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margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #c00000; font-family: \u0026quot;Cambria\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ETo my young friends:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHope this letter finds you enjoying your time at home and getting your school\nwork done. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I do miss you a lot!\u0026nbsp; But I don’t miss going out –I\ndo like staying home –as I’m trying to get stuff done and am disappointed at my\nslow pace.\u0026nbsp; I hope we’ll have summertime for the lake –and maybe church\ncamp and a late VBS.\u0026nbsp; You would be in Young Teen camp this year, and that\nmight be more fun for you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHERE is one \u0026nbsp;Christian teaching lesson –for your home school studies.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"a5c8b0e714da563fe90b98cef41456e9db9fe9049761426654245bb2dd862eecmsonormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #c00000; font-family: \u0026quot;Cambria\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003EThe \u0026nbsp;Lord has been schooling me at home, too.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I’m\nfinding that daily Bible reading really DOES inspire me –I had been lax about\nthis –because I do know a lot of scripture to share to others and\u0026nbsp; for\nsituations that arise, etc. having been exposed to sermons, S.S\u0026nbsp;\nteachers,\u0026nbsp; youth group leaders\u0026nbsp; and then Christian college and their\nchapels and classes –all my life.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; My parents were believers\nwho saw to it that we were in church Sunday morning,, Sunday night, and\nWednesday night\u0026nbsp; and in a youth group called “Christian\nEndeavor.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (Endeavor means\u0026nbsp; effort with purpose, I\nsuppose.\u0026nbsp; We use it in a sentence the way we would use the word\n“try.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; “ I Try to be a Christian”\u0026nbsp; or \u0026nbsp;“I endeavor\n(try)\u0026nbsp; to live for Him.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI’m keeping \u0026nbsp;a prayer list, too, and praying more.\u0026nbsp; –I’m praying for\nyou girls and your families by name –your parents and grandparents\u0026nbsp; --and\ntheir significant others.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Praying for my family, the church\nfamilies –praying for the missionaries and the ones being persecuted for their\nfaith in Iran, Africa, India, No. Korea, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia,\u0026nbsp;\nPakistan, Iraq, --all the Middle East.\u0026nbsp; I pray that God will send them\nsome kind jailers and jail-mates –that they will be helped in their sufferings\n–that they will get out soon –that their rulers will\u0026nbsp; feel convicted about\ntheir cruelty and put an end to it.\u0026nbsp; And we pray against the virus\u0026nbsp;\nand for those suffering and who have lost loved ones–and we pray\u0026nbsp; against\npoverty and starvation in the world.\u0026nbsp; And for those suffering pain of any\nkind\u0026nbsp; (which God \u0026nbsp;has helped ME with recently –as I believe He helped\nVlada with\u0026nbsp; her issue.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And the Bible tells\nus to pray for Israel\u0026nbsp; (the descendants of Abraham, father of the People\nof the Bible –the Jews)\u0026nbsp; and the Peace of Jerusalem, which our nation\nrecognized as their capital city recently, something the Muslims did not like\nbecause they claim Jerusalem\u0026nbsp; and any land they once owned as forever\ntheirs\u0026nbsp; (though God\u0026nbsp; made The Promised Land, Israel,\u0026nbsp; a\u0026nbsp;\nJewish nation first, before the Muslims controlled it.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And\nwe pray for all unbelievers that they will come to know the salvation of the\nLord and have ETERNAL LIFE. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSO WHAT IS PRAYER\u0026nbsp; for one who believes\u0026nbsp; and has invited Jesus into\nyour heart?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It’s an INTERNAL DIALOGUE,\nconversation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The Lord gave me that idea of “internal dialogue”\n\u0026nbsp;this morning.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; God is\u0026nbsp; not your “make-believe\nfriend”\u0026nbsp; but a real friend\u0026nbsp; who dwells (lives)\u0026nbsp; INSIDE YOUR HEAD\n–your SPIRIT –when you invited Him to be your Savior –and “confessed with your\nmouth that Jesus is Lord and believed in your heart that God raised Him from\nthe dead.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; “Behold, I stand at the door and knock;\u0026nbsp; If\nanyone hears My voice,” says Christ, “ and will open the door, I will come into\nhim\/her\u0026nbsp; and dine with him\/her –fellowship with him\/her.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; –as\nin the elements of the Communion when we eat the bread representing His\nsacrificed body and drink the\u0026nbsp; grapejuice\u0026nbsp; or wine\u0026nbsp; (the fruit\nof the vine--representing His blood shed to cover and forgive our\nsins..)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We invite\u0026nbsp; Him “into our hearts.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nHeart, meaning our INNERMOST BEING –our MIND and our SPIRIT.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI’ve no doubt that Jesus is alive with His Father\u0026nbsp; (and with us in His\nHoly Spirit ) as the Bible says –and rose from the dead.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Many\npeople in HIS\u0026nbsp; day\u0026nbsp; denied it was possible –but the Bible\u0026nbsp; says\nas many as 500 people SAW HIM ALIVE after His certain death and\nburial.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And\u0026nbsp; that is why the Bible writers believed, told\nothers, were willing to die to proclaim\u0026nbsp; the salvation of God through\nJesus –and started a world-wide\u0026nbsp; church\u0026nbsp; (all the\nbelievers)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; that exists to this very day.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nWHY?\u0026nbsp; Because God loves us enough to make\u0026nbsp; a way for us to live\u0026nbsp;\nfree from slavery to sin and eternal death.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It’s not\nthe plan WE might’ve come up with –but it is consistent with the history of all\npeoples –they felt a need to make sacrifices to appease the gods of nature –in\nhopes they would have a good harvest, good weather, safety, victory against\nenemies who would harm them.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; For all the ancient\npeoples KNEW\u0026nbsp; they did not make themselves –and did not exist by accident\n–but by an Intelligent Designer.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They looked for Him –God -- in the\nmoon and the sun and in things made with their hands –and worshiped these\nthings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSO the REAL DESIGNER\/ CREATOR\u0026nbsp; REVEALED HIMSELF to the first couple He\nmade in HIS image –we are made like Him –and He says\u0026nbsp; He is not the things\nHe has made in the universe and \u0026nbsp;that we should NOT worship those things.\n–His people\u0026nbsp; sinned, disobeyed God, listened to the enemy of God and\nobeyed HIM instead of their Creator -- which brought death and disease in the\nworld.\u0026nbsp; The world got so evil that God chose\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Noah and his\nfamily\u0026nbsp; to survive in the ark and start the human race over --\u0026nbsp; when\nHe sent the global flood (evidence is in the geology and fossils of the\nearth\u0026nbsp; and found\u0026nbsp; in the cultural history of all ancient people\ngroups.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Then,\u0026nbsp; many generations later,\u0026nbsp; when the evil on\nthe earth had increased again, God\u0026nbsp; revealed Himself\u0026nbsp; to Abraham –and\nall His descendants, the Jews,\u0026nbsp; through Moses and the prophets –who have\ngiven us our Bible.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And then He revealed Himself in His Son Jesus\nwho proved His Deity (God-ship)\u0026nbsp; by\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; miracles –raising people\nfrom the dead –and rising HIMSELF –which we celebrate at Easter.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n(If you still have it –and can find it,\u0026nbsp; I recommend \u0026nbsp;watching that\nJesus movie –the kids’ version—which we gave you –in remembering and\ncelebrating Easter. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;HERE it is on YOU Tube.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thZeb2MlAMw\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thZeb2MlAMw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #c00000; font-family: \u0026quot;Cambria\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003EThen in the first chapter of the Book of Acts,\u0026nbsp;\nGod\u0026nbsp; gave us\u0026nbsp; His Holy Spirit –as Jesus promised “a comforter would\ncome” --God’s very presence within us --so that we might have Him live inside\nOUR spirits –keeping us from evil –and saving us from\ndeath.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Still, there is temptation by the\nTempter, named Satan or Lucifer in the Bible, a fallen angel –God’s enemy --who\nwants our souls to be destroyed.\u0026nbsp; He hates us humans.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nPeople\u0026nbsp; may doubt his existence –but\u0026nbsp; WE CANNOT DOUBT THE EXISTANCE\nOF EVIL –AND THE TEMPTATION TO DO WRONG –nor doubt that it brings misery and\nunhappiness in both the short and\u0026nbsp; long run –broken relationships, harmful\naddictions, crime, murders, harm to others, wars,\u0026nbsp; selfishness, feelings\nof guilt, dislike for others, hatred, even boredom, and desires to do and\nthink\u0026nbsp; things we KNOW IN OUR HEARTS we ought not do –or think.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is always that tension between good and evil in our minds –but\u0026nbsp; the\nHOLY SPIRIT of GOD in the believer is THERE to remind us and help us\u0026nbsp; to\ndo what is right –and to KNOW what is right –with the help of Bible, church,\nchurch camp, youth group, sermons, songs –and the counsel (advice)\u0026nbsp; of\nother Christians including parents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Holy Spirit of God is like the internet in\u0026nbsp; a much greater way.\u0026nbsp;\nHe is ALL GOOD as the internet is NOT.\u0026nbsp; HE IS EVERYWHERE and accessible\nALL THE TIME\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We can”go on line” –calling on the Name of the Lord\n–JESUS -- and\u0026nbsp; learn from Him, be comforted by Him, be helped and taught\nby Him.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Jesus said our every thought and deed is recorded –but\nrepentance for our sin can erase our sinful record –and remove our sins from us\n“as far as east is from west” ---as if “buried in the deepest sea” –to be held\nagainst us and remembered against us NO MORE.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Jesus says even\nthe hairs of our head our numbered –and that a sparrow does not fall from the\nsky without God’s notice.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Think of the internet and\nthose computer chips that store minutia of all kinds –that COUNT EVERY WORD as\nwe type them –and we can pull up a total word count.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; If our\nmachines—computers—can do the amazing storage\u0026nbsp; they can do –and\nproduce\u0026nbsp; stuff INSTANTLY and make\u0026nbsp; amazing calculations – so it is\neven more so with the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE –about whom we know VERY\nLITTLE\u0026nbsp; except what He has REVEALED\u0026nbsp; and had men record \u0026nbsp;in the\nBible.\u0026nbsp; –WE KNOW HE HATES EVIL –and has defined it \u0026nbsp;in His book.\u0026nbsp;\nAnd He has\u0026nbsp; revealed Himself to us\u0026nbsp; and He has had men record those\nrevelations \u0026nbsp;and the history of the Jews and their relationship with God\n–and then ours –through Christ’s Jewish followers -- over about 1500\n\u0026nbsp;years of writing starting with Moses –and then 2000 more years\u0026nbsp;\nsince Christ came –of \u0026nbsp;Christians preserving and translating the original\nBook –the Bible.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI KNOW from my own life, that God can guide our decisions, protect us from our\nown sins when we DO lapse (sin) –as everyone does at times. I KNOW that\nadmitting our sins, and \u0026nbsp;believing in Him and striving to live to please\nHIM is the way to\u0026nbsp; be blessed in life –not that we shall never know\ntrouble or loss –that is part of our earthly situation on a sin-shadowed,\nsin-damaged planet.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; –But\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I can tell you that God\nCAN\u0026nbsp; give you a blessed marriage,\u0026nbsp; happy children, -and meet your\ndaily needs,\u0026nbsp; “our daily bread” –and help you avoid the sadness that comes\nwith broken or abusive and miserable\u0026nbsp; relationships,\u0026nbsp; and can give\nyou a wonderful life going forward as you maintain that “internal\nconversation”\u0026nbsp; with Him as YOUR LORD and Savior.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; As you\nbecome part of a church community\u0026nbsp; that teaches the Bible and prays and\nloves each other.\u0026nbsp; (Granted, some churches are better than others in that\nregard, and there are people in churches who are NOT listening to the Spirit\nand loving as they should –especially immature people and youth –but in a good\nBible-believing, teaching church,\u0026nbsp; we do fortify each other’s faith –and\nlook out for one another.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I can’t over-recommend Christian\ncolleges\u0026nbsp; during those years when we are learning about things beyond our\nupbringing.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; For me, it was a great place to find my wonderful\nhusband –as well as a place where I\u0026nbsp; became even MORE sure\u0026nbsp; that\u0026nbsp;\nour Christian faith\u0026nbsp; is grounded in historical TRUTH about God and man\n–and the way to eternal life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI pray\u0026nbsp; the following\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; prayer will be YOURS\n–forever.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n“Spirit of the Living God –fall fresh on me –Fill me –Use me -- \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWell here it is in\u0026nbsp; the song:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BagH-zTfnsQ\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #c00000;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BagH-zTfnsQ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf this becomes your heart’s prayer, then the following song tells of \u0026nbsp;the\nresult –sung by a college singing group, called Heritage Singers-–don’t laugh\nat the 70’s people !–the way MY generation dressed alike in their singing\ngroups (I like it!)\u0026nbsp; and\u0026nbsp; notice the hairstyles –and the bell bottom\npants!\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (You may recall this song played in my\ncar, Vlada and Katience—as sung in church by Steph, Chris and Andrea.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2bIsboZz0g\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #c00000;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2bIsboZz0g\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLOVE,\u0026nbsp; Barb\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/506926433237839521\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=506926433237839521","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/506926433237839521"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/506926433237839521"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/letter-to-school-friends-during-covid19.html","title":"Letter to school friends during Covid19  isolation"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-3060675493838644386"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-21T18:45:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-21T18:45:06.772-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo my young friends:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHope this letter finds you enjoying your time at home and getting your school\nwork done. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I do miss you a lot!\u0026nbsp; But I don’t miss going out –I\ndo like staying home –as I’m trying to get stuff done and am disappointed at my\nslow pace.\u0026nbsp; I hope we’ll have summertime for the lake –and maybe church\ncamp and a late VBS.\u0026nbsp; You would be in Young Teen camp this year, and that\nmight be more fun for you.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"a5c8b0e714da563fe90b98cef41456e9db9fe9049761426654245bb2dd862eecmsonormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHERE is one \u0026nbsp;Christian teaching lesson –for your home school studies.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"a5c8b0e714da563fe90b98cef41456e9db9fe9049761426654245bb2dd862eecmsonormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;\"\u003EThe \u0026nbsp;Lord has been schooling me at home, too.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I’m\nfinding that daily Bible reading really DOES inspire me –I had been lax about\nthis –because I do know a lot of scripture to share to others and\u0026nbsp; for\nsituations that arise, etc. having been exposed to sermons, S.S\u0026nbsp;\nteachers,\u0026nbsp; youth group leaders\u0026nbsp; and then Christian college and their\nchapels and classes –all my life.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; My parents were believers\nwho saw to it that we were in church Sunday morning,, Sunday night, and\nWednesday night\u0026nbsp; and in a youth group called “Christian\nEndeavor.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (Endeavor means\u0026nbsp; effort with purpose, I\nsuppose.\u0026nbsp; We use it in a sentence the way we would use the word\n“try.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; “ I Try to be a Christian”\u0026nbsp; or \u0026nbsp;“I endeavor\n(try)\u0026nbsp; to live for Him.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI’m keeping \u0026nbsp;a prayer list, too, and praying more.\u0026nbsp; –I’m praying for\nyou girls and your families by name –your parents and grandparents\u0026nbsp; --and\ntheir significant others.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Praying for my family, the church\nfamilies –praying for the missionaries and the ones being persecuted for their\nfaith in Iran, Africa, India, No. Korea, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia,\u0026nbsp;\nPakistan, Iraq, --all the Middle East.\u0026nbsp; I pray that God will send them\nsome kind jailers and jail-mates –that they will be helped in their sufferings\n–that they will get out soon –that their rulers will\u0026nbsp; feel convicted about\ntheir cruelty and put an end to it.\u0026nbsp; And we pray against the virus\u0026nbsp;\nand for those suffering and who have lost loved ones–and we pray\u0026nbsp; against\npoverty and starvation in the world.\u0026nbsp; And for those suffering pain of any\nkind\u0026nbsp; (which God \u0026nbsp;has helped ME with recently –as I believe He helped\nVlada with\u0026nbsp; her issue.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And the Bible tells\nus to pray for Israel\u0026nbsp; (the descendants of Abraham, father of the People\nof the Bible –the Jews)\u0026nbsp; and the Peace of Jerusalem, which our nation\nrecognized as their capital city recently, something the Muslims did not like\nbecause they claim Jerusalem\u0026nbsp; and any land they once owned as forever\ntheirs\u0026nbsp; (though God\u0026nbsp; made The Promised Land, Israel,\u0026nbsp; a\u0026nbsp;\nJewish nation first, before the Muslims controlled it.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And\nwe pray for all unbelievers that they will come to know the salvation of the\nLord and have ETERNAL LIFE. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSO WHAT IS PRAYER\u0026nbsp; for one who believes\u0026nbsp; and has invited Jesus into\nyour heart?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It’s an INTERNAL DIALOGUE,\nconversation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The Lord gave me that idea of “internal dialogue”\n\u0026nbsp;this morning.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; God is\u0026nbsp; not your “make-believe\nfriend”\u0026nbsp; but a real friend\u0026nbsp; who dwells (lives)\u0026nbsp; INSIDE YOUR HEAD\n–your SPIRIT –when you invited Him to be your Savior –and “confessed with your\nmouth that Jesus is Lord and believed in your heart that God raised Him from\nthe dead.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; “Behold, I stand at the door and knock;\u0026nbsp; If\nanyone hears My voice,” says Christ, “ and will open the door, I will come into\nhim\/her\u0026nbsp; and dine with him\/her –fellowship with him\/her.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; –as\nin the elements of the Communion when we eat the bread representing His\nsacrificed body and drink the\u0026nbsp; grapejuice\u0026nbsp; or wine\u0026nbsp; (the fruit\nof the vine--representing His blood shed to cover and forgive our\nsins..)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We invite\u0026nbsp; Him “into our hearts.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nHeart, meaning our INNERMOST BEING –our MIND and our SPIRIT.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI’ve no doubt that Jesus is alive with His Father\u0026nbsp; (and with us in His\nHoly Spirit ) as the Bible says –and rose from the dead.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Many\npeople in HIS\u0026nbsp; day\u0026nbsp; denied it was possible –but the Bible\u0026nbsp; says\nas many as 500 people SAW HIM ALIVE after His certain death and\nburial.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And\u0026nbsp; that is why the Bible writers believed, told\nothers, were willing to die to proclaim\u0026nbsp; the salvation of God through\nJesus –and started a world-wide\u0026nbsp; church\u0026nbsp; (all the\nbelievers)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; that exists to this very day.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nWHY?\u0026nbsp; Because God loves us enough to make\u0026nbsp; a way for us to live\u0026nbsp;\nfree from slavery to sin and eternal death.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It’s not\nthe plan WE might’ve come up with –but it is consistent with the history of all\npeoples –they felt a need to make sacrifices to appease the gods of nature –in\nhopes they would have a good harvest, good weather, safety, victory against\nenemies who would harm them.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; For all the ancient\npeoples KNEW\u0026nbsp; they did not make themselves –and did not exist by accident\n–but by an Intelligent Designer.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They looked for Him –God -- in the\nmoon and the sun and in things made with their hands –and worshiped these\nthings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSO the REAL DESIGNER\/ CREATOR\u0026nbsp; REVEALED HIMSELF to the first couple He\nmade in HIS image –we are made like Him –and He says\u0026nbsp; He is not the things\nHe has made in the universe and \u0026nbsp;that we should NOT worship those things.\n–His people\u0026nbsp; sinned, disobeyed God, listened to the enemy of God and\nobeyed HIM instead of their Creator -- which brought death and disease in the\nworld.\u0026nbsp; The world got so evil that God chose\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Noah and his\nfamily\u0026nbsp; to survive in the ark and start the human race over --\u0026nbsp; when\nHe sent the global flood (evidence is in the geology and fossils of the\nearth\u0026nbsp; and found\u0026nbsp; in the cultural history of all ancient people\ngroups.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Then,\u0026nbsp; many generations later,\u0026nbsp; when the evil on\nthe earth had increased again, God\u0026nbsp; revealed Himself\u0026nbsp; to Abraham –and\nall His descendants, the Jews,\u0026nbsp; through Moses and the prophets –who have\ngiven us our Bible.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And then He revealed Himself in His Son Jesus\nwho proved His Deity (God-ship)\u0026nbsp; by\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; miracles –raising people\nfrom the dead –and rising HIMSELF –which we celebrate at Easter.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n(If you still have it –and can find it,\u0026nbsp; I recommend \u0026nbsp;watching that\nJesus movie –the kids’ version—which we gave you –in remembering and\ncelebrating Easter. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;HERE it is on YOU Tube.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thZeb2MlAMw\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thZeb2MlAMw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;\"\u003EThen in the first chapter of the Book of Acts,\u0026nbsp;\nGod\u0026nbsp; gave us\u0026nbsp; His Holy Spirit –as Jesus promised “a comforter would\ncome” --God’s very presence within us --so that we might have Him live inside\nOUR spirits –keeping us from evil –and saving us from\ndeath.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Still, there is temptation by the\nTempter, named Satan or Lucifer in the Bible, a fallen angel –God’s enemy --who\nwants our souls to be destroyed.\u0026nbsp; He hates us humans.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nPeople\u0026nbsp; may doubt his existence –but\u0026nbsp; WE CANNOT DOUBT THE EXISTANCE\nOF EVIL –AND THE TEMPTATION TO DO WRONG –nor doubt that it brings misery and\nunhappiness in both the short and\u0026nbsp; long run –broken relationships, harmful\naddictions, crime, murders, harm to others, wars,\u0026nbsp; selfishness, feelings\nof guilt, dislike for others, hatred, even boredom, and desires to do and\nthink\u0026nbsp; things we KNOW IN OUR HEARTS we ought not do –or think.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is always that tension between good and evil in our minds –but\u0026nbsp; the\nHOLY SPIRIT of GOD in the believer is THERE to remind us and help us\u0026nbsp; to\ndo what is right –and to KNOW what is right –with the help of Bible, church,\nchurch camp, youth group, sermons, songs –and the counsel (advice)\u0026nbsp; of\nother Christians including parents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Holy Spirit of God is like the internet in\u0026nbsp; a much greater way.