyway.
Read the article here.
posted by Steve | 6/13/2006 07:16:00 AM
Two points to this story:
1. Good Job, Ms. Banderas!!
2. To call Shirley Phelps-Roper a Christian is a long, long stretch.
OK, here's the deal.
For those of you who have read this blog over the last year, you know my position on homosexuality. The position is that homosexuality is a sin, according to the Bible, and Christians should not support it any more then they would support and encourage any other sin. I also do not approve of the way the homosexual lifestyle is being normalized and passed off as being "good". There is a bad side to this lifestyle choice which the homosexual advocates do not want anyone to know.
Now with that said. I rebuke Ms. Phelps-Roper for the way in which she and her brood are protesting. The sins she is committing are as objectionable to God as the sin of homosexuality. You see, God sees all sins equally, all of which have separated us from God. It is only through the grace Jesus bought for us on the cross that restores us to God's good grace.
Read more about it here.
posted by Steve | 6/12/2006 07:57:00 AM
And we get to start off the week with another story of the radical homosexual agenda being crammed down our throats.
So my question for the EPA:
"When are you going to celebrate (with the same enthusiasm) ‘Straight Pride’ month?”
Don’t hold your breath.
(CNSNews.com) - "I thought you might like to know that the EPA, funded by your tax dollars, has joined the push for the homosexual agenda," a conservative advocacy group is telling its supporters.
The American Family Association is urging conservatives to email a note of protest to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and President Bush.
In a recent message to "All EPA Employees," the agency announced it would "recognize the diversity of our workforce by celebrating and observing Gay and Lesbian Pride Month."
posted by Steve | 6/12/2006 07:47:00 AM
Well, it has certainly been awhile since that last post! Ok, guys, I'm tired! I'm so freakin' tired! We leave for camp in like 10 hours and I'm still packing and doing laundry. It's way too late to be up doing this kinda stuff, but it's gotta get done, right?! Anyway, I'm gonna finish packing and get to bed to get some much needed rest, but I wanted to post to ask about your prayers. Camp can only be a success with God and if we invite Him into our lives at camp. Therefore, I ask that every believer pray, with intercessory prayer power over our time at camp this week. I believe that mighty prayer is incredibly effective and when backed by intense faith, we invite God into our lives to transform and radically move as He longs to do! So, please pray for us. Pray for open hearts. Not just hearts that can emotionally move. But hearts that break and rebuild on the foundational rock of OBEDIENCE to the Lord! Pray for our safety. Pray for our unity. Pray for our pastors and speakers. Pray that we get rest, both physically and spiritually. Pray that all the preparation that has gone into camp will now be taken into God's mighty hands and that He use it for whatever His plan is for camp. Pray for a fierce ourpouring of the Holy Spirit. Pray for our services and things like the band, the lights, the tech crew, etc. Pray that souls are saved! Pray that relationships start to grow. Pray that we will be a family! Pray! Pray whatever you want. Just pray for us, PLEASE!
I appreciate it greatly! That's all I got for now . . . more to come! I will let you know all the crazy stuff God did when I get back!
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posted by Steve | 6/12/2006 07:30:00 AM
It’s a shame that school systems have to be threatened with lawsuits in order to obey the law. But at least the students were allowed to express their first amendment rights to freedom of speech.
(AgapePress) - A Minnesota public high school that had banned two of its students from singing a religious song at this year’s graduation ceremonies reversed course and allowed the selection, but only after Florida-based Liberty Counsel intervened with the threat of legal action.
posted by Steve | 6/09/2006 06:38:00 AM
For those who do not follow comic books, DC Comics has becided to re-introduce the Batwoman comic. In this new comic, Batwoman is going to be a lesbian. Please keep in mind that this is the same comic that your children can freely pick up and read at any bookstore and most checkout lines. Is this really a message you want your kids to read?
(AgapePress) - Robert Knight, a pro-family activist and director of the Culture and Family Institute, is blasting a popular comic book company for deliberately exposing young children to the homosexual lifestyle.
