U.S. Justice Department Attorneys Complicit In Arrest Of Christians
(©WorldNetDaily.com)Homosexual attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division not only attended a large homosexual event in Philadelphia last year, but they advised police on the scene who arrested 11 Christian protesters, says a source within the agency.
According to the Justice Department employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, a number of agency attorneys from Washington, D.C., attended the October "OutFest" event, and, he says, they therefore are not likely to take up the cause of the four criminally charged Christians who believe Philadelphia officials violated their civil rights.
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AARP Is A Powerful Ally Of The Left
(Bill O’Reilly-Fox News) I started researching the AARP policy book, And we found a very liberal philosophy. For example, the organization favors strict gun control, entitlements for migrant workers and a progressive tax policy. AARP strongly favors the death tax, even though most polls show seniors are opposed to it, AARP backed the Bush prescription drug plan, but the organization now wants to raise the payroll tax, as well as taxes on gasoline.AARP has become a liberal organization, now there's nothing wrong with that political point of view, any organization can have one, but it should be stated, especially since that group is making close to $800 million a year, largely from American seniors of all political philosophies. the Left has a powerful ally and now everybody knows it.
Community Protests Christmas Slight (Family News-In Focus) Values voters in one Oklahoma town went to the ballot box [recently] to protest attempts to strip Christmas of its true meaning last December. A community in Oklahoma has found a unique way to protest the expulsion of Christian symbols from an elementary school's Christmas program. Citizens in Mustang, Okla., hit the school district in the pocketbook----denying a bond measure at the ballot box. The school isn't taking it well.
109th Congress Goes To Church
(by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent Citizen Link)Members from both sides of the aisle heard a Christian congressman make a plea for high moral standards in the halls of Congress. The 109th Congress was sworn in Tuesday, January 4, 2005, but not before a prayer service was held at a Washington, D.C., church for the members. The Rev. Daniel Coughlin, chaplain of the House, invoked God's blessing on the gathering of Democrats and Republicans.
"Grant them health of body and clarity of purpose that they may pray before you and serve as dutiful servants in accomplishing your holy will for your people,"
Colleges Promote Abortion over Child-Bearing
(by Josh Montez, correspondent-Family Focus)College students are often pressured to terminate their pregnancies — by their universities. Some colleges and universities cover an abortion — but not childbirth — on their student health plans, according to Feminists for Life. At Columbia University, for instance, the pressure to have an abortion outweighs the encouragement to carry a child to term. In fact, a nurse told the student newspaper that most students who become pregnant choose abortion.
Yale University's health plan also pays for abortion but not for childbirth."Universities should not be funding abortion," said Dr. David Reardon of the Elliot Institute, adding that some campus health insurance policies are reflecting a shortsighted viewpoint — that paying for an abortion is cheaper than delivery.
Representative Jerry Madden Makes Conservative Proposals In Texas House
(Free Market Foundation)Representative Jerry Madden (R-Plano), chairman of The House Committee on State Affairs, introduced a conservative proposal at a hearing on Thursday. Madden announced the three key legislative issues for the upcoming session beginning Jan. 11. The first of these proposals is Representative Warren Chisum’s (R-Pampa) constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
Similar legislation will also be proposed in the Texas Senate. If the amendment passes in both houses and gets approval from the governor, it will come up for a vote in this fall. The other two proposals introduced by Madden include a ban on human cloning and a reformed parental notification law
Wal-Mart Tries New PR Spin to Accompany Item-level RFID Tagging
"Selling the technology with partial truths is unethical," says (C.A.S.P.I.A.N.) Despite widespread consumer opposition, Wal-Mart began item-level RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging of consumer goods in May 2004 as part of a trial in Texas. In an apparent effort to minimize the backlash to its use of RFID tags.Wal-Mart has also begun a public relations campaign to promote the technology that some are calling unethical. Shoppers at seven Dallas-Ft. Worth area Wal-Mart stores can walk into the consumer electronics department and find Hewlett-Packard products for sale with live RFID tags attached. Wal-Mart's public statements appear to leave open the possibility that other goods could be tagged with RFID as well. The giant retailer's decision to tag individual items on the store floor violates a call for a moratorium on such tagging issued November,2003 by over 40 of the world's most respected privacy and civil liberties organizations. The move has sparked sharp criticism by the privacy community.