\u0026nbsp;\nHe is ALL GOOD as the internet is NOT.\u0026nbsp; HE IS EVERYWHERE and accessible\nALL THE TIME\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We can”go on line” –calling on the Name of the Lord\n–JESUS -- and\u0026nbsp; learn from Him, be comforted by Him, be helped and taught\nby Him.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Jesus said our every thought and deed is recorded –but\nrepentance for our sin can erase our sinful record –and remove our sins from us\n“as far as east is from west” ---as if “buried in the deepest sea” –to be held\nagainst us and remembered against us NO MORE.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Jesus says even\nthe hairs of our head our numbered –and that a sparrow does not fall from the\nsky without God’s notice.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Think of the internet and\nthose computer chips that store minutia of all kinds –that COUNT EVERY WORD as\nwe type them –and we can pull up a total word count.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; If our\nmachines—computers—can do the amazing storage\u0026nbsp; they can do –and\nproduce\u0026nbsp; stuff INSTANTLY and make\u0026nbsp; amazing calculations – so it is\neven more so with the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE –about whom we know VERY\nLITTLE\u0026nbsp; except what He has REVEALED\u0026nbsp; and had men record \u0026nbsp;in the\nBible.\u0026nbsp; –WE KNOW HE HATES EVIL –and has defined it \u0026nbsp;in His book.\u0026nbsp;\nAnd He has\u0026nbsp; revealed Himself to us\u0026nbsp; and He has had men record those\nrevelations \u0026nbsp;and the history of the Jews and their relationship with God\n–and then ours –through Christ’s Jewish followers -- over about 1500\n\u0026nbsp;years of writing starting with Moses –and then 2000 more years\u0026nbsp;\nsince Christ came –of \u0026nbsp;Christians preserving and translating the original\nBook –the Bible.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI KNOW from my own life, that God can guide our decisions, protect us from our\nown sins when we DO lapse (sin) –as everyone does at times. I KNOW that\nadmitting our sins, and \u0026nbsp;believing in Him and striving to live to please\nHIM is the way to\u0026nbsp; be blessed in life –not that we shall never know\ntrouble or loss –that is part of our earthly situation on a sin-shadowed,\nsin-damaged planet.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; –But\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I can tell you that God\nCAN\u0026nbsp; give you a blessed marriage,\u0026nbsp; happy children, -and meet your\ndaily needs,\u0026nbsp; “our daily bread” –and help you avoid the sadness that comes\nwith broken or abusive and miserable\u0026nbsp; relationships,\u0026nbsp; and can give\nyou a wonderful life going forward as you maintain that “internal\nconversation”\u0026nbsp; with Him as YOUR LORD and Savior.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; As you\nbecome part of a church community\u0026nbsp; that teaches the Bible and prays and\nloves each other.\u0026nbsp; (Granted, some churches are better than others in that\nregard, and there are people in churches who are NOT listening to the Spirit\nand loving as they should –especially immature people and youth –but in a good\nBible-believing, teaching church,\u0026nbsp; we do fortify each other’s faith –and\nlook out for one another.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I can’t over-recommend Christian\ncolleges\u0026nbsp; during those years when we are learning about things beyond our\nupbringing.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; For me, it was a great place to find my wonderful\nhusband –as well as a place where I\u0026nbsp; became even MORE sure\u0026nbsp; that\u0026nbsp;\nour Christian faith\u0026nbsp; is grounded in historical TRUTH about God and man\n–and the way to eternal life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI pray\u0026nbsp; the following\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; prayer will be YOURS\n–forever.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n“Spirit of the Living God –fall fresh on me –Fill me –Use me -- \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWell here it is in\u0026nbsp; the song:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BagH-zTfnsQ\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BagH-zTfnsQ\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf this becomes your heart’s prayer, then the following song tells of \u0026nbsp;the\nresult –sung by a college singing group, called Heritage Singers-–don’t laugh\nat the 70’s people !–the way MY generation dressed alike in their singing\ngroups (I like it!)\u0026nbsp; and\u0026nbsp; notice the hairstyles –and the bell bottom\npants!\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (You may recall this song played in my\ncar, Vlada and Katience—as sung in church by Steph, Chris and Andrea.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2bIsboZz0g\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2bIsboZz0g\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLOVE,\u0026nbsp; Barb\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3060675493838644386\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=3060675493838644386","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/3060675493838644386"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/3060675493838644386"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/god-is-not-willing-that-any-should.html","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-2695232804918586049"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-17T11:14:00.003-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-17T11:14:58.632-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"WHY I OPPOSE KASICH FOR PRESIDENT --his cupcake instruction"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\"\u003E\n \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe following is from a Facebook discussion on the GOP candidates:\u0026nbsp; I was saying Kasich is weak on the religious liberty issue --weak on the defense of those who are being persecuted for refusal to use their businesses for same-sex weddings.\u0026nbsp; He said they should just get along and \"bake the cupcake.\"\u0026nbsp; (Wedding cakes, he meant --because the bakers WOULD\u0026nbsp; bake them generic cupcakes.) \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELGBT's SHOULD\u0026nbsp; be treated equally --but not accommodated  (or \nfinancially enabled) nor even CONDONED and HELPED  in their confusion-- \nnor should our young be encouraged toward this  disorientation and \ngender identity problem --which is what is\n happening now.  More and more youth are pondering \"Wonder if....?\" \n--and then \"sex-perimenting\"  with same gender friends -damaging their \nself-image-and then becoming addicted to orgasms abnormally achieved \n--and putting themselves at high risk for STD's.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bible-believing Christians (and even Muslims who agree on this one issue)  do\n believe Gender is an assignment,\u0026nbsp; as both Moses wrote it in Genesis and \nJesus said it in Matt. 19:4-6.   We are created male and female --it is \nan assignment from God and the Bible says he literally HATES it when we \nseek orgasms outside hetero-marriage.  He forbade it --seeing that \npeople animalistically were seeking them any way they could get them - \nand promiscuously --to their everlasting detriment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  It is natural for kids to idolize and even envy same gender friends \n--and to long for such friendship with admired persons.   This is not to\n be romanticized or sexualized.  It is delayed development when kids \narrest at the same- sex- preference- for -friendship stage.   Many roads\n lead to this disorientation:  relationships with parents, peers, \nseducers, molesters, and porn  --role modeling by others --promotion at \nschools and in media and entertainment --affecting self-image and gender\n identity and orientation.     ENOUGH ALREADY!  WE NEED TO HELP OUR KIDS\n BE MORAL AND GET TO THE MARITAL ALTAR WITH ONE OF OPPOSITE GENDER. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n     Homosexual temptation and ideation are like other sins which \nenslave.    Sex-perimentation before marriage with people who don't end \nup as your spouse --often leads to lifetime of singleness --and with \nsingle parenting of fatherless kids,  in case of heteros.    I am \nblessed to be growing old with my wonderful husband who has never been \nwith anyone but me --and adores me.  We are  blessed by the social \nnetwork and safety net  my kids are for us and each other.     I want \nthis for others --and for our youth --marriage and sex as God intended \nit.   Church and family make communities and nations strong --and ARE a \nboon for the economy with families (and church communities)  looking out\n for each other and able to help the poor.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"fsm fwn fcg UFICommentActions\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"uiLinkSubtle\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;N\u0026quot;}\" data-testid=\"ufi_comment_timestamp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnKasich\/posts\/10153310258370933?comment_id=10153310328735933\u0026amp;reply_comment_id=823335604462606\u0026amp;comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D\"\u003E\u003Cabbr class=\"livetimestamp\" data-shorten=\"true\" data-utime=\"1458232638\" title=\"Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 12:37pm\"\u003E\u003C\/abbr\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\"\u003E  It SHOULD be a top issue when bakers, photographers, florists, \nt-shirt designers, wedding chapel owners, and caterers  are SUED or \nFINED out of business as happening right now--because they cannot do gay\n weddings because of the religiously \nbased convictions about what is RIGHT and what is WRONG in God's sight. \n    The State is denying them their first amendment right to freedom of \nreligion.   This will eventually--soon--extend to the Christian churches\n and colleges and schools --which already may have to ADMIT \nself-identified homosexuals and transgenders to their student bodies in \norder to compete for tax dollars for their students -- and will be sued \nif they TEACH the Bible on the topic and don't provide unisex bathrooms,\n dorm rooms, etc.    In Canada the preachers can't broadcast on this \ntopic.   A Swedish pastor announced he WOULD preach against \nhomosexuality and the nation  took a fresh look at his religious rights \nby THEIR courts and legislatures to keep him out of jail and let him \npreach the Bible as written.     All based on the lie that homosexuality\n and gender dysphoria are in-born --genetic.  They are not (granted the \nvery rare cases of extra x or y on chromosomes --who usually identify \nearly on as male or female according to predominant characteristics of \ntheir anatomy and live successfuly, accordingly, though are sterile.  \nThey are the only ones entitled to confusion.  The rest of us have an \nassignment with our anatomy to live as male or female --either in \nheterosexual monogamy or celibate.   That would end ALL STD's, you know \n--and most poverty related to single parenting.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"UFIRow UFIComment _4oep UFIPartialBorder UFIUnseenItem\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;R9\u0026quot;}\" role=\"article\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"clearfix\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"UFIImageBlockContent _42ef clearfix\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"UFICommentContentBlock\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"fsm fwn fcg UFICommentActions\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"uiLinkSubtle\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-content=\"Show edit history\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnKasich\/posts\/10153310258370933?comment_id=823327171130116\u0026amp;notif_t=like#\" rel=\"dialog\" role=\"button\" title=\"Show edit history\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"UFICommentContent\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;These people who are being sued or fined did not refuse to do \nbusiness with LGBT's --just not wedding business because they know \nmarriage is a sacred matter and defined as union of man and woman by our\n Creator.  the T shirt guy refused pride\n parade business.   They recommended others they knew would do the \nbusinessfor them--but LGBT's won't be satisfied until there is no \nwhisper of stigma against their unions as perverse -- and they intend to\n persecute Christians until they are quiet on the topic -- such that \nculture loses their sense of right and wrong about sexuality.   \n\"Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.\"   \nWe fear the removal of God's hand of blessing on the USA if we continue \ndown this hedonistic, selfish path regarding sex --and it's not just the\n LGBT's at fault, either.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2695232804918586049\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=2695232804918586049","title":"1006 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/2695232804918586049"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/2695232804918586049"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/why-i-oppose-kasich-for-president-his.html","title":"WHY I OPPOSE KASICH FOR PRESIDENT --his cupcake instruction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1006"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-2752696568171419018"},"published":{"$t":"2015-03-27T18:55:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-03-27T19:04:41.875-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"RATIONALE FOR FAITH --TO AN ATHEIST WHO DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"RESPONDING TO AN ATHEIST WITH WHOM I HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING\u0026nbsp; GAY MARRIAGE AT THE ADF WEBSITE (ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYes, our Creator allows judgment, death, troubles in this world --but as Jesus said, \"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.\"    Hallelujah!!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIT SHOULD BE NOTED\u0026nbsp; how none of the 21 (OR 22)\u0026nbsp; Egyptians who were beheaded recently renounced Christ -- some praised Him as they died and it was heard on the videos ISIS released --and the mother of two slain brothers said her boys went straight to Heaven and she would forgive their slayers, invite them into her home,  and share her faith-- as Christ forgives. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSee the SAT7 website\u0026nbsp; on this and how the ISIS tapes have fortified Christian faith instead of terrorizing them--on Lebanese Christian tv throughout the middle east.    That's the Christian difference:   forgiveness of those who trespass against us.   Rather than \"eye for an eye\" --which is strict justice.  It's against our human nature to forgive, but the Holy Spirit enables perfect love.  (That doesn't mean the world's latest bullies shouldn't be stopped forcibly--just as happened in the Old Testament.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe are the planet shadowed by evil --where the light strives with the darkness for dominance.   Jesus --the light of the world.    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYOU and I might have created a world where man could not have chosen to sin -- no free will with which to\u0026nbsp; worship and believe in God or not.\u0026nbsp; I\u0026nbsp; don't know any reason for a blood atonement for sin --but the Bible says that \"life is in the blood.\"   Whether sacrifice for atonement was God's idea or primitive man's matters not --it's the idea in every people group and it is demanded of Cain and Abel in Genesis.\u0026nbsp; Ever since, all people groups have appeased the deities that they were sure were there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHow else could you explain beautiful earth, with life-sustaining elements --and our bodies so compatible for each other as male and female to procreate the human race --like  all other creatures with gender.\u0026nbsp; We have beautiful colors to see --and eyes to see color.   Beautiful music to create and hear --and ears to hear.   Amazing computer brains which have invented so much helpful and life-easing  technology using God's principles of science and math. A night light in the moon; the sun for day and to nurture all life.  And amazing water --which sustains life, cleanses, refreshes, cooks, transports, and provides fun and sport -- and is beautiful to look upon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNo designer?   No Creator?   in all the vast universe with all its barren planets --we have earth --and people --and creatures --and food --and happiness and love amidst sorrows and hardships.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInto this world stepped Jesus Christ --who died a criminal's death --and was raised to life 3 days later.  And raised  others and healed many --and calmed the sea --and changed water to wine --and ascended before hundreds --jump-starting the church.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA favorite story of mine is found in Acts 3 and 4 --after Christs' crucifixion, etc. --when Peter and John go into Jerusalem, heal a man lame from birth who sits at the gate called \"Beautiful,\"  and Peter preaches a powerful, contemporary sermon to the Jews there --telling them what they have done --and that Jesus arose!     They said there were 5000 converted that day.   The authorities marveled at the eloquence of these unlearned fishermen from Galilee.  It's a great read --can be found at Bible \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/gateway.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EGateway.com\u003C\/a\u003E.  \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+3%2C4\u0026amp;version=NIV\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/p...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhen you say Christians divorce at the same rate as non-Christians,  you'd be including a lot of \"nominal\" Christians who claim Christianity like an ethnicity.   The question would be, do the Bible- believers who take their faith personally and seriously divorce at the same rate as nominal Christians?   I doubt they do.  Certainly not in the church and Christian  circles in which I circulate.  Also, the divorce rate is pushed higher by the divorced themselves who marry and often divorce again --and again.    I heard that recently that it's the oft-divorced and re-married who push up the divorce stats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGranted, what I want is irrelevant --what God wants is not.     What HE intended about gender and what HE says about homosexual relations in His book --and what biology says about the purpose of gender --all relevant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI don't work for any of your named groups --but I support them. and agree with them --ACLJ, ADF, AFA, Focus on the Family,  --just basic Christianity which says celibate singlehood, heterosexual marriage and parenting are God's design for gender --and homosexual coupling is not.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhat is your dog in this \"fight\" anyway?  Are you homosexual yourself --which would explain your efforts here?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou malign Christians as having \"illogical hatred.\"   We don't.   I don't hate homosexuals.  I just wouldn't participate in their weddings in any way because of my Bible-based belief that God doesn't force us to be homosexual --doesn't design us to be homosexual --doesn't want us to be homosexual --it is sin --like many other sins for which we do not or ought not  have \"pride.\"    Like any other sexual  temptation that afflicts mankind, homosexual sex acts can be avoided.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIF there is a God, as our founders mostly believed, it behooves us to define right and wrong as He does.  \"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBless you as you pursue truth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"text 2Pet-3-9\" id=\"en-NIV-30532\"\u003E\u003Csup class=\"versenum\"\u003E2 Peter 3: 9\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EThe Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp; \"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\"\u0026nbsp; 1 John 1:9\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"For God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.\"\u0026nbsp; John 3:16\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2752696568171419018\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=2752696568171419018","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/2752696568171419018"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/2752696568171419018"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/rationale-for-faith-to-atheist-who.html","title":"RATIONALE FOR FAITH --TO AN ATHEIST WHO DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-1413473970782262351"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-31T11:24:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-31T11:24:03.389-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Bedrooms and Happiness --a Correlation for Political Concern"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\n\nMy response to a liberal Christian --on\u0026nbsp; bedroom issues of politics --which she believed should be irrelevant concern for the Church today:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBedrooms have a great deal to do with \nhappiness, actually.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Pre-marital fornication and Adultery\u0026nbsp;are ruinous for the \nfaithful who love --and\u0026nbsp; ruinous for their children --and expensive when\u0026nbsp; they \ncause divorce and the need for gov't subsidies. \u0026nbsp;Divorce and bed-hopping result \nin multiple households needing money and lacking the love and supervision of mom \nand dad as faithful role models in the home. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;increasing prevalence \nof \u0026nbsp;oral sex cancers\u0026nbsp;is going to come as a shock for those who said \"it's not \nsex\"\u0026nbsp; --as in \"I didn't have 'sex' with that woman.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Sexual promiscuity of \nsodomy practitioners from America\u0026nbsp; gave the nation AIDS and they still have 2\/3 \nof the 50,000 known new cases annually\u0026nbsp;in US.\u0026nbsp; though they are less than 4% of \nthe population so far.\u0026nbsp; Expect that percentage to go up with heteros approving \nand sex-perimenting with the same behaviors as LGBT's --which young women in my \nday knew were repugnant.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026nbsp;may take awhile --but when our national \neconomy collapses (many say this year)\u0026nbsp; --and the poor (and the drug addicted) \nrise up in fury and hit the streets and neighborhoods with break ins and looting \nbecause the freebies run out\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;to which they are \"entitled\" -- you may have to \nre-think your view that bedroom activity was irrelevant and merely divisive.\u0026nbsp; \nIt's divisive alright --especially between the workers and the poor on \nentitlements\u0026nbsp; who are making babies without fidelity or marriage --without \u0026nbsp;good \neducation and supervision of their\u0026nbsp; disrespectful kids --who make some teachers' \nand school peers' lives (and malls) a living H.\u0026nbsp; (Which is why the respectful \nand diligent kids and parents\u0026nbsp;should have a voucher system to take their \neducation money to other schools --including \u0026nbsp;private and religious \nschools.)\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou think that homosexual marriage has nothing to do with \nthis --yes, it does.\u0026nbsp; It spreads its lies about God and man and God's plan for \ngender --to kids who now feel licensed by media and\u0026nbsp;SEICUS (the professional sex \neducators)\u0026nbsp; to \"sex-plore\" their sexuality.\u0026nbsp; Being\u0026nbsp;immature youth, they are NOT \nresponsible to use the condoms --after\u0026nbsp;all, if we get pregnant we can get an \nabortion.\u0026nbsp; But they ACT oblivious to the STD risk --no matter how educated they \nare on the topic.\u0026nbsp; TV and rappers give a false sense of security about results \nof promiscuity.\u0026nbsp; \"Not me\" --or \"it can be fixed.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\nParents are distracted by their own troubles and their careers\u0026nbsp; and their own \nmessed up bed lives--leaving kids alone with peers after school --to their \nrisk.\u0026nbsp; Some live in neighborhoods with lots of youth and no sober parents \nhome.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The adults have \u0026nbsp;lost control and respect long ago --because they come \nfrom the same kind of youthful sex-perimenting\u0026nbsp; with \u0026nbsp;unwed teen pregnancy \nthemselves.\u0026nbsp; This problem is epidemic. and inter-generational.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;(Remember 84% \nof Chicago black youth being single parented\u0026nbsp; and mostly gov't dependent--and \nthus vulnerable to all the dysfunction of gang life --many illegally-owned guns \nand \u0026nbsp;deaths and headed for jail.)\u0026nbsp; White youth are now up to almost 1\/3 single \nparented.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\nBelieve me, our sex life matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for the rest of your post \n--what\u0026nbsp;a party \u0026nbsp;believes and says it will work for in a political platform CAN \nbe morally superior.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Dems think they are morally superior about the \nenvironment and compassion. which they want expressed through money borrowed \nfrom China --who owns us now.\u0026nbsp; I think the GOP HAS been morally superior about\u0026nbsp; \nvery important matters of immigrating legally, faith-based compassion and social \naid and the right of religious groups to compete for public aid same as secular \ngroups --because they ARE more efficacious in improving people's lives,\u0026nbsp;REALLY \nhelping the poor, and \u0026nbsp;getting over addictions, etc.\u0026nbsp; The GOP's stance on porn, \nmarriage and abortion IS superior morally and put there BY and FOR voters like \nme\u0026nbsp;--whether or not there are some hypocritical politicians on the Right who \ndon't sincerely care about anything but lower taxes and smaller gov't. and \ngetting elected for their overly generous lifetime pensions and perks and \nconnections for\u0026nbsp; personal wealth-building\u0026nbsp; --advantages to politicians of the \nLeft and the Right.