Knight is outraged that DC Comics, the prominent U.S. comic book publisher that has brought fans such “heroic” characters as Superman, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, and Batman, has announced plans to introduce a lesbian Batwoman character next month. A company spokesman says DC wants more diversity in its comics.
However, Knight believes this move is obviously targeting the minds of children and has a mercenary motive as well. “This is a direct attempt to sell homosexuality to kids,” he says, “It’s also an attempt to revive the Batwoman brand by trying to do something shocking to get a little media. DC Comics ought to be ashamed of itself.”
posted by Steve | 6/09/2006 06:11:00 AM
Film with miracles, talk about Jesus draws parental warning from MPAA
This is just going too far. When is the country going to put an end to political correctness gone crazy.
But, with having said that, it is the parents responsibility to know a movie’s content before allowing their children to see it.
A new family film featuring miracles and a pro-God theme has earned a rating of “PG” from the Motion Picture Association of America due to fears it might offend people who have no faith or a different faith.
The decision surprises many who believed the “parental guidance” warning was reserved for the likes of violence, foul language and nudity.
“Facing the Giants,” the story of a Christian high-school football coach who uses his undying faith to battle the giants of fear and failure, was given the rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, the group which brands films according to their content.
“The theme of a PG-rated film may itself call for parental guidance,” the MPAA says of its rating system. “There may be some profanity in these films. There may be some violence or brief nudity. … The PG rating, suggesting parental guidance, is thus an alert for examination of a film by parents before deciding on its viewing by their children. Obviously such a line is difficult to draw.”
“It is kind of interesting that faith has joined that list of deadly sins that the MPAA board wants to warn parents to worry about,” film spokesman Kris Fuhr told the Scripps Howard News Service.
posted by Steve | 6/08/2006 07:40:00 AM
Good for Mr. Bono. I pray that the courts will uphold his right to not promote the homosexual agenda.
A film-and-video lab owner has filed suit against a county Human Rights Commission for ordering him to duplicate two pro-homosexual videos produced by a lesbian activist.
Tim Bono and Bono Film and Video, Inc. of Arlington, Va., is challenging the authority of the Arlington County Human Rights Commission, the Arlington County Board and Arlington County.
The controversy began when Tim Bono was contacted by lesbian activist Lilli Vincenz via e-mail to reproduce documentaries entitled "Gay and Proud" and "Second Largest Minority."
Bono told Vincenz his company does not duplicate material that is obscene, could embarrass employees, hurt the company's reputation or runs counter to the company's core values and to Christian ethics.
posted by Steve | 6/08/2006 07:34:00 AM
If we Christians continue to sit on our hands, it will not be long before we are faced with this very same situation here in the U.S.
London (CNSNews.com) - Accusing the British government of seeking to undermine belief in God, a coalition of religious groups has begun a vigorous campaign against proposed new sexual orientation regulations.
Due to go into effect this fall, the new ordinances would protect homosexuals and lesbians from being discriminated against when in the market for "goods and services."
However, several religious organizations claim the regulations would have the effect of forcing them to act against their beliefs.
A spokeswoman for the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship said schools run by the Church of England could, for example, be accused of being "biased" in favor of heterosexual relationships in sexual education classes.
Christians who run bed-and-breakfast accommodations would be forced to rent rooms to same-sex couples, while religious newspapers would be unable to turn down advertisements from homosexual pressure groups.
The proposals have been welcomed by groups such as the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, but prominent figures in the Church of England spoke out against them.
Michael Nazir Ali, Bishop of Rochester, said in a statement the regulations would hinder much of the church's charitable work.
"In the proposed regulations there is no clear exemption for religious belief even though it is widely known that several of the faiths in this country will have serious difficulty with the regulations," he said. "Religion affects every area of life and cannot be reduced to just worship."
Under the new regulations, a church that regularly rents out a hall to community groups would not be able to turn down applications from homosexual organizations
Religious groups that give out grants could be taken to court if they discriminate against homosexual groups, and Christian marketing companies may have to take on clients pushing a homosexual agenda.