"Wal-Mart is blatantly ignoring the research and recommendations of dozens of privacy experts," says Katherine Albrecht, Founder and Director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering). "When the world's largest retailer adopts a technology with chilling societal implications, and does so irresponsibly, we should all be deeply concerned." In addition to violating the call for a moratorium on RFID-tagged items in stores, Wal-Mart has begun a consumer education campaign that CASPIAN is calling unethical. (www.spychips.com)
The Problem with 'The New Morality
(Greg Laurie-Crosswalk.com)It was my hope and prayer that this recent renewed interest in God would ultimately lead to a nationwide revival. But that has not happened. In fact, something quite the opposite has occurred: a resurgence of moral relativism. Moral relativism can be defined as a lack of moral absolutes. It is the belief that just because something is true to you doesn't necessarily mean that it is true to me.
Moral relativism teaches that we are all products of the evolutionary process. There is no evil, there is no devil, and there is no God. Moral relativism teaches that we are all basically good, and if we do something bad, it is because we are victims, the result of our upbringing or environment.
Moral relativism teaches freedom from all restraint. But the irony is that if you disagree with these things, then you are insensitive. If you have the audacity to say you believe there is right and wrong and good and evil, then you are classified as insensitive, intolerant, bigoted, and narrow-minded.
If you dare to quote the Bible and say it is the source of truth, then you will be accused of pushing your puritanical belief system on others. Yet biblical Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is the only way to God.
When someone says he or she believes in God, but that Jesus isn't necessarily the only way, I can assure you, on the authority of Scripture, that such a person cannot be a Christian and believe this. If you truly are a Christian, then you must believe what the Bible says. You cannot make up the rules as you go. The basis of morality is belief in the Bible, which gives us the absolute truth on which we can base our faith. When we say there is no right and wrong, then the result will be chaos. We have to get back to what God says.-------------------------
Some Federally-Funded Faith-Based Agencies Aren't Religious
(CBN-NEWS) WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the agencies that shared more than one billion dollars in federal funding to "faith-based" organizations in 2003 do not consider themselves religious at all. President Bush says charities that are effective at serving the poor are eligible for federal support; be they religious or secular.Christian Rights can make great headway in 2005--or not
(Commentary by Howard Wilson)Issues important to Christian "Rights" may gain some ground in 2005. The Marriage Amendment will come up for a vote in the Senate later this month, a much needed Amendment to end filibustering of Federal Court Nominations; is likely in February, Partial Birth Abortion, and The Religious Freedom Restoration Act; will come up this year. The Ten Commandments question will also be revisited by the Supreme Court. On the surface the outlook seems very good.
But 2005 is the big "make it or brake it" year, which may be the last chance Christians have to preserve Religious freedom for our children and grandchildren! We can’t wait to get involved! The attacks on the Godly by the un-Godly must be answered! If not by us, who?
The number one enemy of Christianity [and] Democracy; is radical secular judges, number two is the ACLU, and no better place to start. The sum of what individual Christians do in the next 12 months will decide the outcome of the culture war! President Bush’s last term will go into a "lame duck" session in 13 months; which will encourage liberals to tie up the conservative Congress; blocking all legislation and court nominations for the remaining three years of this administration; after that???
The window of opportunity is partially open now, but it is closing fast! Its hard to imagine, that all the sacrifices made by untold millions to make this a Christian nation; could be in jeopardy once again, not by a foreign enemy this time; but by one we have allowed to rise from within.
Howard Wilson hwilson@texasmoralaction.org