\u0026nbsp; (Feinstein's husband is reportedly making BILLIONS handling \nthe sale of the closed post offices.\u0026nbsp; Why so much?\u0026nbsp; Why isn't that put back into \nfederal debt pay off?)\u0026nbsp; Of course he will also\u0026nbsp;fund democratic campaigns with \nhis windfall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservative religious Christian\u0026nbsp;people truly are not as \nprone to egregious bad behavior as others.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;They surround themselves with \nchristian radio, tv, Bible study, prayer, accountability to church discipline, \nsermons\u0026nbsp;and fellowship, and our churches just aren't hotbeds of lust and carnal \nactivity.\u0026nbsp; Even at their wedding dances, you don't see people dancing with \nanyone but their own\u0026nbsp;spouses or kids.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;I've never seen\u0026nbsp;married people fliirting \nwith others\u0026nbsp;like on tv\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;--except at medical receptions and school board \nconvention socials \u0026nbsp;where the\u0026nbsp;bar is open.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI've been around a lot of \nchurches and church people all my life --and they are truly more moral than the \ngeneral public --nonsmokers, non-drinkers, faithful husbands and wives, salt of \nthe earth in their neighborhoods, church communities and school communities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \nI've never known a philandering pastor, though I've heard of them in some \ndenominations.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; My husband has been a devout compassionate Christian MD\u0026nbsp; who \nworks with and on women all the time --and has proven himself trustworthy \n--though handsome and desirable by anyone's description.\u0026nbsp; He fears God --even \nmore than me!\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He earnestly wants to be remembered as God's man --so that \nChrist won't say to Him in eternity \"Depart from me --I never knew you.\"\u0026nbsp; He \nwants to set a good example for his kids and theirs.\u0026nbsp; And he does.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; With my \nunderstanding of the weaknesses of men, I was not automatically a trusting wife \n--he turned heads when we walked into that hospital for a tour of his residency \nhospital with his\u0026nbsp;plain pregnant wife beside him.\u0026nbsp; I felt inferior (was) but he \nnever let me feel that way\u0026nbsp; --because of Christ in Him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'd like all \npeople to be so blessed in their marriages --and I KNOW what makes for those \nblessings --faith in the living Christ and involvement in a Biblically faithful \nChristian church.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; That's not a Pharisaical statement of Christians being \nsaved by their works and goodness --no, it's CHRIST's perfection and sacrifice \nwhich atones for our sins --and we respond by trying to be \"More like the \nMaster.\"\u0026nbsp; (a song --More like the master I would ever be --more of his love and \nmore humility....\")\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We don't attain \"perfect love\"\u0026nbsp; but we strive for it.\u0026nbsp; And \nI love any homosexuals whom I know --but loving does not mean approving their \nrelationships or agenda --perpetuating the lie about God and His plan for \ngender.\u0026nbsp; They can truly love and be faithful to a partner --they can live \noutwardly respectable lives on par with heteros --but they are still missing the \nboat of God's Design for Gender --and encouraging others to do so by their \nexamples.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1413473970782262351\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=1413473970782262351","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/1413473970782262351"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/1413473970782262351"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/bedrooms-and-happiness-correlation-for.html","title":"Bedrooms and Happiness --a Correlation for Political Concern"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-5885388128147695843"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-02T18:38:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-03-27T21:13:04.056-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Alcorn Boy Who Wanted to be Leelah"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"\u003E\u003Cspan data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0\"\u003ETo One of the Facebook Memorial pages:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"\u003E\u003Cspan data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0\"\u003EYou\n have no business telling this grieving family that they have to bury \ntheir son using a girl's name --which I understand to be on the agenda \nof these memorial and vigil events.   The consequences of the LGBT ideation, ideology, \nidolatry of self over God and others  are sad ones.  Depression comes \nwith the decision to be what we are not --and act as we should not.    \nEvery effort should be made by parents, society, and  church to prevent \nthis sad mental dissatisfaction with one's gender identity and \nassignment.  We  should be more vigilant to protect the kids from those \nwho want them to become sexually active early --either gender.     We \ndon't need sex educators telling them the only risks to early sex occur \nif you don't use condoms.  There is no condom for one's self-esteem, \ngender self-image, or sex addiction. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$3:0\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0\"\u003E\n We've caved to temptation and evil-doing  in every way lately.  Our \npermissive PC culture has decided that  If people want to be stoned on \nmarijuana, we should just legalize it.  If thugs want to break the law, \nwe call them \"gentle giants.\"   If presidents want to have sex with \ninterns, we'll make them our party heroes.  If people want to have \nexperimental marriage and shack up, that's OK.  If people break the law \nto get into our country, we'll give them benefits.  If they want to \ncheat at the voting booth, we'll look the other way.  If they want to \nmake babies with multiple partners, we should pay for them and their \nchildren --because goodness knows, no one can afford more than one \nhousehold.    If people want to be the opposite gender, we should \nprovide their mutilation surgery, sterilization of their healthy \nprocreative bodies, and their lifetime of hormones to maintain the \ndeception.   If people want to have anal and oral sex with persons of \ntheir own gender, we should call it marriage instead of sodomy.   We are\n probably in the last days --when evil is called good and good, evil, \naccording to the Bible.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$5:0\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$7:0\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$8:0\"\u003E\n Former Lesbian, now Christian married to a man and happy to be so,  \nRosaria Butterfield, says, \"We are all born that way.\"    i.e.  born \nwith a sin nature --all temptable by many sins. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$9:0\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$11:0\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan data-reactid=\".2y.1:3:1:$comment833662140009969_834151043294412:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$12:0\"\u003E.The\n devil had his way with this young man--sin always brings us down.  \nSatan wants the death of humanity.  He loves abortion, LGBT thinking, \ndepression and suicide.   Sin is sin--and sin matters.  His death was a \n tragedy --and he was not a girl --even though he wanted to be.  Where \ndid he get the idea it wasn't sufficient to be a male --or that HE made a\n better female?   from family--or bullying peers.   from culture's \npropaganda --or from Satan himself?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EGod is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5885388128147695843\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=5885388128147695843","title":"1 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Priority=\"37\" Name=\"Bibliography\"\/\u003E\n  \u003Cw:LsdException Locked=\"false\" Priority=\"39\" QFormat=\"true\" Name=\"TOC Heading\"\/\u003E\n \u003C\/w:LatentStyles\u003E\n\u003C\/xml\u003E\u003C![endif]--\u003E\u003C!--[if gte mso 10]\u003E\n\u003Cstyle\u003E\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n {mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n mso-style-noshow:yes;\n mso-style-priority:99;\n mso-style-qformat:yes;\n mso-style-parent:\"\";\n mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\n mso-para-margin:0in;\n mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n font-size:11.0pt;\n font-family:\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\";\n mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}\n\u003C\/style\u003E\n\u003C![endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d;\"\u003EI read \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAnimal\nFarm\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, by Geo. Orwell one morning last week.\u0026nbsp; It’s available free\non line and is very instructive even for politics today.\u0026nbsp; A short book.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d;\"\u003EI\nnoticed an alcohol theme in \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAnimal Farm\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Had the farmer not\nbeen such a lush, he would’ve remembered to feed the animals; \u0026nbsp;the farm\nwould not have fallen into disarray, \u0026nbsp;and the animals might not have\nrebelled.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Based on this experience, the leader-pigs of the\nfarm\u0026nbsp; made a commandment to not use alcohol at all \u0026nbsp;(like evangelical\nchurches and old time Methodists did)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It was \u0026nbsp;one of 7\ncommandments –and then the pigs start to behave as the farmer did –and start\ndrinking.\u0026nbsp; They become corrupt and self-centered –as the farmer did\n\u0026nbsp;–and next thing you know, \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ethey change the commandment \u0026nbsp;to not\ndrink\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cu\u003Eunto excess\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cu\u003E!\u003C\/u\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Apparently\nnot aware that they were doing that.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;So even \u0026nbsp;with this\nsecular author, drinking is portrayed as a slippery slope issue.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d;\"\u003EFor\nsure, the \u0026nbsp;Bible emphasizes avoiding drunkenness more than\nabstinence.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;There were probably few year-round beverage\nchoices, perhaps a risk of contaminated water, \u0026nbsp;and it \u0026nbsp;may have been\nthe only temporary anti-depressant and pain reliever available –and “a little\nwine for the stomach’s sake”\u0026nbsp; was recommended by Paul. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Sure\nenough, Johns-Hopkins said moderate drinking may prevent H Pylori\nbacteria-caused ulcers . \u0026nbsp;That research hospital \u0026nbsp;also said\nantibiotics will take care of the bacteria and warned non-drinking \u0026nbsp;people\nto not start drinking for ulcer prevention as they said there are more\npotential problems from drinking.\u0026nbsp; The much touted health benefits of\ndaily wine for the heart have been clarified by European study which said that\nNON-ALCOHOLIC wine has more anti-oxidant health benefits –and reduces blood\npressure –more than does alcoholic wine. They said it’s the grapes themselves\nthat have the most benefit and the alcohol reduces that benefit. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d;\"\u003EOf\ncourse, wine didn’t have to be fermented in the Bible to be called\n“wine.”\u0026nbsp; The “new wine” \u0026nbsp;is unfermented –and should be put in new\nwineskins which can expand when the wine ferments.\u0026nbsp; The \u0026nbsp;new wine is\nthe fresh grape juice that tastes much better than alcohol.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (Yes,\nI’ve tasted –thought ewwwww! ) \u0026nbsp;So maybe the wine of the wedding miracle\nwas really flavorful and rare like “new wine” –which is only available at\nharvest time. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Most don’t agree with me on that, believing the\nwine of the wedding and the wine of the wedding feast of the Lamb in Heaven\nsomeday –are same as the intoxicating, prized, aged wines of today.\u0026nbsp; Time\n(Eternity?) \u0026nbsp;will tell!\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor people, alcohol \u0026nbsp;causes so much trouble in society, affecting judgment\n–and the drinkers don’t notice that their judgment is affected and don’t know\nthey are drunk –as noted \u0026nbsp;one wife of an alcoholic , speaking up in a S.S.\nclass.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; My husband said no amount of pleasure from drinking was\nworth the horrible things he saw in ER from traffic accidents caused by\nalcohol.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d;\"\u003EIn\nfact, as per-capita consumption of alcohol increases in America, so does\nsocietal dysfunction and poverty with addiction –in addition to the\n\u0026nbsp;carnage on highways. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;The \u0026nbsp;great Christian evangelists and reformers in history preached\nabstinence –and that teaching thru-out our family line has protected many of us\nfrom having an alcohol problem.\u0026nbsp; That’s \u0026nbsp;why the Free Methodist\nChurch still recommends it for members –though it no longer “requires” it for\nthem –realizing that drinking itself is not biblically forbidden –though there\nare warnings about it –but does it sometimes pave the path to \u0026nbsp;poor\njudgment, regrettable sinful acts, emotions and \u0026nbsp;attitudes, \u0026nbsp;liver\ndisease, drunk driving and \u0026nbsp;pre-mature entrance to Eternity?\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Is there still good reason for the Christ-follower \u0026nbsp;today to\nset a pattern of abstinence for future generations?\u0026nbsp; Is \u0026nbsp;drinking\n\u0026nbsp;an avoidable stumbling block for the weaker brethren (including youth)\n\u0026nbsp;–which WE avoid for THEIR sake?\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPerhaps abstinence is \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;self-denial for many good reasons \u0026nbsp;which\nought not be difficult for us\u0026nbsp; --not like chocolate abstinence would\nbe….\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; ;\u0026nbsp; )\u0026nbsp; But keep perspective:\u0026nbsp; chocolate, a\nguilty pleasure for the calories, \u0026nbsp;doesn’t cause all the dysfunction that\nalcohol does!\u0026nbsp; (It, too, has antioxidants.) \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;God has given us\nmany pleasures that don’t affect judgment , behavior and relationships the way\nalcohol can. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7707576312882760405\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=7707576312882760405","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7707576312882760405"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7707576312882760405"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/a-note-on-alcohol-for-church-friends.html","title":"A Note on Alcohol for Church Friends and Others  ~  Food for Thought"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-4638473454553663227"},"published":{"$t":"2014-11-01T12:30:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-11-01T13:57:18.866-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"RE: CANDIDATES FOR OHIO STATE BD. OF ED. 2014"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There are three candidates on our ballot for Ohio State Bd of \neducation --we choose one. And need to pray for whoever gets elected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EKATHLEEN A. MCGERVEY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E-- single, 45, engineer and surveyor, aunt of many \nchildren, tutor in math and science for inner city students; concerned \nfor their education.  She is a 4-year incumbent on the board which has \neffected school choice for students from failing schools --and enabled \nhome school students to participate in public school part time and the \nextra curricular activities (Like my grandson Jacob, now taking 3 \nclasses and marching band at A.W. --a right for home-schoolers \nconsidering their parents are also tax payers like the public school \nparents.)  She describes herself as being for \"family values\" and is \nendorsed by some good groups.\u0026nbsp; She is a pro-life Catholic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EIf children from inner-city, \nfailing schools qualify  for private (including religious) schools, they\n may now attend the private school with state aid for a better education\n\u003C\/span\u003E --if they currently are enrolled in public school and if they apply by a\n certain deadline. The private school does not, however, have to lower \nadmission, attendance, academic, religious and behavior standards to let\n such children in.  (In my opinion, this funding should be available  to\n all the private school students in ALL districts, and would be if we \nhad vouchers to take to the school of one's choice.  As it is, if you \nare already in private school, even if you live in a failing district, you don't get\n the aid.  You only get it if you need rescued from a failing school \n--and you have to apply early in the year.  The state figures if you are\n already funding your kids in private school, you don't need their \nhelp.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERAY YOUNG\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E is another  self-acclaimed republican \nconservative  running for state board of education.    Retired, he has many years\n of experience as teacher, father, grandfather and other board \nmembership.  He is most articulate in writing and speaking. (Hear his \ninterview on WSPD.)  Google the candidates--they also have Facebook \npages.\u0026nbsp; He is a Christian who says he will not compromise his convictions as a board member.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EKIM REDFERN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, a young mother with small business history,  \nwants more democrats on that board (8 of 19 get appointed by the \ngovernor and are likely republicans.)  Her husband is chairman of Ohio \nDemocratic Party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKim and Ray do not believe in vouchers for \nschool choice --where public funds follow  students to private  schools.\n  All candidates think charter schools should meet some standards --some\n of these schools have not tested  well. The great irony of liberal \nthinking on this --the teachers' unions don't want competition by \nprivate or charter schools funded by gov't,  as it may cut into their \nincomes.  Their idea of \"better education is more money\"  for the public\n school teachers and the buildings.  \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EYet their schools continue to fail \nin the inner city.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe conservative solution\u003C\/b\u003E is competition for gov't \nfunding from private schools accepting the motivated students from the \npoorer, failing districts.  Help kids escape their unruly peers in \nschools that can't make up for the deficits of discipline at home and in\n school.  NO question in my mind, that it's the culture of\u0026nbsp; \nunwed and teen parenting, fatherlessness and crime and disrespect for authority and rules-- and \nschools that are large and impersonal --and disrespect for education \nitself -- which all effect both  poverty and failing schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EI\u0026nbsp;\n recommend KATHLEEN MCGERVEY because of good changes allowing school \nchoice by our state board with her on it and support for her from family values groups.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI believe RAY YOUNG is also an acceptable candidate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EPerhaps Kasich can appoint \nRay Young some day;  my only objection to him is that he IS a \nprofessional educator --opposing funding for school choice (PTA \nquestionnaire)   --while saying he IS for school choice --just not diverting public school funds to pay for private.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EI do \nwish someone would address the new (as of last year)  state requirements\n on public school teachers \u003C\/span\u003Econcerning their objectives, implementation \nand measurement of student progress --making new, esoteric,  \nunnecessary, time-consuming burden on the teachers --in addition to the \nplanning, testing  and grading they already do. I heard of this from a \nteacher who is busy enough doing a good job without this new burden from the state.\u0026nbsp; I don't think it's part of Common Core --but state requirement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EWhat I believe Christians should care about in education:\u003C\/span\u003E school choice\n via vouchers for all, not just the students from failing schools; the \nrights of home schoolers to some public school participation as tax \npayers;   the whole truth in history ed about religion, racism, native \nAmericans, opportunity for all (see D'Souza's recent film)  and sex ed  \n(no --latex does not make sex-perimentation and fornication inevitable \nand 'right' for teens) --common sense re: \"common core,\" sex ed; school\n security, drug screening, science ed (don't claim proof\u0026nbsp; in theories without mention of evidence to the contrary.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe state should care that every district teaches \nbasic skills and\u0026nbsp; fair \ntreatment of free enterprise, capitalism, democracy, western civ and even its predominant religion \n--Judeo-Christianity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E According to Education Research Analysts, a new\n World History text by a major publisher proposed to the Texas State \nBd--whose decisions affect the whole nation's textbook choices--  has much \npro-Islam and anti-Christian, anti-American propaganda in it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EWhat should \"educated people\" learn??\u003C\/span\u003E   Liberals have a very different \nview on these things  than do conservative Christians and we do not want\n a federal department ruling from the top down --especially if their \nviews are liberal, anti American, anti-Christian and plainly immoral.   \n Politics and voting are important --and  will affect the culture and \nfuture for  our children. \u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ECandidates Ray Young and Kathleen McGervey agree that the feds should not be determining local education policy.\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; PROFICIENCY TESTING, criticized by most everyone,\u0026nbsp; came about in states because of the neglect of the basics --the Three R's --the fact that kids were failing to learn to read, etc. all the way to h.s. graduation.\u0026nbsp; Testing students resulted in intervention --and helped to focus the teachers on the needs of the students --during an era when we were all about \"values clarification\" and \"moral relativity in life skills\"\u0026nbsp; --social engineering -- at the expense of\u0026nbsp; BASIC SKILLS for making a living and\/or\u0026nbsp; going on to college.\u0026nbsp; Testing --and \"teaching to the tests\" --is not all bad if it focuses educators and students on learning basics (even core curricula.) \u0026nbsp; However, I agree with candidates who don't want to see\u0026nbsp; teachers judged by their students' test results --because even the best teachers in the failing schools can have really poor students who are \"tuned out\" to the objectives, possessing poor attitudes --and high truancy rate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EI think we could cut the federal budget\n effectively by eliminating the federal dep't of education, their Common\n Core and all.\u003C\/span\u003E   Common Core wouldn't be a bad idea, if we could trust \nthere would be political balance.  As it is, we can't even expect \nbalance at a local level --with our liberal schools of eduction turning \nout liberal teachers and other citizens who desire to \"fundamentally \nchange America.\"   Not that there aren't some changes needed these days \n--but what changes determined by whom??  Co-ed bathrooms for school \nchildren as in California?  A mayor's demand for ministers' sermons as \nin Houston, TX?  Girls on the boys' wrestling and football teams? \nTransgender females (males) unfairly competing with women?   I don't think so!!!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ERevival of common sense needed! And spiritual awakening.  There IS a \nhigher power!  and His name is Jesus!\u0026nbsp; Separation of church and state does not mean leaving our faith-based convictions and morals --our respect and search for Truth about God, man and history -- at the voting booth door.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4638473454553663227\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=4638473454553663227","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4638473454553663227"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4638473454553663227"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/mcgervey-for-ohio-state-bd-of-ed-2014.html","title":"RE: CANDIDATES FOR OHIO STATE BD. OF ED. 2014"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-7543236434157308797"},"published":{"$t":"2014-03-19T11:22:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-03-19T18:57:10.767-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"CHRISTIANS:   TO TATTOO OR NOT TO TATTOO --THAT IS THE QUESTION!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWorld Magazine\u003C\/i\u003E addressed the\u0026nbsp; issue of tattoos this week. \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E[Any comments in brackets are mine.]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Leviticus 19:28 --\"you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead --or tattoo yourselves:\u0026nbsp; I am the Lord.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWHAT DID THE FAMOUS\u0026nbsp; PASTOR JOHN PIPER SAY?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp; . He said tattooing is not a sin, but \"be wise and skip it.\"\u0026nbsp; He said that since the Leviticus passage is \"explicitly anti-tattoo,\"\u0026nbsp; \"that should at least give us a few minutes' pause.