In 2003, the British government made it illegal to discriminate against homosexual and lesbian citizens in employment. However, religious groups were exempted.
posted by Steve | 6/08/2006 07:20:00 AM
I couldn't believe it when the Supreme Court ruled on this last year. Of all the things they have "interpreted” incorrectly, I cannot think of any other reason for a rational person to interpret this law in this way, unless they had a political agenda. This ruling needs to be reversed as soon as possible.
(CNSNews.com) - The heavily criticized U.S. Supreme Court decision from June 2005 - allowing governments to seize private property for the financial benefit of the community as a whole -- is still having ramifications. New London, Conn., city officials voted Monday to evict two residents who refused to give up their homes in a Fort Trumbull neighborhood.
The city council voted 5-2 to evict homeowners Pasquale Cristofaro and Susette Kelo from their riverfront homes. The motion instructed city Law Director Thomas Londregan to proceed with the process of obtaining the properties and to "obtain past due taxes and rents collected from third parties and/or reasonable use and occupancy fees."
The city, suffering from a decreasing tax base and population, created a development plan for property in Fort Trumbull in 2000 that included construction of a hotel, convention center and various research, office and retail sites.
Seven property owners refused to sell the property to the city. The case went to the Supreme Court, which, in Kelo v. City of New London, ruled 5-4 that the government may seize the home, small business or other private property of one citizen and transfer it to another entity if the transfer would boost the community's economic development and its tax base.
Since the ruling, five of the seven plaintiffs agreed to sell. Bill Von Winkle, who owns three houses with 12 apartments in the neighborhood, reached a settlement Monday shortly before the meeting began.
-snip-Michael Cristofaro, son of Pasquale Cristofaro, said his family would not settle with the city.
"If you want to see an 81-year-old man who loves this country and has never been arrested be handcuffed and hauled away along with every member of the Cristofaro family, continue along the path you are going," Cristofaro said. "We won't be leaving."
Charles Frink was one of the two council members who voted against the plan.
"I can't accept a possible reduction in taxes by having neighbors thrown out of their property," Frink said. "This is morally abhorrent to me. I refuse to profit from my neighbor's pain."
Bullock said the residents will continue to explore their options.
"We're going to be discussing and meeting with the remaining homeowners and looking at all the options we have available ... from other avenues with the state up to and including civil disobedience, if it comes to it," he said.
posted by Steve | 6/08/2006 07:06:00 AM
Christians, I'm disappointed in you for not taking a more active role in pressuring your senators in supporting this amendment. I want to make it perfectly clear to all of you that without this amendment, the traditional American family, the building block of our society ever since this country was started and also the building block of all society’s over the ages, will be corrupted and destroyed by the activist courts, against the will of a majority of people.
(AgapePress) - Supporters of the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) are not distraught over the fact that the U.S. Senate has rejected the call for a vote on the measure. Sixty votes were needed to have the measure come up for an up-or-down vote; the move came up 11 votes short.
Despite that setback, supporters in the Senate are not going to "fall back and cry about it," says Senator Orin Hatch of Utah. "I think they are going to keep bringing it up," says the Republican lawmaker. In fact, according to Associated Press, the measure may come up next month in the U.S. House. It is an issue of "significant importance" to many Americans, says House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. "We have significant numbers of our members who want a vote on this, so we are going to have a vote," he says.
The vote today (Wednesday, June 7) was 49-48, giving many pro-family groups that have lobbied for the MPA what they had hoped for leading up to the elections this fall -- a list of senators they say shows who is willing to fight to protect traditional marriage, and who favors homosexual "marriage." (Click here for the roll call vote)
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback says the 49-48 vote was "highly unfortunate" because Democratic senators opposed the amendment, despite what the people of their states had voted in earlier ballot initiatives.
"If the senators had voted as their states have already voted, the vote would have been 90-10 in favor of the amendment, as 45 states have defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman -- and that's what this amendment does: it defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman."
The Republican lawmaker says even though Democrats in the Senate have now managed to defeat a marriage amendment for a second time, the push to eventually establish the amendment will not stop. "We are making progress," he says, "and we will not stop until the institution of marriage between a man and a woman is protected and honored in the United States."
posted by Steve | 6/08/2006 06:41:00 AM
At last, one more slimy terrorist leader dead!! Hats off to our wonderful military! Good Job, Folks!
AGHDAD, Iraq — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader who led a brutal insurgency that included homicide bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, was killed in an airstrike on a building north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials announced Thursday.
Officials said the terror leader's identity was confirmed by fingerprints, facial recognition, and known scars.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said Al-Zarqawi was killed along with seven aides Wednesday evening at around 6:15 p.m. local time in a bombing raid on a building in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province.
Loud applause broke out as Al-Maliki, flanked by U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and U.S. Gen. George Casey, the top commander in Iraq, made the announcement at a news conference in Baghdad Thursday that al-Zarqawi was "terminated."
Zarqawi's death came just six days after an audiotape was posted on the Internet, in which the Jordanian-born terrorist leader called on Sunnis to "confront" Shiites in Iraq.
Al-Maliki said the air strike was ordered after residents in the area provided intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Zarqawi and his aides to Iraqi security forces.
A Jordanian official said that Jordan also provided the U.S. military with information that helped in tracking Al-Zarqawi down. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was addressing intelligence issues, would not elaborate, but Jordan is known to have intelligence agents operating in Iraq to hunt down Islamic militants.
Some of the information came from Jordan's sources inside Iraq and led the U.S. military to the area of Baqouba, the official said.
Baqouba has in recent weeks seen a spike in sectarian violence, including the discovery of 17 severed heads in fruit boxes. It was also near the site of a sectarian atrocity last week in which masked gunmen killed 21 Shiites, including a dozen students, after separating out four Sunni Arabs.
posted by Steve | 6/08/2006 06:35:00 AM
D-Day 6/6/6
America is celebrating during this week one of the most momentous days of World War II. It ranks right up there, probably even ahead of V-E Day and V-J Day, symbolizing the allied victories over the Axis powers of Europe, then Japan.
But Hollywood has, as those purveyors of turning truth into lie often do, asked us to suspend believability and accept this landmark date as another sort of D-Day. The D, in this case, stands for “Devil.”
Todd and I have been asked a number of times, in the several weeks leading to June 6, 2006, what we think of the date 6/6/06, as if it was possessed of everything evil Hollywood –for entertainment purposes—wants the rest of us to believe it to be possessed. The questions about the date, of course, are built around the number found in Revelation, Chapter 13: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Rev. 13:18).
Read the rest here.
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 11:24:00 AM
The Perils of Multiculturalism
During the past several months, illegal immigration has been a hot-button topic. After decades of neglect, we have suddenly awakened to realize we’ve lost control of our borders. I was shocked when I read that 10 percent of the citizens of Mexico currently live in the United States.
The debate over illegal immigration is just a smokescreen for the main problem. There is no way we are going to kick 12 million people out of the country. These folks provide a valuable service by taking jobs that most Americans view as too menial.
American was founded by immigrants. If you go back far enough, everyone who lives in this nation is here as the result of immigration. Even Native Americans are the children of settlers who, at some point, crossed over from the other side of the globe.
The real issue here is having people in our nation who are not part of the culture. These people live among us, but they are not part of us. Many of them speak little or no English, they live in isolated communities, and they view themselves as members of another nation.
Read the rest here.
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 11:17:00 AM
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 08:54:00 AM
This is what Sharon's and Olmert's withdraws have brought on Israel.
JERUSALEM - The Jewish state is headed toward a major, violent confrontation with the Palestinians while Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria will "not help" to decrease the terrorism, according to an Israeli army assessment.
Army: Violence to escalate with evacuation…
Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'...
Rocket war against Israel...
Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'...
Hamas developing guided rockets, bomb-laden planes...
'Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state'.