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He said the permanent nature of tattoos with the painful and expensive cost of removal --may turn them into stumbling blocks later.\u0026nbsp; [In fact, even in California we hear recently of much demand to remove tattoos at great expense for better chances at jobs.]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWHAT DID PSYCHOLOGY PROF. LUKE TSE\u0026nbsp; AT CEDARVILLE U. SAY?\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp; He \nresearched the topic among Christian college students in 2008 and found \nthat few consulted pastors or spiritual mentors before getting tattoos \n--and\u0026nbsp; \"many\" sinned in the process because they admitted they disobeyed parents who \nforbade the practice.\u0026nbsp; He found a few who minister in Christian punk \nrock bands who\u0026nbsp; fit in with their target ministry better, being \ntattooed.\u0026nbsp; He questioned whether such permanent skin markings were \nnecessary\u0026nbsp; for evangelism to the tattooed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe following is not from World Magazine. \u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWHAT DID THE\u0026nbsp; UNTATTOOED PHILOSOPHER ROB ROHRS SAY?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He reminds us that \"we are not under the law --but the law is important.\" [Of course we eat shrimp and pork and we mix fabrics and many think tattoos may be in this category of Biblical laws. \u0026nbsp; Many also try to sanctify and excuse sexual sins\u0026nbsp; by the same argument these days.\u0026nbsp; However, tattoos are clearly not in the same category as sexual sins in their potential for harm to others.]\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E WHAT DID A DOC FROM OHIO SAY?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It used to be just military vets and prisoners who had tattoos.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Otherwise, it was a characteristic of pagans and not of believers.\u0026nbsp; If you are going to do it, BE SURE to use a reputable business (check with the BBB or perhaps Public Health Dep't.)\u0026nbsp; as HIV\/AIDS and hepatitis\u0026nbsp; have been transmitted by tattoo needles in the past.\u0026nbsp; He says his older patients don't like how their tattoos look on their older skin and many are embarrassed about them, attributing their acquisition to youthful folly.\u0026nbsp; He also warns against multiple piercings on the ears --as the cartilage has gotten infected causing disfigurement common to prize fighters, known as \"cauliflower ear,\"\u0026nbsp; definitely not a mark of beauty. ]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n[Leaving our bodies unmarked and unpierced as God made them, was characteristic of\u0026nbsp; O.T. Jews and has been characteristic of the more modernized (civilized?) cultures --distinguishing us from the pagans who made graven images and art canvasses of their skin.\u0026nbsp; From where do we get this desire to tattoo?\u0026nbsp; In the church?\u0026nbsp; No, from the world and its values of\u0026nbsp; fads, peer influence, from the world's\u0026nbsp; standards of beauty and \"cool.\" \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; From the pagan, unbelieving cultures --from the drug and punk culture --from Hollywood --not from the Bible, the Christians, their families and churches.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAs with so many things,\u0026nbsp; the worldly lead\u0026nbsp; the culture and the Christians follow.\u0026nbsp; Instead of the other way around.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI worked with a very poor family with a sexually abusive father.\u0026nbsp; They lived in most desperate circumstances.\u0026nbsp; The kids were into tattooing themselves (before it was a fad) with pens and cutting the ink into their skins with pocket knives--self-mutilation.\u0026nbsp; Part of the cutters' syndrome.\u0026nbsp; Of course we know of\u0026nbsp; pagan cultures of the past where the standard of beauty is a disc in the lip, rings stacked to elongate the neck, feet bound to make them small, crippling the girls in China.\u0026nbsp; I've heard that getting tattooed and pierced\u0026nbsp; is almost addictive to some people.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorld\u003C\/i\u003E said a starting price for a small tattoo could be $80.\u0026nbsp; That would cover 2 or\u0026nbsp; 3 months of child support\u0026nbsp; through our ICCM ( Int'l Child Care\u0026nbsp; Ministries)\u0026nbsp; for\u0026nbsp; sex traffic prevention.\u0026nbsp; Or help the Winckles with their \"country shares\" to run their FM community center in Hungary. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; I realize the same argument could be used to criticize Christians for eating out and buying clothes or owning anything nice--however, food and clothes, housing and cars,\u0026nbsp; are American necessities, whereas tattoos are not.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHowever, I am NOT writing this to criticize tattooed Christians\u0026nbsp; and definitely NOT\u0026nbsp; saying\u0026nbsp; the non-tattooed are better Christians.\u0026nbsp; I know some wonderful Christians, whom I admire, who do have\u0026nbsp; some inobvious tattoos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSome tattooed believers\u0026nbsp; say they use their tattoos for witness among the tattooed --and they get Christian-themed tattoos and believe they are\u0026nbsp; springboards for witness to others who also have tattoos.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; If that's really the motivation, so be it.\u0026nbsp; May the Lord bless their ministries.\u0026nbsp; (Though I guess a tattoo on the inner thigh or the posterior would not be a witnessing tool?)\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut those who work with\u0026nbsp; church youth might want to refrain from\u0026nbsp; recommending\u0026nbsp; tattoos in teaching or by showing off their own as something good to other people's children --considering many parents hope their kids won't tattoo --at least for its potential to affect their future careers and the expense of both receiving and removing them.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYes, tattooing is superficial --generally not reflective of the heart or one's character--possibly not that important one way or the other --not affecting relationships.\u0026nbsp; However, many\u0026nbsp; do use tattoos to reflect noble sentiments --love for someone, e.g.--but we shouldn't feel somehow \"incomplete\"\u0026nbsp; as untattooed persons --or more attractive with tattoos. \u003Cbr \/\u003E|\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn a similar issue, I remember when churches and establishment types objected to long hair on the guys --as started in the hippie and rock cultures in the 60's. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; (I heard of some Illinois sheriffs out in the country where I taught, who arrested 2 young men -- for what, I don't remember --but they let them off with a penalty of cutting their hair!)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Our Christian profs led the way to longer hair in the church as it became the prevailing style for men's hair at the time. At first,\u0026nbsp; Jon's grandparents and parents thought the style was sinful, \u0026nbsp; but\u0026nbsp; we said to them that Jesus from Nazareth probably had long hair --and for Samson it was a virtue.\u0026nbsp; As far as I know, there really wasn't any sinful connotation in the Bible against long hair on men, but the church had it as a legalism in western culture --such that when the rockers and the hippies let their hair grow, they INTENDED\u0026nbsp; to be \"anti-establishment\"\u0026nbsp; for worldly reasons --to be \"in your face\"\u0026nbsp; to parents, bending the rules and being against the military draft and the Viet Nam war.\u0026nbsp; At first, the long\u0026nbsp; hair\u0026nbsp; on boys and men just symbolized rebellion. Then it became mainstream fashion--and it was never really a sin in itself. Of course, tattooing is a little different than long hair in its Biblical prohibition. But it is another example of how the worldly, often rebellious youth, Hollywood and pop cultures\u0026nbsp; have affected Christians --more than the Christians have affected them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;I wrote this because it's topical--in this week's \u003Ci\u003EWorld\u003C\/i\u003E.\u0026nbsp; And I believe \nwe should discuss things we do as Christians--and give our youth and parents who raise them wise biblical \ncounsel and well-rounded, informed direction about cultural trends \n--especially when the church is being challenged to conform to the WORLD'S values in the name of compassion, love and witness.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERomans 12: 1--\u003Cspan class=\"text Rom-12-1\" id=\"en-KJV-28247\"\u003EI\n beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present\n your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is \nyour reasonable service.\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"text Rom-12-2\" id=\"en-KJV-28248\"\u003E\u003Csup class=\"versenum\"\u003E2\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EAnd\n be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing \nof your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and \nperfect, will of God.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"text Rom-12-3\" id=\"en-KJV-28249\"\u003E\u003Csup class=\"versenum\"\u003E3\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EFor\n I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you,\n not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to \nthink soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of \nfaith.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"text Rom-12-3\" id=\"en-KJV-28249\"\u003ECan one think soberly and humbly, be a good Christian,\u0026nbsp; and still get tattoos? \u0026nbsp; Yes, but would I recommend it?\u0026nbsp; Not me --but I don't want to be guilty of thinking more highly of myself and my opinion than I ought.\u0026nbsp; It is a matter for biblical consideration, reflection, personal conviction and I think a discussion on what it means to be worldly and to be good stewards of\u0026nbsp; both money and the body.\u0026nbsp; To those who already have tattoos, I'd say, \"Don't worry about it.\"\u0026nbsp; To those who don't, I'd say,\u0026nbsp; \"Be spiritually and biblically thoughtful first of all.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n____________________________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"text 2Pet-3-9\" id=\"en-NIV-30532\"\u003E\u003Csup class=\"versenum\"\u003E9\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EThe Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.\u003C\/span\u003E\"--II Peter 3:9\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7543236434157308797\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=7543236434157308797","title":"34 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7543236434157308797"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7543236434157308797"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/christians-to-tattoo-or-not-to-tattoo.html","title":"CHRISTIANS:   TO TATTOO OR NOT TO TATTOO --THAT IS THE QUESTION!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"34"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-7264559450450795073"},"published":{"$t":"2014-03-12T12:17:00.001-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-03-21T09:44:09.039-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"On Pre-Marital Sex --posted at an Atheist Blog"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"post-message \" data-role=\"message\" dir=\"auto\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EA woman wrote me that she felt no guilt or unhappiness that she and her husband had had many previous sexual relationships.\u0026nbsp; Therefore, it's not a sin, she said (after all, there is no God in her view.)\u0026nbsp; She believes there shouldn't be any teachings that abstinence until marriage is best, or that virginity is good to reserve for one mate --in short, Christians should not promote their views on sex.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EI agree that no one should feel ruined or miserable --except to feel \nthe guilt that all of us need to feel for falling short of God's glory \n--\"all have sinned and come short of the glory of God\"   and because of \nthat we die.\u003C\/span\u003E  We are mortal --all of us --since the first couple's sin. \n  Jesus came saying, \"Repent; the kingdom has come!\"   or \"the kingdom \nis nigh--near --right at hand!\"   And with the Kingdom and its King \ncomes the chance to start anew --completely forgiven for past error.    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf we don't feel any guilt, do we possibly also have a seared conscience??  Would \nyou feel guilty if you were unfaithful to your spouse?   Should you feel\n guilt for betrayal of vows, for infidelity, for lying, stealing, for \ncruelty, for anything?   Should your spouse feel guilty if he did those things to you? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EJesus was very merciful and non-condemning and protective  of the \nwoman \"caught in adultery\" \u003C\/span\u003E because He said all her accusers were \nsinners, too --that all had committed adultery in their hearts.   He \nalso forgave the man on the cross beside him, a thief, because the man \nbelieved in Him.     Without guilt,  however, is there no deterrent for \nunkindness and cruelty and selfishness in human relationships?   Jesus \ndidn't condone adultery --(or fornication, etc.)  or call it the \nunpardonable sin,  but he told the lady to \"go and sin no more.\"   He \nlifted her up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs long as it isn't my own husband, or my family's spouses,  other \nfornicators and adulterers aren't hurting\u0026nbsp; me in their sex lives (unless we have to pay for the consequences out of our pockets with tax monies)\u0026nbsp; \n --but they do sin against God--because God calls adultery and  fornication \nsin--and for good reasons.   The prohibitions are for our good.   \nFornication caused syphilis, gonorrhea, AIDS,\u0026nbsp; HPV, Herpes, unwed pregnancy \n--and we have only had cures  and good treatments in the last century or\n half-century\u0026nbsp;  for the STD's --and condoms still aren't fool-proof to\n prevent all risk of STD's or pregnancy.    Many kids have been left \nfatherless because of fornication and adultery --and forced into \npoverty.  Many people have been broken-hearted and hurt by sex lives that didn't  result in marriage --ever--or\n sex lives that ended their marriages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSo, while you [the atheist commenter to whom I was writing] don't acknowledge that your past sex life was sinful \n--you should admit that it was risky and could've had very unhappy \nconsequences for you and others --as promiscuity has had for many \npeople.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Pre-marital sex, if not a sin in the view of unbelievers, is at \nleast not the wisest choice for young persons to make.\u0026nbsp; Not something we should be recommending as harmless. \u0026nbsp;  It is frought \nwith risk.  You are lucky or blessed to be happily married now when both\n of you have history of sex with others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EThe whole point of Christ's salvation is to  restore to us the joy of our salvation and a relationship with our Maker through faith in His love and presence -- --and there is a Biblical concept of \"restoring the years the locusts have eaten.\"    I believe this means that God can bless us from here on out --from the point at which we believe and trust Him and agree with HIS definitions of our sin nature --and the nature of sin.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou\u0026nbsp; [the commenter] say you think you live with integrity by opposing  the Creator of the \nUniverse who \"wants to burn your soul?\" \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; That's just about as foolhardy as in, \"the fool hath said in \nHis heart, 'There is no God.'\"\u0026nbsp; However, be sure, God does NOT WANT to \"burn your soul.\"\u0026nbsp; He loves you and has sent a Savior.\u0026nbsp; He wants us who believe in Him to spread this good news.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet's see --a Heaven to gain --or a Hell to shun?  Which would I rather have for Eternity?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n_________________________\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7264559450450795073\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=7264559450450795073","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7264559450450795073"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7264559450450795073"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/on-pre-marital-sex-at-atheist-blog.html","title":"On Pre-Marital Sex --posted at an Atheist Blog"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-6452163417429511396"},"published":{"$t":"2014-03-11T10:37:00.002-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-03-11T10:37:52.609-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Witness to an Atheistic Blog on Homeschooling, Gay Life Span, Salvation"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"post-message \" data-role=\"message\" dir=\"auto\"\u003E\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe biggest opposition in America to Christians --and also to home schooling\u0026nbsp; --comes from those \nwho oppose the Bible and the Bible-believers  on the topic of sexuality \nand also the topic of abortion --those 2.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EAtheists\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Eencountered on blogs\u0026nbsp; often hate believers\u0026nbsp; for maintaining  that \nthere is  a God who doesn't like these two \"rights\" which\u0026nbsp; Americans have \nclaimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[I stumbled across a blog\u0026nbsp; on the subject of homeschooling --and the atheists there vigorously defended\u0026nbsp; the virtues of\u0026nbsp; what Americans\u0026nbsp; traditionally viewed as immoral.\u0026nbsp; They don't like the idea that Christians will spread the Biblical definitions of sin to their own children, in their schools, and on blogs --where they often censor speech that disagrees with them.\u0026nbsp; This blog was my\u0026nbsp; post to them today.}\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E     \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nHere is one study  on lifespan\u0026nbsp; of homosexuals about which some atheists disputed my report that they die younger than straights:\u003Cbr \/\u003Efrom \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/yet-another-study-confirms-gay-life-expectancy-20-years-shorter\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/ne...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"...which study was conducted in Vancouver British Columbia and published in \n1997 in the \u003Ci\u003EInternational Journal of Epidemiology\u003C\/i\u003E (Vol. 26,657-61: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ije.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/26\/3\/657%29\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/ije.oxfordjournals.org\/...\u003C\/a\u003E. It almost exactly mirrors the findings of the maligned\u0026nbsp; Family Research Institute and the Camerons, their psychologists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\"Despite their attempts to downplay the practical consequences of their research, it is difficult to ignore that\u003Cbr \/\u003E the study concluded with the statement that “'under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre [Vancouver, BC] are now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871.'” \u003Cb\u003ECorresponding almost exactly with Cameron’s study, the Vancouver study indicated that “'life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men.'”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nThat is reason enough to not paint a falsely rosey picture about \nactivities and promiscuity common to the gay (male) community. --suggesting \nthat latex really will prevent all the bad consequences  of casual \nand\/or unnatural  sex (recommended by some of you here as harmless)  \n--be it hetero or homosexual in nature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cb\u003EI've seen very intelligent people here, very literate, articulate, \npresumably educated  people --call immorality good --and morality, evil.\n  Just as  the Bible predicts of \"the last days.\"    Some have said \npromiscuity is ok with protection--and virginity is nothing to recommend\n to youth  --and \"whatever feels good is permissable--even if you like giving \nyourself and others pain--consensually.\" \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIt's good for every culture to consider that these could be \"the last\n days\"  for they  are \"the last days\"  for each of us in our mortality.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp; We don't know when Christ will return--or when we shall die.\u0026nbsp; Jesus told us to be prepared. \u0026nbsp; \n   It happens that there will be \"4 blood moons\" (lunar eclipses)  this \nyear and next --the only time this century--on Jewish high holy days  --\n and a solar eclipse between the 4.   In the past, a tetra-lunar \noccurrence like this coincided with significant events for Israel.    \nAnd significant events for Israel signal the return of Christ \nultimately.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nProphecy says that the return of Christ will mean our end for choice \nregarding our spiritual destiny  --when He says all the nations will be \ngathered and  \"the King\" --the Son of Man (Christ)  will  separate the \npeople as a shepherd separates goats and sheep --and He will send the \nrighteous to eternal life and the unrighteous who failed at the Matt. 25\n kindnesses,  to \"eternal punishment.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  I hope that \"eternal punishment\" is just eternal \nnon-existence --rather than eternal suffering.\u0026nbsp; However, Jesus said \nthere is a place prepared for the devil and his angels where the \nunrighteous will go --where there will be \"weeping and gnashing of teeth.\" \u0026nbsp;   In any case, we have been forewarned. Atheists do \nrail against a God who would do this and yet be called merciful by His \nfollowers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n I remind us all that our God HAS allowed great suffering  --even to \nHis children --his followers and believers --and charges us with the \nresponsibility to fight evil and death and help each other --and trust him when we suffer and die.\u0026nbsp; So why wouldn't He have a Hell? \u0026nbsp; We \ncan shake our puny fists\u0026nbsp; Heavenward about the plight of fallen, \nsuffering humanity who chose sin over obedience to their \nCreator\/Designer --or we\u0026nbsp; can make peace with Him while there is yet \ntime.    Jesus says it is God's LOVE for His creation for which He sent \nChrist  to give us another chance at immortality where there is no more \nsuffering, sorrow, sickness or death.    He says He is the Good Shepherd\n  who rescues His sheep --but we do need to want to be rescued.  \nSalvation is a free gift --when we repent (His first public message) our\n sins will be deleted from God's celestial computer-Mind --to be \nremembered against us no more.   He is absolute holiness, purity, \njustice --and it is this justice about which the Bible says, \"The fear \nof the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nWe speculate rightly  that our knowledge and understanding  of God is\n partial --only what He has revealed in His Word and through Christ .   \nThere is still much mystery.    I believe our  biblical view of Him and \nprophecy is the view He has given us .  If it weren't so thoroughly \ndebunked by creation scientists (who are real credentialed\u0026nbsp; scientists) --if it were not for the lack\u0026nbsp; of \nproof and lack of ongoing transitions between kinds of creatures  --I could even swallow Darwin's evolution\n of amoeba to man via lower life forms --as trial and error in God's \ncelestial laboratory where life was created.  Instead of that imaginative theory, I imagine angelic \ncompetition to come up with all the life forms for planet Earth --all \nthe funny creatures --God's sense of humor.\u0026nbsp; We are told that\u0026nbsp; \nhumans  are made in HIS image --wherever He resides and whoever He is \n--He is SPIRIT --like we are within\u0026nbsp; our amazing minds ---those slimy brains that \nhave computer-esque abilities --natural intelligence that created the artificial to help us.  \nHow can you not have AWE for the capabilities of a brain (and the rest \nof our bodies) --and conclude instead that our consciousness  and mental\n capabilities are  a product of an organ  that just \"evolved\"  without a\n DesignerController?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nStands to reason that the Designer would communicate to us a \npossibility for eternal life  out of love for His creation--and that is \nwhat Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah, came to tell man --that's the \npurpose of God taking the Jews out of Egypt --honoring a covenant He \nmade with one man, Abraham --and then keeping that covenant thru the Law\n given to Moses --for our good.  And ultimately providing  a Savior \nthrough the descendents of Abraham--\"Immanuel --God with us\"   \"Jesus \n--for He will save His people from their sins.\"      A Jesus who teaches\n the worth of every individual in God's sight. \u003Ci\u003E  \"For God so loved the \nworld that He gave His only son that WHOSOEVER believes in Him will have\n eternal life.  For God sent not His son into the world to condemn the \nworld --but that the world through Him might be saved.\"  \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nAnd yet, we are choice-makers with free will --and we choose to break his laws.\u0026nbsp; Mortality\u0026nbsp; (death) is our continued curse --except that Christ\n does break the power of sin and death for those who pursue and abide in\n the Word --the greatest life-changer that the world knows.  It is His \nresurrection (and miracles and raising others from the dead)  that \nconvinced His disciples that He was the promised Messiah of the Jews \n--whose resurrection means we, too, can be resurrected as the Risen one \npromised.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nI can't over-state the value of the peace and joy that really comes \nwith faith in  the Christ of Christmas --the Christ of Easter.    \u003Ci\u003E\"I \nserve a risen Savior --He's in the world today --I know that he is risen\n --no matter what men say.     