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 07:29:00 AM
And what else would we expect from a bunch of sex addicted liberals? Umm…I hate to tell y’all this, but the only 100% proven effective method for preventing unwanted pregnancy and “social diseases” (some of them quite deadly) is abstinence until marriage. Also, if I were you, I’d take umbrage to the idea the anti-abstinence crowd espouses that all of us are lacking so much self control that we’re incapable of abstaining from sex. Are we human or animals? I guess if you can control yourself and abstain from pre-marital sex, then you can be called human. If you can’t…well, as the saying goes, “if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, then it must be a duck”, or in your case, no better than an animal in heat.
Read the article here.
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 07:17:00 AM
(AgapePress) - The Branson story is not a new story to many: quaint historic town becomes a tourist mecca, seemingly overnight. That line could be true of several great travel destinations, including Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Myrtle Beach. But what sets Branson, Missouri, apart?
Branson has seen its share of successes and even a few failures. That is the normal ebb and flow of business in a tourist-driven economy. Beyond the economics, what has remained is the faith in the heart of Branson and, to many, a faith in a higher purpose for the area. On the surface a new face is evident -- but dig deeper and you will find a rich vein of faith in God, and faith in family. Branson is a town where God, flag, and country take center stage. Perhaps that was the heart of Branson all along.
Back in 1990, Branson saw the arrival of a cavalcade of stars including Mel Tillis, Charley Pride, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Wayne Newton, and comedian David Brenner. All big names to be sure! But the muscle of the bigger names didn't keep the smaller shows from surviving. They have survived and thrived ... and have proceeded to remain atop the list of "must-see family shows" in Branson. The shows you wouldn't be embarrassed to take your family to. And that is a common denominator that 99 percent of the shows share.
It's 2006 and families are expected to pour into Branson. What does the new Branson offer? It no longer caters solely to the stereotypical Branson tourist: the "country music loving, Larry the Cable Guy tourist." Branson has found a way to embrace sophisticated baby boomers. New attractions in 2006 include a $300 million waterfront development known as the "Landing," a new Titanic exhibit, and Silver Dollar City's new expansion, The Grand Exposition.
Some 16 years after the "boom years" of the 1990s, many of the theaters also cater to a new audience -- that of church member. Many theaters in Branson have also become home to several churches. It's not uncommon to find services every Sunday morning at your favorite theater.
Read the rest here.
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 06:58:00 AM
More on the how the homosexuals are attempting to move their agenda into the schools, and this case, doing so illegally.
(AgapePress) - A Utah pro-family group claims a public high school in Highland broke state privacy and sex education laws by allowing its student newspaper to publish articles promoting sexual promiscuity.
The Salt Lake City-based Standard of Liberty Foundation has asked the Utah attorney general and the state Office of Education to investigate whether Lone Peak High School broke two Utah education laws. A state Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) law "forbids schools from allowing any activity which results in students revealing information concerning their sexual behavior, orientation, or attitudes." Also, Utah education law bars schools from advocating homosexuality and extra-marital sex.
Foundation president Steve Graham, whose daughter attends Lone Peak High School, says articles in The Crusader have advocated the formation of Gay Straight Alliance clubs and teenage sexual activity.
"These educators and administrators have this attitude like the parents are a bunch of nit-wits and don't deserve the respect that we actually do deserve," says Graham, "and so they just disregard the parents' desires." And in this case, he adds, "we're convinced they’re disregarding the law."
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 06:48:00 AM
"The physicists and chemist typically don’t have any major problems with the creation of the world occurring in an instant. It’s the biologists who are wearing blinders and falling behind in progressive thought. Perhaps someday they’ll join the rest of the scientific community and accept what has been known to us for quite some time and becomes more obvious as time goes on.”
-Unknown Author
posted by Steve | 6/07/2006 06:29:00 AM
This is the line the homosexual activist have been trying to shove down our throats for years. Now they have Senator Kennedy on board for it. No surprise there. Well Mr. Kennedy, a vote against this amendment is a vote against families and values.
By the way, just what does a Kennedy know about marriage anyway?
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. Senate will vote this week on the Marriage Protection Amendment, a bill which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was quoted today as saying, "A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple."
Kennedy, who claims to be Catholic while opposing the Church on every major tenet of morality, was blasted by Catholic League president Bill Donohue.
"A vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment is a vote to maintain the traditional understanding of marriage as it has been accepted for thousands of years all over the world," said Donohue. "To brand those who support this amendment as bigots is mud-slinging: it is analogous to those who would call foes of the amendment 'gay lovers.'"
posted by Steve | 6/06/2006 09:00:00 AM
Quote:
“The courts took God our of America’s schools –
now they are on the path to take God out of America’s prisons.”
– Mark Earley, Prison Fellowship President
Another Quote:
“The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000…no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents (Baltimore Board of Education).” (Bill Murray. Son of Madalyn Murray O’Hair. My Life Without God . 1982.)
Are we Christians going to sit on our hands again and let this happen??
(AgapePress) - Evidently it matters not that a well-known and highly successful prison ministry believes one of its premier programs is constitutional and well within the guidelines of the First Amendment, or that statistics bear out the effectiveness of the program. A federal judge has ruled the program is unconstitutional — and now the program that equips prisoners to successfully re-enter society is in jeopardy.
A federal judge has ruled that an Iowa prison program that involves inmates immersing themselves in evangelical Christianity is unconstitutional and must be shut down. Associated Press reports that Judge Robert Pratt, in a ruling expected to have national implications, said Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative amounts to a government establishment of religion.
Pratt ruled that the Iowa Department of Corrections must close the program within 60 days and that $1.5 million in contract payments must be returned to state officials, but he suspended those orders while an appeal is pending.
posted by Steve | 6/06/2006 07:18:00 AM
My wife is a Stay-at-Home parent and I admire her very much for this. Anyone who looks down on women who decide to be stay-at-home moms is really out of touch with what is important in life. Like most people, we live from pay-check to pay-check and it is hard in today’s society to make ends meet on one income. But the good she is doing for our kids is so important, and knowing that she is there for them and raising them, instead of some stranger, gives me great peace. My wife is doing a much more important job than anything I do. I’d put her up against the most successful corporate CEO any day.
I hope the trend of stay-at-home parenting continues. I believe that a lot of society’s problems are due to not having parents more “plugged in” to their children’s lives. This pursuit of “things” has really caused problems, in my opinion. Everyone likes to have “things”, the latest and greatest of this and that, but think about what it is really costing…it may be costing us our kid’s futures.
(AgapePress) - Author and stay-at-home mom Suzanne Venker says the leaders of the National Organization for Women, or NOW, are out of touch with real women of today.
Elizabeth Vargas, co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight," recently announced she is leaving the program because of her pregnancy and her desire to spend more time with her other child. However, NOW president Kim Gandy finds the situation suspicious and is positing the possibility of network discrimination against Vargas.
Gandy wrote an article on the NOW website decrying Vargas' departure and suggesting that the ABC anchorwoman was dumped, not unlike the ABC show "Commander in Chief," for presenting viewers with a strong female image.
The head of NOW says it seems unlikely that Vargas, "having survived and thrived through her first pregnancy ... would logically give up the top job in TV a few months out, anticipating she couldn't handle it." And since the newswoman’s decision to leave her prime "World News Tonight" position to spend time with her children seems illogical to Gandy, the women’s organization president says she smells a rat.
posted by Steve | 6/06/2006 06:14:00 AM
It's really great how evacuating all that territory helped Israeli security...NOT!! Sometimes I wonder if Olmert is really a pali terrorist in disguise.
JERUSALEM – Israel must stop the missiles fired regularly from the Gaza Strip aimed at nearby Jewish communities “at any cost,” including possibly reoccupying parts of Gaza, Israel’s Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said at a cabinet meeting yesterday.
The statements come days after a series of missiles landed hundreds of feet from the home near Gaza of Israel’s defense minister and follow an Israeli Defense Forces anti-rocket operation last week conducted deep inside the Gaza Strip – reportedly the first such operation since Israel evacuated the territory nine months ago. Defense officials said more ground operations in Gaza will likely follow.