I see His hand of mercy--I hear His voice\n of cheer --and just the time I need Him --He's always near.  --He \nlives! He lives --Christ Jesus lives today --He walks with me and talks \nwith me along life's narrow way --He lives --He lives, Salvation to \nimpart --you ask me how I know He lives --He lives within my heart!\"   \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nHis Spirit bears witness with ours.  I can't over recommend to \natheists and agnostics to ASK GOD to make himself real to you.   He is \nomnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient.   Yes, repentance is a hard thing \nto go through --a sad thing to admit and be remorseful for \"messing up\" \nin life.\u0026nbsp; It does bring fearful questions about loved ones who died without faith.\u0026nbsp;    But Jesus was very kind and merciful --a friend of sinners.  \nNot condoning or condemning but delivering --and \"restoring to us the joy of our \nsalvation\"  --\"restoring to us the years the locusts have eaten\" --and He promises to be\u0026nbsp;\nmerciful when we continue to fail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n \u003Ci\u003E\"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our \nsins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\"   \u003C\/i\u003EHe is our defense \nattorney who said He  intends to KEEP safe all whom His father gives \nHim-- all the sheep --the believers who obey in compassion, mercy, \nforgiveness, generosity, and own their sins so that He may delete them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \n  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\nSee Matt. 25 about our destiny:  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46\u0026amp;version=NIV\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/pa...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6452163417429511396\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=6452163417429511396","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/6452163417429511396"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/6452163417429511396"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/witness-to-atheistic-blog-on.html","title":"Witness to an Atheistic Blog on Homeschooling, Gay Life Span, Salvation"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-5885822882002050031"},"published":{"$t":"2013-04-15T11:33:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-04-15T11:33:01.006-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BATES MOTEL --SO FAR-- Compelling mysteries! "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EIs anyone watching the  BATES MOTEL series?  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n The movie of a young man's descent into insanity doesn't appeal to me \n--or so  I thought, but they showed all 4 episodes thus far on Sat. \nnight and I thought --\"well, I'll just watch a little,\"  and Jon and I \nwere  drawn in by compelling characters, actors, directing.  It's quite a\n compelling drama!   Fifth episode is tonight.  I'm hoping this has a \ndifferent ending than the later Hitchcock movies.  I want  artistic \nlicense to be redemptive! with triumph of good over evil! I like happy \nendings!  Never was one for soap operas! \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E It  appears that \nthere are not any GOOD persons  in the show except Norman's 2 \ngirlfriends  and Norman himself.  Even his brother who  has come home \nfor lack of other options --and  taken a turn for the better toward \nNorman and is  befriending\/protecting  him (at last)--  told him to \"go \nbe a normal teen --go get laid at 17 with a pretty teen girl!\" And the \nworldly audience probably found themselves agreeing that that's just \nwhat Norman needed! as he went off to visit the girlfriend --who invited\n him at night --a girl whose beloved father was mysteriously murdered by\n fire in his warehouse.  Next we'll have a teen love triangle with the \nother girl who has cystic fibrosis --who also has a crush on him.   Then\n maybe there'll be  a pregnancy or an abortion--and goodness knows what \nfrom such lousy brotherly advice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The story is contemporized \n--with teens texting on their phones and a sex-trafficking mystery \ninvolving Asian girls  and a journal of drawings about their plight \nfound by Norman under the carpets --after they removed the carpets for \nblood --because his likable mother murdered her rapist, a gross fellow \nwho  formerly owned the property and lost it in foreclosure.  Norman \ncaught him in the act, bonked him on the head, they handcuffed him to a \ntable leg --and his mother went into a rage and stabbed the guy to \ndeath.     We suspect mother caused an accidental death to her husband, \ntoo, Norman's father,  for insurance money.  That's another mystery.   \nThe estranged son,   Norman's brother --was born to the mother when she \nwas 17 to a man who left her --and that son never respected her (calls \nher Norma)  --so she favored Norman.   Her facial expressions are \nterrific --with a mix of kindly motherly affection for Norman and \nvulnerability to the disrespectful son.   She seems neither crazy nor \nparticularly  inappropriate with her sons --so far.    \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The \nolder  brother gets a job, starts helping out at home.  His job is \nguarding a big secret marijuana field --near which there is a cabin in \nthe woods --featured in the Asian girl's drawings in her journal.     \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n The police suspected Norma in the disappearance of her rapist -- she \nand Norman dumped him in the lake --and carpet fibers found on his \nrecovered hand from his  body matched the motel's carpet which they \nremoved because of blood residue as the police arrived.     They had \nstored him in a bathtub of one of the motel rooms --after murdering him \nin the kitchen.  She chose not to report his rape of her and her \nunderstandable rage leading to his murder --it wasn't self-defense since\n they had him handcuffed and helpless.  He had once  claimed the police \nwere his fishing buddies when she threatened to call the police on him \nfor his threatening ways --so she figured the police would discount the \nrape,  and she figured no one would want to visit a motel where there \nhad been a murder.  She already found  out that a freeway was being put \nin on the other side of town which would hurt her business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \nAnother twist --the sheriffy's deputy has become Norman's mother's lover\n --as he found the dead man's belt under Norman's bed and promised to \nkeep it and not tell on them.  Norman had kept the belt as a memento of \nthe event --and wonders why and what's wrong with him for doing so.   \nNorman's mother apparently told him to get the belt back --so he goes to\n the deputy's house --and he finds, not the belt, but an Asian girl in \nthe basement --apparently a sex slave.    He tells his mother --and she \nlooks in the basement when she is with the deputy at his place and he \nfalls asleep --and there doesn't appear to be a girl there anymore. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n So what's going on?   Norman had a trance and black-out in the \nclassroom thinking about the drawings in the journal.  There is a scene \nin which the mother tells him to reclaim the dead man's belt from the \ndeputy's house because he could use it as blackmail to get whatever he \nwanted from her --to make HER his sex slave.    Yet,  the deputy  claims\n to love the mother --took Norman fishing --says he will protect them.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Everyone knows the dead man was a brute and had it in for his mother.  \n  Nevertheless, when they find the dead-man's fish-severed hand with \nwatch and carpet fibers in the lake, they arrest Norman's mother.   \nThat's where the story takes up tonight.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Mystery:   Norman's \nmother says she did NOT tell him to get that belt from the deputy's \nhouse, tells him he has been having delusions like this all his life, \ntells him there IS no Asian girl in the deputy's basement because she \nwent down and looked.  But the deputy could have moved her --because \nwhen deputy got home he found his vicious dog locked up in his bedroom \n--(by norman) and basement window was left open, too, from which Norman \n fled.  So the deputy may have known someone had been in the house --and\n thus moved the girl.  Or is  Norman imagining the girl from the journal\n drawings?   There is something fishy going on here --his CF girlfriend \nfound Chinese writing under a bathroom sink in the motel --the figures \nspelled \"Beautiful.\"   But why would you write that word under a sink?  \nPerhaps it is her name!  And she was leaving evidence of her presence in\n that room.   \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Wow! Lot's of mystery --and no one to trust!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5885822882002050031\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=5885822882002050031","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/5885822882002050031"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/5885822882002050031"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/bates-motel-so-far-compelling-mysteries.html","title":"BATES MOTEL --SO FAR-- Compelling mysteries! "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-4558737029831239788"},"published":{"$t":"2013-04-13T10:51:00.004-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-04-13T10:51:47.325-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Open Letter to Bob Ferguson, Wash. State AG --on Persecution of Florist"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EDear Mr. Ferguson:   (Attorney General of Washington state)\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n We are told that people of religious conscience on the gay marriage \nissue have nothing to fear from the government if gay marriage is \nlegalized.  Thanks for proving this untrue before the Supreme Court \nrules on the issue.  I hope they take note.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E There is a lot of \nresearch that shows that the children who lack a father fill our jails, \ndo poorly in school, and follow the footsteps of their parents, unable \nto remain married and sustain happy homes.  Three researchers found that\n children raised by homosexuals are 35% more likely to fail a grade. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Functional homes  with both mother and father intact produce the most \nchildren able to marry and parent normally --civilizing and  educating \nthe next generation --providing an economic safety net and a mental \nhealth center and good school for life  for their children and \ngrand-children.     The homes which lack fathers tend to need a lot of \ngov't aid --and tend to produce similar, fatherless, poverty-status  \nhomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E What your office has done  is shameful --to tell private\n business people that homosexuals are the same as minority races  --and \nthus those who fail  to provide services for their weddings --or housing\n for their unions --are in violation of the civil rights of homosexuals.\n     \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E There have always been limits on our sexual proclivities:\n  illegal prostitution; illegal obscenity as porn;  age restrictions; \nconsent restrictions  (no legal rape) ;  restrictions on bigamy and \npolygamy;  and restrictions on bestiality and incest --and re: GENDER!  \n  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Everyone has the same right --to marry --and marriage is the\n union of a man and wife --according to  historical definition and \nnature, our physical design as procreative people.  The age and \nfertility status (inability to procreate)  does not prevent an adult \ncouple from being role models of the natural order.   Married \nheterosexual people  do role- model the natural order as male with \nfemale.   All else is problematic for our young people influenced by \nadults as  role models;  they are impressionable and not ready to make \nmature decisions about intimacy and procreation.   Youth who start to \nsex-plore their gender roles, end up vulnerable to STD's, depression, \nand all the downsides of  serial broken relationships.   Older gays tend\n to be lonely due to the emphasis on youth and beauty in their \ncommunity.   They do commit 1\/3 of the molestations between adults and \nyouth --which is way more than their percentage of the population.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Our national encouragement should be to wait for marriage before having\n sex.  Some people still do that, you know, believe it or not.   And all\n people have a right to heterosexual marriage --there is no \ndiscrimination against people --just against immoral sexual \ninclinations, lust, and choices.   We need to protect our children from \nthe lie that is \"homosexual happiness.\"   Gays aren't typically gay.  \nThey are angry because they want their anal and oral sex to be \nrespected.  They tend to hate those who disagree with them --rather than\n receiving hatred from the religious.   The argument now is to say that \nstraights do it, too.  I haven't  found in my medical practice that ANY \nwomen are succumbing to anal sex  --or that oral sex is an oft-practiced\n event for heterosexual couples.    There are some real health concerns \nwith  sodomy.  According to recent study of obituaries in gay-friendly \nSan Francisco, only 20+% of homosexuals attain old age --compared to \nover 70% of heterosexuals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E If the Christians are right - if \nJesus Christ did rise from the dead, we should consider His definition \nof marriage --man leaves parents and cleaves to his wife.     St. Paul \ncalled homosexuality \"exchanging the truth about God for a lie, \"  and \n\"worship of creature more than Creator.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Don't ask this florist\n to violate her conscience, be it religious or moral concerns or both \n--by participating in gay weddings.    Which is better, to serve God or \nman or money?   Don't make this small business pay for refusing to help \nsolemnize sodomy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Sincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E Jonathan E. Rohrs, MD\u003Cbr \/\u003E Family Medicine\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4558737029831239788\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=4558737029831239788","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4558737029831239788"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4558737029831239788"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/open-letter-to-bob-ferguson-wash-state.html","title":"Open Letter to Bob Ferguson, Wash. State AG --on Persecution of Florist"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-4753840334616983287"},"published":{"$t":"2013-04-13T10:48:00.002-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-04-13T10:48:43.921-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"NOM  on Barronelle Stutzman's Persecution by Wash. State' AG"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003ESATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EDear Jonathan,\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n ...the news this week [is]t hat Washington's Attorney General Bob \nFerguson is using taxpayer funding to bring a lawsuit against a small \nWashington state florist named Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's \nFlowers and Gifts. Stutzman's crime? Refusing to sell flowers for a gay \nwedding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E For this 'thought crime' against gay marriage, her whole livelihood is now put at the stake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n It was only a few months ago, before the November elections, when gay \nmarriage advocates were sanctimoniously getting on television and \nreassuring voters that our claims of the religious persecution that \ncomes hand in hand with redefining marriage were unfounded. Made up. \nUntrue. They knew at the time they were not telling the truth. Because \nnow, just a few months later, the ACLU and a State Attorney General are \nthe ones at the forefront of making sure that Christians who disagree \nwith gay marriage pay a price for acting on their convictions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \nFailure to tell the truth—call it a lie—arises from the fundamental lie:\n same-sex unions are not marriages because they cannot ever, under any \ncircumstances, do the fundamental, key, and irreplaceable work that \nmarriages do: bringing together under one home, in one family, the two \ngreat halves of humanity, male and female—to create homes in which \nchildren are known and loved by their own mother and father.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Not \nevery marriage succeeds in creating the full range of goods that \nmarriage aims at. But when marriages succeed in doing so, it's because \nthey combine elements and circumstances that no same-sex couple can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Suppressing the truth is what same-sex marriage advocates have to do to \"win\" the debate (temporarily, anyway).\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E How Truth is Suppressed\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n That's why, when a distinguished social scientist does an ordinary act \nlike publishing his research in a major peer-reviewed journal—all \npandemonium must break loose to discredit him. Not just disagree with \nhim. Not just contextualize or re-contextualize his data—that would be \nnormal scientific debate. But to smear him as a non-scientist and to \nignore his work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E That's the crucible University of Texas Prof. Mark Regnerus has been going through and still is going through.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E C-FAM's Austin Ruse recently pointed this out in his piece on Regnerus: \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"Science Study Still Spooking Gay Advocates.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Ruse points to Dr. Susan Yoshihara, research director of C-FAM, who \nused the Regnerus study before the legislature in Rhode Island. \nSo-called \"fact-checkers\" claimed her testimony was false:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \nPolitifact, a self-styled watchdog of political truth, branded \nYoshihara's claim as false. Yoshihara, however, says the Politifact \npiece itself backed up her claim when they quoted a \"prudent scholar\" \nwho said the issue is not settled in the scientific literature, which \nwas Yoshihara's claim in the first place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Ruse also cites the \nrecent claim by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, who \nsaid that \"The study was pretty well demolished by peers.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E But \nfor me the worst was a claim in the LA Times that the Supreme Court was \njust silly to entertain the idea children do best with a mom and dad. \nJustice Scalia had made the assertion that \"there's considerable \ndisagreement\" about whether \"raising a child in a single-sex family is \nharmful or not,\" an assertion no doubt based in part on Regnerus's \nresearch.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"Those comments startled child development experts as\n well as advocates of gay marriage, because there is considerable \nresearch showing children of gay parents do not have more problems than \nothers,\" the LA Times went on to report with a straight face…. '\"There \nis a fundamental, scholarly consensus that children raised by same-sex \ncouples do just fine,' said Stanford sociologist Michael J. Rosenfeld.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Yet I know of—and I'm no sociologist—at least 5 studies published in \npeer-reviewed journals whose results contest the \"no difference claim\": \nMark Regnerus (2012), Loren Marks (2102), Douglas Allen (2012), Daniel \nPotter (2012), and Theresa Sirota (2009).\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Listen, social \nscience is not a \"hard science,\" and I don't need to know from merely \nscientific evidence what I know in my heart from my own experience and \nthe experience of so many children raised in fragmented families: \nchildren long for and need their mother and their father. But simply as a\n statement about the scientific literature, the claim there is now a \n\"consensus\" is untrue. The claim can be made only by ignoring the \nreputable scientists whose works disagree with that claim.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Truth matters to us, but it's not clear it matters to gay marriage advocates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n If you doubt me, listen to the voice of the extraordinary British \nwriter Brendan O'Neill—a one-time Marxist, a man of the Left, who has \nspoken out repeatedly against the use of elite power to shut down the \ndebate over same-sex marriage across the pond:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E I have been \ndoing or writing about political stuff for 20 years, since I was 18 \nyears old, during which time I have got behind some pretty unpopular \ncampaigns and kicked against some stifling consensuses. But I have never\n encountered an issue like gay marriage, an issue in which the space for\n dissent has shrunk so rapidly, and in which the consensus is not only \nstifling but choking. This is the only issue for which he has been not \nonly booed but threatened with death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"Is it a good thing, \nevidence that we had a heated debate on a new civil right and the civil \nrights side won?\" O'Neill asks. And then he answers his own question:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n I don't think so. I don't think we can even call this a 'consensus', \nsince that would imply the voluntaristic coming together of different \nelements in concord. It's better described as conformism, the slow but \nsure sacrifice of critical thinking and dissenting opinion under \npressure to accept that which has been defined as a good by the upper \nechelons of society: gay marriage. Indeed, the gay-marriage campaign \nprovides a case study in conformism, a searing insight into how soft \nauthoritarianism and peer pressure are applied in the modern age to \nsideline and eventually do away with any view considered overly \njudgmental, outdated, discriminatory, 'phobic', or otherwise beyond the \npale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"Gay marriage,\" he writes, \"brilliantly shows how \npolitical narratives are forged these days, and how people are made to \naccept them.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Narrative is the relevant word here. Not hard \ntruths uncovered, but stories created to whose allegiance people are \nheld by threats, by bribes, and by conformist pressures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E The \neditor of First Things, Rusty Reno, has a similar set of concerns for \nwhat all this means for our democratic society. \"If government can \nreshape marriage, it can reshape everything,\" his article explains:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \nTyranny isn't just a situation in which the government is telling you \nwhat to do at every moment. It's also a society in which government says\n that, if necessary, it can. In this respect gay marriage reflects a \ndramatic enlargement of government. If legislatures and courts can \nredefine marriage, what can't it intervene to reshape and re-purpose?\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n The tyranny of the conformists, backed by government's coercive power, \nwere on display in Washington State when the ACLU decided independently \nto sue the same florist the Attorney General is pursuing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E But first they sent this poor woman a letter:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed's lawyers, working with the legal \npowerhouse at the ACLU of Washington, sent a letter today to Arlene's \nFlowers owner Baronelle Stutzman saying she has two options: (1) She can\n vow to never again discriminate in her services for gay people, write \nan apology letter to be published in the Tri-City Herald, and contribute\n $5,000 to a local LGBT youth center, or (2) she can get sued for \nviolating the Washington State Civil Rights Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Conform to our falsehood. Pretend you believe things you do not. Or face the consequences. George Orwell, call your office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n But here's the good news in all this: It's going to get bad, we already\n know this. But in the end truth has a power that no narrative, no story\n can compete with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Our job is to remain firmly fixed on the truth \nabout marriage, to speak up for it with love in in our heart, and with \nthe courage to never bow before the false gods, the untruths, the \nmade-up stories offered to us in place of reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E I am so \nhonored to be fighting shoulder to shoulder with you for God's truth \nabout marriage. Thank you for making this enormous megaphone possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n I treasure your friendship, your prayers, your words of encouragements,\n your sacrifices of time and treasure on behalf of this great cause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Bless you!\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E Brian S. Brown\u003Cbr \/\u003E President\u003Cbr \/\u003E National Organization for Marriage\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4753840334616983287\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=4753840334616983287","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4753840334616983287"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4753840334616983287"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/nom-on-barronelle-stutzmans-persecution.html","title":"NOM  on Barronelle Stutzman's Persecution by Wash. State' AG"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-7178851766346606487"},"published":{"$t":"2013-04-08T10:53:00.004-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-04-08T10:57:47.536-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"With Sympathy for Rick Warren's Family"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Our prayers are with Rick Warren's family.\u0026nbsp; I googled and found there are those on the left who are unsympathetic --because of Rick Warren's evangelical stand against homosexual marriage. They erroneously believe that the Christian stand against homosexual relations is a primary cause of suicide among homosexuals --and they muse that Rick's son was probably gay.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;In fact, the activities in the gay life are such that self-loathing and depression can result --without any doctrinal causes.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Nevertheless, in this case, the LEFT is proving itself to be like the misguided Westboro Church showing up at military funerals to say that America's homosexuality is causing our military deaths.\u0026nbsp; That church's view lacks any Biblical support concerning individual soldiers who die in war.\u0026nbsp; And likewise,\u0026nbsp; it is just as\u0026nbsp; cruel a\u0026nbsp; point of view to speculate that Matthew Warren's suicide is for any other reason than depression.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI was just ONCE what you would call \"clinically depressed;\"\u0026nbsp; and this was 8 years or so after a wonderfully affirming spiritual experience --so I didn't lack assurance of salvation per se.\u0026nbsp; I was almost Matthew Warren's age at 26.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I was pregnant for the first time and the chemicals of the condition knocked me for a loop for several months\u0026nbsp; so that I just never felt good.\u0026nbsp; Like\u0026nbsp; post-partum depression, it has no rational cause.\u0026nbsp; You can't explain why the world looks grey, cold, impersonal and bleak and you feel overcome with dark thoughts--I had no complaint.\u0026nbsp; I just was overwhelmed with despair --and it wasn't because I didn't want my baby --or that I felt unloved --or anything I could put my finger on.\u0026nbsp; Chronic tiredness and nausea was part of it and is part of pregnancy sometimes. (I'm still easily \"so tired.\")\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I would force myself to go to my aunt's or an acquaintance's house --to just not be alone in that mental state. (When Jon was at school.)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI am so glad that my condition didn't seem to affect my wonderful first baby.\u0026nbsp; And I never had the condition to that extent again.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I heard that my grandfather and an uncle had bouts of such depression when in THEIR 20's.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDepression is often alleviated today with medicines affecting our brain chemistry.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI know some people recommend strongly that young adults live on their own to\u0026nbsp; experience rent and bills, etc.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; In Matthew's case, being single,\u0026nbsp; perhaps he should've lived with his parents.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Did he have a career?\u0026nbsp; It would be hard to be the son of such a successful man --in today's economic market --when careers are hard to establish --and jobs hard to find --and you are going nowhere financially and don't have a girlfriend.\u0026nbsp; None was mentioned. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOur single son lives at home --and he stays busy and cheerful --and is an immense help to us and his grandmothers --and his church. He is an extension of his father in the care of his home, wife, mother, property --so that his father doesn't have to worry about those things.\u0026nbsp; With 2 college degrees, he works for his father at something he says will never be a career for him.\u0026nbsp; I don't appreciate those who advise that living alone would be a panacea to mature a person and jump start him into relationships, marriage, and career direction for need of money.\u0026nbsp; I do think a girlfriend\/ wife\u0026nbsp; can help to focus the future --but living alone after college and without a career is an expensive option fraught with many time-wasting, ungodly temptations these days.\u0026nbsp; And no panacea against depression either.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I think Matt Warren went home to an empty house\/apartment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;But I also want to believe He went home to a merciful Heavenly Father with His sins covered by the atoning blood of Christ --who would have great compassion for the desperation of the depressed son of his servants, Pastor \u0026amp; Mrs. Rick Warren. Depression leading to suicide\u0026nbsp; is not usually the sin of arrogance and rebellion --but of despair.\u0026nbsp; I believe Christ was there to pick him up as he descended into the abyss that is death.\u0026nbsp; I imagine he asked God's forgiveness as he went --and received it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n.\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7178851766346606487\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=7178851766346606487","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7178851766346606487"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/7178851766346606487"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/with-sympathy-for-rick-warrens-family.html","title":"With Sympathy for Rick Warren's Family"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-3818702469548260263"},"published":{"$t":"2013-02-22T09:00:00.001-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-02-22T09:25:29.380-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"About the Boy Scouts \u0026 Gays in their Ranks"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EA BLOGGER in a news forum --IN RESPONSE TO ME --THE ISSUE WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT THE BOY SCOUTS AND THEIR DILEMMA ABOUT GAYS:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E BLOGGER:   Hey, I don't like this comment. Please remove it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Nice job treating a group of humans as trash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Superb example of \"Christ's Love for All\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E ------------------------------\u003Cbr \/\u003E The comment to which he objected --We were asked if  our  kids were gay, would we reject them?\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E My answer at the time:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Barb\u0026nbsp; (January 30, 2013): I would grieve --love them, but grieve \nfor the mess between their ears. For our failure to affirm their gender \nidentity and moral and spiritual commitment to Christ. I would not \nattend their sham \"weddings\" or invite them to share a bedroom with \npartner under my roof. I would wonder what we could've done to prevent \ntheir confusion\/sin --and their first association with other homosexuals\n such that they wanted those activities which are so frought with \npromiscuity and disease.\u0026nbsp; In medical research on HIV, 2\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E stranger-encounters (sex) per week were \nreported by average homosexual during height of AIDS crisis. The males \nsuffer prostatitis, high rate of STD's, anal fissures and incontinence \n--potentially, eventually.  Women are giving neck and head cancers from \nHPV to their oral sex partners of either sex. They won't give us \ngrandchildren by any normal means. They won't know the joy of \nheterosexual love and parenting as God designed it to be. If they start \ninto this, they become addicted --and may never repent of choosing this \nlifestyle instead of God's plan for their bodies, they may miss out on \nHeaven --without repentance.   A time for parental grief all the way \nround.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E My response to BLOGGER's private message to me at the top:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Thanks for bothering to write your feelings about my posts on the \nscouting issue. If you looked there, you would see a lot of my rationale\n on this gay issue.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; [e.g. I don't believe in labeling boys or adols\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ecents as gay nor excluding them from scouts, unless they are \"out of the closet\"\u0026nbsp; and think it's justi\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Efiable to have crus\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ehes on or pursue the other scout\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Es\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E or are known to be sexually active with other boys.\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; I would \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ehope scouts would help them find a niche with heterosexual boys and men, such that they were \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eaffir\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Emed by and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E identified with normal guys --even in ori\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eentation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E]\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EI don't know if you are homosexual --most objectors \nto what I write are. But I certainly won't remove it because it is an \nobligation to warn the uninitiated --and the homosexuals --of the \nphysical and spiritual risks of settling for homosexual relations \ninstead of growing up into God's design plan for man and woman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n We are made in the image of God as female for male. Our bodies are \ncomplementary. homosexuals know what each other likes sexually because \nthey have the same bodies --but God didn't want us to short-circuit our \npotential there. Romans 1 is very clear --start with verse 18 --it is clear that \nhomosexual proliferation today is part of the wickedness of these times \n--as in other times. A worship of creature more than Creator. Exchanging\n the truth about \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EG\u003C\/span\u003Eod for a lie --and receiving the recompense for their \nerror in their bodies --such that God gives them up to lusting after \ntheir own sex. It almost suggests he gives up on them. But elsewhere in \nthe NT it tells of former homosexuals and other converted sinners as \npart of Christ's church\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E so there is hope in \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Econversion.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E How do you dignify the activities \nwhich are unsanitary, injurious, promiscuous usually, and simply not \nwhat our bodies are designed for? Even gay leaders like Andrew Sullivan \nadmit that gay partners don't expect absolute fidelity like heteros do. \nGod Himself is a jealous God --and wants no idolatry from us. He doesn't\n expect marriages to hold when one is unfaithful to the other. But \nhomosexuals know that they are orgasm-focused (by early homosexual \nindulgence)  and weak-willed as regards either fidelity to partners --or\n to God.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"If we say we have no sin, the truth is not in us.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Satan is a deceiver and the Father of Lies --his native language is lying --Jesus said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Today\u003Cbr \/\u003E 10:28am\u003Cbr \/\u003E BLOGGER\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n What if someone doesn't share your religious convictions? What moral \nbasis do you have for your argument for people who do not share your \nfaith?\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E 1:18pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E Barb  \u003Cbr \/\u003E If it's not a matter of \nreligion, it is still a matter of role modeling to future generations \nabout the purpose and design of gender. We know kids do better with both\n their original father and mother --not hindered by divorce and the \ndeprivations common for single mothers and the kids when there is no man\n to share the load --or to role model masculinity to the boys.  Someone \nneeds to raise the children --and give us children. There is no societal\n need or call to the mutual pleasuring involved in homosexual relations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E 1:24pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E Barb  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n As for religion--I was just telling some youngsters last night who \nbrought up the tragedy of Syria --and wondered how anyone could do what \nthey have done to babies and children. I told them about Pol Pot and his\n bayonets on the march of refugees from Cambodia --and Communists and \nStalin killing 50 million --and the 6 million Jews and 5 million others \nmurdered by Nazis --and the girl, in 8th grade, had just learned \nsomewhere about the chemical showers in Nazi Germany.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E  I said \natheism and Islam fuel horrendous atrocities --and America has an \natrocity of its own in legal abortion. That it is the Judeo-Christian \nfaith and the Bible that stand tallest and strongest against the cruelty\n and evil in the world. Saying \"Thou shalt not murder.\"  And \"love your \nenemy\" and \"forgive 70 x7.\" It made America the best place, the most \nhumane and generous place in the world to live. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E And the weaker\n we are in our religious convictions, the more immoral we are, and the \nmore hateful and violent we become. Watch homosexuals talk to Christians\n online --they HATE them and want to hound them out of the discussion \nand get them censored. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E  Some people hate gays--but I think \nit's more often the other way around. Christians don't want their \nchildren to consider that homosexuality is harmless and good --because \nit is neither. It is not the best. It short-circuits their potential to \nbe happy as spouses and parents --and grandparents.\u0026nbsp; It is not cruel to deny them the legal status of \"marriage\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\" with their adverse role modeling \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eand involvement with youth\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E --putting gay sex ed into our public schools and requiring us to hire them in churches and admit them to religious schools as though they were a minority \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Elike RACE\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E --ignoring the Bible.\u0026nbsp; We aren't working to deny them\u0026nbsp; their \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\"weddings\" or their life\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Estyles --\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ee.g. in the Episc\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eo\u003C\/span\u003Epalian\u0026nbsp; or other unbiblical churches --but legal recognition \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eby such churches and gov't \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ewill doom this nation ultimately.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E  The people\n doing the most \"breeding\"\u0026nbsp; (rather than parenting) these days are men not making commitments to a\n wife and kids --and the result is the violence of a Chicago\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E.\u0026nbsp; It is\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E also the black youth who are the leading recipients of HIV\/AIDS today --and their women are the 2nd most afflicted as new cases.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We need a restoration of the family to ro\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ele-model normalcy to youth --and a reformation of t\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ev --and thus, culture.\u0026nbsp; No more GLEE.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; TV is \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ethe \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Emain cul\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eprit in changing culture\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E for the the worse --such that young people are shameless in their shacking up with either se\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ex.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3818702469548260263\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=3818702469548260263","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/3818702469548260263"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/3818702469548260263"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/a-blogger-at-nbc-facebook-page-in.html","title":"About the Boy Scouts \u0026 Gays in their Ranks"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-836443319140838736"},"published":{"$t":"2013-01-25T12:04:00.001-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-01-25T12:04:35.081-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"LIBERALS THINK MAN IS GOOD, SINS \u0026 ALL"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;Rant\n of the Day:\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/u\u003E   I was reading \u003Ci\u003ETime's\u003C\/i\u003E man of the year issue on Obama \nand saw all the teams of dems who helped his re-election--and it occured\n to me that a big difference between the parties is the Liberals' belief\n that mankind is essentially GOOD and IMPROVING, evidenced because they \nelected Obama and are winning in their belief that it's good to approve \nand encourage EVERYBODY'S lifestyle as a civil right --including the \ntransgenders, gays, polygamists, promiscuous, prostitutes, drug-users, porn-makers and addicts.\u0026nbsp; This is seen as non-judgmental and \nprogressive--even \"Christian.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThinking that anything is a sin is \n\"judgmental.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E And yet, the Religious and the Religious Right, \nwho follow the Judeo-Christian Bible,   know that we are desperately \nwicked in our inclinations --we are a sinful people --and we need \nknowledge of \"right\" and \"wrong\" that we may know what needs to be \nrepented and changed in our behaviors and thinking.  \"Judge not lest ye \nbe so judged\"  does NOT  mean \"approve all behaviors, traditionally \nviewed as sins;  say nothing against any behavior lest you be wrongfully \njudging.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E About the only thing most of us agree on, both right \nand left, would be that saving the planet is good (but how? and R we \nresponsible for weather and disaster by our SINS, in the hands of an \nangry God,  or by our carbon footprint? or are variations just normal for Earth-life?)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EWe also agree that stopping gun \nviolence is good but don't agree on how this should be done. We agree \nthat helping the poor and elderly and ill is good.\u0026nbsp; Pedophilia,\n sex slavery, murder, theft, rape, etc. are still viewed as wrong. \u003Cb\u003EYet, \nwe don't seem to be getting fewer of these behaviors..and we have way \ntoo many poor because of their lifestyle choices and the legacy of THEIR\n parents.   \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We don't seem equally bothered about \ncheating\/adultery on the Left as on the Right because the biggest, \nunbowed, unrepentant presidential cheater of all (as far as we know) is \nstill the darling of the Left --Bill Clinton. It's considered mean, \nhateful and disrespectful that I would even mention him in this negative\n context.   I'm not stoning him --I'm just suggesting that Jesus be the \nhero for forgiving --and not the adulterers celebrated in spite of their \nselfish, unrepented acts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The Left won't agree that\u0026nbsp; abortion kills over a million people a year in a violent, painful procedure.\u0026nbsp; They won't agree that Hollywood and TV are causing cultural erosion and should be reigned in before all the kids \nare debauched; that porn is a world-wide blight instead of a first \namendment  \"right,\" that TV shows glorifying shallowness and nasty dog-eat-dog behavior (as in The Bachelor\/bachelorette\/survivor shows) , pregnant teens,\noverweight children with unmarried hillbilly parents (poor Honey Boo Boo), pre- and extra-marital sex, shacking up,\u0026nbsp; foul language, nudity, polygamists, homosexual \nrelations, transgendering, and brassieres should be discouraged by lack \nof sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Even Dr. Phil gets it wrong sometimes \n--encouraging \"slutty dress\" the other day as benign. Unwittingly \nsetting up mothers and daughters against each other on the importance of\n dress and the message which dress really does convey.  He called those \nwho were wanting young women to dress respectfully and honorably \n\"judges\" of others.    As mothers, do we not think there is a message \nconveyed by certain ways of dressing??  a message to men, in particular?\n  a message that we ought not want to send?  Should a good culture not \nTEACH its young right from wrong and encourage and celebrate the Right \n--instead of the wrong?\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Democrats as Progressives?  Not really!  It's regression we observe in American culture today --led by the LEFT. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/836443319140838736\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=836443319140838736","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/836443319140838736"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/836443319140838736"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/liberals-think-man-is-good-sins-all.html","title":"LIBERALS THINK MAN IS GOOD, SINS \u0026 ALL"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-6469333550048752533"},"published":{"$t":"2013-01-24T10:22:00.001-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-01-24T10:22:57.230-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6469333550048752533\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=6469333550048752533","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/6469333550048752533"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/6469333550048752533"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/god-is-not-willing-that-any-should.html","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-2585969849174267822"},"published":{"$t":"2013-01-22T12:38:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-01-22T12:38:05.050-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"OPEN LETTER --WE SENT TO M\/M OBAMA"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EThe\n letter below is what I sent to the Obamas from my husband and me.  I \nguess he did what I asked concerning taxes on the rich --starting at \n$400,000 (or was it $450,000?)  instead of $250,000 which would \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ehave meant increasing taxes on\u0026nbsp; millions of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E \njob-creating, small-business-people making less \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ethe uber rich--\u003C\/span\u003Eand yet well-off - like \nthe bourgeoise (the middle class and business class) of Russia when \nCommunists took over and pitted the proletariat (blue collar worker)  \nagainst the bourgeoise, taking over their businesses, houses and lands \nfor the state.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E November 9, 2012\u003Cbr \/\u003E President \u0026amp; First Lady of the United States\u003Cbr \/\u003E 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW\u003Cbr \/\u003E Washington, D.C. 20500\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Obama:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n We --and the Romney-supporters (half the country) really do want to \nlike you with your nice smile, great charisma and lovely family.  We \nwant to be glad that you were re-elected.  You can help us do that.  We \ndon’t want to think you have communistic sympathies or a colonialist \nview of the U.S. nor plans to disarm our country with promises to Putin.\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E You did say in your speech a few moments ago that the top 2\n per cent of the nation make $250,000 or more and should be taxed more. \nThose include mostly the lower end of that income, the small business \nowners and various professionals --who live like “middle-class” --rather\n than the super-rich  of the top 1\/2 per cent like yourself and the \nultimate uber rich like Romney and other million dollar -plus a year \npeople.  Those making high 5 figures, and  6 figures up to $250,000  are\n Marx's  bourgeois --the middle class educated conservatives whom \nCommunists destroyed.    According to 2009 and Tax Payers Union, it was \n$344,000 that the top 1 per cent make.     There aren’t very many \nuber-rich who make millions like Romney, Hollywood celebs, uni coaches \nand presidents and CEO's of big corporations --not enough  of them to \nslow the deficit if you keep  adding more people to the poverty rolls, \napproving pork and  new billion dollar spending packages and sending \ntons of money to other nations' corrupt governments.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Please \nsurprise the half of the country that supported Romney.  We are scared \nto death of your agenda --what we perceive it to be--and the radical \ninfluences in your past.   Please prove us wrong.  Show that you can cut\n programs for which we should not borrow from China.  We know --that \nmeans lost public sector jobs --but if China is paying them, they have \nto go.   If they are valuable employees in a department we don’t really \nneed, they will find work elsewhere in a more prosperous private sector \n--i.e. more prosperous if you don't tax them down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We suggest \nyou not raise taxes EXCEPT SLIGHTLY on the uber rich -- the top 1\/2 per \ncent.  You still want them to be inclined to invest, hire, spend and \ngive.  Learn from business people who know how to succeed at business \nand know how taxes impact growth.  The Government needs way too much \nrevenue because of the horrible level of spending.  Let Big Bird support\n Public Broadcasting.  He can do it.  They can sell muppets.  As for \nPublic Radio, put Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on every day\n and we’ll send them a donation.  PBS  is not neutral enough politically\n that they should deserve tax-payer support.  They speak in their \nmeasured, neutral, unemotional tones --leaning WAY to the left --as far \nleft as Fox News speaks excitedly with no pretense of neutrality, to the\n right.  But Fox raises their own money.  So can NPR.  (Note:  “fair and\n balanced”  doesn’t mean neutral.  Gov’t stations should be neutral.