Critics of Israel’s Gaza withdrawal had warned the retreat would prompt an onslaught of terrorism requiring the IDF to re-enter the territory. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is currently planning a second, larger withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria, mountainous terrain within rocket firing range of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the country’s international airport.
posted by Steve | 6/05/2006 08:32:00 AM
I really had a problem with school systems endorsing students walking out of classes to protest the move in congress to stop illegal immigration, but I really have a problem with the school system stopping a student from counter-protesting legally.
A California student has filed a federal lawsuit claiming high school officials intentionally interfered with his right to speak out on the issue of illegal immigration.
Joshua Denhalter of Jurupa Valley High School in Mira Loma, Calif., alleges he was barred from holding a counter-protest after students March 27, mostly of Mexican-American descent, illegally walked out of school in protest of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would make being in the country illegally a felony.
Denhalter, represented by the public interest firm Lively, Ackerman & Cowles, says that instead of walking out and being truant, he chose to organize a legitimate and lawful counter-protest during the lunch hour March 30.
Attorney Richard Ackerman called the school’s actions “one of the worst governmental censorship cases I have seen in over a decade of practice.”
“It is simply unbelievable that a school district would take sides with those who promote illegal activity over a student wishing to express his protected views in a traditionally and legally acceptable manner,” Ackerman said. “These officials must be severely punished for their actions.”
posted by Steve | 6/02/2006 09:42:00 AM
How the 'feminization of America' destroys boys, men – and women.
Read the rest here.
posted by Steve | 6/02/2006 09:31:00 AM
Continue to pray that God will lead our lawmakers in finding a solution to stopping illegal immigration and also a way to help everyone who wants to come to the United States legally.
(CNSNews.com) - Groups opposed to illegal immigration unveiled two of three planned billboards in Denver, Colorado, this week.
"Welcome to Sanctuary City: Relax, You Made It!" one of the two billboards says.
By executive order of the mayor, Denver respects its "diversity," protects the human rights of its residents and "welcomes all" (including foreign-born residents) to "share Denver's warm hospitality." Critics say the executive order allows illegals to live in the city with impunity.
The second billboard -- addressed to President Bush, the Colorado governor and Denver mayor -- says U.S. troops "did not die for illegal sanctuary.""
The messages were produced by Billboard Colorado, a group formed by Denver radio talk-show host Peter Boyles.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) attended the unveiling of the "sanctuary" billboard on Thursday. "I guarantee you, the momentum is on our side and this billboard is a reflection of that," he was quoted as saying.
Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was there as well. His group reportedly plans to raise money to put up similar billboards in Massachusetts, Arizona, and California.
posted by Steve | 6/02/2006 09:10:00 AM
There are only a few days left to let your senators know that marriage should only be between one man and one woman.
(AgapePress) - A prominent black Christian pastor is among minority religious leaders calling on the U.S. Senate to approve a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Black and Hispanic church leaders are urging senators to vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA), which would protect traditional marriage from being redefined. Those supporting the MPA say it is needed to stop judges from legalizing same-sex "marriage," despite the opposition of voters and their elected representatives. The Senate is to debate and vote on the proposed amendment next week.
The proposed amendment (S.J. Res. 1) reads as follows: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman."
Bishop Gerald Glen of the black Pentecostal Church of God in Christ says his denomination's five million members strongly oppose letting courts redefine marriage. And Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, who heads the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Coalition, believes legalizing homosexual marriage would undermine traditional marriage and family life.
posted by Steve | 6/02/2006 08:35:00 AM
This seems to be the rule these days, not the exception. What is wrong with our judicial system?
A Michigan woman is following in the path of other female teachers who rape their students by receiving no jail time.
Kristen Margrif, 27, of Mayville, Mich., was given a one-year delayed sentence on three felony counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a student.
Tuscola County Circuit Judge Patrick Joslyn said if Margrif remains trouble-free for a year, prosecutors will reduce the charges to three counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, which are misdemeanors, meaning she’ll only have to serve probation.
posted by Steve | 6/01/2006 08:07:00 AM