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Planned Parenthood shouldn't get public funding if pro-life Pregnancy \nCenters and clinics don't.  The poor women will still get healthcare \nusing their medicaid cards and the public health clinics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E You \nmust move toward the center if you would meet the Republicans half way \nand end the supposed gridlock.   Your determination should be NO NEW \nSPENDING --and the elimination of all non-essential spending and \ndepartments that don’t directly impact the needy or the elderly or the \nill.    Send the education of the nation back to the locals. Shut down \nthe federal department of education.   Send the school breakfast program\n to the churches.   Promote volunteer tutoring by the elderly in every \npublic school. Note that Christian and parochial and home schools \neducate best on way less money.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E And for goodness sakes, \nPLEASE deliver to the nation’s youth Santorum’s message from your bully \npulpit. The 3things to do to avoid poverty:  “Finish high school; get a \njob; get married before having children--( and stay married if possible.\n  Stay faithful. ) If you do even the first 3 things on this list, 98% \nof you will be above poverty line; 77% will be above average in income.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n There really is a correlation between family stability and morality and\n the strength of communities and nations.  You are for gay marriage, but\n ought not be, because children deserve a mother and father when \npossible.  Gay marriage deprives them of one or the other by its very \nnature.   Nor should gays share quarters with straights (or with each \nother) in military.  It’s like putting men and women together in showers\n and barracks--completely distracting to the mission of military \npreparedness.  Homosexuality does spread --from the experienced to the \ninexperienced, and like drugs, becomes addictive.  No evidence yet that \nwe are born homosexual.  U. of Texas published a 2012 study that said \nthe adult children of homosexual parent are among the most miserable and\n dysfunctional of all young adults.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Please be better than \nconservatives expect.   Seriously try to understand the logic and reason\n behind conservatism and their criticism of your party and policies.    \nCommunism hasn’t been appreciated anywhere where it is tried. Socialism \nleads to the fiscal cliff --sliding like Greece--and you’ve got us on \nthe edge.  Surprise us --and do not push us over.  Don’t tax us highly \nnow or you will kill business and jobs.  People are thinking of moving \nout of country for fear you will rob them of their pensions --either \nthrough confiscation of high taxes or bad economy, inflation, devaluing \nof the dollar, etc.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We are afraid of having our lives \nshortened by your Canada-style health care program.  Let someone tweak \nthat program!  We don't want the long waits and rationing of Canadian \nhealthcare! Canadians come HERE for procedures they can't get in a \ntimely manner in Canada.  Start with TORT REFORM.  Doctors and insurance\n companies settle out of court for 100,000 rather than go to trial and \nrisk jury’s compassion for miserable patients suing for a million \ndollars.  Doctors rightly fear that the jury will consider only the \npatient’s misery, thinking it will cost no one if the insurance company \npays the patient without proving malpractice.  In fact, the costs of \nsuch suits and mal-practice insurance are a big cost in healthcare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n As for national security and disarming Americans, we hope you are just \nthe fun-loving, congenial and kindly public servant, Barack Obama from \nHawaii --and not a Stalin or Hitler in the making who was mentored by \nCommunists and other radicals,  as some suspect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Seek good \nsuccessful businessmen’s advice and not just socialists’ advice.   They \nhave never made any nation solvent.  Put Romney on your cabinet! Because\n he does like to solve financial problems.   Wow!  That would be a \nuniting act.  Listen to Ryan, too.  We are in a mess.  Let them try to \nhelp!  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We shall pray for you\n daily--that you really ARE a Christian  as you told Rick Warren --or \nwill become one and that you will seek God’s guidance on all matters \nbefore you --not Marx’s advice, nor Alinsky’s, nor Ayers, nor Davis’s.  \nOnly Jesus rose from the grave.   He is the only one worthy to save us \nfor Eternity.  Atheists can’t give you wise guidance like the Holy \nSpirit and the Word of God can.  Your stands on abortion and \nhomosexuality --and lukewarm relationship with Israel, are all 3 in \ncontradiction to His Word and His Spirit and need to be reconsidered if \nthe nation would be blessed.  Separation of church and state doesn't \nmean God is not real --and has no say in the country's values which \nshape national culture and character.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Forgive us for any misjudgment of your character and intentions, and prove all the naysayers wrong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Sincerely --wanting to admire you--  \u003Cbr \/\u003E wanting your term to be successful \u003Cbr \/\u003E in the eyes of  God and informed Americans,\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Dr. \u0026amp; Mrs._______________\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThoughts:  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. Psalm 33:12\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:2\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and\n pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I \nhear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. \n     II Chronicles 7:14\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Generosity is to be voluntary, from the heart, not confiscated by dictators\u003Cbr \/\u003E  to maintain power via the enviou\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Es.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2585969849174267822\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=2585969849174267822","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/2585969849174267822"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/2585969849174267822"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/open-letter-we-sent-to-mm-obama.html","title":"OPEN LETTER --WE SENT TO M\/M OBAMA"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-6064910822166870129"},"published":{"$t":"2012-11-13T14:58:00.005-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-13T14:58:57.429-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UPS ABANDONS THE BOY SCOUTS TODAY!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EUPS\n announced today that they won't sponsor Boy Scouts of America because \nof their discrimination against homosexuals as members and scoutmasters.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EParents and Grandparents:\u003C\/b\u003E  Do you really think it will be ok to have \nthe gay scoutmaster in the tent with your good looking 17 year old son? \n Would you have a man in a tent with the girls?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EThe Boy Scouts would never\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E bully\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E or identify a boy as homosexual and keep \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ehim out because of his \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Enon-macho appearance, mannerisms, or interests --but only if he self-identified as homosexual.\u0026nbsp; If he identifies as homosexual,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ethat justifies\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, in his mind,\u0026nbsp; his cr\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eushes on,\u0026nbsp; and pursuits o\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ef\u003C\/span\u003E,\u0026nbsp; other boy\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Es in the organization.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EWe need to regard the \nbiological realities of libido (sex drive), orientation, opportunity, \nattraction and temptation.  Young people can have gender identity \nconfusion and orientation flexibility because of early sexual \nexperiences --not to mention the potential for STD's. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003ECorporate America needs to find a new cause celebre --how about \n\u003Cu\u003ESantorum's Big 3\u003C\/u\u003E:   tell the youth the truth\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E:\u0026nbsp; If you\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EG\u003C\/span\u003Eraduate h.\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003Es.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EGet a job\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EW\u003C\/span\u003Eait until marriage for sex and babies,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;98% of you will not \nbe on gov't payroll and 77% of you will make an above average income.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003ENow there's a good ad campaign!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EMeanwhile,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Ew\u003C\/span\u003Erite to: \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Mr. D. Scott Davis,\u003Cdiv class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003E\n CEO\u003Cbr \/\u003E UPS\u003Cbr \/\u003E 55 Glenlake Parkway, NE\u003Cbr \/\u003E Atlanta, GA 30328\u003Cbr \/\u003E 1- 404-828-7123 (Eastern Time)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6064910822166870129\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=6064910822166870129","title":"20 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/6064910822166870129"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/6064910822166870129"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/ups-abandons-boy-scouts-today.html","title":"UPS ABANDONS THE BOY SCOUTS TODAY!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"20"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-8099126033991578940"},"published":{"$t":"2012-11-11T15:21:00.001-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-30T13:11:54.204-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Letter to Liberal Christian - Part 2  (who pays the income tax?)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; How do you determine the fair share of taxes? \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Right now --take 100 people paying a total of $100 in income tax.\u0026nbsp; The top man pays $37.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The next 4 join him, paying $22 or 4.50 each.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; That brings the total paid by the top 5 people\u0026nbsp; to\u0026nbsp; $59.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; So the top 5 percent pay 59% of all the federal income tax.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Now the next 5 guys pay\u0026nbsp; $11 or over $2 a piece on average.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; That means the top 10\u0026nbsp; people\u0026nbsp; (10 per cent) are paying $70 or 70 per cent of all the tax.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Now the next 15 guys pay $17 between them, an average of a little over $1 a piece --so that's 25 guys (25%)\u0026nbsp; paying $87 or 87% of all the federal income tax.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Now the next 25 guys pay $11 or an average of $.44\u0026nbsp; a piece.\u0026nbsp; And 98% of the tax has been covered by\u0026nbsp; the top 50 guys.\u0026nbsp; The bottom 50% pay $2.25 total out of the $100.\u0026nbsp; That's\u0026nbsp; 4 !\/2 cents a piece on average --and most of these pay nothing --and get an Earned Income Tax Credit if they work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo I think it behooves the bottom 50% to be more grateful than resentful to the top 1%, 5% and 50% who pay ALL the federal tax for them --and live off of it.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The shame is that we spent the senior citizens S.S. instead of saving and investing it profitably --and thus we use Social security payments for various pork projects and the new obamacare.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003ESo is it fair, that the richest 1 per cent pay 37 percent of all\n\u0026nbsp;the federal income tax?\u0026nbsp; All we heard\u0026nbsp; from democrats was how the top 1% weren’t\npaying their fair share.\u0026nbsp; Because “they didn’t build that.”\u0026nbsp; Obama\ngoes on to explain that the GOV’T made it possible for the rich to be rich\n\u0026nbsp;(true for him) –but who made it possible for the gov’t to have money to\ndo anything???\u0026nbsp; The taxpayers –NOT THE GOV’T. ! \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In fact,\nthe gov’t is the entity at fault for letting their programs and people run\namok.\u0026nbsp; They have failed to support waiting for marriage –as being a religious\nnotion.\u0026nbsp; They have encouraged, via sex ed, \u0026nbsp;homosexuality. \u0026nbsp;And\nObama’s adm. encourages gay marriage by not defending federal DOMA.\u0026nbsp; And\nthey said it was just fine for homosexuals to share barracks and bathrooms with\npeople to whom they are sexually attracted in the military.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;They\nwon’t restrain tv at all \u0026nbsp;or liberal sex ed which teaches our kids that\n“everybody does it” and “responsibility is a condom” and\u0026nbsp; “gay sex is\nfine.”\u0026nbsp; Right now, it’s the Obama adm. that has told schools to leave\nmorals out of the sex ed program or lose funding.\u0026nbsp; (But really, who\n\u0026nbsp;needs funding to teach sex ed?\u0026nbsp; You need moral teachers and parents\nand churches to do that –and the message is FREE.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EI think Christians can debate these issues \u0026nbsp;without being\ninsulting –but I find that the LEFT-thinkers don’t know how to do this without\nbeing insulting –making it personal.\u0026nbsp; Remember –like when you said I\nprobably never worked, never had to do anything because I married\nwealth.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I think I explained to you then that I married a poor boy and\nnever knew wealth –until after we’d been married with children a few\nyears.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And if anyone deserves financial comfort, my husband does.\n\u0026nbsp;I might not, but he does. And I’m “entitled” to his living because we are a unit\nwith separate roles –the Bible says so.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;He’s the hardest working\nguy you’ll ever meet –and loves to give when he can.\u0026nbsp; But would he work as\nhard as he does if he were told he could make just as much money doing\nsomething much easier that didn’t require him to work so hard ?\u0026nbsp; Do you\nbelieve that everyone in healthcare should make the same money as the MD who\ntook 11 to 15 years post high school of hard study and work and testing?\n\u0026nbsp;And still has to \u0026nbsp;study difficult stuff and be tested every 7 years\nor so for recertification.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In Canada, the doctor makes so\nmuch for so many hours, according to the gov’t. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And he quits after\nthat.\u0026nbsp; Thus, the rationing and delays in services.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Here, if\nthe dr. works his fanny off, he can do better than if he just puts in 40\nhours.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; You can say that doctors should do what they do just to help\npeople –and because they love their work –but you know that people aren’t all\nthat NICE to work for –and that it’s no fun to be threatened with lawsuits –and\nhave people complain if your office runs late or if their illness doesn’t get\nbetter.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; A doctor is a servant –and so far,\u0026nbsp; he is well paid as a\ncompensation for the misery and difficulty \u0026nbsp;of becoming one and remaining\none.\u0026nbsp; Few men want to sit with a 3 foot stack of charts and tests to\nsurvey every weekend all the way until Sunday midnight. Few want to be tested\nevery 7 years like doctors --to maintain their ability to work.\u0026nbsp; It is\ngreat stress on my husband to prepare and take those tests.\u0026nbsp; And few want\nmalpractice lawyers chasing them in order to make\u0026nbsp; THEIR\u0026nbsp; living by out-of-court\nsettlements for nuisance suits that would cost more in risk and time for the doctor to fight. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EThere are many poor people –even on gov’t payroll –who vote\nRepublican –for the moral principles, the religious freedom and religious moral\nvalues and the belief in free enterprise being a rising tide that floats the most boats. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cu\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe unis are teaching our kids \u0026nbsp;--and the party teaches the\npublic -- that the Republicans are all the rich people who care nothing about\nthe poor –who won’t help the poor.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Now, THAT’S a mis judgment.\n\u0026nbsp;And it was the over-arching lie of the Democratic campaign.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u0026nbsp; The 47%\ntape didn’t help—but \u0026nbsp;Mitt \u0026nbsp;was right about it.\u0026nbsp; He wouldn’t get\nthe votes of those who paid no taxes –in most cases.\u0026nbsp; He actually did\n–because a lot of elderly (who paid into the system and may still pay taxes)\n\u0026nbsp;and poor DID vote for him –but the masses of people on gov’t checks\n\u0026nbsp;other than social security–those people weren’t going to vote for Romney\n–so he was challenging donors to give to him because he would work to keep\ntaxes down, in spite of those who live \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;off \u0026nbsp;the labors of the\ntaxpayers, not paying taxes themselves.\u0026nbsp; He probably was appealing to\nthose who resent working for their incomes while others live off of their\nwork.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It’s not right, to the extent that it has gone in this\ncountry.\u0026nbsp; We have way too many men shirking work because they don’t want\nto pay child support.\u0026nbsp; This is NOT an indictment of the truly poor who\nWANT to work and can’t find work or those who can NOT work for whatever\nreasons. It’s less an indictment of the single mothers than it is of the men\nwho never married them and didn’t want to pay support so wouldn’t take a real\njob that could be garnished.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003ESome children riding on\u0026nbsp; a church bus with me\u0026nbsp; don’t read politics –but\nthey watch tv commercials.\u0026nbsp; They insisted to me on the bus, after gloating\nabout the Obama victory, that Mitt Romney would’ve taken away all food stamps\nand welfare.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I said, “No, he wouldn’t have. \u0026nbsp;He just wants\nmore people to have good jobs so they won’t have to be on welfare and food\nstamps.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They were sure I was wrong.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They saw the\ncommercials. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The public had the mentality of 12 year olds and\nbelieved the lie that Romney wanted to kick everybody off entitlement\nprograms.\u0026nbsp; I know a mother and son who voted for Obama because they are on\nentitlements and thought Romney would take them away.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They\nhated voting for gay marriage and abortion, but it was more important to vote\nfor their checks –even though their checks weren’t being\nthreatened.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I want her \u0026nbsp;son to find a good job.\u0026nbsp; I\nwant MY son to find a good job.\u0026nbsp; It’s not going to happen with this\npresident increasing business costs through Obamacare, I’m afraid.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EBut I’ll be delighted if the next four years are great –and you\ncan then say in 2016\u0026nbsp; “I told you so\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E!”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003EI\ndo not want this president to fail.\u0026nbsp; But I do think Christians need to\nwake up –over the things he’s done so far –including his forcing the Catholic\ninstitutions and religious colleges to provide birth control and abortifacients\n–even for unmarried college students who aren’t supposed to be having sex,\naccording to our Christian beliefs.\u0026nbsp; It’s unbelievable the way Sandra\nFluke got to speak at the convention about women’s health care –meaning\n\u0026nbsp;Catholic Georgetown U. should provide birth control for their\nstudents.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It seems absolutely CRAZY to me that fornicating students\nexpect their colleges’ health insurance to put them on the pill!!\u0026nbsp; WHAT\nARE WE and the DEMOCRATS THINKING???\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Obama also\nrestored monies to overseas agencies to promote and provide abortions\n–rescinding the Mexico City policy which prevented us spending money to\nencourage or facilitate abortion overseas.\u0026nbsp; WE ARE BORROWING FROM CHINA TO\nENCOURAGE ABORTION?\u0026nbsp; Let them do that –they are the ones who believe in it\nto the extreme.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EAnother example of an immoral culture –I saw an engagement\nannouncement of 2 young people –which said they were living together at such\nand such a place –enjoying life with their dog –or something like that.\u0026nbsp;\nWe didn’t use to announce that we were shacking up and unmarried –as though it\nwere OK.\u0026nbsp; But that’s the change that Hollywood has wrought –and the church\nhasn’t prevailed against this culture-corruption being taught \u0026nbsp;by\n\u0026nbsp;the media –and public ed’s value-neutral sex ed.\u0026nbsp; There is no longer\nany shame for our immorality.\u0026nbsp; I would tell my kids that there would be NO wedding money if they moved in before the wedding.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EAs a Christian, you need to ponder the fact that it is \nnot the\nconservatives who are shutting down the Christian groups on college \ncampuses\n–or removing them from the list of acceptable student associations; they\n didn’t try to forbid\u0026nbsp; manger scenes, Ten Commandment plaques, \u0026nbsp;and \nprayer and Christmas\nmusic to\u0026nbsp; on public school campuses and public places.\u0026nbsp;\n\u0026nbsp;The liberals do that. The conservatives \u0026nbsp;oppose abortion generally\n(though most would allow in the law the choice for rape, incest, life of\n mother);\u0026nbsp;\nthey define marriage the way the Bible does –by God’s creation of male \nand\nfemale for parenting. \u0026nbsp;They know that greed isn’t good for the rich when\nthey are selfish—nor for the poor when they are eaten up with envy, and \ndesire\nto have wealth redistributed to them without earning it as though they \nare\nentitled to the fruits of others’ labor.\u0026nbsp; These people will hit the\nstreets in rage if inflation eats up their checks –and the checks no \nlonger\ncome in the mail –if \u0026nbsp;we are economically like Greece –no more money and\nno more borrowing power.\u0026nbsp; Then what happens?\u0026nbsp; Riots in the streets –\ncrime as at Occupy Wall St.--like the Watts riots which you are probably\n too\nyoung to remember? And the looting –and the irrational, hyper-emotional,\nconduct of ignorant people whose schools were lousy because the barely \nparented\nentitlement kids acted like fools all their lives in the classroom \u0026nbsp;(or\ntruant at home)–and Obama will declare martial law –and \u0026nbsp;if he IS a\ncommunist, he’ll tell me\u0026nbsp; that my house is no longer mine but the \nstate’s.\nAnd we shall all be redistributed! \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;We don’t think it could\nhappen here, but those nations where it happened in my lifetime didn’t \nexpect\nwhat they got either.\u0026nbsp; I hope Barack is too lazy and self-indulgent to\nshare any of his father’s dreams against the \u0026nbsp;“imperialist west” –or in\nfavor of communism like his spiritual father, Communist \npoet-pornographer Frank\nMarshall Davis.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;If we do go over the fiscal cliff with him,\nit will be a scary ride! \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EPeace, my liberal friend. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; And tell me again where my\nthinking isn’t right –but don’t tell me I just don’t understand the plight of\nthe poor.\u0026nbsp; I do.\u0026nbsp; That’s why I’m there for some people.\u0026nbsp; But I\nalso know we wouldn’t have so many poor people if more of us \u0026nbsp;did live by\n\u0026nbsp;Biblical standards of sexual morality –and if we could turn around our\nyouth culture with the Gospel –before it’s too late to save this nation as the\nbeacon of light it used to be to the world –despite its flaws.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EThe LEFT, is just the wrong direction.\u0026nbsp; We need to go\nRIGHT.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8099126033991578940\/comments\/default","title":"Post 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women –and put Christians in jail –in China.\u0026nbsp; No\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: dark2;\"\u003Erth\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E Korea is communistic and cruel to all.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EA Paul Harvey radio speech \u003Ca 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protected truant and undiligent workers, shoddy\nproducts, bad teachers \u0026nbsp;and always voted for democrats.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;My\nhusband got a bad impression of all the auto workers wanting him to give them\nendless sick excuses \u0026nbsp;and to even get them on disability when they really\nweren’t \u0026nbsp;verifiably sick. \u0026nbsp;His uncle was a union boss and often met with\nmafia types.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;I early on, growing up, \u0026nbsp;got the idea that the\nDemocratic party was the greater evil of the 2 parties.\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I grew up reading politics in Time and Life magazines\n–would read the letters to the editor, etc.\u0026nbsp; IT was great education to\nstrain to understand grown-up writing.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EMy parents, (lower middle class) taught me that people should\ntake care of themselves, study in school to get ahead and be responsible for\ntheir own kin—and not expect the gov’t to do it for them by taking from those\nwho work to give to those who don’t.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Of course, we all \u0026nbsp;DO\nbelieve in charity and gov’t aid \u0026nbsp;for those who cannot work, or cannot\nfind work.\u0026nbsp; But when a family gets $600 a month or so on a food card, they\ndo not want to give that up!\u0026nbsp; When they also get $700 at least per month\nfor being “depressed,” as single mothers, \u0026nbsp;and have a health card –they\ndon’t want to give that up for a job that pays\u0026nbsp; them no more than what\ntheir gov’t is giving them to not work. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Of course, entry-level jobs\npay less than gov’t would for a single mom and 4 kids –so it seems \u0026nbsp;she is\nbetter off to stay on welfare until she gets them grown—(and I want them to\nhave those checks and cards) but what happens?\u0026nbsp; Her kids do the same thing\n–and here come more babies into the house.\u0026nbsp; And so we go back to Uncle Sam\nand ask for more money.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;We have too many people in this\nsituation –and morals are the reason!\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;And gov’t enables.\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It is the breakdown of marriage –and the complete lack of marriage\ntoday –that causes a lot of our poverty.\u0026nbsp; It’s not the rich being too\ntight\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: 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that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/832931494507384726\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=832931494507384726","title":"0 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1"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-7687815009848238616"},"published":{"$t":"2012-11-10T12:09:00.003-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-10T12:10:25.957-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"General Petraeus's Confession --WHY was it public?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch5 class=\"uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:1,\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:3}\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"userContent\"\u003EIt\n seems there is something fishy about the timing of General Petraeus's \nconfession.  Did O's people MAKE him confess and resign, in hopes he \nwouldn't have to testify?   Did they threaten him with worse problems \nregarding prosecution and  pension, etc., if he didn't step down before \nBenghazi hits the fan?  Was either P or O  hoping to distract from any \nerrors of theirs  re: Benghazi?  Why is it ok for Clinton to skirt \naround but not a general?  Clinton was Commander in chief, after all!  \nNot that adultery isn't serious betrayal and risky for CIA as well as \npresidents, making them both vulnerable to blackmail-based decisions.   \nBut why is it a step-down offense for a general but not for the \nCommander in Chief?  Why wouldn't the general just protect his wife as \nwell as himself from the shame --and just quietly make up with his wife \nif he could --or quietly resign.  Why the public confession?  He seems \ngenuinely contrite, but methinks somebody got to him --and it has to do \nwith Benghazi.  I think O's people wanted him to resign and want to \nimply eventually that any error in Benghazi was P's fault due to his \ndistractions in the moral arena.  Maybe someone  put a million in an off\n shore bank account for  P.   Yes, I'm just speculating --but I smell a \nrat here!   The public disclosure makes no sense.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7687815009848238616\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=7687815009848238616","title":"0 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United\nStates\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EWashington, D.C. 20500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EDear Mr. President:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EWe --and the\nRomney-supporters (half the country) \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003Ereally do \u003C\/span\u003Ewant to like you with your nice smile and\ngreat charisma and lovely family.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWe\nwant to be glad that you were re-elected. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EYou can help us do that.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWe don’t want to think you have communistic sympathies\nor a colonialist view of the U.S.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Enor \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eplans to disarm our country with promises to\nPutin.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EYou did say in your speech a few moments ago that the top 2? per cent of the nation make $250,000 or more and should be taxed more. Those include mostly small business owners and various professionals --rather than the super-rich\u0026nbsp; of the top 1\/2 per cent.\u0026nbsp; These are Marx's\u0026nbsp; bourgeois --the middle class conservatives whom Communists destroyed.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EAccording to 2009 and Tax Payers Union,\u0026nbsp; it was $344,000 that the\ntop 1 per cent make.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThere aren’t very many uber-rich who make millions like Romney, Hollywood celebs, uni coaches and presidents and CEO's of big corporations --not enough\nto slow the deficit if you keep approving pork and \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Enew billion dollar spending packages and\nsending tons of money to other nations' corrupt governments.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EPlease surprise the half of\nthe country that supported Romney.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWe\nare scared to death of your agenda --what we perceive it to be--and the radical\ninfluences in your past.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EPlease prove\nus wrong.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EShow that you can cut programs\nfor which we should not borrow from China.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWe know --that means lost public sector jobs --but if China is paying them, they have\nto go.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIf they are valuable employees\nin a department we don’t really need, they will find work elsewhere in a more prosperous private sector --i.e. more prosperous if you don't tax them down.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EWe suggest you not raise\ntaxes EXCEPT SLIGHTLY on the uber\u0026nbsp; rich -- the top 1\/2 per cent.\u0026nbsp; You still want them to be inclined to\ninvest, hire, spend and give.\u0026nbsp; Learn from business people who know how to\nsucceed at business and know how taxes impact growth.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe Government needs way too much revenue\nbecause of the horrible level of spending.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003ELet Big Bird support Public Broadcasting.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EHe can do it.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EThey can sell muppets.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EAs for\nPublic Radio, put Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on every day and we’ll\nsend them a donation.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003EPBS\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003Eis not neutral enough politically that they should deserve tax-payer\nsupport.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThey speak in their measured,\nneutral, unemotional tones --leaning WAY to the left --as far left as Fox News speaks\nexcitedly with no pretense of neutrality, to the right.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cu\u003EBut Fox raises their own money.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ESo can NPR.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E(note:\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E“fair and balanced”\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Edoesn’t mean neutral.)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003EPlanned Parenthood shouldn't get public funding if\u0026nbsp; pro-life Pregnancy Centers and clinics don't.\u0026nbsp; The poor women will still get healthcare using their medicaid cards and the public health clinics.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EYou must move toward the\ncenter if you would meet the Republicans half way and end the supposed\ngridlock.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EYour determination should be\nNO NEW SPENDING --and the elimination of all non-essential spending and\ndepartments that don’t directly impact the needy or the elderly or the ill. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESend the education of the nation back to the\nlocals. Shut down the federal department of education. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESend the school breakfast program to the churches.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EPromote volunteer tutoring by the elderly in\nevery public school.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E \u003Cu\u003ENote that Christian and parochial and home schools educate best on way less money.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EAnd for goodness sakes,\nPLEASE deliver to the nation’s youth Santorum’s message from your bully pulpit.\nThe 3 things to do to avoid poverty:\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E“Finish\nhigh school; get a job; get married before having children--( and stay married\nif possible.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EStay faithful.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E ) \u003C\/span\u003EIf you do even the first 3 things on this\nlist, 98% of you will be above poverty line; 77% will be above average in\nincome.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EThere really is a correlation\nbetween family stability and morality and the strength of communities and\nnations.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EYou are for gay marriage, but\nought not be, because children deserve a mother and father when possible.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EGay marriage deprives them of one or the\nother by its very nature.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ENor should\ngays share quarters with straights (or with each other) in military.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIt’s like putting men and women together in\nshowers and barracks--completely distracting to the mission of military\npreparedness.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EHomosexuality does spread\n--from the experienced to the inexperienced, and like drugs, becomes addictive.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EPlease be better than\nconservatives expect.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ESeriously see the\nlogic and reason behind conservatism and their criticism of your party and\npolicies. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ECommunism hasn’t been\nappreciated anywhere where it is tried. Socialism leads to the fiscal cliff \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E--sliding like Greece--and you’ve got us on\nthe edge.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003ESurprise us --and do not push us over.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EDon’t tax us highly now or you will kill business and jobs.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EPeople are thinking of moving out of country\nfor fear you will rob them of their pensions --either through confiscation of\nhigh taxes or bad economy, inflation, devaluing of the dollar, etc.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; We are afraid of having our lives shortened by your Canada-style health care program.\u0026nbsp; Let someone tweak that program!\u0026nbsp; We don't want the long waits and rationing of Canadian healthcare! Canadians come HERE for procedures they can't get in a timely manner in Canada.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EAs for national security and\ndisarming Americans, we hope you are just Barack Obama from Hawaii --and not a\nStalin in the making as some suspect.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003ESeek good successful\nbusinessmen’s advice and not just socialists’ advice.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThey have never made any nation solvent.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EPut Romney on your cabinet! Because\nhe does like to solve \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Efinancial problems.\n\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EWow!\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EThat would be a uniting act.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EListen to Ryan, too.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWe are in a\nmess.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ELet them try to help!\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EWe shall pray for you\ndaily--that you really ARE a Christian \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eas you told Rick Warren --or will become one\nand that you will seek God’s guidance on all matters before you --not Marx’s\nadvice, nor Alinsky’s, nor Ayers, nor Davis’s.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003EOnly Jesus rose from the grave.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EHe is the only one worthy to save us for\nEternity. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EAtheists can’t give you wise\nguidance like the Holy Spirit and the Word of God can.\u0026nbsp; Your stands on abortion and homosexuality --and lukewarm relationship with Israel,\u0026nbsp; are all 3 in contradiction to His Word and His Spirit and need to be reconsidered. \u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003ESeparation of church and state doesn't mean God is not real --and has no say in the country's values which shape national culture and character.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EForgive us for any misjudgment of your character and\nintentions, and prove all the naysayers wrong.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003ESincerely --wanting to admire\nyou, \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003Ewanting your term to be\nsuccessful in the eyes of\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EGod and informed\nAmericans,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EThoughts:\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E Blessed \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Eis\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Ethe\u003C\/span\u003E nation \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Ewhose\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003EGod\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Eis\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Ethe\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003ELORD. Psalm 33:12\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EWoe to those who \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Ecall\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Eevil\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Egood\u003C\/span\u003E and \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Egood\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003Eevil\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E Isaiah 5:20\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIf my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.\u0026nbsp; II Chronicles 7:14\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003EGenerosity is to be voluntary, from the\nheart, not confiscated by dictators for the envious.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4297805240681959129\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=4297805240681959129","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4297805240681959129"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/4297805240681959129"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/open-letter-to-obama.html","title":"OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-1034790627060255627"},"published":{"$t":"2012-11-09T12:16:00.003-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-09T12:30:18.874-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Blog Argument about Obama's Victory and Implications re:  Healthcare"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"UFICommentContent\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0]\"\u003E\nDavid\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[0]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[0].[0]\"\u003E --some people can't stand contentious discussions--but you and I are \nnot insulting each other--we just have differing ideas about this \npresident --and both feel strongly.   Otherwise, you are an admirable \nChristian chap --and I hope you think I a\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003Em.\n   In fact, \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI hope I am wrong about Obama -and that he pulls to the \ncenter instead of the left and will consider seriously how to get us out\n of our financial pickle without caving to communistic and socialistic \nstrategies.  I hope he'll stop disarming us and do better with foreign \npolicy.   I hope you can say to me in 2016:  \"There, now THAT wasn't so \nbad after all, was it?\"  And I will be thrilled if you can say that \nthen.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003EMeanwhile, Obamacare IS socialism--it IS power to Big Gov't over the \npeople,\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003Epower over  the religious institutions on birth control and \nabortifacients, power over too many industries, over our  incomes and \nbusiness strategies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003EIn healthcare, Gov't  should work to curb \nmalpractice  lawsuits instead of individual initiative.  Do you know \nthat lawyers make huge money off of doctors by just initiating lawsuits?\n  They don't have to win the suits.  They don't want legislature to take\n away their cash cow, the doctors, with tort reform.  All they need to \ndo is bring a suit --then the docs settle out of court because it's more\n cost effective to do so!   less risky and time consuming.  They might \nsue for a million and get $100,000 just for suing and not proving \nanything.   The risk is the pity the jury feels for a man with health \nproblems --and they figure they aren't hurting anyone by giving the \npatient  a million dollars from the insurer for his misery. They don't \nneed to be convinced the patient was mal-treated; just that he is \nsuffering. A doctor worries that if he fails to document that he gave \nadvice to a pt., that the pt. can deny he was advised --and then the doc\n gets sued and can lose all his savings\/pension if insurance fails. So \nthe record-keeping is costly, painstaking,  and designed to be \n\"defensive medicine\" --defending against lawyers and nuisance suits \n--and the gov't.   Then the increased costs of malpractice insurance are\n passed to the docs --and to the patients --and the insurers and the \ngov't.    Ohio had a cap on lawsuits thanks to a supreme court --but \nthey just lost one of the  judges (Cupp) who saw the sense of the \nlegislatures cap on malpractice settlements.  Where John Edwards had \npracticed malpractice law, his state lost its malpractice insurers and \ndoctors for awhile because the costs were out of sight.  He argued and \nwon cases he should've lost.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003EGovernment's OSHA fined an MD $20,000 in Perrsyburg \n--because his worker laid a sandwich on a counter in the office lab.  \nThat's unnecessary confiscation.  $100 would make the same point  --but \nOSHA inspectors (like the IRS)  have to justify their own department's \ngov't salary with fines.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;In Canada, my husband says the docs are paid \nso much for so many hours of work --there is no compensation for working\n your butt off as he does. And so everyone has long waits to get \nanything done.   He doesn't do it just  for income--but to get the work \ndone in a timely manner, to do Christian service to the ill --no man \nworks harder or longer hours than he does --he got along on 4 hours of \nsleep most of his career --and he is compensated well enough as far as \nhe's concerned.  But  work and continuing education and tests are \nconstantly over his head. He sits with 2 foot high stacks of test \nresults and charts every weekend, until midnight Sunday --at least.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Gov't had to start compensating family docs more  --as only 2% of \nmedical grads wanted to slave away for gov't pay and even the insurance \npay  for family practice.  They were all going into the specialties --so\n legislature or whoever determines compensation through Medicaid and \nMedicare, upped the pay for family docs--which was good.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003EMy husband\u0026nbsp; is a \nhilarious giver too  (biblical term) --likes being able to be generous. \nBecause his family was rather poor growing up --lived with the \ngrandmother in her house --and his mother finally got a teaching degree \nand that helped.  His father had epilepsy which affected his ability to \nhold a job.  Because of Jon's  hard work, the gov't hasn't had to pay \nfor our kids' education.  Not everyone is blessed with the ability to \nwork like he does --I couldn't do it --and though I read and write \nbetter than he, I  have read the med school level texts and known I \ncould never have comprehended the boring text books with their extreme \ncomplexity--it's not just about identifying disease and finding a remedy\n --that would be easy (except for the volume of diseases and remedies to\n memorize!)   It's the deep deep scientific  understanding that \nunderlies medical education that is just beyond me.  And the nerve to \nsew up some real messes in an ER --and to pull a stake out of a guy's \nleg!   Even if I worked at it as he did, I don't think I could've ever \npassed the national boards in the end!  nor have his stamina.   He \nundergoes extreme stress for testing and always has.   Such initiative \nand drive are rare, I believe --it didn't come easily to him as probably\n to some others in his field --though it's not easy for any doctor.   \nHis grandfather prayed daily that Jon would have a \"gift for diagnosis,\"\n  and I really think he does.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003EAbout our concerns for the future --we \nhave a pension plan that is taxed when we draw it out.   We have not \nstashed away nearly as much as we could've --we spend and give and enjoy\n both --without living lavishly and eating bon bons in the \nmediterranean!  which would be fun, I think --but we don't want Obama to\n tax us to death in retirement.  It costs $6000 a month for a nursing \nhome now!  And Medicare won't pay until we are broke.  So if one of us \nhas a stroke and Obamacare won't give us surgery--into the home we go \n--and there goes our pension and any estate we would want to have to \nhelp our grandchildren.  We'd like to be able to have both cash and care\n --and who wouldn't.   But these are belt-tightening years for all --and\n we all should take responsibility for ourselves --without failing to be\n compassionate to the needy and suffering.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;But it  is just wrong and \ndivisive to foment class warfare as obama did to get votes  -- to \nencourage the \"have lesses\"  to begrudge the \"have mores\"  the fruits of\n their labor the way this president does.   He convinced the poor that \nif the \"rich\" \"pay just a little bit more\" it would solve our deficit \ncrisis.  Well, it won't.  There  aren't enough rich people to make it \nhappen by taxing them his \"little bit more.\"  Or even a lot more.  \u003Cb\u003EAs it\n is, the top 1 per cent of income earners pay 37%  of all income tax; the\n top 5% pay 59% of the  tax and the top 10 percent pay over 70 per cent \nof the tax.  the top 25% pay 87% and the top half pay 98 percent of the \ntax.  The bottom half making less than 32,300 per year  pay 2 1\/4 % of \nall income tax (and probably qualify for Earned Income Tax Credits \n--getting money back that they didn't put in.)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan data-ft=\"{\u0026quot;tn\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;K\u0026quot;}\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"UFICommentBody\" id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3].\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\".reactRoot[7].[1][2][1]{comment2500359924682_2162829}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EWe have to stimulate the\n economy with incentives --free enterprise --job creation for profit.   \nE.G. when Jon took the risk of hiring a P.A., it improved everybody's \npay in the office because it brought in more patients.   He has more \nresponsibility to supervise his PA 's work --but he also can get away \nand still keep the office open.   He took three 4-day vacations this \nsummer with kids from the church bus ministry, taking them tubing, etc. \n   Spent 4  days at the lake with grandchildren, 2 or 3 at my brother's,\n and 4 days in Michigan with his  Mom, 91,  and Rob taking her to \nMacinac --he could do that because he hired Joel as PA.  It was REALLY \nhectic the years he delivered babies --and he only quit that in the year\n when the malpractice rates for ob-gyn shot through the roof.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\"--the Bible\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life.\" --the Bible\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1034790627060255627\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=1526647904385272392\u0026postID=1034790627060255627","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/1034790627060255627"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1526647904385272392\/posts\/default\/1034790627060255627"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thebarbwire.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/a-blog-argument-about-obamas-victory.html","title":"A Blog Argument about Obama's Victory and Implications re:  Healthcare"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Barb"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05016832868807957194"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});